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Windsor Davies 28 August — 17 January [ 3 ] was a British actor. The show's popularity resulted in Davies and his co-star Don Estelle achieving a UK number-one hit with a version of " Whispering Grass " in He later starred with Donald Sinden in Never the Twain — , and his deep Welsh-accented voice was heard extensively in advertising voice-overs.

In they returned to their native village of Nant-y-moel , Glamorgan.

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Davies had become active in amateur dramatics, including the Bromley Little Theatre , and took a short drama course with a Kew theatre company. Davies' best known role was as Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum — , [ 3 ] who was modelled on similar individuals Davies had met as a soldier during his national service.

They knew it, too, and took pride in it," he once said. Journalist Neil Clark, contributing to The Times in , described his performance as the "definitive portrayal of a bullying and uneducated sergeant-major" and reported Spike Milligan was of the opinion that Davies' role was "the funniest comic performance he had ever" watched. His other television roles included the sailor Taffy in the first of the BBC series The Onedin Line , a boat captain in an episode of Special Branch , a special branch detective in Callan , and the antique dealer Oliver Smallbridge in Never the Twain — , with Donald Sinden.

In the cinema, Davies played major roles in two Carry On films , Behind and England , in the latter again as a sergeant major. In , he married Eluned Lynne Evans; the couple had four daughters and a son. Eluned died in September