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OST OF us would
prefer to forget
about past job in-

terviews, those nerve-rack-
ing, edgy moments when
well-rehearsed spiels are
reduced to one-word ut-
terances, and layers of
dutifully-applied an-
ti-perspirant fail to hold back
dual waterfalls of bodily
fluid.

We've all shared those uncom-
fortable moments, and actor
William Davis had one such expe-
rience he just can’t shake.

In 1965 Davis was summoned
for an interview with the London
National Theatre Company for tne
position of assistant director. in-
stead of a panel of ogres, Davis
found himself face-to-face with the
giant of the theatre world: Sir
Laurence Olivier.

“| was called in for a series of
three interviews,’’ remembers
Davis, now a Deep Cove resident.
“The one with Olivier was ex-
traordinary. All he did was stare at
me — he said very little. | started
babbling like an idiot. | was sure |
had lost the job.”

But Davis didn’t botch the inter-
view as badly as he thought.

Olivier welcomed him with
open arms and Davis went on to
enjoy an experience few other
directors can claim: working in-
timately with top-notch directors
and actors, such as Albert Finney
and Maggie Smith, at one of the
most respected major theatre
companies in the world.

Of course by then Davis already
had an enviable resume: he’d
worked as general director of the
Dundee Repertory Theatre and as
artistic director of Chesterfield’s
Civic Theatre. He'd also directed
Canadian actor Donald Sutherland
in Two for the Seesaw.

A home-grown Canadian boy

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ACCOMPLISHED ACTOR and director William Davis recently
opened his own acting school in Vancouver. The centre offers
ongoing classes in voice, scene study and acting for film and TV.
in the fall the William Davis Center for Actor’s Study will begin
offering a full-time program for aspiring actors.

from Toronto, Davis met fellow points out. ,
student Sutherland at the Universi- The two starred in the universi-
ty of Toronto. ty’s production of The Tempest,
“There were no theatre .
schools in Canada then,” he See Owning
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