Cast & creator
Rita Davies
Best known for Silent Witness, Call the Midwife, Play for Today
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.
Also known as: Ann Rita Davies, Rita Whicker Davies
28
film credits
42
television credits
70
1956–2017 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (70)
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Silent Witness
Mears' Mother
1996
Call the Midwife
Pegeen
2012
Play for Today
Matron
1970Play for Today
1st Policewoman
1970
Vera
Sister Benedict
2011
Heartbeat
Flo Chorley
1992
Lewis
Edna O'Brien
2007
Screen Two
Picket at clinic
1985
Sherlock
Blind Lady
2010
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Unforgotten
Mary White
2015
Beauty and the Beast
Old Woman
2017
House of Anubis
Sarah Frobisher-Smythe
2011Sunday-Night Play
Penny
1960
Maigret
Germaine
1960
Keeping Up Appearances
Mrs. Lomax
1990
The Da Vinci Code
Elegant Woman at Rosslyn
2006
Cuckoo
Mary
2012
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Distraught Wife
1969Monty Python's Flying Circus
Hostess / Black Spot Storyteller
1969Monty Python's Flying Circus
Third Juror
1969Monty Python's Flying Circus
Argument Secretary
1969Drama 61-67
Woman in Station
1961
Ashes to Ashes
Elsie Staines
2008
Out of the Unknown
Receptionist
1965
Children of Men
Café Customer
2006
The Inbetweeners
Old Lady
2008
Kavanagh Q.C.
Mrs. Harmer
1995
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Historian's Wife
1975
Murder in Suburbia
Minnie
2004
Mongrels
Margaret
2010
Without You
Mrs Sutton
2011
Cuffs
Valerie Dukes
2015
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
Miss Hewlett
1984
The Best Offer
Mrs. Derain
2013
Ghost Squad
W.P.C
1961
55 Degrees North
Harriet Graham
2004
Number 10
Mrs Hampton
1983
Ladies in Charge
Mrs Blessed
1986
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
Dr. Gray's Receptionist
1985
Southcliffe
Queenie
2013
Armchair Theatre
Nurse
1956
Nicholas Nickleby
Mrs. Lenville
1968
Teenage Health Freak
Auntie Pam
1991The Men From Room 13
Joyce
1959
Brideshead Revisited
Nanny Hawkins
2008
Starlings
Mrs. Wisley
2012
The Broken
Old Lady in Underground
2008
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Old Woman on Pier
2013
My Life in Film
Mary
2004
Driving Lessons
Mrs. Robottom (uncredited)
2006
Private Peaceful
Old Lady
2012
The Trip
Dove Cottage Worker
2011
Footprints in the Snow
Old Lady in Bar
2005
O Mary This London
Picket at clinic
1994
The Last Horror Movie
Grandma
2004
W.S.H.: The Myth of the Urban Myth
1994
Doomwatch
Mrs. Murray
1972
The Wolves of Kromer
Fanny
1998
Liar!
Receptionist
1969
The List
Martha Rove
2013
Tempo
Juliana
2003
What Mad Pursuit
Lady at Literary Luncheon
1985
Lad: A Yorkshire Story
Bookshop Owner
2012
Reuniting the Rubins
Old Lady
2011
Acts of Godfrey
Saga Lady 1
2012
Baby Love
1st Policewoman
1974Of Best Intentions
2008
Claws
Mrs Morris
1987
Deadly Obsession
Beth
1992