Richard Davies (actor)
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Richard Davies (born 25 January 1926) is an actor, from Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, whose film and TV work covers many years but is probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr Price in the LWT popular situation comedy Please Sir!.
Davies had a regular role on ITV's Coronation Street playing Idris Hopkins between 1974 and 1975 and has popped up on our screens in a veritable What's What of British TV comedy. He played Mr White in the Fawlty Towers episode The Kipper And The Corpse and also appeared in Yes Minister, May to December, Whoops Apocalypse, Not the Nine O'Clock News, 2 point 4 children and One Foot in the Grave.
He also appeared in several police television series, with a recurring role as Jim Sloan in Z Cars between 1962 and 1965, returning to the series playing different characters in 1968 and in its sequel Softly, Softly. He also appeared in Dixon of Dock Green several times, The Sweeney, Van der Valk and The Bill.
On the big screen Richard made appearances in Under Milk Wood (1972), the 1971 movie adaptation of Please Sir!, Steptoe and Son Ride Again, and Zulu. In 1951 he made an uncredited appearance in the Ealing Studios comedy The Lavender Hill Mob.
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