Windsor Davies
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Windsor Davies (right) with Donald Sinden during filming of Never the Twain
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28 August 1930 Canning Town, West Ham, UK |
| Years active | 1962–2004 |
| Spouse(s) | Eluned Davies (1957–present) |
| Children | 5 |
Windsor Davies (born 28 August 1930) is a retired British actor who is best known for playing the part of Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–81).
Davies was born in Canning Town, London, to Welsh parents, who returned to their native Nant-y-Moel when the Second World War began in 1939. Davies studied at Ogmore Grammar School and Bangor Teacher Training College. He worked as a teacher at Mountside School for Boys in Leek, Staffordshire and did national service in Libya and Egypt with the East Surrey Regiment between 1950-1952 before deciding to become an actor.
Davies' best known role was as Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–81). Among his catchphrases was "Shut Up!!", delivered as an eardrum-shattering military scream. Another phrase was "Oh dear, how sad, never mind", delivered in a dry, ironic manner, and used when others around him had problems. Davies and co-star Don Estelle had a number one hit in the UK with a semi-comic version of "Whispering Grass" in 1975.
Other television roles included the sailor Taffy in the first of the BBC-series The Onedin Line (1971) and the antique dealer Oliver Smallbridge in Never the Twain (1981–91), with Donald Sinden. In the field of science fiction television, Davies appeared in the 1967 Doctor Who story The Evil of the Daleks as Toby; and was the voice of Sergeant Major Zero (a spherical robotic soldier in charge of 100 other spherical robotic soldiers) in the 1983 Gerry Anderson/Christopher Burr production Terrahawks (another callback to his days in It Ain't Half Hot Mum). In 2004, Davies played an elderly night porter in the BBC sitcom My Family (in the episode "Going Dental").
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