Mr. Wickfield Oliver Ford Davies Devoted to his daughter Agnes but devastated by his wife's early death, the good but weak Mr. Wickfield takes solace in the bottle. He is an easy target for the manipulative Heep. "Mr. Wickfield didn't marry until he was about 40 and he married this young woman, probably in her early 20s, which was very common then," says Oliver Ford Davies. "She died giving birth to Agnes, and that quite broke him up. He couldn't remarry and he took to the drink quite early." Heep looms large in Wickfield's life. Just an "'umble clerk," he has ambitions beyond his station in life -- to marry Agnes and to seize control of Wickfield's business. "One of the really Machiavellian things about Uriah Heep is how long he is prepared to wait for these things to happen -- a long time. There's a very good scene where Heep talks about how 'the pear wasn't quite ripe.' He's prepared to wait until he has Wickfield where he wants him, under his control. In this adaptation, we see Wickfield at home, just disintegrating." Public recognition for Oliver Davies has risen since his appearance as Siobibble in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Like Ian McKellen in X-Men and Lord of the Rings, Davies also has a plastic figure of his character -- something the distinguished actor finds quite amusing. "It's a limited edition, so it's very rare. Ewan McGregor's will be two a penny, but Siobibble will be a collector's item!"