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Davies at the 2012 GQ Men of the year awards. Born. Australia. Occupation. Actor. Years active. 2008–present. Richard Davies is an Australian actor best known for his roles in television series, such as Offspring and The Saddle Club .
Richard Davies (1926-2015) was a versatile and acclaimed actor who starred in Please Sir!, Zulu, Fawlty Towers and more. He also appeared in theatre, radio and film, and suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his later years.
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- January 25, 1926
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- October 8, 2015
Dennis Wilfred Davies, known professionally as Richard Davies (25 January 1926 – 8 October 2015), was a Welsh actor. He was probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr. Price in the popular LWT situation comedy Please Sir!.
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Early life
Richard Davies was born in Swindon, Wiltshirein 1944 to Betty and Dick Davies. Betty was a hairdresser and ran a salon, and Dick was a merchant navy man, who died in 1973. Rick went to Sanford Street School and, according to mother Betty: "Music was the only thing he was any good at at school." His first musical stirrings were at the age of eight, when his parents gave him a secondhand radiogram which included a few records left by the previous owner. Among them were Drummin' Man by drumming...
Supertramp
Davies decided to form a new band, and returned home from Switzerland to place an ad in the music magazine Melody Maker in August 1969. Roger Hodgson was auditioned and, despite their contrasting backgrounds – Davies's working class upbringing and Hodgson's private school education – they struck up an instant rapportand began writing virtually all of their songs together. The band was initially called Daddy, but renamed Supertramp in January 1970. Supertramp became one of the first acts to si...
Davies married Sue (who has been Supertramp's manager since 1984) in 1977. Davies' mother died in late 2008 at a nursing home in Stratton St Margaret. He travelled from his Long Island, New York, home every Christmas to visit her. His last trip back was in January 2009 to organise a memorial service for his mother. Davies currently owns Rick Davies...
Supertramp
1. 1970 : Supertramp 2. 1971 : Indelibly Stamped 3. 1974 : Crime of the Century 4. 1975 : Crisis? What Crisis? 5. 1977 : Even in the Quietest Moments... 6. 1979 : Breakfast in America 7. 1982 : ...Famous Last Words... 8. 1985 : Brother Where You Bound 9. 1987 : Free as a Bird 10. 1997 : Some Things Never Change 11. 2002 : Slow Motion
Collaboration
1. 1973 : You And Me from Chick Churchill - With Roger Hodgson, Cozy Powell, Gary Pickford-Hopkins and Martin Barre.
Richard Davies was a Welsh character actor who starred as Mr Price in the 1968 sitcom Please Sir! and as Private 593 Jones in the 1964 war film Zulu. He also appeared in various TV shows, films and theatre roles, and died of Alzheimer's disease in 2015.
- January 25, 1926
- October 8, 2015
Richard Davies is an Australian actor, producer and writer who has appeared in various TV shows and movies, such as Offspring, Bruce and When the Wind Changes. See his biography, awards, credits, photos and videos on IMDb.
Oct 15, 2015 · Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08.40 EDT. As the philosophical science teacher Mr Price, notable for his sarcastic wit, in the television sitcom Please Sir!, Richard Davies, who has died aged...
