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Windsor Davies

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Welsh actor (1930-2019)

United KingdomActorsLived 1930 to 2019 · aged 88
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Windsor Davies was a Welsh actor. He is best remembered for playing Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974-1981) over its entire run. The show's popularity resulted in Davies and his co-star Don Estelle achieving a UK number-one hit with a version of "Whispering Grass" in 1975.

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Photos 1

Filmography 36

Arabesque1966 · ★ 6.3
Carry On Behind1975 · ★ 5.5
Murder Most Foul1964 · ★ 7.1
The Thief and the Cobbler1993 · ★ 7.1
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed1969 · ★ 6.3
Endless Night1972 · ★ 6.1
The Alphabet Murders1965
Carry On England1976
The Family Way1966
The Playbirds1978
That's Carry On!1977
Arrivederci, Baby!1966
Confessions of a Driving Instructor1976
Soft Beds, Hard Battles1974
The Willows in Winter1996
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall1973
Cor, Blimey!2000
Not Now, Comrade1976
Assignment K1968
Grand Slam1978
Clinic Exclusive1971
What's a Carry On?1998
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks1967
Rupert and the Frog Song1985
The Talking Parcel1978
The Old Curiosity Shop1975
Old Scores1991
An Audience with Freddie Starr1996
Mosley1998
The Animal Train1998
Death to Sister Mary1974
Gabrielle and the Doodleman1984
Terrahawks: Expect the Unexpected1983
Alice in Wonderland1985
A Breed of Men1971
The Children's Royal Variety Performance1994

92 credits on file

Television 24

Casualty1986
Top of the Pops1964
Doctor Who1963
Coronation Street1960
Crown Court1972
Z-Cars1962
UFO1970
Theatre 6251964
Thirty-Minute Theatre1965
Thriller1973
An Audience with...1978
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes1971
2Point4 Children1991
The Main Chance1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre1969
Gormenghast2000
Callan1967
The Onedin Line1971
Never the Twain1981
Vanity Fair1998
It Ain't Half Hot Mum1974
Dixon of Dock Green1955
The Expert1968
Surprise, Surprise1984

Connected to Windsor 6

Gregory PeckAlso in Arabesque (1966)Zsa Zsa GaborAlso in Arrivederci, Baby! (1966)Linda McCartneyAlso in Rupert and the Frog Song (1985)Peter CushingAlso in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)Curd JürgensAlso in Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)Joan SimsAlso in Carry On Behind (1975)

About this person

Windsor Davies was a Welsh actor. He is best remembered for playing Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974-1981) over its entire run. The show's popularity resulted in Davies and his co-star Don Estelle achieving a UK number-one hit with a version of "Whispering Grass" in 1975. He later starred with Donald Sinden in Never the Twain (1981-1991), and his deep Welsh-accented voice was heard extensively in advertising voice-overs.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1930 to 2019 · aged 88
Written about in
18 languages

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