Richard Davies

Dennis Wilfred Davies known professionally as Richard Davies 25 January 1926 8 October 2015 was a Welsh actorHe was probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr Price in the popular LWT situation comedy Please Sir He used a broad Welsh accent for much of his work but had used other accents to play a wide range of characters in addition to several Welsh stereotypes Davies was born in Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil Glamorgan the son of a railway guard He played Idris Hopkins in Coronation Street between 1974 and 1975 and appeared in several sciencefiction series among them Roberts Robots Out of the Unknown and a wellreceived performance as Burton in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen He played Mr White in the Fawlty Towers episode The Kipper and the Corpse and also appeared in Yes Minister Wyatts Watchdogs May to December Whoops Apocalypse 2point4 Children and One Foot in the Grave In 1970 he appeared in an episode of Two in Clover as Victor Spinettis characters brother when Spinetti was unavailable His other main role was in the comedy series Oh No Its Selwyn Froggitt where he played Clive Davies had a recurring role as Jim Sloan in ZCars between 1962 and 1965 returning to the series playing different characters in 1968 and in its spinoff Softly Softly He also appeared in Dixon of Dock Green The Sweeney and Van der Valk He impersonated Clive Jenkins in a spoof edition of Question Time in a sketch on Not the Nine OClock News He appeared in the Please Sir spinoff series The Fenn Street Gang In 1951 he made an uncredited appearance in the Ealing Studios comedy The Lavender Hill Mob He had appeared in films such as Zulu 1964 the film adaptation of Please Sir 1971 and Under Milk Wood 1972 In 1988 he played the schoolteacher in Queen Sacrifice He died on 8 October 2015 at the age of 89 survived by his wife and two children and a son from his first marriage after a battle against Alzheimers disease