Harold "Harry" Davies (born 1964 in Hampstead, London) is an English TV presenter and actor.
Davies is from a legal family of long reputable standing; his father was made one of the first black members of the Queen's Counsel after his successful work in the wake of the Mau Mau Uprising.
On completing his secondary education at Shoreham Grammar School where he took A levels before going on to a pre-university course, Davies started his studies at ...
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Harold "Harry" Davies (born 1964 in Hampstead, London) is an English TV presenter and actor.
Davies is from a legal family of long reputable standing; his father was made one of the first black members of the Queen's Counsel after his successful work in the wake of the Mau Mau Uprising.
On completing his secondary education at Shoreham Grammar School where he took A levels before going on to a pre-university course, Davies started his studies at Oxford where he met his future wife, Gabriella, in 1985. Following graduation, the young couple left for Gabriella's native Italy, where they were to spend the next 20 years.
Despite having followed a vocational course of studies, including a masters degree at the Bocconi University of Milan, he was deeply ambivalent about the first job he obtained in Italy, teaching marketing skills to employees of tyre company Pirelli. When the Italian television network put out a call for entertainers who would relate jokes, he applied and was called for an...
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