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William 'Wee Willie' Davis

William 'Wee Willie' Davis
  • Name: William 'Wee Willie' Davis
  • Birthday: 1906-12-07
  • Also known as: William "Wee Willie" Davis
  • Place of birth:
  • Popularity: 1.257
Biography: 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.

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Title Release date
To Catch a Thief   as  Big Man in Kitchen (uncredited) 1955-08-03
Son of Paleface   as  Blacksmith 1952-07-14
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion   as  Abdullah 1950-08-05
The Asphalt Jungle   as  Timmons 1950-05-12
Samson and Delilah   as  Garmiskar 1949-12-21
Mighty Joe Young   as  Strongman (uncredited) 1949-07-27
The Red Pony   as  Truck driver 1949-03-08
Fool's Gold   as  Blackie 1946-10-09
Bowery Bombshell   as  Moose McCall (as Wee Willie Davis) 1946-07-20
Pursuit to Algiers   as  Gubek 1945-10-26
Wildfire   as  Moose Harris 1945-07-18
Having Wonderful Crime   as  Zacharias, the Porter 1945-04-12
Gypsy Wildcat   as  Dota 1944-08-02
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves   as  Arab Giant (uncredited) 1944-01-14
Johnny Come Lately   as  Bouncer 1943-09-03
Above Suspicion   as  Hans (Uncredited) 1943-05-31
Arabian Nights   as  Valda 1942-12-25
Gentleman Jim   as  Flannagan (uncredited) 1942-11-14
Reap the Wild Wind   as  The Lamb 1942-03-26