John Howard Davies (born London 9 March 1939) is a British film actor, television director and producer.
Davies was the son of the scriptwriter Jack Davies. His credits as a child actor include the title role in David Lean's Oliver Twist, The Rocking Horse Winner, Tom Brown's Schooldays' and William Tell.
After school at Halleybury, further education at Grenoble and National Service in the Royal Navy, he started working in the City in a finance c...
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John Howard Davies (born London 9 March 1939) is a British film actor, television director and producer.
Davies was the son of the scriptwriter Jack Davies. His credits as a child actor include the title role in David Lean's Oliver Twist, The Rocking Horse Winner, Tom Brown's Schooldays' and William Tell.
After school at Halleybury, further education at Grenoble and National Service in the Royal Navy, he started working in the City in a finance company. After that, he trained as a carpet salesman but quit after six months to travel the world. Ending up in Australia he returned to acting and met his wife Leonie when they both appeared in The Sound of Music. Back in Britain he tried selling oil to industry in Wembley and then became a production assistant in the BBC at the end of 1968.
He is now best known for his adult career as a director and producer of several highly successful British sitcoms. Davies was the original producer and director of Monty Python's Flying Circus, The World...
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