ACTOR

Nigel Davenport

1928 - 2013

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Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nigel Davenport has received more than 1,165,394 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Nigel Davenport is the 5,606th most popular actor (down from 3,836th in 2019), the 4,193rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,148th in 2019) and the 641st most popular British Actor.

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  • 45.98

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Nigel Davenport ranks 5,606 out of 13,578. Before her are Claudia Gerini, Renée Faure, Talia Balsam, Tovah Feldshuh, Alexis Smith, and Marshall Allman. After her are Alice Drummond, Christine Pascal, Maddie Ziegler, Al Ernest Garcia, Michèle Laroque, and Lynn Collins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Nigel Davenport ranks 455. Before her are Angélica Gorodischer, Stanley Mandelstam, Clu Gulager, Rıdvan Bolatlı, Milan Rúfus, and Mirza Tahir Ahmad. After her are Alice Drummond, Thomas E. Kurtz, Marcos Calderón, Mustapha Zitouni, Tommy Docherty, and Jimmy Jones. Among people deceased in 2013, Nigel Davenport ranks 369. Before her are Mirja Hietamies, Santiago Santamaría, Andrei Panin, Nobuyuki Aihara, Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, and Cory Monteith. After her are Stanisław Nagy, Armen Alchian, Abdul Quader Molla, Amar Bose, Arthur Wightman, and Masae Kasai.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nigel Davenport ranks 4,193 out of 8,785. Before her are John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735), Danny Blanchflower (1926), Thomas Bell (1792), Thomas Nashe (1567), Jim Brown (1908), and Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661). After her are Andy White (1930), Raymond Gosling (1926), William Nicol (1770), Humza Yousaf (1985), George Montagu (1751), and Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Nigel Davenport ranks 641. Before her are Frank Dillane (1991), Sebastian Cabot (1918), Margaret Leighton (1922), David Walliams (1971), Colin Baker (1943), and Jamie Campbell Bower (1988). After her are John Richardson (1934), Clive Dunn (1920), Amira Casar (1971), Roy Kinnear (1934), Clive Swift (1936), and John Loder (1898).

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Television and Movie Roles

Phase IV
Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
Sep 1st 19746.347 / 10
Chariots of Fire
Lord Birkenhead
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
May 15th 19816.8 / 10
Nighthawks
Peter Hartman
When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
Mar 17th 19816.4 / 10