Nigel Davenport

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-05-23 (85 years old)

Deathday

2013-10-25

Place of Birth

Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Nigel Davenport

Biography

Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.

Acting

1966

A Man for All Seasons

as The Duke of Norfolk

1966

Where the Spies Are

as Parkington

1986

Caravaggio

as Giustiniani

1971

Villain

as Bob Matthews

1970

No Blade of Grass

as John Custance

1981

Nighthawks

as Peter Hartman

1980

Cry of the Innocent

as Gray Harrison Hunt

1981

Chariots of Fire

as Lord Birkenhead

1977

1969

Play Dirty

as Capt. Cyril Leech

1998

El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe

as Don César de Echagüe, padre

1964

The Bone Yard

as Inspector Potter

1971

1971

Mary, Queen of Scots

as Lord Bothwell

2000

The Mumbo Jumbo

as Major cowpat

2000

Longitude

as Sir Charles Pelham

1959

Look Back in Anger

as 1st Commercial Traveller

1965

1972

Living Free

as George Adamson

1973

Charley-One-Eye

as The Bounty Hunter

1974

Dracula

as Van Helsing

1974

Phase IV

as Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs

1976

Black Trash

as Lt. Ben Deel

2001

David Copperfield

as Daniel Peggotty

1969

Sinful Davey

as Wachtmeister Richardson

1965

Life at the Top

as Mottram

1970

The Mind of Mr. Soames

as Dr. Maitland

1963

In the Cool of the Day

as Leonard Groves

1974

The Regent's Wife

as Álvaro Mesía

1969

The Virgin Soldiers

as Sgt Driscoll

1973

The Picture of Dorian Gray

as Sir Harry Wotton

1984

An Inspector Calls

as Arthur Birling

1998

La vuelta del Coyote

as César de Echagüe

1968

Sebastian

as Gen. Phillips

1963

Ladies Who Do

as Mr. Strang

1980

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

as Colonel George Grenfell

1983

Strata

as Victor

1963

Return to Sender

as Dino Steffano

1981

1979

Zulu Dawn

as Col. Hamilton-Brown

2024

Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV

as Self (archive footage)

1966

Shotgun

as Joshua

1984

A Christmas Carol

as Silas Scrooge

1962

Lunch Hour

as Personnel Manager

1996

1988

Without a Clue

as Lord Smithwick

1975

The Apple Cart

as King Magnus

1964

The Verdict

as Larry Mason

1955

Othello

as Lodovico

1965

A High Wind in Jamaica

as Mr. Thornton

1979

The London Connection

as Arthur Minton

1998

Mosley

as Lord Rothermere

1960

Peeping Tom

as Det. Sgt. Miller (uncredited)

1963

Bitter Harvest

as Police Inspector

1967

1984

The Biko Inquest

as Colonel Goosen

1964

The Third Secret

as Lew Harding

1972

The Assassination

as CIA Official

1996

The Treasure Seekers

as Lord Blackstock

1968

The News-Benders

as Robert Larkin

1960

The Entertainer

as Theatre Manager (uncredited)

1997

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