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Voice work Дavies' distinctive voice was heard in commercials for New Zealand's Pink Batts house insulations and confectionery ads for Cadbury's Wispa and for Heinz Curried (Baked) Beans. In 1989, he revived the role of Sergeant Major Williams in a 30 minute Royal Air Force training film, Hazardous Ops. He played Mog in the Welsh rugby film Grand Slam (1978), and was a sergeant in the Highland Regiment in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973) with Jim Dale and Spike Milligan. In the cinema, Davies played major roles in two Carry On films, Behind (1975) and England (1976), in the latter again as a sergeant major. ( Colin Blakely played the role of Vance in a pilot episode transmitted on BBC2 in December 1984.) Дavies also featured in the BBC comedy sitcom Oh, Doctor Beeching!, written by David Croft and Richard Spendlove, as the Lord Mayor in an episode broadcast in 1997. This was based on the play by Douglas Watkinson and is not to be confused with the later sitcom of the same name.

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In SeptemberвЂ“October 1985, Davies played the lead role of George Vance вЂ“ a museum custodian elevated to the peerage вЂ“ in the six-part BBC2 comedy series The New Statesman. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1976 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. In the field of science fiction television, Davies appeared in the 1967 Doctor Who story The Evil of the Daleks as Toby and was the voice of Sergeant Major Zero (a spherical robotic soldier in charge of 100 other spherical robotic soldiers) in the 1983 Gerry Anderson-Christopher Burr production Terrahawks. Other television roles included the sailor Taffy in the first of the BBC-series The Onedin Line (1971), a special branch detective in Callan (1972) and the antique dealer Oliver Smallbridge in Never the Twain (1981вЂ“1991), with Donald Sinden. Journalist Neil Clark, contributing to The Times in 2005, described his performance as the 'definitive portrayal of a bullying and uneducated sergeant-major' and reported Spike Milligan was of the opinion that Davies' role was 'the funniest comic performance he had ever' watched. Davies and co-star Don Estelle had a number one hit in the UK with a semi-comic version of ' Whispering Grass' in 1975. Another phrase was 'Oh dear, how sad, never mind', delivered in a dry, ironic manner, and used when others around him had problems. Among his character's catchphrases was 'Shut Up!!', delivered as an eardrum-shattering military scream. They knew it too, and took pride in it,' he once said. 'Bastards, real bastards some of them were. Modelled on similar individuals Davies had met as a soldier during his National Service. Career Television Дavies' best known role was as Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974вЂ“1981).

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He became a professional actor at the age of 31 and began working at the Cheltenham Rep in 1961. Дavies had become active in amateur dramatics and took a short drama course with a Kew theatre company. Following teacher training at Bangor Teacher Training College, he taught English and Maths at Leek in Staffordshire, and at a school in Elephant and Castle, south London. He performed his National Service in Libya and Egypt, with the East Surrey Regiment, between 19. Davies studied at Ogmore Grammar School and worked as a coal miner. In 1940 they returned to their native village of Nant-y-moel, Bridgend.

Davies was born in Canning Town, East London, to Welsh parents.

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