Nigel Davenport

Acting

Born: 1928-05-23 in Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Died: 2013-10-25

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

A Man for All Seasons

The Duke of Norfolk

Where the Spies Are

Parkington

Caravaggio

Giustiniani

Villain

Bob Matthews

No Blade of Grass

John Custance

Nighthawks

Peter Hartman

Cry of the Innocent

Gray Harrison Hunt

Chariots of Fire

Lord Birkenhead

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Montgomery

Play Dirty

Capt. Cyril Leech

El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe

Don César de Echagüe, padre

The Bone Yard

Inspector Potter

The Last Valley

Gruber

Mary, Queen of Scots

Lord Bothwell

The Mumbo Jumbo

Major cowpat

Longitude

Sir Charles Pelham

Look Back in Anger

1st Commercial Traveller

Living Free

George Adamson

Sands of the Kalahari

Sturdevan

Charley One-Eye

The Bounty Hunter

Dracula

Van Helsing

Phase IV

Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs

Black Trash

Lt. Ben Deel

David Copperfield

Daniel Peggotty

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

Driscoll

Sinful Davey

Richardson

Life at the Top

Mottram

The Mind of Mr. Soames

Dr. Maitland

In the Cool of the Day

Leonard Groves

The Regent's Wife

Álvaro Mesía

The Virgin Soldiers

Sgt Driscoll

The Cutter

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Sir Harry Wotton

An Inspector Calls

Arthur Birling

La vuelta del Coyote

César de Echagüe

Sebastian

Gen. Phillips

Ladies Who Do

Mr. Strang

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

Colonel George Grenfell

Strata

Victor

Return to Sender

Dino Steffano

The Uppercrust

Pigel

Zulu Dawn

Col. Hamilton-Brown

Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV

Self (archive footage)

Shotgun

Joshua

A Christmas Carol

Silas Scrooge

Lunch Hour

Personnel Manager

South Riding

The Circus Connection

Stadnicki

Without a Clue

Lord Smithwick

The Apple Cart

King Magnus

The Verdict

Larry Mason

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Major Jack Downing

Othello

Lodovico

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

De Soto

A High Wind in Jamaica

Mr. Thornton

The London Connection

Arthur Minton

Mosley

Lord Rothermere

Peeping Tom

Det. Sgt. Miller (uncredited)

The Strange Affair

Bitter Harvest

Police Inspector

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Theseus

Dial M for Murder

Lesgate

The Biko Inquest

Colonel Goosen

The Third Secret

Lew Harding

The Assassination

CIA Official

The Treasure Seekers

Lord Blackstock

The News-Benders

Robert Larkin

The Entertainer

Theatre Manager (uncredited)

Hotel Shanghai

Butler

The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams

Supt. Hannam

Desert Mice

Army Officer (uncredited)