Who Was Dickie Davies? Legendary World of Sport presenter dead at 89

Dickie Davies was a British television sports presenter who anchored World of Sport from 1968 until 1985.

Richard John Davies was born on April 30, 1933, in Wallasey, United Kingdom. Dickie Davies attended Oldershaw Grammar School and did National Service in the Royal Air Force.

Dickie Davies worked as a purser on the RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth ocean liners. Dickie Davies had his first job in broadcasting as an announcer for Southern Television.

Dickie Davies began work on World of Sport in 1965 as an understudy to Eamonn Andrews taking over the role of presenter in 1968 when the latter left the show.

Dickie Davies played a part in ITV’s coverage of the 1988 Seoul Olympics. He left ITV Sport in August 1989. In the late 1990s, Dickie Davies fronted Dickie Davies’ Sporting Heroes.

Dickie Davies made a cameo appearance at a racetrack in an episode of Budgie from 1972 (“The Outside Man”) and in a series 3 episode of Mind Your Language (“Guilty or Not Guilty”).