Rupert Davies

Rupert Davies was a British actor best remembered for playing the title role in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based on Georges Simenon's novels. Davies also served in the British Merchant Navy and later as an officer and air observer with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during World War II. In 1940, the pilot of his Swordfish aircraft in which Davies was aboard ditched into the sea off the Dutch coast, following which he was captured and interned in the Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp.