Richard Davies

Richard Davies was a Welsh actor, born in Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil. He was probably best known for playing the exasperated schoolmaster Mr Price in the sitcom Please Sir!, and he often used a broad Welsh accent while also adopting others for a range of characters. On television he played Jim Sloan on a recurring basis in Z-Cars from 1962 to 1965, returned to it in 1968 and in the spin-off Softly, Softly, and was Idris Hopkins in Coronation Street from 1974 to 1975. He also appeared in Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt as Clive. He was Mr. White in The Kipper and the Corpse, a Fawlty Towers episode, and his performance as Burton in Delta and the Bannermen, a 1987 Doctor Who story, was well received. His films included the screen version of Please Sir! (1971), Zulu (1964) and Under Milk Wood (1971), and in 1951 he appeared uncredited in The Lavender Hill Mob.