Nigel Davenport
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.922 |
| Birthday | 1928-05-23 |
| Place of Birth | Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Arthur Nigel Davenport, |
1966
A Man for All Seasons
7.342/423
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy de...
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A Man for All Seasons
1966
Where the Spies Are
5.2/10
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is co...
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Where the Spies Are
1986
Caravaggio
6.165/139
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous pai...
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Caravaggio
1971
Villain
6.2/38
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
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Villain
1970
No Blade of Grass
5.3/35
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Arc...
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No Blade of Grass
1981
Nighthawks
6.371/415
When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
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Nighthawks
1980
Cry of the Innocent
5/4
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a se...
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Cry of the Innocent
1981
Chariots of Fire
6.789/897
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a d...
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Chariots of Fire
1977
The Island of Dr. Moreau
5.507/144
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turne...
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
1969
Play Dirty
6.1/47
During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Naz...
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Play Dirty
1998
El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe
5/1
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El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe
1964
The Bone Yard
0/0
Extraordinary things happen at an ordinary police station.
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The Bone Yard
1971
The Last Valley
6.618/51
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of sol...
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The Last Valley
1971
Mary, Queen of Scots
6.7/52
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the ag...
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Mary, Queen of Scots
2000
The Mumbo Jumbo
0/0
A cynical young American, Thomas Doubting, stumbles upon a magical amulet which takes him on a mysterious journey to the island of Sinmouth. The eccen...
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The Mumbo Jumbo
2000
Longitude
7.3/29
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
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Longitude
1959
Look Back in Anger
6.6/68
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
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Look Back in Anger
1972
Living Free
6.8/8
When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a ga...
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Living Free
1965
Sands of the Kalahari
6.1/27
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
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Sands of the Kalahari
1973
Charley-One-Eye
4.773/11
A black Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats o...
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Charley-One-Eye
1974
Dracula
6.297/64
Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.
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Dracula
1974
Phase IV
6.355/238
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
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Phase IV
1976
Black Trash
4.8/4
A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.
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Black Trash
2001
David Copperfield
6.3/20
After the death of his father and a second wedding of his mother, David Copperfield suffers from his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. The mother...
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David Copperfield
1977
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
4.75/4
Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.
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Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1969
Sinful Davey
5.5/11
A young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing daring crimes. However, his childhood friend is equally de...
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Sinful Davey
1965
Life at the Top
6.179/14
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But hi...
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Life at the Top
1970
The Mind of Mr. Soames
5.7/15
A 30-year-old man, who has been in a coma since birth, is finally restored to consciousness by a breakthrough brain operation. Although physically an...
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The Mind of Mr. Soames
1963
In the Cool of the Day
5.4/10
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who...
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In the Cool of the Day
1974
The Regent's wife
4.3/3
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Clarín, which narrates the difficulties of Ana Ozores to adapt to the sordidness of life in Vetusta, a prov...
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The Regent's wife
1969
The Virgin Soldiers
6.6/9
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier nam...
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The Virgin Soldiers
1992
The Cutter
0/0
'The Cutter' is a master of his craft - gangland killings using a cut-throat razor. When his son disturbs him in his work and announces that he wants...
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The Cutter
1973
The Picture of Dorian Gray
6/8
Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1982
An Inspector Calls
4.5/2
An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 (in Russia) and 1946 (in the UK). It is considered...
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An Inspector Calls
1998
La vuelta del Coyote
5/1
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La vuelta del Coyote
1968
Sebastian
5.955/11
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian f...
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Sebastian
1963
Ladies Who Do
7.045/11
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save thei...
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Ladies Who Do
1980
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
6/1
The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by setting his broken leg after he had assassinated Abraha...
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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
1983
Strata
3/1
The story means to develop through an uncovering of layers - strata. As writer Krumbachova stated: "With nature as a prison, an impassable barrier ......
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Strata
1963
Return to Sender
4.083/6
A fraudster is arrested for stealing a large sum of money from his partners. When he learns that a particularly brilliant barrister will lead the pros...
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Return to Sender
1981
The Uppercrust
5.2/6
This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and...
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The Uppercrust
1979
Zulu Dawn
6.04/101
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Zulu Dawn
2024
Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV
0/0
A brand new documentary by Elijah Drenner featuring interviews with Jeffrey Bass, co-star Michael Murphy, screenwriter Mayo Simon, archivist Sean Sava...
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Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV
1966
Shotgun
0/0
The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.
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Shotgun
1984
A Christmas Carol
7.415/351
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...
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A Christmas Carol
1962
Lunch Hour
6.813/8
A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their i...
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Lunch Hour
1974
South Riding
0/0
An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
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South Riding
1996
The Circus Connection
0/0
In the middle of the Augustów Forest, tarpans are bred - small wild forest horses, found in the wild only in Poland. An old abandoned fort near the po...
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The Circus Connection
1988
Without a Clue
6.6/215
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he ha...
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Without a Clue
1975
The Apple Cart
0/0
Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as the British cabinet and monarchy face a day of "cris...
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The Apple Cart
1964
The Verdict
0/0
A racketeer, deported back from America, faces murder charge and hatches jury rigging plot with accomplice. Cross and double-cross follow.
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The Verdict
1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
6.34/453
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their t...
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1955
Othello
8.5/2
The earliest British televised production in existence of the play Othello, with black American actor, Gordon Heath, in the title role. This was the f...
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Othello
1969
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
6/9
The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds hi...
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1965
A High Wind in Jamaica
6.231/39
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of th...
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A High Wind in Jamaica
1979
The London Connection
7.8/2
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of...
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The London Connection
1997
The Opium War
6.6/8
The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of...
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The Opium War
1998
Mosley
6/1
Jonathan Cake, Jemma Redgrave and Hugh Bonneville lead an outstanding cast in this mini-series tracing the turbulent political career and tempestuous...
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Mosley
1960
Peeping Tom
7.432/776
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which i...
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Peeping Tom
1968
The Strange Affair
4.4/4
When rookie P.C. Strange falls for an under aged girl, he is unknowingly compromised by a pair of pornographers. Meanwhile, seasoned Det. Pierce is ou...
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The Strange Affair
1963
Bitter Harvest
6.2/10
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London i...
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Bitter Harvest
1981
A Midsummer Night's Dream
4/1
Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the fore...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1967
Dial M for Murder
6/1
A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
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Dial M for Murder
1984
The Biko Inquest
0/0
Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important...
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The Biko Inquest
1964
The Third Secret
6.058/26
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter...
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The Third Secret
1972
The Assassination
6.6/33
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World....
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The Assassination
1996
The Treasure Seekers
6/4
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
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The Treasure Seekers
1968
The News-Benders
0/0
An idealistic young television producer is approached by the representative of a clandestine agency offering an unusual job: creating the news - befor...
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The News-Benders
1960
The Entertainer
6.117/47
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
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The Entertainer
1997
Hotel Shanghai
0/0
German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-J...
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