John Howard Davies


Actor

About

Birth Place
London, England, GB
Born
March 09, 1939
Died
August 22, 2011
Cause of Death
Cancer

Biography

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Movie Clip

Oliver Twist (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Rather More No Than Yes The Dodger (Anthony Newley) is confronting criminal Fagin (Alec Guinness) when their boss Sykes (Robert Newton) arrives, his girlfriend Nancy (Kay Walsh, the director's wife!) catching up, all this over the title character who's been grabbed by the cops, in David Lean's Oliver Twist, 1948.
Oliver Twist (1948) -- (Movie Clip) You're Under Me! Undertaker Sowerberry (Gibb McLaughlin), is persuaded by Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan) to take in John Howard Davies (title character), who then meets Charlotte, Mrs. Sowerberry and Claypole (Diana Dors, Kathleen Harrison, Michael Dear), in David Lean's version of Dickens' Oliver Twist, 1948.
Oliver Twist (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Want Him? John Howard Davies (Charles Dickens' orphan title character) has just wandered into London, spied by young Anthony Newley as the Artful Dodger, then designer John Bryan and director David Lean with spectacle leading to the introduction of Fagin (Alec Guinness) in Oliver Twist, 1948.
Oliver Twist (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Bow To The Board The introduction of Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan) beadle of the parish orphanage, his colleague Mrs. Corney (Mary Clare), and John Howard Davies as the pre-teen title character, brought before the board chaired by Ivor Barnard, early in David Lean's 1948 version of Dickens' Oliver Twist.
Rocking Horse Winner, The -- (Movie Clip) Aren't You Lucky? Young Paul (John Howard Davies) has questions about luck and money for his mother Hester (Valerie Hobson) after she receives an unpleasant notice in The Rocking Horse Winner, 1949, from the D.H. Lawrence story.
Rocking Horse Winner, The -- (Movie Clip) Are We Dressing? Young Paul (John Howard Davies) has just met new handyman Bassett (John Mills) when his mum Hester (Valerie Hobson) collects him and chats with father Richard (Hugh Sinclair) in The Rocking Horse Winner, 1949.

Family

Jack Davies
Father
Screenwriter.

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