Personal Info
Birth date
1953-07-30 (72 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Highgate, London, England, UK
Also known as
Phil Davis
Phil Davies
Philip Davis
Фил Дэвис
فیل دیویس
Phil Davis
Biography
Philip Davis (born 30 July 1953) is an English actor, writer, director and narrator.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Doctor Who
7.6
Overview:
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.Death in Paradise
7.481
Overview:
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.Slow Horses
7.992
Overview:
Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.Sherlock
8.517
Overview:
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.Agatha Christie's Marple
7.8
Overview:
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.Merlin
7.83
Overview:
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.Prime Suspect
7.7
Overview:
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.Play for Today
6.3
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.Inspector Morse
7.8
Overview:
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.New Tricks
7.4
Overview:
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.Alien³
6.378
Overview:
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.The Professionals
7.489
Overview:
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.Poldark
7.8
Overview:
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.Tales from the Crypt
7.9
Overview:
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?Rumpole of the Bailey
6.9
Overview:
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.Bergerac
6.7
Overview:
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.Inside No. 9
8.028
Overview:
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.Vera Drake
7.165
Overview:
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.High Hopes
7
Overview:
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.Playhouse
7
Overview:
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
5
Overview:
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auctionNicholas Nickleby
6.9
Overview:
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.The Alan Titchmarsh Show
3.7
Overview:
The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.Mr. Holmes
6.48
Overview:
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he revisits the still-unsolved case that led to his retirement.Transmutations
3.7
Overview:
When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds traces that lead to Dr. Savary, who has produced a strange white powder that's coveted by a race of deformed human beings who live in the underworld in the sewers below the city.The Firm
6.6
Overview:
A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans.Dough
5.8
Overview:
An old Jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice accidentally drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales sky high.The Bounty
6.7
Overview:
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.Borrowed Time
5.7
Overview:
The story of two totally contrasting figures who come together in the most hostile of circumstances, only to form an unlikely bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles. It is a bittersweet comedy about growing up and rediscovering youth in parallel, united by the subconscious desire to seek out the missing elements in their lives.Acting
TBAPegasus Bridge as General Bernard L. Montgomery
TBAMerman as Unknown
2025The Hack (7 Episodes) as Alastair Morgan
2025Playing Nice (2 Episodes) as John Riley
2024TUSKY as Unknown
2024Truelove (6 Episodes) as Nigel
2023Platform 7 (4 Episodes) as Edward Warren
2023Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance as David Hexell
2022Deus as Vance
2022Slow Horses (1 Episode) as Dickie Bow
2021Ragdoll (1 Episode) as Mayor Ray Turnbull
2021Viewpoint (5 Episodes) as DI Liam Cox
2021Taj Mahal presents… A Short Film as Old man
2020Knuckledust as Happy
2020Between the Covers (1 Episode) as Self
2020Trying (2, 1, 4 Episode) as Victor Ross, Vic Ross, Vic
2019Dial M for Middlesbrough as Jed
2019Brighton as Dave
2019The Great Train Robbery: The Hidden Tapes as Narrator
2018Juliet, Naked as Mayor Terry Barton
2017We Can Be Heroes as Granddad Evans
2017Hampstead as Fyfe
2017Riviera (9 Episodes) as Jukes
2017Broken (6 Episodes) as Harry Parkinson
2016Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self
2016Golden Years as Brian
2016Undercover (6 Episodes) as Jimmy
2016Zero Sum as Neumann
2015Black Work (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2015Mr. Holmes as Inspector Gilbert
2015Age Of Kill as Bill Weybridge
2015Dough as Sam Cotton
2015Peterman as Grandad
2015Poldark (15 Episodes) as Jud Paynter
2015Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain as Charles McMoran Wilson
2014The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
