
Acting
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.

Silent Witness
1996

Vera
2011

Call the Midwife
2012

Play for Today
1970

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Heartbeat
1992

Sherlock
2010

Beauty and the Beast
2017

Lewis
2007

Screen Two
1985

House of Anubis
2011

Unforgotten
2015

The Da Vinci Code
2006

Keeping Up Appearances
1990

Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969

Maigret
1960

Children of Men
2006

Cuckoo
2012

Out of the Unknown
1965

Ashes to Ashes
2008

The Inbetweeners
2008

Kavanagh Q.C.
1995

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975

Murder in Suburbia
2004

Without You
2011

Mongrels
2010

Cuffs
2015

The Best Offer
2013

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
1984

55 Degrees North
2004

Ghost Squad
1961

Ladies in Charge
1986

Starlings
2012

My Life in Film
2004

Nicholas Nickleby
1968

Teenage Health Freak
1991