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
Windsor Davies UK with a semi-comic version of "Whispering Grass" in 1975. Other television roles included the sailor Taffy in the first of the BBC-series "The Onedin Line" (1971), a special branch detective in "Callan_(TV_series)" (1972) and the antique dealer Oliver Smallbridge in "Never the Twain" (1981–91), with Donald Sinden. In the field of science fiction television, Davies appeared in the 1967 "Doctor Who" story "The Evil of the Daleks" as Toby; and was the voice of Sergeant Major Zero (a spherical robotic soldier in charge of 100 other spherical robotic soldiers) in the 1983 Gerry Anderson/Christopher Burr production "Terrahawks" (another callback