Alan Davies
Alan Davies was born in Laughton, England, United Kingdom on March 6th, 1966 and is the Comedian. At the age of 58, Alan Davies biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Alan Roger Davies (born 6 March 1966) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, and actor.
He has been playing in Jonathan Creek, a BBC mystery drama series, since 1997, and he has been the only permanent panelist on the BBC panel show QI since 2003, beating out legendary original host Stephen Fry (2003–16), who was replaced by Sandi Toksvig upon his departure.
Early life
Davies was born in Loughton, Essex, and spent his childhood in Chingford. Davies' mother died of leukaemia and he was raised by his father when he was six. As described in his book Just Ignore Him, he was sexually assaulted by his father from age 8 to 13. Davies wrote that his brother and sister were turned against him. Davies described this as wanting to please others, which led to a shoplift for schoolmates and a home joker.
Davies completed his O-levels at Staples Road School in Loughton and was privately educated at the independent Bancroft's School in Woodford Green, Loughton. He then transferred to Loughton College of Further Education, where he obtained four more O-Levels and two A-Levels (Communications & Theatre Studies). He earned an honorary doctorate by the University of Kent in 1988, and in 2003, he earned his Bachelor degree in Drama & Theatre Studies.
Personal life
After a six-month commitment, Davies married writer Katie Maskell on January 13, 2007. In 2005, the twosome appeared on QI for the first time. Bill Bailey, a friend and comedy partner, was Davies' best man. Davies and his partner have three children.
Davies prefers fish but not so much meat. Wasted Lives, an anti-vivisection video for Animal Aid, was narrated by the artist in 2006.
Davies bit the ear of a homeless man in late 2007. Both The Times and The Daily Telegraph reported it in late 2007. Davies had just left a wake at the nearby Groucho Club. In 2009, he told The Times, "He wasn't a tramp." He was a raging, horrendous arsehole. Multiple times, he called me a cunt. Or if it wasn't him, it was his mate. Yes, I went for him, and, yes, I did it in what turned out to be an amusing way." Davies was banned from playing in the Groucho Club after the incident.
Davies, a lifelong Arsenal F.C. fan and season ticket holder, is a lifelong Arsenal F.C. fan and season ticket holder. Davies appeared on "It's Up For Grabs Now," a light-hearted look at the club's internal operations. Damian Harris, the Arsenal Podcast, started on January 18, 2011 with Ian Stone, Keith Dover, Tayo Popoola, and Skint Records founder Damian Harris. The podcast stopped in August 2018, but it was revived in April 2020 on a (mostly) weekly basis. Arsenal fans have used his support for the game in many ways, such as by assigning him a buzzer sound of a chant by rival club Manchester United's supporters.
"I am a member of Labour Party," he said in Saga magazine in 2013. "Social injustice is important to me." Any man for himself isn't interested in life. "All life should revolve around cooperation and collaboration." Despite initially voting for Jeremy Corbyn to be the Party leader when being interviewed by Radio Times alongside fellow comedian Jo Brand on the broadcast of his Channel 4 sitcom Damned, Davies said Corbyn was an ineffective Leader of the Opposition.
He completed a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College in 2016, which he completed in September 2018.
Career
Davies began performing comedy in 1988 at the Whitstable Labour Club. In 1991, he was named Time Out's Best Young Comic. He continued touring and performing in the UK and Australia, winning the Edinburgh Festival Critics Award for Comedy in 1994. That show was released on video and audio cassette in 1995 as Alan Davies Live at the Lyric recorded at the Lyric Theatre as part of the Perrier Pick of the Fringe season in October 1994.
A version of his show "Urban Trauma", which ran in the West End at the Duchess Theatre and toured the UK and Australia, was shown on BBC One in 1998.
In 2012, Davies planned a new tour called "Life is Pain". The title for this show came from a story he heard about a six-year-old girl being told off by her mother and responding "Life is pain". Davies said "This really made me laugh". The tour was broadcast on Dave.
In 1994 and 1995, Davies hosted Alan's Big One for three series on Radio 1 before appearing in Channel 4's spoof travel show One for the Road (made by Channel X in 1994/5).
