Ian Roger Charles Davidson (4 August 1940 – 8 September 2024) was a British scriptwriter who also acted, directed and produced in television and the theatre from the 1960s.
[1] Davidson appeared, briefly, in many of the Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes, notably as a Dead Indian On a Pile of Dung, and as a news reporter who interrupts a sketch to say that it is his first time appearing on television.
He was script editor of The Two Ronnies from 1978 to 1983 and with Peter Vincent wrote seven series of the sitcom Sorry!
With Vincent he also wrote for Dave Allen, The Brittas Empire, and Comrade Dad.
With John Chapman, he wrote French Fields for Thames Television.