As the unflappable presenter of World of Sport 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 Grandstand, 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.
