Alan Davies (actor)

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Alan Davies

Alan Roger Davies (born March 6, 1966 ) is a British actor , writer , comedian and television presenter . He has played the leading role in the BBC One television series Jonathan Creek since 1997 and has been the only permanent guest on the BBC Two quiz program QI since 2003 .

Life

Davies was born in Loughton , Essex ; he grew up in Chingford . His mother died of leukemia when he was six years old. He graduated from the University of Kent with a degree in drama in 1988 , which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2003 . He has been a fan of Arsenal football club since childhood . He was the presenter of the club's podcast "It's Up For Grabs Now"; since 2011 he has also moderated the new Arsenal podcast "The Tuesday Club".

Davies is married; Best man was his friend and colleague Bill Bailey . He has three children.

Career

Alan Davies in 2000

Comedian

Davie's stand-up comedy career began in 1988 with an appearance on Whitstable . In 1994 he won the Edinburgh Festival Comedy Critic Award . This program was released under the title Alan Davies Live at the Lyric . His programs "Urban Trauma" (1998, BBC One ) and "Life is Pain" (2012, Dave ) have also been shown on television and released on DVD.

Radio and television

In 1994, Davies got his first radio show ( Alan's Big One on BBC Radio 1 ) and his first television appearance ( One for the Road on Channel 4 ). Since then he has been regularly present on radio and television, as an actor (e.g. in Hotel Babylon , Agatha Christie's Marple , Lewis - Der Oxford Krimi ), moderator (e.g. Alan Davies Après-Ski , BBC Two ) or guest show ( e.g. Top Gear ). He became known to a wide audience through the title role in the television series Jonathan Creek (1997 to 2004, BBC One).

In 2001 Davies won the Best Actor Award at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo .

In the QI panel show, which has been running since 2003 and has been moderated by Stephen Fry , he is a regular guest, while the other three guests change each time. He just missed out on one of more than 150 episodes of QI (episode 10 of Serie D) because he attended the Champions League final in 2006 between Arsenal and FC Barcelona in Paris. His chair remained empty on this show.

Autobiography

Davies' youth memoir My Favorite People and Me, 1978-88 was published by Penguin Books in 2009 . Some of the favorite people of the title are Anton Chekhov , John Belushi , Barry Sheene , Margaret Thatcher (but "only for a few days"), John McEnroe and Starsky & Hutch . The paperback edition is titled Rebel Without A Clue: How the 80s Made Me .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Garth Pearce: On the move: Alan Davies , The Sunday Times. July 11, 2008. Retrieved May 10, 2009. 
  2. ↑ Jon Wilde: 'The pain surfaces every single day': How fatherhood saved Alan Davies from his demons . In: Daily Mail , August 25, 2012. 
  3. ^ University of Kent ( Memento June 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ 'How Long is a Piece of String?' - Faculty of Sciences - University of Kent . www.kent.ac.uk. Retrieved January 2, 2010.
  5. ^ It's Up For Grabs Now - Playback Media
  6. ↑ Liz Hoggard: Katie Davies: My life married to Alan Davies, London's funniest man . In: Evening Standard , March 1, 2010. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011. Retrieved November 14, 2011. 
  7. ↑ Daisy Goodwin: News and Views from The Times and Sunday Times | Times Online , Times Online. Retrieved August 18, 2009. 
  8. ↑ December 9th, 2009 . Twitter. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
  9. ↑ Stephen Fry - December 9th, 2009 . Twitter. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
  10. ^ Alan Davies - June 18, 2011 . Twitter . Retrieved June 18, 2011.
  11. ^ Inside comedian Alan Davies' garden , The Telegraph (UK). Retrieved September 13, 2016. 
  12. ↑ detailed interview ( memento of the original from January 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tcs.cam.ac.uk
  13. ↑ It's Up for Grabs Now, We'd Rather Be Us Than Them - Alan Davies shares how he missed QI to see Arsenal in the Champions League final .
  14. ↑ Penguin Catalog http://www.penguincatalogues.co.uk/lo/general/title.html?titleId=6669&catalogueId=229

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Commons : Alan Davies  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Davies, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davies, Alan Roger (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor, writer, comedian and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Loughton , England