David Webb

Biography

David Alec Webb was a British actor and anti-censorship campaigner born on March 6, 1931, in Luton. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began his career in theatre with the York Repertory Company, later transitioning to television where he appeared in numerous programmes. In 1976, Webb co-founded the National Campaign for the Repeal of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act, a position that led to him standing against Margaret Thatcher in her Finchley constituency in 1983.