Windsor davies cause of death
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Windsor Davies
He was born in Canning Town in east London on 28 August 1930, but returned to his parents' native Ogmore Valley at the outbreak of World War Two.
Davies attended Ogmore Grammar School and Bangor Teacher Training College, and worked as a teacher and miner before enrolling on a drama course at Richmond College in 1961.
Davies' first on-screen appearance was in the 1962 film The Pot Carriers. A range of television and film roles followed, including various parts in Dixon Of Dock Green and Z Cars between 1965 and 1974.
Created by David Croft and Jimmy Perry as the follow-up to Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum ran on the BBC from 1974 to 1981. It followed the exploits of a Royal Artillery Concert Party entertaining British troops in India and Burma towards the end of World War Two.
The role of the bombastic Sgt Major Williams was originally offered to Leonard Rossiter, who felt the script's depictions of life in India were too crude and caricatured. Controversy surrounding the blacking up of white actor Michael Bates to play an Indian native meant t
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DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor
Name: Windsor Davies
Date of birth: 1930
Date of death: 2019
Spouse: Eluned Davies (née Evans)
Child: Jane Davies
Child: Sarah Davies
Child: Nancy Davies
Child: Danny Davies
Child: Bethan Davies
Parent: Davies
Parent: Maggie Davies (née Jones)
Gender: Male
Occupation: actor
Area of activity: Performing Arts
Author: Robert Hyde
Windsor Davies was born on 28 August 1930 in Canning Town in the East End of London, the son of Anyan Davies and his wife Maggie (née Jones). He had one sister, Glenys. Both his parents were Welsh speakers. In 1940, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, the family moved back to Anyan Davies's home village of Nant-y-Moel in Ogmore Vale. Windsor attended Ogmore Grammar School, and afterwards worked in a factory, subsequently moving to a local mine to train and begin work as an electrical fitter and engineer. He was called up for National Service between 1950 and 1952, serving in Libya and Egypt with the East Surrey Regiment. It was in the army that he found he
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Perhaps destined forever to be remembered for just one role - an uncannily effective portrayal of a ferocious, moustachioed, fruity-voiced regimental sergeant major - Windsor Davies was a jobbing actor for more than ten years before his big break.
Born in London's East End in 1930, Davies grew up in Wales, worked as a mining electrical engineer, did National Service in Libya and Egypt, then trained as a teacher at a Bangor college. As an adult he became keenly involved in amateur dramatics.
Becoming a professional actor at Cheltenham Rep, Davies' first substantial television role was in the ATV drama series Probation Officer (1962). It did not propel him to stardom. But with the help of his wife, Eluned, whose parents provided rent-free accommodation, the 1960s and early 1970s saw Davies play a diverse range of supporting roles - often as policemen - in film and television drama.
In 1974, Davies found fame as BSM Williams in Jimmy Perry and David Croft's military sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (BBC, tx. 1974-81). Surrounded by a strong cast, and armed with some effecti
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