Roger Davenport Explained

Roger Davenport
Birth Date:4 October 1946
Birth Place:London, England
Education:LAMDA
Parents:John Davenport
Spouse:Joanna McCallum
Children:2

Roger Davenport (born 4 October 1946)[1] [2] is an English author, actor and screenwriter. He is the son of John Davenport, who was for many years a literary critic writing for The Observer newspaper. Graduating from LAMDA in 1967, Davenport worked extensively in British theatre[3] before becoming a writer. He is married to the actress Joanna McCallum.

Acting career

Davenport's acting career included work in the West End and on tour in regional theatres, performing in plays and musicals. He was a member of several repertory companies including Bristol, Nottingham, Leicester, Derby and Worcester.[4] [5] [6] He was also a member of George Baker's Company Candida Plays and the Cambridge Theatre Company. He was part of the Lyric Theatre Belfast company from 1971 to 1972.[7] Davenport was King Nicholas in The Sleeping Prince (St Martin's Theatre, 1969), Givola in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Lyric Theatre Belfast, 1972),[7] and Siro in the musical Mandrake (Criterion Theatre, 1970), based on Machiavelli's Mandragola.[8] On television he played Martin Bagley in Brassneck (BBC, 1974) by David Hare and Howard Brenton,[9] and In 2007 he played Saki (the writer Hector Hugh Monro) in the BBC production The Double Life of Saki.[10] In 2016 he voiced Harbourmaster Van Zandt and other characters in the video game Nelly Cootalot and the Fowl Fleet.[11]

Writing career

In the 1980s Davenport worked in the Unilever advertising agency Lintas, and then as a theatre manager with the Stoll Moss group. Since then, he has dedicated most of his time to writing, focussing on fiction and screenplays, with the occasional foray into documentaries. He wrote for the BBC TV detective series Bergerac, and for series 6 and 7 of All Creatures Great and Small.[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] He also contributed screenplays for the BBC drama documentary series Indelible Evidence (BBC TV, 1986-1990)[17] [18] [19] and wrote for the TV series Growing Pains (BBC TV 1992-93),[20] as well as for The Bill (ITV). In 2007, Davenport wrote the script for The Double Life of Saki, produced and directed by Andrew Hutton for the BBC series The Edwardians: the Birth of Now.[10]

Davenport has written a number of original plays for BBC Radio Drama, as well as adapting works by P.G. Wodehouse and Saki, which were directed by Ned Chaillet. In addition, he has written several Young Adult novels, including the dystopian tale Wanderer, which went into paperback in 2016.[21] [22]

Books[23]

Selected Radio Writings

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Roger Davenport - Biographical Summaries of Notable People - MyHeritage. www.myheritage.com.tr.
  2. Web site: Who is Roger Davenport?. Omnilexica.
  3. Web site: Roger Davenport | Theatricalia. theatricalia.com.
  4. Web site: Roger Davenport | Theatricalia. theatricalia.com.
  5. Web site: Roger Davenport | Theatricalia. theatricalia.com.
  6. Web site: Roger Davenport | Theatricalia. theatricalia.com.
  7. Web site: Digital Theatre Archive. www.digitaltheatrearchive.com.
  8. Web site: Archived copy . 2020-03-19 . 2016-03-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160319012242/http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/1970-1971.pdf . dead .
  9. Web site: Roger Davenport. https://web.archive.org/web/20210120210140/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2babfc0287. dead. January 20, 2021. BFI.
  10. Web site: BBC Four - The Double Life of Saki. BBC.
  11. Web site: Nelly Cootalot | Characters.
  12. Web site: Search Results - BBC Genome. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
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  18. Web site: Indelible Evidence. March 14, 1988. 3354. 41. BBC Genome.
  19. Web site: Indelible Evidence. January 30, 1987. 3296. 73. BBC Genome.
  20. Web site: Search Results - BBC Genome. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
  21. Web site: Wanderer.
  22. Web site: Wanderer.
  23. Web site: ✎ Books by Roger Davenport. www.books-by-isbn.com.
  24. Book: Davenport, Roger. Ortho's brood. March 19, 2000. Scholastic. 9780439996372. 44437401. Open WorldCat.
  25. Book: Davenport, Roger. Lowlake. March 19, 2000. Scholastic. 44564435 . Open WorldCat.
  26. Book: Davenport, Roger. Out of His Mind. March 19, 1996. Bloomsbury. 9780747526827. Google Books.
  27. Book: Davenport, Roger. Pieces of the game. March 19, 1993. Oxford University Press. 28466049. Open WorldCat.
  28. Web site: Onlooker. www.books-by-isbn.com.
  29. Web site: Onlooker (Red Fox Older Fiction). www.books-by-isbn.com.
  30. Web site: Search Results - BBC Genome. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
  31. Web site: Search Results - BBC Genome. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
  32. Book: More Mr Mulliner. March 19, 2004. 865219483. Open WorldCat.
  33. Web site: Search Results - BBC Genome. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
  34. Web site: Search Results - BBC Genome. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
  35. Web site: Handwoven Underwater. www.radiolistings.co.uk.
  36. Web site: Search Results - BBC Genome. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
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  38. Web site: radio plays drama,bbc,BBC Afternoon Plays, 1984 - 2002, DIVERSITY website.
  39. Web site: Search Results - BBC Genome. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
  40. Web site: Search Results - BBC Genome. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
  41. Web site: Eddie And Mrs. Simpson. www.radiolistings.co.uk.

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