Nigel Davenport

Nigel Davenport

Birthday: 1928-05-23

Place of Birth: Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Biography: Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.

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A Man for All Seasons
A Man for All Seasons

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

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Where the Spies Are
Where the Spies Are

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Midd...

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Caravaggio
Caravaggio

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Carava...

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Villain
Villain

In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the ...

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No Blade of Grass
No Blade of Grass

A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and ...

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Nighthawks
Nighthawks

When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigne...

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Cry of the Innocent
Cry of the Innocent

An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their ...

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Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...

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The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Island of Dr. Moreau

A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a sci...

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Play Dirty
Play Dirty

During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must...

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El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe
El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe

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The Bone Yard
The Bone Yard

Extraordinary things happen at an ordinary police station....

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The Last Valley
The Last Valley

People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Ye...

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Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catho...

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The Mumbo Jumbo
The Mumbo Jumbo

A cynical young American, Thomas Doubting, stumbles upon a magical amulet which takes him on a myste...

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Longitude
Longitude

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20...

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Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life ...

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Living Free
Living Free

When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband...

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Sands of the Kalahari
Sands of the Kalahari

A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plan...

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Charley One-Eye
Charley One-Eye

A black Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in ...

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Dracula
Dracula

Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife....

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Phase IV
Phase IV

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman....

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Black Trash
Black Trash

A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South...

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David Copperfield
David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...

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Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists....

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Sinful Davey
Sinful Davey

A young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing daring c...

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Life at the Top
Life at the Top

Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in t...

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The Mind of Mr. Soames
The Mind of Mr. Soames

A 30-year-old man, who has been in a coma since birth, is finally restored to consciousness by a bre...

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In the Cool of the Day
In the Cool of the Day

After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hope...

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The Regent's Wife
The Regent's Wife

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Clarín, which narrates the difficulties of Ana Ozores to ...

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The Virgin Soldiers
The Virgin Soldiers

The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named...

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The Cutter
The Cutter

'The Cutter' is a master of his craft – gangland killings using a cut-throat razor. When his son dis...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his ...

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An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 (...

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La vuelta del Coyote
La vuelta del Coyote

In the mid-19th century, California, a Mexican territory, became part of the United States. Faced wi...

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Sebastian
Sebastian

Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Int...

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Ladies Who Do
Ladies Who Do

The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a f...

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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by setti...

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Strata
Strata

The story means to develop through an uncovering of layers - strata. As writer Krumbachova stated: "...

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Return to Sender
Return to Sender

A fraudster is arrested for stealing a large sum of money from his partners. When he learns that a p...

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The Uppercrust
The Uppercrust

This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hire...

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Zulu Dawn
Zulu Dawn

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership....

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Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV
Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV

A brand new documentary by Elijah Drenner featuring interviews with Jeffrey Bass, co-star Michael Mu...

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Shotgun
Shotgun

The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints....

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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

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Lunch Hour
Lunch Hour

A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company wh...

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South Riding
South Riding

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel...

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The Circus Connection
The Circus Connection

In the middle of the Augustów Forest, tarpans are bred - small wild forest horses, found in the wild...

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Without a Clue
Without a Clue

Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the...

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The Apple Cart
The Apple Cart

Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as th...

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The Verdict
The Verdict

A racketeer, deported back from America, faces murder charge and hatches jury rigging plot with acco...

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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lad...

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Othello
Othello

The earliest British televised production in existence of the play Othello, with black American acto...

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The Royal Hunt of the Sun
The Royal Hunt of the Sun

The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the...

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A High Wind in Jamaica
A High Wind in Jamaica

In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their sh...

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The London Connection
The London Connection

A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air ch...

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The Opium War
The Opium War

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Em...

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Mosley
Mosley

Jonathan Cake, Jemma Redgrave and Hugh Bonneville lead an outstanding cast in this mini-series traci...

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Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of wome...

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The Strange Affair
The Strange Affair

When rookie P.C. Strange falls for an under aged girl, he is unknowingly compromised by a pair of po...

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Bitter Harvest
Bitter Harvest

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. ...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love...

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Dial M for Murder
Dial M for Murder

A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film....

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The Biko Inquest
The Biko Inquest

Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notor...

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The Third Secret
The Third Secret

A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst ...

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The Assassination
The Assassination

Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to...

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The Treasure Seekers
The Treasure Seekers

Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially...

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The News-Benders
The News-Benders

An idealistic young television producer is approached by the representative of a clandestine agency ...

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The Entertainer
The Entertainer

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in ...

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Hotel Shanghai
Hotel Shanghai

German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese...

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The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams

In 1956, the ultra-respectable seaside resort of Eastbourne was shocked when a local doctor, John Bo...

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Desert Mice
Desert Mice

A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association)...

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