Biography
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.
Acted in 62
2010s
- 2017
- 2015
- 2013
Southcliffe
Queenie · 2 episodes
- 2012
Starlings
Mrs. Wisley · 1 episode
Lad: A Yorkshire Story
Bookshop Owner
Acts of Godfrey
Saga Lady 1
- 2011
Reuniting the Rubins
Old Lady
- 2010
Mongrels
Margaret · 1 episode
2000s
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
Driving Lessons
Mrs. Robottom (uncredited)
- 2005
Footprints in the Snow
Old Lady in Bar
- 2004
My Life in Film
Mary · 3 episodes
55 Degrees North
Harriet Graham · 1 episode
Murder in Suburbia
Minnie · 1 episode
- 2003
Tempo
Juliana
1990s
- 1998
The Wolves of Kromer
Fanny
- 1996
- 1995
- 1994
W.S.H.: The Myth of the Urban Myth
Movie
O Mary This London
Picket at clinic
- 1992
Deadly Obsession
Beth
- 1991
Teenage Health Freak
Auntie Pam · 1 episode
- 1990
1980s
- 1987
Claws
Mrs Morris
- 1986
Ladies in Charge
Mrs Blessed · 1 episode
- 1985
What Mad Pursuit
Lady at Literary Luncheon
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
Dr Gray's Receptionist · 1 episode
- 1984
- 1983
Number 10
Mrs Hampton · 1 episode
1970s
- 1975
- 1974
Baby Love
1st Policewoman
- 1972
Doomwatch
Mrs. Murray
- 1970
1960s
- 1969
Liar!
Receptionist
- 1968
Nicholas Nickleby
Mrs. Lenville · 2 episodes
- 1965
- 1961
- 1960
1950s
- 1956
Armchair Theatre
Nurse · 1 episode