Oliver Robert Ford Davies OBE (born 12 August 1939) is an English actor, theatre historian, director, playwright, and writer.

He is best known for his extensive theatre work, and to a broader audience for his role as Sio Bibble in Star Wars Episodes I to III.

[8][9] His first professional appearances were, at the age of 27, in the 1967 season at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre – which at that time included Michael Gambon, Brian Cox, Timothy Dalton, and Anna Calder-Marshall.

[10] Davies' long and prolific association with the Royal Shakespeare Company started in 1975, when director Terry Hands cast him as Mountjoy in Henry V.[11][12] His big breakthrough in theatre came in 1990, when he was given the lead role in David Hare's Racing Demon at the National Theatre in London.

[7][2] In 2008 he appeared on stage as Polonius in Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), alongside David Tennant and Patrick Stewart.

[15][16] In 2011, he appeared in a stage adaptation of Michelle Magorian's book Goodnight Mister Tom, in which he played the central character, Thomas Oakley.

[citation needed] In 2019, Davies played the Button Moulder in David Hare's adaptation of Henryk Ibsen's Peter Gynt at the Olivier Theatre.

[21][7] Davies' drama King Cromwell was staged at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in November 2003.

[22][23][7] Davies is also an historian of theatre, and as mentioned earlier, was a university lecturer before devoting himself to acting full-time.