John Howard Davies

Directing

John Howard Davies

Born — Died

1939-03-09 — 2011-08-22

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

21 titles

John Howard Davies (born Paddington, London; 9 March 1939 — 22 August 2011) was a British television director, producer and former child actor. Davies was the son of the scriptwriter Jack Davies. His credits as a child actor include the title role in David Lean's Oliver Twist (1948), The Rocking Horse Winner (1949), Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) and a few episodes of the television series William Tell (1958). After school at Haileybury, further education at Grenoble and National Service in the Royal Navy, he started working in the City in a finance company. After that, he trained as a carpet salesman but quit after six months to travel the world. Ending up in Australia he returned to actin…

Known for

The Adventures of William Tell poster
6.8

The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.

The Adventures of William Tell

1958

Oliver Twist poster
7.6

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Oliver Twist

1948

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9.0

About Religion was a UK religious affairs programme on Associated Television (ATV) 1958–1965. It was usually hosted by interviewer Julian Grenfell, with David King and John Brooking. An anthology of interviews was published in 1963.

About Religion

1956

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened poster
8.4

30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

2009

Tom Brown's Schooldays poster
7.0

In 1830s England, Tom Brown attends a rugby boys' school, where his moral and personal growth is formed through friendship, bullying–particularly from the cruel Flashman–and the influence of headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold.

Tom Brown's Schooldays

1951

The Magic Box poster
6.5

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

The Magic Box

1952

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Paul McCartney Special poster
9.0

A program originally produced for the BBC, and aired on television several times in 1986. Originally conceived as a long-form promotional piece for «Press to Play», the BBC staffer (Richard Skinner) persuades Macca to talk about much more, including one of the more in-depth interviews about Wings. All of the interview bits were done at Abbey Road studio 2, leading to some reminiscing on Paul's part. Scattered among the interview are some nice McCartney film rarities (including rarely seen promo clips/videos, concert footage from both the 1973 and 1976 tours, and even a bit of the never released "One Hand Clapping" film).

The Paul McCartney Special

1986

Mr. Bean: Torvill and Bean poster
6.5

Mr. Bean takes his girlfriend to see Britain's famous ice skating duo Torvill and Dean perform in Manchester. But he accidentally injures Dean backstage and has to substitute as guest ice-skater with Torvill.

Mr. Bean: Torvill and Bean

1995

Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter poster
NR

An enraged detective's wife kills her husband by smashing in his skull with a heavy blunt instrument - but no murder weapon can be found, and the police are baffled.

Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter

1979

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin poster
NR

46-year-old Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is suffering a midlife crisis and tries to escape his dreary life.

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

1983

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin poster
NR

46-year-old Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is suffering a midlife crisis and tries to escape his dreary life.

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

1983

Kim poster
8.0

A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy.

Kim

1984

The Exciting Escapades of Mr. Bean poster
6.2

Rowan Atkinson stars in another comic creation; Mr Bean a mute oddball who trips in and out of chaos and mayhem including; 'The Curse of Mr Bean' and 'Mr Bean Goes to Town' plus the episode 'The Bus Stop'.

The Exciting Escapades of Mr. Bean

1991

The Exciting Escapades of Mr. Bean poster
6.2

Rowan Atkinson stars in another comic creation; Mr Bean a mute oddball who trips in and out of chaos and mayhem including; 'The Curse of Mr Bean' and 'Mr Bean Goes to Town' plus the episode 'The Bus Stop'.

The Exciting Escapades of Mr. Bean

1991