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John Howard Davies (9 March 1939 – 22 August 2011) was an English director, producer and former child actor. He became famous for appearing in the title role of David Lean's film adaptation of Oliver Twist (1948). After joining the BBC as a production assistant in 1966, Davies became a hugely influential television director and producer ...
John Davies was born on 20 August 1934 in Birmingham, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Just William (1977), Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987) and Acceptable Levels (1983).
John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor known for portraying Sallah in the Indiana Jones franchise and Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He has received three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, with one win, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
John Davies (born c. 1565, Hereford, Herefordshire, England—died July 1618, London) was an English poet and writing master whose chief work was Microcosmos (1603), a didactic religious treatise. Davies settled in Oxford and became known as the best penman of his day.
Poet and lawyer Sir John Davies was born in Wiltshire and educated at Winchester College and Queen’s College, Oxford, though historians disagree about whether he graduated. In 1588, he enrolled in the Middle Temple, where he studied with John Donne, and was called to the bar in 1595. In addition to…
(1569–1626). The Englishman John Davies distinguished himself as a poet and as a statesman. His famous work Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing reveals a typically Elizabethan pleasure in the contemplation of the correspondence between the natural order and human activity. Davies was born in April 1569 in Tisbury, Wiltshire, England.
Mar 28, 2024 · Sir John Davies (born April 1569, Tisbury, Wiltshire, Eng.—died Dec. 8, 1626) was an English poet and lawyer whose Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing reveals a typically Elizabethan pleasure in the contemplation of the correspondence between the natural order and human activity.
