While he was still at RADA, he was spotted by a member of
Noël Coward's company, who got him his first role in the film
Oh! What a Lovely War as Lieutenant Faversham. A year after he left drama school, he was cast as Dr. Dick Stuart-Clark in the sitcom
Doctor in the House. Davies later revealed that he didn't get the role at first: "I spoke to my agent when I heard that ITV were casting Doctor in the House, but every part had gone, then, the actor who was due to play medical student Dr Stuart-Clark dropped out and I got an audition". He is the only member of the original cast to have performed in all the sequels,
Doctor at Large,
Doctor in Charge,
Doctor at Sea,
Doctor on the Go,
Doctor Down Under – filmed in Australia – and
Doctor at the Top. Davies was "so convincing" as an actor that one time he was actually mistaken as a person in the medical field: "I once pulled up at a traffic accident to see if everything was all right when someone saw me and said, 'It’s OK, we’ve got a doctor'". Davies also appeared in the shows stage production that toured in
Australia in 1974, and its follow up show
Doctor in Love in 1979. Davies moved with the cast of Doctor Down Under to
Australia from 1979 to 1980, and for four episodes from 1981 to 1984, Davies went to
Jersey to play Roger Dubree in the crime drama show
Bergerac. Back in the UK, he appeared in
Bergerac and at
Windsor and
the Old Vic where he was in
The Ghost Train. Davies also appeared in a
Cinderella pantomime, where he played the role of
Buttons, the servant of Cinderella's stepfather, and Cinderella's friend. He toured a number of times in the
Far East as well as Australia and New Zealand. Davies said of working in theatre: "Television is fun, but there’s nothing like going out on stage and playing to a live audience". In 1992 he played a barrister in an episode of
Families, which also featured his daughter
Emma and in 2002, he played Judge Phelps-Gordon, who sentenced
Little Mo Mitchell to prison for murder, in five episodes of
EastEnders. Also in 2002, he was in the stage show Murdered to Death, a spoof on
Agatha Christie's novels. His last roles were in 2012; one as a clown in an episode of the Television show
Not Going Out and as a man in a queue in the film
Run for Your Wife. ==Personal life and death==