# Alan David (actor)

Alan Davies (born 29 December 1941), known professionally as Alan David, is a Welsh actor, best known for his stage and television roles.

## Life and career

David was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan.
After working in repertory at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and the Victoria Theatre, Stoke, David was a regular performer with the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1970 and 2003, most notably as Touchstone in As You Like It (1977), various rôles in the 1986 revival of Nicholas Nickleby and Polonius in Hamlet (2001). His regular London appearances include parts at the National Theatre, Almeida Theatre and Royal Court Theatre.
He has had many television credits ranging from Coronation Street in 1973, The Sweeney (1975) And a small role In Series 2 episode 6 of Minder (TV series) through to Virtual Murder (1992), Honey for Tea and "The Unquiet Dead", an episode of Doctor Who in 2005. He also appeared as the 'rival' of Boycie as Llewellyn in The Green Green Grass. In 2007 he played Griff in the BBC series Gavin & Stacey.

## Personal life

David is married with two sons and lives in London.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1980 | The Merchant of Venice | Solanio | TV film |
| 1984 | Sakharov | | TV film |
| 1984 | December Flower | Cemetery Superintendent | TV film |
| 1993 | Thicker than Water | Chief Superintendent | TV film |
| 1994 | Don't Get Me Started | Barry Lewis | |
| 1995 | Devil's Advocate | Professor Schlieman | TV film |
| 2000 | The Man Who Cried | Welsh Teacher | |
| 2000 | The Great Indoors | Cyril Davies | Short film |
| 2002 | Dead Gorgeous | Mr. Greeley | TV film |
| 2003 | Margery & Gladys | Gordon Thompson | TV film |
| 2003 | Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill | Mr. Carter | TV film |
| 2004 | Wimbledon | Doctor Taylor | |
| 2006 | The Painted Veil | Mr. Garstin | |
| 2008 | The Oxford Murders | Mr. Higgins | |
| 2010 | The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Uncle Lister | TV film |
| 2020 | Dream Horse | Bert | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1973 | Play for Today | Boat Hirer | Episode: "Shakespeare or Bust" |
| 1973 | Sam | Roly | Episode: "The Beginning of Winter" |
| 1973 | Coronation Street | Glyn Thomas | Recurring role; 11 episodes |
| 1973 | Love Story | Mr. Snelling | Episode: "The String-Tying Machine" |
| 1974 | The Inheritors | Saunders | Episode: "Did Machiavelli Have Welsh Blood?" |
| 1974–75 | Sam | Maurice 'Granny' Naylor | Series regular; 17 episodes |
| 1974–76 | Emmerdale | Dick Robertshaw | Recurring role; 6 episodes |
| 1974–77 | The Squirrels | Harry Palmer | Series regular; 28 episodes |
| 1975 | The Life of Riley | Islwyn Roberts | Episode: "The Visitors" |
| 1975 | Crown Court | Police Sergeant Edwards | Episode: "Hunger Strike: Part 3" |
| 1976 | Big Boy Now! | Decorator | Episode: "Some Dish" |
| 1976 | The Sweeney | Blakeney | Episode: "Loving Arms" |
| 1977 | Horizon | Halley | Episode: "The Amazing Doctor Newton" |
| 1979–80 | Shoestring | Dr. Ben Fischer | Recurring role; 2 episodes |
| 1980 | Enemy at the Door | Feldwebel Fellner | Episode: "From a View to a Death" |
| 1980 | Armchair Theatre | Ollie Milton | Episode: "The Circe Complex" |
| 1980 | Minder | Chef | Episode: "The Beer Hunter" |
| 1981 | Crown Court | Billy Squires | Episode: "Foul Play: Part 1" |
| 1981 | Together | Russell Patterson | Recurring role; 3 episodes |
| 1981 | Angels | Sales rep | 1 episode |
| 1981 | Bergerac | Gidleigh | Episode: "Last Chance for a Loser" |
| 1982–84 | Foxy Lady | Tancred Taylour | Series regular; 12 episodes |
| 1984 | Juliet Bravo | Wilkinson | Episode: "The Day That the Circus Left Town" |
| 1985 | There Comes a Time | Dr. Harry Eaton | Series regular; 6 episodes |
| 1985 | Summer Season | The Rev. Prothero | Episode: "Pythons on the Mountain" |
| 1985 | Bulman | Williams | Episode: "Born into the Purple" |
| 1985 | Time for Murder | Jeremy Semper | Episode: "Dust to Dust" |
| 1986 | Remington Steele | Newsreader #2 | Episode: "Beg, Borrow or Steele" |
| 1986 | Love and Marriage | Jack | Episode: "The Clinger" |
| 1986 | The Twilight Zone | Security | Episode: "The After Hours" |
| 1987 | ScreenPlay | Jerry | Episode: "Road" |
| 1988 | How to Be Cool | Mr. Staines | Mini-series; 3 episodes |
| 1989 | Hard Cases | Mr. Dyce | 1 episode |
| 1989 | Screen One | Mr. Smout | Episode: "The Mountain and the Molehill" |
| 1989–91 | Making Out | Bernie | Series regular; 24 episodes |
| 1990 | Casualty | David Clarke | Episode: "Street Life" |
| 1991 | Sleepers | K1 | Mini-series; 4 episodes |
| 1991 | Gone to the Dogs | Bank Manager | 1 episode |
| 1992 | Virtual Murder | Professor Griffiths | Series regular; 5 episodes |
| 1992 | ScreenPlay | Mr. Cartwright | Episode: "A Little Bit of Lippy" |
| 1993 | Inspector Morse | Sir Watkin Davies | Episode: "Twilight of the Gods" |
| 1993 | Maigret | Francois Paré | Episode: "Maigret's Boyhood Friend" |
| 1993 | Cracker | Hanrahan | Episode: "The Mad Woman in the Attic: Part 1" |
| 1993 | Lovejoy | Bible Joe | Episode: "Stones of Destiny" |
| 1993 | ScreenPlay | Sir Aeneas MacPherson | Episode: "Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles" |
| 1993 | Chris Cross | Mr. Rogers | Series regular; 13 episodes |
| 1994 | In Suspicious Circumstances | The Chief Constable | Episode: "The Next Mrs. Clements" |
| 1994 | Heartbeat | Fillingham | Episode: "Red Herring" |
| 1994 | Headhunters | Philip | 3 episodes |
| 1994 | Peak Practice | Richard Morris | Episode: "Love Thy Neighbour" |
| 1994 | Honey for Tea | Dr. Basil Quinn | Series regular; 7 episodes |
| 1995 | The Detectives | Sergeant | Episode: "Flash" |
| 1995 | Chiller | Dr. Getty | Episode: "Toby" |
| 1996 | The Vet | Dennis Eaves | Episode: "Stormy Weather" |
| 1996 | The Brittas Empire | Mr. Humphries | Episode: "Snap Happy" |
| 1996 | The Legacy of Reginald Perrin | Brian Deacon | 1 episode |
| 1996 | Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Bill Jason | Episode: "Lost Chords" |
| 1996 | The Thin Blue Line | Gasforth FC Manager | Episode: "Come on You Blues" |
| 1997 | The Bill | John Harper | Episode: "An Englishman's Home" |
| 1997 | A Perfect State | Gareth | Series regular; 7 episodes |
| 1997 | Wokenwell | Rev. Kettle | 1 episode |
| 1997 | Wing and a Prayer | Dr. Joseph Miller | Episode: "Hello, Goodbye" |
| 1998 | Mortimer's Law | Detective Inspector Chisholm | 1 episode |
| 1998 | Maisie Raine | William Holgate | Episode: "Go Bananas" |
| 1999 | Casualty | Christopher Allen | Episode: "Human Traffic" |
| 1999 | Goodnight Sweetheart | Clement Attlee MP | Episode: "Accentuate the Positive" |
| 2000 | Dirty Work | D.I. Shredder | Recurring role; 3 episodes |
| 2000 | In Defence | Fynes | 1 episode |
| 2002 | The Bill | Mr. Barlow | Episode: "Falling" |
| 2002 | Heartbeat | Sam Smithers | Episode: "Sins of the Fathers" |
| 2003 | The Murder Game | George Hawick | Recurring role; 4 episodes |
| 2004 | The Last Detective | Tecwyn Hughes | Episode: "Benefit to Mankind" |
| 2004 | The Catherine Tate Show | Various roles | Episode: "Last Hit" |
| 2005 | The Royal | Mr. Forbes | Episode: "While the Cat's Away" |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | Gabriel Sneed | Episode: "The Unquiet Dead" |
| 2005 | Empire | Quintillus | Recurring role; 4 episodes |
| 2005 | Coming Up | Michael | Episode: "Rockabye" |
| 2005 | EastEnders | Mr. Banks | 2 episodes |
| 2005–09 | The Green Green Grass | Llewellyn | Series regular; 16 episodes |
| 2006 | High Hopes | Kenton Wolf | Episode: "A Christmas Story" |
| 2007 | Holby City | Gerry Culver | Episode: "I Feel Pretty" |
| 2007 | Hustle | Vino Vinnie | Episode: "Getting Even" |
| 2007 | Gavin & Stacey | Griff | Episode: "The Wedding" |
| 2007 | To the Manor Born | Emmeridge | Episode: "Christmas Special" |
| 2011 | Land Girls | Dr. Wally Morgan | Episode: "Back to the Land" |
| 2014 | Stella | Mr. Mason | 1 episode |
| 2014 | The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | Magistrate | Episode: "The Ties That Bind" |
| 2014–18 | Still Open All Hours | Mr. Bentinck | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Benidorm | Glynn Flint | Series 7 regular; 7 episodes |
| 2015 | Doc Martin | Mr. Jarvis | Episode: "Education, Education, Education" |
| 2015 | The Last Kingdom | Bishop Alewold | 1 episode |
| 2016 | The Hollow Crown | Bishop of Ely | 2 episodes |
| 2017 | Holby City | Jimmy Hornby | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | Silent Witness | Mick Porter | Episode: "Moment of Surrender" |
| 2018 | Endeavour | Lambert Kegworth | Episode: "Cartouche" |
| 2018 | Sick of It | Priest | Episode: "The Sofa" |
| 2019 | Les Misérables | Letter writer | 1 episode |
| 2019 | The Crown | Ben Bowen Thomas | Episode: "Tywysog Cymru" |
| 2020–2022 | The Tuckers | Dai 'Up and Down' | 4 episodes |
| 2024 | The Way | Rhodri | Episode: "The War" |

