Birkenhead was a member of the committee for the 1924 Olympic Games, and more than 50 years after his death he was portrayed by actor Nigel Davenport in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.
While at Oxford Wardle participated in theatre, performing in a production of The Tempest alongside the actors Nigel Davenport and Jack May, the future directors John Schlesinger and Bill Gaskill, and Mary Moore, the future principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Davenport's casting came in part from his father, Nigel, being a major character in the 1960s pirate film A High Wind in Jamaica, which both Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski enjoyed.
Davenport, Iowa | Nigel Kennedy | Davenport | Nigel Hawthorne | Nigel Planer | Nigel Mansell | Nigel Bond | Lindsay Davenport | Nigel Parkinson | Nigel Lythgoe | Nigel Havers | Nigel Bruce | Sir Nigel | Nigel Wright | Nigel Osborne | Nigel Gresley | Jack Davenport | Davenport Central High School | Nigel Nicolson | Nigel Godrich | Nigel Davenport | Nigel | Harry Davenport | Nigel Tranter | Nigel Stepney | Nigel Playfair | Nigel Marven | Nigel Dick | Nigel Calder | Nigel Adkins |
Cry of the Innocent is a 1980 American-Irish television film directed by Michael O'Herlihy and starring Rod Taylor, Joanna Pettet and Nigel Davenport.
Living Free (1972) is the sequel to Born Free; it stars Nigel Davenport as George Adamson and Susan Hampshire as Joy Adamson.
Living Free (1972), starring Susan Hampshire and Nigel Davenport, based not on the book by the same name, but on the third book of the series, Forever Free.