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Roger Davies (ambassador)
Roger Davies may refer to: * Roger Davies (actor), English actor known for ''Renford Rejects'' and ''The Cloverfield Paradox'' * Roger Davies (talent manager) (born 1952), Australian-born manager in the music industry * Roger Davies (footballer) (born 1950), English footballer, MVP of the North American Soccer League in 1980 * Roger Davies (astrophysicist) (born 1954), English astrophysicist See also * Rodger Davies Rodger Paul Davies (May 7, 1921 – August 19, 1974) was an American diplomat born in Berkeley, California, who was killed in the line of duty on August 19, 1974, in Nicosia, Cyprus, allegedly by Greek Cypriot gunmen during an anti-American demon ... (1921–1974), U.S. ambassador to Cyprus who was assassinated in 1974 * Roger Davis (other) {{hndis, name = Davies, Roger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Davies (actor)
Roger Davies, also known as Roger Davies-Roberts, is a British television and film actor. He is best known for playing the character Vinnie Rodriguez in the Nickelodeon UK series ''Renford Rejects'', which ran from 1998 to 2001. In 2018, he featured in Netflix/Bad Robot's ''The Cloverfield Paradox'' playing Michael Hamilton. Davies has also appeared in a number of TV series including 24seven, Hounded, The Bill, Blue Peter, Family Affairs, Dream Team Dream Team may refer to: Sport Basketball * Dream Team, the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team in Barcelona * Dream Team II, the 1994 U.S. men's national basketball team at the FIBA World Championship * Dream Team III, the 1996 ..., Girls in Love, and NCIS: Los Angeles. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Roger 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Davies (talent Manager)
Roger Davies is an Australian artist manager, business manager, and music producer in the global music industry. Davies was born in 1952, and his career spans more than half a century. He has managed multiple pop and rock performers, including Sherbet (1970–1979), Olivia Newton-John (1979–1986), Tina Turner (1981–2010), Dalbello (1984), James Reyne (1986–1990), Tony Joe White (1989–2000), Janet Jackson (1989–2002), Joe Cocker (1991 to 2014), Sade (1991–present), M People (1997–2000), Cher (1999–present), and Pink (2001–present). Biography Roger Davies was born in 1952 and grew up in Melbourne, Australia. He attended Brighton Grammar School. In 1970, aged 18, Davies left his economics and politics university course to become a roadie for a progressive rock band, Company Caine. The following year, he relocated to Sydney, Australia, and worked for a booking agency, Consolidated Rock, which was set up by Michael Browning and Michael Gudinski. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Davies (footballer)
Roger Davies (born 25 October 1950) is an English retired football forward who played professionally in England, Belgium and the United States. He currently provides radio commentary for Derby County games. Early years Davies was born and grew up in Wolverhampton where he played football from a young age. When he was fifteen, he left school and became an apprentice in an engineering company. However, he continued to play during his free time, up to three or four games a week. Europe When he turned eighteen, he joined Bridgnorth Town which itself had just joined the amateur Midland Football Combination. Davies spent three seasons with Bridgnorth. In the summer of 1971, he signed with Worcester City of the Southern Football League. He performed well enough to come to the attention of Derby County's manager who purchased Davies' contract for £12,000 in September 1971. He spent the 1971–1972 season with the Derby County reserves in the Central League where he won the league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Davies (astrophysicist)
Roger Llewelyn Davies (born 13 January 1954) is a British astronomer and cosmologist, one of the so-called Seven Samurai collaboration who discovered an apparent concentration of mass in the Universe called the Great Attractor. He is the Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University. His research interests centre on cosmology and how galaxies form and evolve. He has a longstanding interest in astronomical instruments and telescopes and developed the scientific case for the UK's involvement in the 8m Gemini telescopes project. He has pioneered the use of a new class of astronomical spectrograph to measure the masses and ages of galaxies, as well as search for black holes in their nuclei. He is the founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Astrophysical Surveys which is funded by the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation. Early life and education Davies was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, and grew up there, attending John Leggott Grammar School. A school project f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodger Davies
Rodger Paul Davies (May 7, 1921 – August 19, 1974) was an American diplomat born in Berkeley, California, who was killed in the line of duty on August 19, 1974, in Nicosia, Cyprus, allegedly by Greek Cypriot gunmen during an anti-American demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia, sparked by the U.S's failure to stop the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. He studied Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the U.S. Army in World War II. He undertook intensive language training in Arabic under Philip Khuri Hitti at Princeton University as part of the Army Specialized Training Program, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and then was deployed to the Middle East. He joined the state department after WWII. Career Davies was an American diplomat whose roles included director of the United States Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs until October 1965. Then until 1970 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |