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Windsor Davies: The Shocking Truth!

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Windsor Davies, born on 28th August 1930, Canning Town, Essex, London, England, UK, was an actor who appeared in many movies and TV shows from 1964 to 2004. Between 1974 - 1981 he played the part of Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. His deep, Welsh-accented voice was heard extensively in commercial voice-overs. Windsor had Welsh parents, who returned to their native village of Nant-y-Moel, in the Ogmore Valley, near Bridgend, during 1940. Davies studied at Ogmore Grammar School and Bangor Teacher Training College, having worked as a coal miner for 4 years then as a teacher for 6 years, at Mountside School for Boys in Leek, Staffordshire. After his national service in Libya and Egypt with the East Surrey Regiment from 1950-1952, Windsor decided that he wanted to become an actor. He married Eluned Lynne Evans during 1957, who died in September 2018, the couple having had 5 children. Davies’ best known role was as Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the British sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (1974-1981). Among his catchphrases was "Shut Up!!", delivered as an eardrum-shattering military scream, another having been "Oh dear, how sad, never mind", delivered in a dry, ironic manner. Windsor had a UK chart-topper with a semi-comic version of "Whispering Grass" during 1975, with co-star Don Estelle. His other TV roles included the sailor Taffy in the first of the BBC-series The Onedin Line (1971), a special branch detective in Callan (1972) then the antique dealer Oliver Smallbridge in Never the Twain (1981-1991), with Donald Sinden. Davies appeared in the Doctor Who story The Evil of the Daleks as Toby, during 1967 then was the voice of Sergeant Major Zero, a spherical robotic soldier in charge of 100 other spherical robotic soldiers, in the 1983 Gerry Anderson/Christopher Burr production Terrahawks. Windsor was the subject of This Is Your Life during 1976, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.

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