Nigel Davenport
| Nigel Davenport | |
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Davenport as Peter with Angela Lansbury as Helen in A Taste of Honey on Broadway, 1960.
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| Born |
Arthur Nigel Davenport 23 May 1928 Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England, UK |
| Died | 25 October 2013 (aged 85) Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK |
| Years active | 1953-2003 |
| Spouse(s) |
Helena White (m. 1951; div. 1960) Maria Aitken (m. 1972; div. 1981) |
| Children | 3, including Jack Davenport |
Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor., best known as Lord Birkenhead in the 1981 Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire.
Davenport was born in Great Shelford,Cambridgeshire, to Katherine Lucy (née Meiklejohn) and Arthur Henry Davenport. His father was a bursar at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He grew up in an academic family and was educated at St Peter's School, Seaford, Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Oxford. Originally he chose to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics but switched to English on the advice of one of his tutors.
Davenport first appeared on stage at the Savoy Theatre and then with the Shakespeare Memorial Company, before joining the English Stage Company, one of its earliest members, at the Royal Court Theatre in 1956. He began appearing in British film and television productions in supporting roles, including a walk-on in Tony Richardson's film, Look Back in Anger (1959). Subsequent roles included a theatre manager opposite Laurence Olivier in the film version of The Entertainer and a policeman in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (both 1960).
He made an impression as Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in A Man for All Seasons (1966), costarred with Michael Caine in the war movie Play Dirty, and had a major role as Lord Bothwell in Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1972, he appeared as George Adamson, opposite Susan Hampshire in Living Free, the sequel to Born Free.
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