From 1997 to 2016 he played the title role in Jonathan Creek, a trick-deviser for a stage magician, with a side interest in solving crimes. Jonathan Creek won a BAFTA for Best Drama and brought Davies to mainstream attention. The series ran semi-regularly between 1997 and 2004 before returning on New Year's Day 2009, with a special episode titled "The Grinning Man", was broadcast on the BBC. Further specials were aired in 2010 ("The Judas Tree") and 2013 ("The Clue of the Savant's Thumb").
Davies co-wrote and starred in his own radio sitcom, The Alan Davies Show, in 1998. Cassettes of the show were produced and released by the BBC, with episodes broadcast on the digital radio station BBC7. He played Russell Boyd in the BBC comedy A Many Splintered Thing, also in 1998 and 2000.
In 2001, Davies played Robert Gossage in Bob and Rose, a comedy drama about a gay man falling for a woman. He won the Best Actor award at the Monte Carlo TV Festival for his performance. He also played Jack the dog in the radio sitcom About a Dog. In 2003, Davies appeared as a Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car on Top Gear with a time of 1:54 in wet conditions. He returned in Series 8 with 1:50.3 in dry conditions. During a period from the mid-1990s to 2002, Davies advertised for Abbey National.
Davies took on a less comedic role in 2004, starring as Henry Farmer, a maverick barrister, in ITV Sunday night drama The Brief, for two series. Subsequent drama roles include Superintendent Mallard in Agatha Christie's Marple (ITV, 2008), as well as appearances in The Good Housekeeping Guide (BBC One, 2006), Roman Road (ITV 2004) and Hotel Babylon (BBC One, 2008).
He argued the case for John Lennon as the greatest Briton of all time on the BBC's Great Britons series in 2002. In 2007, Davies starred in the second episode of ITV's You Don't Know You're Born and on The Unbelievable Truth.
He has appeared in an episode of the BBC science programme Horizon in which Professor Marcus du Sautoy attempted to introduce him to elements of mathematical thought which was broadcast on BBC Two on 31 March 2009. He went on to appear in Horizon for a second time in November 2009, this time leading the episode — du Sautoy also returned as a guest speaker.
On 16 May 2010, Davies appeared in "Your Sudden Death Question", an episode of the ITV detective series Lewis, as Marcus Richard, a scamming quizmaster at a competition held in an Oxford college, at which some of the contestants are murdered. In September 2010, he began a three-part documentary series Alan Davies' Teenage Revolution (Channel 4), partly based on his autobiographical book My Favourite People and Me, 1978–88.
In September 2010, a BBC comedy series entitled Whites starring Davies as a chef premiered. It was however cancelled after this first series. It is believed to have been a victim of the cuts at the BBC subsequent to the reduced licence fee settlement.
In April 2011, Davies appeared as the guest on the return of the ABC TV conversation program A Quiet Word With .... In 2011 Davies was also one of the judges on the ITV programme Show Me The Funny, a talent contest for new and aspiring stand-up comedy performers.
In September 2012, Davies made his first appearance on Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz series, winning The Big Fat Quiz of the '90s alongside Phill Jupitus.
In February 2014, Davies presented a chat show Alan Davies Après-Ski on BBC Two, which looked at some of the highlights of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. He also co-hosted the Brazilian Banter podcast for ITV with Tom & Dom from Bantams Banter. The show was a satirical look at the 2014 FIFA World Cup hosted by Brazil.
Since 2014, he has hosted The Dog Rescuers for Channel 5 and the chat show Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled for Dave.
Davies appears as the only permanent panellist on the BBC Two comedy quiz game QI, which was hosted by Stephen Fry from 2003 to 2015, and then by Sandi Toksvig. He also contributed "four words" to the QI book The Book of General Ignorance (which appear after Stephen Fry's foreword), "Will this do, Stephen?". Davies has appeared in almost every regular episode of the show, though in one episode (Episode 10 of Series D, "Divination") he appeared, pre-recorded, in only the first few minutes, as he was in Paris attending the UEFA Champions League Final between Barcelona and his beloved Arsenal during the recording. His chair was empty for the rest of the episode, although his voice was heard during "General Ignorance". He also did not appear in the 2011 Comic Relief episode, when his seat was taken by David Walliams. During the filming of the QI Christmas episode 2020, Davies set the new Guinness World Record for the most Christmas crackers pulled by an individual in 30 seconds, achieving 35 successful cracks. His record stood until Joel Corry achieved 41 successful cracks at Capital's Jingle Bell Ball on 12 December 2021.