2014Inside No. 9 (1 Episode) as Bill
2013Borrowed Time as Philip
2013Having You as Peter
2013Plebs (1 Episode) as Severus
2012The Town (3 Episodes) as Tony Nicholas
2012Fast Girls as Brian
2012The London Markets (3 Episodes) as Self - Narrator
2012Outside Bet as Threads
2012Secrets and Words (1 Episode) as Ray Collins
2012Hacks as Ray
2011Death in Paradise (1 Episode) as Jim Chandler
2011Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (1 Episode) as Self - Participant
2011Case Histories (2 Episodes) as Theo Wyre
2011Silk (12 Episodes) as Micky Joy
2010Another Year as Jack
2010Brighton Rock as Frank Spicer
2010Vexed (1 Episode) as Ron Poynter
2010Sherlock (1 Episode) as Jeff
2010Identity (1 Episode) as Unknown
2010The Rapture as Sir David
2010The Big I Am as Stubbs
2009Collision (5 Episodes) as Brian Edwards
2009Desperate Romantics (6 Episodes) as Mr. Stone
2009Whitechapel (18 Episodes) as Ray Miles
2009Dead Man Running as Johnny Sands
2009Being Human (5 Episodes) as Captain Hatch
2008Merlin (1 Episode) as The Gleeman
2008Inspector George Gently (1 Episode) as Unknown
2008The Curse of Steptoe as Wilfrid Brambell
2008Fixer (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2008Ashes to Ashes (1 Episode) as Chas Cale
2008Lark Rise to Candleford (1 Episode) as Unknown
2008Bike Squad as CI Albert Custer
2007Cassandra's Dream as Martin Burns
2007Comedy Showcase (1 Episode) as Sergeant
2007The Alan Titchmarsh Show (1 Episode) as Self
2007Secret Life as Rudi
2007Five Days (2 Episodes) as Mic Danes
2006Notes on a Scandal as Brian Bangs
2006A Way of Life: Making Quadrophenia as Unknown
2006Beau Brummell: This Charming Man as Master Servant Robinson
2006Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image as Himself
2005Casanova as Guardi
2005Bleak House (9 Episodes) as Smallweed
2005Footprints in the Snow as Tim Perkins
2005Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky (3 Episodes) as Ernest Eccles
2005Doctor Who (1 Episode) as Lucius
2005Like Father Like Son as Paul Barker
2004Agatha Christie's Marple (1 Episode) as Kennedy
2004Vera Drake as Stan
2004Ready When You Are, Mr McGill as Denis
2004The Baby Juice Express as Frank O'Reilly
2004Wall of Silence as Tony Cottis
2004New Tricks (1 Episode) as Gavin Gibson
2002Nicholas Nickleby as Brooker
2002The Safe House as Det. Inspector Baird
2002Rose and Maloney (11 Episodes) as Unknown
2002White Teeth (4 Episodes) as Archie
2002White Teeth as Archie
2002Fields of Gold as Roy Lodge
2002Fields of Gold (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2001Murder in Mind (1 Episode) as Chaz Hadley
2001Trance as Philip
2000North Square (10 Episodes) as Unknown
1999Births, Marriages and Deaths (4 Episodes) as Graham
1998Still Crazy as Limo Driver
1997Face as Julian
1997Photographing Fairies as Roy
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Gary Cooper
1996Different for Girls as Cabbie
1996Crimetime as Simon
1996Secrets & Lies as Man in Suit
1995I.D. as Custody Sergeant
1993In the Name of the Father as Detective
1992Nice Town (3 Episodes) as Paul Thompson
1992Blue Ice as Westy
1992Alien³ as Kevin
1989The Paradise Club (1 Episode) as Walter 'Wally' Fagin
1989Tales from the Crypt (1 Episode) as Henry
1989Howling V: The Rebirth as Count Istvan
1989The Firm as Yeti
1989High Hopes as Cyril Bender
1988Dead Lucky as Finn
1987Truckers (8 Episodes) as Lonesome Cowboy
1987Comrades as Young John Stanfield
1987Inspector Morse (1 Episode) as Roland Sherman
1985Transmutations as Lazarus
1985The Doctor and the Devils as Billy Bedlam
1984The Bounty as Edward Young
1984Robin of Sherwood (3 Episodes) as Prince John
1982Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self
1982Pink Floyd: The Wall as Roadie
1981Bergerac (1 Episode) as Eric
1980The Flipside of Dominick Hide as 2nd Youth (as Philip Davis)
1980Grown-Ups as Dick
1980Pasmore as Post office clerk
1980S.O.S. Titanic as Crow's Nest Lookout (uncredited)
1980Dark Water as Eddie
1979Quadrophenia as Chalky
1979Who's Who as Kevin
1978Sexton Blake and the Demon God (1 Episode) as Tinker
1977The Professionals (1 Episode) as Billy Turner
1977The Mayor's Charity as Mr. Destry
1977Target (1 Episode) as Ray
1977Gotcha / Campion's Interview as Kid
1975Rumpole of the Bailey (1 Episode) as Tony Timson
1975The Old Curiosity Shop as Tom Scott
1974Playhouse (1 Episode) as Dick
1973Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1 Episode) as Johnny Sheeham
1972The Canterbury Tales as 2nd Homosexual Lover (uncredited)
1970Play for Today (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as 2nd Youth (as Philip Davis), Kid, Mr. Destry, Post Office Clerk
Directing
1999Hold Back the Night ... Director
1995I.D. ... Director
1991Skulduggery ... Director
1991Prime Suspect (2 Episodes) ... Director
Writing
1991Skulduggery ... Writer