Rita Davies
- Acting
- February 24, 1933 · Hertfordshire, England, UK
- January 19, 2016
Biography
Rita Davies (24 February 1933 – 19 January 2016) was a British character actress whose career spanned nearly six decades. She is best known for her cameo as the Historian's Wife in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and her sustained role as Sarah Frobisher-Smythe in House of Anubis (2011). Her other film credits include Children of Men (2006), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and Beauty and the Beast (2017, posthumous). On television she appeared in Brideshead Revisited (2008), Casualty, Doctors, Call the Midwife, Unforgotten, and Sherlock. She died of cancer at age 82 in Esher, Surrey. No major awards are on record.
Known for
Filmography
- Beauty and the Beast · Old Woman
- Cuffs · Valerie Dukes
- Unforgotten · Mary White
- Southcliffe · Queenie
- Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa · Old Woman on Pier
- The List · Martha Rove
- The Best Offer · Mrs. Derain
- Private Peaceful · Old Lady
- Cuckoo · Mary
- Starlings · Mrs. Wisley
- Lad: A Yorkshire Story · Bookshop Owner
- Acts of Godfrey · Saga Lady 1
- Call the Midwife · Pegeen
- Without You · Mrs Sutton
- Reuniting the Rubins · Old Lady
- Vera · Sister Benedict
- The Trip · Dove Cottage Worker
- House of Anubis · Sarah Frobisher-Smythe
- Sherlock · Blind Lady
- Mongrels · Margaret
- The Broken · Old Lady in Underground
- Brideshead Revisited · Nanny Hawkins
- Of Best Intentions
- The Inbetweeners · Old Lady
- Ashes to Ashes · Elsie Staines
- Lewis · Edna O'Brien
- Children of Men · Café Customer
- Driving Lessons · Mrs. Robottom (uncredited)
- The Da Vinci Code · Elegant Woman at Rosslyn
- Footprints in the Snow · Old Lady in Bar
- My Life in Film · Mary
- 55 Degrees North · Harriet Graham
- The Last Horror Movie · Grandma
- Murder in Suburbia · Minnie
- Tempo · Juliana
- The Wolves of Kromer · Fanny
- Silent Witness · Mears' Mother
- Kavanagh Q.C. · Mrs. Harmer
- W.S.H.: The Myth of the Urban Myth
- O Mary This London · Picket at clinic
- Deadly Obsession · Beth
- Heartbeat · Flo Chorley
- Teenage Health Freak · Auntie Pam
- Keeping Up Appearances · Mrs. Lomax
- Claws · Mrs Morris
- Ladies in Charge · Mrs Blessed
- What Mad Pursuit · Lady at Literary Luncheon
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ · Dr. Gray's Receptionist
- Screen Two · Picket at clinic
- Mr. Palfrey of Westminster · Miss Hewlett
- Number 10 · Mrs Hampton
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail · Historian's Wife
- Baby Love · 1st Policewoman
- Doomwatch · Mrs. Murray
- Play for Today · Matron, 1st Policewoman
- Monty Python's Flying Circus · Distraught Wife, Hostess / Black Spot Storyteller
- Liar! · Receptionist
- Nicholas Nickleby · Mrs. Lenville
- BBC Play of the Month
- Out of the Unknown · Receptionist
- Ghost Squad · W.P.C
- Drama 61-67 · Woman in Station
- Maigret · Germaine
- Sunday-Night Play · Penny
- The Men From Room 13 · Joyce
- Armchair Theatre · Nurse