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Known for:	Chariots of Fire, A Man for All Seasons, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Birthday:	23 May 1928, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Father of the actor Jack Davenport and the actress Laura Davenport. His father was a bursar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, England. He educated at St. Peter's, Seaford; Cheltenham College and read English at Trinity College,Oxford, where he graduated from with a Master of Arts degree. He grew up in Cambridge but went to Trinity College, Oxford. At Oxford his talent was for Philosophy and Politics. He switched to studying English after his moral tutor told him his future was as an actor, which he claims he hadn't realised for himself at the time. It was during his time at Oxford that he met his first wife, Helena, with whom he had two children. Nigel was a founder member of the English Stage Company.

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