Dickie Davies: presenter of ITV’s World of Sport for two decades
With his dapper suits and beaming smile, Dickie Davies was one of TV's most recognisable stars.
As the unflappable presenter of for almost two decades, Dickie Davies, who has died aged 94, was distinctive for the white quiff in his fringe and a name that stuck in people’s minds.
In 1965, when he first filled in as the summer replacement for Eamonn Andrews on ITV’s Saturday afternoon answer to the BBC’s , he was billed as Richard Davies. Three years after taking over as the regular presenter in 1968, he was given some advice by Jimmy Hill, the football player and manager-turned-TV executive who was head of sport at LWT, which produced the programme.
