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
Russell T Davies generations. Although "Cucumber" was designed as a self-contained serial focusing on the life of one man, Davies envisioned "Banana" as open-ended with the potential to continue after its sister series finished. After "Cucumber", Davies returned to the BBC in 2016 to produce an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Davies credits the play as "opening his eyes to drama" after he starred in a school version of the play as Bottom. The following year, Davies produced and wrote the screenplay for "A Very English Scandal", an adaptation of the book of the same name regarding the Thorpe