Windsor Davies Windsor Davies Windsor Davies (born 28 August 1930) is a retired British actor who acted in many films and TV shows between 1964 and 2004. He is best known for playing the part of Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the British sitcom "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" (1974–81). His distinctive Welsh accented voice was heard extensively in advertising voice-overs. Davies was born in Canning Town, east London to Welsh parents, who returned to their native Nant-y-Moel when the Second World War began in 1939. Davies studied at Ogmore Grammar School and Bangor Teacher Training College. He worked as a coal
1970s in television made. More nostalgic in tone were "Last of the Summer Wine", about the escapades of pensioners in a Yorkshire town, "Dad's Army", about a Home Guard unit during World War II and "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" about a Royal Artillery Concert Party stationed in India/later Burma also during (and after) World War II. A more diverse view of society was offered by series like "Porridge", a comedy about prison life, and "Rising Damp", set in a lodging house inhabited by two students, a lonely spinster and a lecherous landlord. Taking a softer approach to race than "Till Death Us