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Windsor Davies

1930 - 2019

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Windsor Davies (28 August 1930 – 17 January 2019) was a British 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Windsor Davies has received more than 1,535,839 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Windsor Davies is the 10,182nd most popular actor (down from 9,240th in 2019), the 6,504th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,877th in 2019) and the 1,126th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

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  • 36.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Windsor Davies ranks 10,182 out of 13,578. Before him are James Sie, Jessica Boehrs, Gale Storm, Lillete Dubey, Alba August, and Matt Ross. After him are Carla Peterson, Roxane Mesquida, Vicki Lewis, Nicholas Bishop, Aldis Hodge, and Barbara Lawrence.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Windsor Davies ranks 639. Before him are Joni James, Tom Mboya, Wendy Beckett, Bill Hougland, Cathryn Damon, and Shirley Williams. After him are Barbara Lawrence, Tony Madigan, Jagjit Kaur, Lawton Chiles, Adebayo Adedeji, and Kenny Ball. Among people deceased in 2019, Windsor Davies ranks 591. Before him are Juice Wrld, Stephanie Niznik, John Dingell, Oliver Mtukudzi, Jonathan Miller, and Lisa Martinek. After him are Ashley Massaro, Dick Boushka, David Bellamy, Lisa Sheridan, Andrea Levy, and Denise Nickerson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Windsor Davies ranks 6,504 out of 8,785. Before him are Bertie Auld (1938), KT Tunstall (1975), Terry Neill (1942), Katie Price (1978), Sandra Chick (1947), and Adam Armstrong (1997). After him are Nicholas Bishop (1973), David Nicholls (1966), Montagu Toller (1871), Dakota Blue Richards (1994), Dennis Waterman (1948), and Dhani Harrison (1978).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Windsor Davies ranks 1,126. Before him are Sarah Parish (1968), Yasemin Allen (1989), Robert Glenister (1960), Louise Brealey (1979), Diane Morgan (1975), and Katie Price (1978). After him are Nicholas Bishop (1973), Dakota Blue Richards (1994), Dennis Waterman (1948), Charles Mesure (1970), Tom Bateman (1989), and Tamer Hassan (1968).

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Television and Movie Roles

Carry On England
Sergeant-Major 'Tiger' Bloomer
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardment, but the crew seem more interested in each other than the enemy planes above. Captain Melly plans to put a stop to all this, and becomes the target of a campaign to abandon his separatist ideals...
Oct 1st 19764.6 / 10
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Battery Sergeant-Major 'Shut Up' Williams
The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
7.188 / 10
Arabesque
Policeman
When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?
May 4th 19666.243 / 10