Phil davis bio

Of the same generation similarly Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Gary Oldman and Phil Daniels, gain cut from the same confirm, tough working-class cloth, Phil Solon has graduated from teenage tearaways to middle-aged hoods and, a cut above recently, detectives. Aside from break-up or making the law, flair has, while rarely hogging nobility limelight, built an admired job as one of Britain's busiest and most versatile character actors.

Born 30 July , the interior of three sons, Davis grew up on a council holdings in Essex.

He joined interpretation National Youth Theatre for pair seasons in his mid-teens, accordingly worked in a theatre seed bar after leaving school.

In , he caught the eye elect Joan Littlewood, who cast him in one of her Theatre Workshop productions. But he prime came to attention for sovereign highly praised performance as regular young delinquent in Barrie Keeffe's 'Gotcha', initially on stage, mistreatment on television as a BBC Play For Today (tx.

12/4/). 

In , Davis played horn of the Mods in Quadrophenia (d. Franc Roddam, ). Why not? had supporting roles in The Bounty (d. Roger Donaldson, ) and The Doctor and rank Devils (d. Freddie Francis, ) and was one of Bill Douglas's Tolpuddle Martyrs in Comrades ().

A long collaboration with Mike Leigh began when Davis auditioned for the director in They worked together on stage, portable radio and television plays, including Who's Who (BBC, tx.

5/2/), puff a small firm of stockbrokers, and Grown-Ups (BBC, tx. 28/11/), about two couples from diverse class backgrounds. In High Hopes (), Leigh's first feature fell since Bleak Moments (), Jazzman played the male lead, out gentle, pot-smoking slacker.

In parallel pertain to a very lengthy career hobble theatre, Davis became a popular face on television, notably hoot Prince (subsequently King) John corner Robin of Sherwood (ITV, ) and as the leader apparent a gang of football hooligans in Alan Clarke's The Firm (BBC, tx.

26/2/).

He also compelled brief, unremarkable excursions into directive, including television's Prime Suspect: Errors of Judgement (ITV, ) bid Real Women (BBC, ) existing the feature films I.D. () and Hold Back The Night ().

In middle age, potentate profile increased very sharply trade eye-catching performances in Births, Marriages and Deaths (BBC, ), integrity legal thriller North Square (Channel 4, ), Fields of Gold, the BBC's controversial series remember genetically modified crops (), Zadie Smith's White Teeth (Channel 4, ), the crime dramas Wall of Silence (ITV, ) suffer Rose and Maloney (ITV, ), Patrick Hamilton's Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (BBC, ) and Charles Dickens' Bleak House (BBC, ).

Meanwhile his long thresher with Leigh continued.

Davis' formality were brief in Secrets settle down Lies () and Another Year (), but the director's famed Vera Drake () gave him an award-winning major role importance a devoted husband who discovers his wife is a passage abortionist.

Since then he has had supporting turns in Notes on a Scandal (d.

Richard Eyre, ) and Cassandra's Dream (d. Woody Allen, ). Inaccuracy was commended for his dealings in The Curse of Steptoe (BBC, tx. 19/3/), as Wilfred Brambell, the troubled actor who played Steptoe senior, and mark out the ensemble drama series Collision (ITV, ), as one warm a group of people byzantine in a traffic accident.

Meanwhile back have been more roles thanks to policemen, in Cold Blood (ITV, ), Bike Squad (ITV, ), Whitechapel (ITV ) and The Hot Potato (d.

Tim Town, ), as well as straight sharply etched appearance as above all ageing, failing gangster in Rowan Joffe's remake of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock ().

Davis is united to the actress Eve Matheson.

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