Acting · geboren 1933-02-24 · Hertfordshire, England, UK
Rita Davies
Rita Davies (24 February 1933 – 19 January 2016) was a British character actress whose career spanned nearly six decades. She is best known for her cameo as the Historian's Wife in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and her sustained role as Sarah Frobisher-Smythe in House of Anubis (2011). Her other film credits include Children of Men (2006), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and Beauty and the Beast (2017, posthumous). On television she appeared in Brideshead Revisited (2008), Casualty, Doctors, Call the Midwife, Unforgotten, and Sherlock. She died of cancer at age 82 in Esher, Surrey. No major awards are on record.
Bekannt aus
- Die Schöne und das Biest (2017) – Old Woman
- The Da Vinci Code - Sakrileg (2006) – Elegant Woman at Rosslyn
- Children of Men (2006) – Café Customer
- Sherlock (2010) – Blind Lady
- Monty Python: Die Ritter der Kokosnuss (1975) – Historian's Wife
- The Best Offer - Das höchste Gebot (2013) – Mrs. Derain
- Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969) – Distraught Wife
- The Inbetweeners (2008) – Old Lady
- Alan Partridge (2013) – Old Woman on Pier
- The Trip (2011) – Dove Cottage Worker
- House of Anubis (2011) – Sarah Frobisher-Smythe
- Call the Midwife (2012) – Pegeen
- The Broken (2008) – Old Lady in Underground
- Unforgotten (2015) – Mary White
- Vera - Ein ganz spezieller Fall (2011) – Sister Benedict
- Mehr Schein als Sein (1990) – Mrs. Lomax
- Wiedersehen mit Brideshead (2008) – Nanny Hawkins
- Driving Lessons - Mit Vollgas ins Leben (2006) – Mrs. Robottom (uncredited)
- Lewis - Der Oxford Krimi (2007) – Edna O'Brien
- Ashes to Ashes - Zurück in die 80er (2008) – Elsie Staines
- Silent Witness (1996) – Mears' Mother
- Cuckoo (2012) – Mary
- The Last Horror Movie (2004) – Grandma
- Private Peaceful - Mein Bruder Charlie (2012) – Old Lady
- Southcliffe (2013) – Queenie
- Cuffs (2015) – Valerie Dukes
- Heartbeat (1992) – Flo Chorley
- Doomwatch (1972) – Mrs. Murray
- Mongrels (2010) – Margaret
- Tempo (2003) – Juliana
- The Wolves of Kromer (1998) – Fanny
- Murder in Suburbia (2004) – Minnie
- Lad: A Yorkshire Story (2012) – Bookshop Owner
- Die Todesliste - Nr. 1 stirbt (2013) – Martha Rove
- Kommissar Maigret (1960) – Germaine
- My Life in Film (2004) – Mary
- Das geheime Tagebuch des Adrian Mole (1985) – Dr Gray's Receptionist
- Kavanagh Q.C. (1995) – Mrs. Harmer
- Play for Today (1970) – Matron
- BBC Play of the Month (1965)