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…
Rita Davies
Actress · Born 24 Feb 1933, Hertfordshire
Rita Davies (24 February 1933 – 19 January 2016) was a British character actress whose career spanned nearly six…
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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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- Born24 February 1933
- Died19 January 2016 (aged 82)
- BirthplaceHertfordshire, England, UK
- Known forActing
- GenderFemale
- Also known asAnn Rita Davies, Rita Whicker Davies
- Popularity0.8TMDB score
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Beauty and the Beast
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
The List
The Best Offer
Private Peaceful
Lad: A Yorkshire Story
Acts of Godfrey
Reuniting the Rubins
The Trip
The Broken
Brideshead Revisited
Of Best Intentions
Children of Men
Driving Lessons
The Da Vinci Code
Footprints in the Snow
The Last Horror Movie
Tempo
The Wolves of Kromer
W.S.H.: The Myth of the Urban Myth
TV 38
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Beauty and the Beast (2017)·The Da Vinci Code (2006)·Children of Men (2006)·Sherlock (2010)·Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)·The Best Offer (2013)