- Nacimiento
- Defunción25 de octubre de 2013 · Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Inglaterra, Reino Unido (causa no comunicada)
- Nombre de nacimientoArthur Nigel Davenport
- Altura1.82 m
- Nigel Davenport nació el 23 de mayo de 1928 en Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Inglaterra. Fue un actor, conocido por El hombre de dos reinos (1966), Carros de fuego (1981) y La isla infernal del Dr. Moreau (1977). Estuvo casado con Maria Aitken y Helena Margaret White. Murió el 25 de octubre de 2013 en Gloucestershire, Inglaterra.
- CónyugesMaria Aitken(1 de mayo de 1972 - 17 de noviembre de 1980) (divorciado, 1 niño)Helena Margaret White(1951 - ?) (divorciado, 2 niños)
- Niños
- PadresArthur Henry DavenportKatherine Lucy Davenport
- Deep smooth voice
- Gleaming blue eyes
- Large moustache
- Towering, imposing build
- If not in the role of a rake or scowling villain, he was often typecast as aristocrats or high-ranking military officers.
- What Davenport referred to as his "dodgy eyes" was the consequence of a botched childhood operation to correct a squint. The vision in his right eye remained blurred for the rest of his life.
- During production of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. Odisea del espacio (1968), Davenport read the lines of HAL 9000 off-camera during the computer's dialogues with actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood. However, Kubrick thought that Davenport's English accent was too distracting, and after a few weeks he dismissed him, so Canadian actor Douglas Rain, who was ultimately chosen for the role, quickly recorded his lines for the final film in post-production.
- Retired from acting in the early 21st century because he could no longer remember dialogue.
- Took his son Jack Davenport to see La guerra de las galaxias (1977) but fell asleep and snored loudly through it, saying afterwards "it just couldn't hold his interest".
- He grew up in Cambridge but went to Trinity College, Oxford.
- [In his 2010 Shock Cinema interview with journalist Anthony Petkovich about working with Jack Palance on the Dan Curtis production of Drácula (1974)] I was pretty frightened of that gentleman, because he was so bloody tall! He was six-foot-four and, as he wanted to look like Dracula, he had three-inch lifts in his shoes, so he was like six-foot-seven - and he was a big guy.
- [on tycoons like his character in Howards' Way (1985)] They are not generally very cheerful people. They also tend to dress soberly and conventionally. They may go for the trappings of rich living, but they are rarely flash or even seem to enjoy their money. What I think they do enjoy is the fight, the competition.
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