## Theatre credits

| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Notes |
| 1995 | Volpone | Sir Politic Would-Be | Olivier Theatre, London | |
| 1996 | In the Company of Men | Dodds | Barbican Centre, London | with Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1997 | The Shallow End | Toop | Duke of York's Theatre, London | |
| 1997 | Henry V | Fluellen / Bishop of Ely | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon | with Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1998 | The School for Scandal | Crabtree | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon | with Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 2000 | Richard II | Gardener | Almeida Theatre, London | |
| 2000 | Coriolanus | Sicinius Vellutus | Almeida Theatre, London | |
| 2000 | The Tempest | Stephano | Almeida Theatre, London | |
| 2001 | The Prisoner's Dilemma | Yuri Petrovian | The Other Place. Stratford-upon-Avon | with Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 2001 | Hamlet | Polonius | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon | with Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 2002 | The Prisoner's Dilemma | Yuri Petrovian | Barbican Centre, London | with Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 2003 | Brand | Provost | Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon & Theatre Royal Haymarket, London | with Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 2009 | Jerusalem | The Professor | Royal Court Theatre, London | |
| 2009 | Dido, Queen of Carthage | Jupiter/Ilioneus | Dorfman Theatre, London | |
| 2011 | Jerusalem | The Professor | Apollo Theatre, London | |
| 2012 | The Fairy-Queen | Quince | Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne | |
| 2013 | The Captain of Köpenick | Bickersdorff Killian | Olivier Theatre, London | |
| 2013 | Much Ado About Nothing | Antonio | The Old Vic, London | |
| 2021 | Under Milk Wood | Mr. Pritchard / Mr. Pugh | Olivier Theatre, London | |
| 2022 | Jerusalem | The Professor | Apollo Theatre, London | |