Nigel Davenport
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Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – October 25, 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 Both Seasons and Chariots of Fire.
Early life and education
Davenport, the son of Arthur Henry Davenport and Katherine Lucy (née Meiklejohn), was born in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire. His father, an engineer, was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, before being employed as an engineer for the Midland Railway, and later became a professor of engineering, a Fellow, and the bursar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; he served in the Royal Engineers for four years during World War II; he was given the Military Cross. During the Second Boer War, Nigel's great-uncle, Major Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn, was given a Victoria Cross.
He grew up in an academic family and was educated at St Peter's School, Seaford, Cheltenham College, and Trinity College, Oxford. Originally, he intended to study Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, but after consulting with one of his teachers, he shifted to English.
Davenport was a disc jockey on the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Hamburg in the 1950s and 1950s.
Personal life
Davenport was married twice, first to Helena White, whom he met while studying at Oxford University. They married in 1951 and had a daughter, Laura, and Hugo, their son. His second wife, actress Maria Aitken, with whom he had a second son, Jack, who was best known for appearances in Pirates of the Caribbean. Jack was portrayed as the James Norrington character in The Pirates of the Caribbean films by Jerry Bruckheimer, partially because of Nigel's appearance in A High Wind in Jamaica.
Career
Davenport first appeared on stage at the Savoy Theatre and then with the Shakespeare Memorial Company, before joining the English Stage Company, one of its earliest members, at the Royal Court Theatre in 1956. He began appearing in British film and television productions in supporting roles, including a walk-on in Tony Richardson's film, Look Back in Anger (1959). Subsequent roles included a theatre manager opposite Laurence Olivier in the film version of The Entertainer and a policeman in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (both 1960).
In the 1962 last episode of the first season of the TV series The Saint, titled "The Charitable Countess", with Roger Moore as Simon Templar and Patricia Donahue as Countess Rovagna, Davenport played a supporting role as the Countess's confidant, Aldo Petri.
He made an impression as Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in A Man for All Seasons (1966), co-starred with Michael Caine in the war movie Play Dirty, and had a major role as Lord Bothwell in Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1972, he appeared as George Adamson, opposite Susan Hampshire in Living Free, the sequel to Born Free.
During the production of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Davenport read the lines of HAL 9000 off-camera during the computer's dialogues with actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood. However, Kubrick thought that Davenport's English accent was too distracting, and after a few weeks he dismissed him, so Canadian actor Douglas Rain was ultimately chosen for the role. Davenport took the leading role in the off-beat Phase IV (1974), which failed to find an audience. In 1979, he portrayed King George III in Prince Regent.
He appeared as Ebenezer Scrooge's grudging father Silas in the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol (1984), and played opposite Michael Caine again in the 1988 Sherlock Holmes spoof Without A Clue, which was Davenport's second-to-last feature film.
He portrayed The Duke of Holdernesse in a 1993 BBC Radio dramatization of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Priory School".
In February 1997, Davenport was the subject of This Is Your Life when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at David Nicholson's stables near Cheltenham.
He was president of Equity from 1986 to 1992.