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Nigel Davenport

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.

Known For: Acting

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

Died: 2013-10-25

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Othello	Lodovico	85
2	1959	Look Back in Anger	1st Commercial Traveller	67
3	1960	Peeping Tom	Det. Sgt. Miller (uncredited)	74
4	1960	The Entertainer	Theatre Manager (uncredited)	62
5	1962	Lunch Hour	Personnel Manager	68
6	1963	Return to Sender	Dino Steffano	41
7	1963	Bitter Harvest	Police Inspector	62
8	1963	In the Cool of the Day	Leonard Groves	54
9	1963	Ladies Who Do	Mr. Strang	70
10	1964	The Verdict	Larry Mason	0
11	1964	The Third Secret	Lew Harding	61
12	1964	The Bone Yard	Inspector Potter	0
13	1965	A High Wind in Jamaica	Mr. Thornton	63
14	1965	Sands of the Kalahari	Sturdevan	61
15	1965	Life at the Top	Mottram	62
16	1966	Where the Spies Are	Parkington	52
17	1966	Shotgun	Joshua	0
18	1966	A Man for All Seasons	The Duke of Norfolk	73
19	1967	Dial M for Murder	Lesgate	60
20	1968	The News-Benders	Robert Larkin	0
21	1968	Sebastian	Gen. Phillips	60
22	1968	The Strange Affair		44
23	1969	Play Dirty	Capt. Cyril Leech	62
24	1969	Sinful Davey	Wachtmeister Richardson	55
25	1969	The Royal Hunt of the Sun	De Soto	59
26	1969	The Virgin Soldiers	Sgt Driscoll	69
27	1970	No Blade of Grass	John Custance	53
28	1970	The Mind of Mr. Soames	Dr. Maitland	57
29	1971	The Last Valley	Gruber	65
30	1971	Villain	Bob Matthews	63
31	1971	Mary, Queen of Scots	Lord Bothwell	67
32	1972	Living Free	George Adamson	68
33	1972	The Assassination	CIA Official	67
34	1973	Charley-One-Eye	The Bounty Hunter	48
35	1973	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Sir Harry Wotton	58
36	1974	Dracula	Van Helsing	63
37	1974	Phase IV	Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs	63
38	1974	South Riding		0
39	1974	The Regent's Wife	Álvaro Mesía	43
40	1975	The Apple Cart	King Magnus	0
41	1976	Black Trash	Lt. Ben Deel	48
42	1977	Stand up, Virgin Soldiers	Driscoll	48
43	1977	The Island of Dr. Moreau	Montgomery	56
44	1979	Zulu Dawn	Col. Hamilton-Brown	60
45	1979	The London Connection	Arthur Minton	78
46	1980	The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd	Colonel George Grenfell	40
47	1980	Cry of the Innocent	Gray Harrison Hunt	50
48	1981	Nighthawks	Peter Hartman	64
49	1981	Chariots of Fire	Lord Birkenhead	68
50	1981	The Uppercrust	Pigel	50
51	1981	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Theseus	50
52	1983	Strata	Victor	30
53	1984	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Major Jack Downing	64
54	1984	An Inspector Calls	Arthur Birling	45
55	1984	A Christmas Carol	Silas Scrooge	75
56	1984	The Biko Inquest	Colonel Goosen	0
57	1986	Caravaggio	Giustiniani	61
58	1988	Without a Clue	Lord Smithwick	66
59	1992	The Cutter		0
60	1996	The Circus Connection	Stadnicki	0
61	1996	The Treasure Seekers	Lord Blackstock	53
62	1997	The Opium War		66
63	1997	Hotel Shanghai	Butler	0
64	1998	Mosley	Lord Rothermere	60
65	1998	La vuelta del Coyote	César de Echagüe	50
66	1998	El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe	Don César de Echagüe, padre	50
67	2000	Longitude	Sir Charles Pelham	73
68	2000	The Mumbo Jumbo	Major cowpat	0
69	2001	David Copperfield	Dan Peggotty	63
70	2024	Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV	Self (archive footage)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Jackson	35
2	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Loud Lawrence	61
3	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Captain	61
4	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Sir James	61
5	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Sentry	61
6	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Barty	61
7	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Claude the Seneschal	61
8	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Sir Peter Marston	61
9	1956	The Count of Monte Cristo		44
10	1961	The Avengers	Lord Barnes	77
11	1961	Sir Francis Drake	Don Miguel de Cervantes	45
12	1962	Man of the World		70
13	1962	The Saint	Aldo Petri	73
14	1962	The Saint	Charles Voyson	73
15	1965	BBC Play of the Month	King Magnus	50
16	1968	The Name of the Game	David Windom	68
17	1972	Shirley's World		50
18	1972	The Edwardians	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	57
19	1975	Oil Strike North		50
20	1977	Romance		0
21	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Theseus	60
22	1979	Prince Regent	King George III	45
23	1979	Minder	Ray	68
24	1981	Masada	Mucianus	71
25	1982	Don't Rock The Boat		50
26	1982	Bird of Prey		55
27	1982	An Inspector Calls	Arthur Birling	50
28	1985	Howards' Way	Sir Edward Frere	56
29	1986	Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy	Ismay	50
30	1986	Ladies in Charge		50
31	1990	The Upper Hand	Mr. Douglas Hamilton	70
32	1990	The Upper Hand	Mr. Hamilton	70
33	1990	Keeping Up Appearances	The Commodore	76
34	1993	The Detectives	Sir Arthur Andrews	67
35	1997	Midsomer Murders	William Smithers	75
36	1998	Mosley	Lord Rothermere	40
37	2000	Longitude	Sir Charles Pelham	70