Gareth Davies is a British television director and actor. Davies began his career as an actor with stage roles at the

Royal Court Theatre The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre in Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, Englan ...

in London and a recurring role in the early BBC soap opera ''

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''. It is though as a television director where Davies made his greatest impact. He directed several of television dramatist

Dennis Potter Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC television serials '' Pennies from Heaven'' (1978), ''The Singing Detective'' (198 ...

's earliest plays, such as ''

The Nigel Barton Plays ''The Nigel Barton Plays'' are two semi-autobiographical television dramas by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on BBC1 in 1965 as part of ''The Wednesday Play'' strand. The first play, '' Stand Up, Nigel Barton'', follows the eponymous character's j ...

'' (1965), ''

Moonlight on the Highway ''Moonlight on the Highway'' is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on 12 April 1969 as part of ITV's ''Saturday Night Theatre'' strand. The tale of a young Al Bowlly obsessive attempting to blot out memories of sexual abuse via ...

'', and '' Son of Man'' (both 1969). Davies's other work included serial adaptations of literary classics, such as Balzac's ''

Cousin Bette ''La Cousine Bette'' (, ''Cousin Bette (given name), Bette'') is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended fami ...

'' (1971), ''

Tom Brown's Schooldays ''Tom Brown's School Days'' (sometimes written ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'', also published under the titles ''Tom Brown at Rugby'', ''School Days at Rugby'', and ''Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby'') is an 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes. The stor ...

'' (also 1971), which won several

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after it was screened in the United States, and ''

Oliver Twist ''Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress'', Charles Dickens's second novel, was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse, the orphan Oliver Twist is bound into apprenticeship with ...

'' (1985).Jerry Roberts ''Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors, Volume 1'', Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2009, p.119

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