David Swift Biography

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David Swift (born 1931-04-03 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is a British actor. He was educated at Clifton College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied law.

He made his television debut in 1961, and since then has rarely been off the screen. However, it is as the irascible newsreader Henry Davenport in the 1990s series, Drop the Dead Donkey written by Andy Hamilton, that he has become popular. He also made occasional appearances as God in the Andy Hamilton BBC Radio 4 comedy Old Harry's Game.

Swift is the brother of another popular British actor, Clive Swift, with whom he has sometimes performed. He is also the father of actress Julia Swift.

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