Birthday: 1906-12-07
Deathday: 1981-04-09
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Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
William "Wee Willie" Davis (1906–1981) was an American film actor. He had previously been a wrestler. He worked in the Jefferson County Jail in Louisville in 1972-75 as the gym guard. He was also an engineer and contributed to the invention of the Glowmeter, an early Heads up display that projected a cars speed onto the windshield. A fellow wrestler, Prince Ilaki Ibn Ali Hassan (whose real name was Agisilaki Mihalakis) who also fought as the Mad Greek was the primary inventor.
Year | Title | Character | |
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1955-08-03 | To Catch a Thief | Big Man in Kitchen (uncredited) | |
1952-07-14 | Son of Paleface | Blacksmith | |
1950-08-05 | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion | Abdullah | |
1950-05-12 | The Asphalt Jungle | Timmons | |
1949-12-21 | Samson and Delilah | Garmiskar | |
1949-07-27 | Mighty Joe Young | Strongman (uncredited) | |
1949-03-08 | The Red Pony | Truck driver | |
1946-10-09 | Fool's Gold | Blackie | |
1946-07-20 | Bowery Bombshell | Moose McCall (as Wee Willie Davis) | |
1945-10-26 | Pursuit to Algiers | Gubek | |
1945-07-18 | Wildfire | Moose Harris | |
1945-04-12 | Having Wonderful Crime | Zacharias, the Porter | |
1944-08-02 | Gypsy Wildcat | Dota | |
1944-01-14 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Arab Giant (uncredited) | |
1943-09-03 | Johnny Come Lately | Bouncer | |
1943-05-31 | Above Suspicion | Hans (Uncredited) | |
1942-12-25 | Arabian Nights | Valda | |
1942-11-14 | Gentleman Jim | Flannagan (uncredited) | |
1942-03-26 | Reap the Wild Wind | The Lamb |