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Robert Richard "Robin" Davies (16 January 1954 – 22 February 2010) was a Welsh television and film actor.
10 May 2010.
Early life
Robert Richard Davies was born in
Tywyn
Tywyn (Welsh: ; in English often ), formerly spelled Towyn, is a town, community, and seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast of southern Gwynedd, Wales. It was previously in the historic county of Merionethshire. It is famous as the lo ...
,
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...
and spent part of his childhood living in Willesden where he attended Gladstone Park School Primary School. He trained to be an actor at the
Aida Foster Theatre School
The Aida Foster Theatre School for drama, dance and education was founded by Aida Foster in 1929 as a hobby to teach dancing. It expanded over the years to become one of Britain's foremost stage schools. Many stage and film personalities of the 20t ...
.
Career
He was a child actor and made his television debut in the
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soap opera ''
The Newcomers''. He was also in ''
The Magnificent Six and a Half'', which went on to become the children's show ''
Here Come the Double Deckers''. He is perhaps best known for two of his earliest TV roles. In 1970 he played the role of Carrot in
Richard Carpenter's children's fantasy ''
Catweazle
''Catweazle'' is a British children's fantasy television series, starring Geoffrey Bayldon in the title role, and created by Richard Carpenter for London Weekend Television. The first series, produced and directed in 1969 by Quentin Lawren ...
'', for which he had to dye his hair red.
The following year, Davies appeared as Simon Harrison in the
ITV sitcom
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ...
''
...And Mother Makes Three''. The series starred
Wendy Craig
Anne Gwendolyn "Wendy" Craig (born 20 June 1934) is an English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms ''Not in Front of the Children'', '' ...And Mother Makes Three'', '' ...And Mother Makes Five'' and ''Butterflies''. ...
as a recently widowed mother and Davies played one of her two teenage sons, a role he reprised in the sequel ''
...And Mother Makes Five''. His film credits included the
Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for ...
films ''
If....'' (1968), ''
The Blood on Satan's Claw
''The Blood on Satan's Claw'' is a 1971 British supernatural horror film directed by Piers Haggard and starring Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, and Barry Andrews. Set in early 18th-century England, it follows the residents of a rural village w ...
'' (1971) and ''
Britannia Hospital
''Britannia Hospital'' is a 1982 British black comedy film, directed by Lindsay Anderson, which targets the National Health Service and contemporary British society. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival and Fantasporto.
''Britan ...
'' (1982), and a cameo in ''
Shakespeare in Love
''Shakespeare in Love'' is a 1998 romantic period comedy-drama film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard, and produced by Harvey Weinstein. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin ...
'' (1998). He also had roles in ''
Doomwatch
''Doomwatch'' is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist ...
'', ''
Warship
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'', ''The Saturday Party'', ''Forget Me Not Lane'', ''The Country Party'', ''
A Moment in Time'' and ''
Spearhead''.
Personal life
He married Venetia Vivian in 1982 and they had three children: India, Alice and Will.
He died in
Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...
,
Norfolk
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
on 22 February 2010 of
lung cancer
Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from transformed, malign ...
,
[ and was interred at St Peter's Church, Walsingham, Norfolk, on 1 March 2010.]
Filmography
References
External links
The original Catweazle Website, launched in 1997
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1954 births
2010 deaths
Welsh male child actors
Welsh male film actors
People from Merionethshire
Welsh male television actors
Deaths from lung cancer in England
People from Tywyn