Richard Davies (Welsh actor)

Dennis Wilfred "Richard" Davies (25 January 1926 – 8 October 2015) was a Welsh character actor. He 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.
Biography.
Davies was born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, the son of a railway guard. He played Idris Hopkins in "Coronation Street" between 1974 and 1975, and appeared in several science-fiction series, among them "Robert's Robots", "Out of the Unknown", and a well-received 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", "Wyatt's 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 Spinetti's character's brother when Spinetti was unavailable. His other main role was in the comedy series "Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!" where he played Clive.
Davies had a recurring role as Jim Sloan in "Z-Cars" between 1962 and 1965, returning to the series playing different characters in 1968 and in its spin-off "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 O'Clock News". He appeared in the "Please Sir!" spin-off 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. He had Alzheimer's disease.