Nigel Davenport
Highest Rated: 100% Play Dirty (1969)
Lowest Rated: 20% Life at the Top (1965)
Birthday: May 23, 1928
Birthplace: Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Veteran British character actor who, by his own estimate, has played "two kings, two dukes, a lot of lords and the odd private soldier." Best known as the Duke of Norfolk opposite Paul Scofield's Sir Thomas More in "A Man for All Seasons" (1966) and the explorer Hernando De Soto in "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" (1969). Davenport began his film career in the 1950s in "Look Back in Anger" (1959) and continued to work through the 1980s in such films as "Chariots of Fire" (1981) and "Carravagio" (1986).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mumbo Jumbo | Major Cowpat (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La vuelta de El Coyote | Félix de Echagüe (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Opium War | Unknown (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Treasure Seekers | Lord Blackstock (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel Shanghai | Butler (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shanghai 1937 | Butler (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 62% | 72% | Without a Clue | Lord Smithwick (Character) | $7.3M | 1988 |
| 82% | 68% | Caravaggio | Giustiniani (Character) | $3.2K | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy | Ismay (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 73% | 60% | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Major Jack Downing (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | A Christmas Carol | Silas Scrooge (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Theseus (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Masada | Unknown (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 83% | 80% | Chariots of Fire | Lord Birkenhead (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 71% | 55% | Nighthawks | Peter Hartman (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Cry of the Innocent | Gray Harrison Hunt (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 50% | 61% | Zulu Dawn | Col. Hamilton-Brown (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Omega Connection | Arthur Minton (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death of a Snowman | Lt. Ben Deel (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 54% | 40% | The Island of Dr. Moreau | Montgomery (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers | Sgt. Driscoll (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 60% | 42% | Dracula | Unknown (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 53% | 55% | Phase IV | Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Sir Harry Wotton (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Charley One-Eye | The Bounty Hunter (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Living Free | George Adamson (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 67% | 55% | Mary, Queen of Scots | Lord Bothwell (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 67% | 49% | Villain | Bob Matthews (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 40% | 42% | No Blade of Grass | John Custance (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Mind of Mr. Soames | Dr. Maitland (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | The Last Valley | Gruber (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Hernando de Soto (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | The Virgin Soldiers | Sgt. Driscoll (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 100% | 63% | Play Dirty | Capt. Cyril Leech (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 43% | 29% | Sinful Davey | Richardson (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 29% | 55% | Sebastian | Gen. Phillips (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Strange Affair | Defense Counsel (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 89% | 87% | A Man for All Seasons | The Duke of Norfolk (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | A High Wind in Jamaica | Mr. Thornton (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Sands of the Kalahari | Sturdevan (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 20% | No Score Yet | Life at the Top | Mottram (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Verdict | Larry Mason (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ladies Who Do | Mr. Strang (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | In the Cool of the Day | Leonard Groves (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Return to Sender | Dino Steffano (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lunch Hour | Personnel manager (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 95% | 85% | Peeping Tom | Det. Sgt. Miller (uncredited) (Character) | $84.0K | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desert Mice | Army Officer (Character) | - | 1959 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 100% | Midsomer Murders | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Avengers | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El Santo | Charles Voyson (Guest Star) | 1962 1965 |