Rita Davies
Born: 1933-02-24
• Hertfordshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Beauty and the Beast
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
The List
The Best Offer
Private Peaceful
Lad: A Yorkshire Story
Acts of Godfrey
Reuniting the Rubins
The Trip
The Broken
Brideshead Revisited
No Image
Of Best Intentions
Children of Men
Driving Lessons
The Da Vinci Code
Footprints in the Snow
The Last Horror Movie
Tempo
The Wolves of Kromer
W.S.H.: The Myth of the Urban Myth
O Mary This London
Deadly Obsession
Claws
What Mad Pursuit
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Baby Love
Doomwatch
Liar!