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Rita Davies

Rita Davies

Birthday: 1933-02-24 | Place of Birth: Hertfordshire, England, UK

Rita Davies (24 February 1933 – 19 January 2016) was a British character actress whose career spanned nearly six decades. She is best known for her cameo as the Historian's Wife in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and her sustained role as Sarah Frobisher-Smythe in House of Anubis (2011). Her other film credits include Children of Men (2006), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and Beauty and the Beast (2017, posthumous). On television she appeared in Brideshead Revisited (2008), Casualty, Doctors, Call the Midwife, Unforgotten, and Sherlock. She died of cancer at age 82 in Esher, Surrey. No major awards are on record.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2013
Lad: A Yorkshire Story

as    Bookshop Owner

2013
The List

as    Martha Rove

2012
Reuniting the Rubins

as    Old Lady

2005
Footprints in the Snow

as    Old Lady in Bar

2004
The Last Horror Movie

as    Grandma

2003
Tempo

as    Juliana

1998
The Wolves of Kromer

as    Fanny

1994
O Mary This London

as    Picket at clinic

1992
Deadly Obsession

as    Beth

1987
Claws

as    Mrs Morris

1985
What Mad Pursuit

as    Lady at Literary Luncheon

1974
Baby Love

as    1st Policewoman

1969
Liar!

as    Receptionist