nigel davenport eye

Directed by Don Chaffey. Oh Charlie One-eye is a name of "pet" chicken adopted by Thinnes as the Indian. A black, Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits. The vision in his right eye remained blurred for the rest of his life. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Chariots of Fire (1981), A Man for All Seasons (1966) and The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977). With Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes, Nigel Davenport, Jill Pearson. From his right eye… Early life and education. A stalwart of the stage and screen for almost half a century, Nigel Davenport never quite found A-list stardom, but his moustache, piercing gaze, thick eyebrows … Really only 3 main charactors, the escapee (Roundtree), Indian (Thiinnes) and Bounty Hunter (Davenport).

He was married to Maria Aitken and Helena Margaret White.

Top form acting by all three and the stage is set at the latter part in an old abandon adobe church in Mexico. What Davenport referred to as his "dodgy eyes" was the consequence of a botched childhood operation to correct a squint. Had appeared with Susannah York in four films: Sands of the Kalahari (1965), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Sebastian (1968) and A Christmas Carol (1984). Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.

With his huge bulk, fruity, growling voice and gleaming left eye, he was as hilarious as he was genuinely alarming. Religious implications and surprising ending. Cool. Nigel Davenport, Actor: Chariots of Fire. Nigel Davenport was born on May 23, 1928 in Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England as Arthur Nigel Davenport. Nigel Davenport in the 1963 ITV drama 'Espionage' (ITV/REX) His supposedly “dodgy” eyes derived from a strong squint caused by a lazy eye, of which he was always conscious.