Lew Davis

Lew Davis

Born: July 16, 1884
Died: January 13, 1948
in Buffalo, New York, USA

Movies for Lew Davis...

Bride and Gloom
Title: Bride and Gloom
Character: Realtor (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1947
Type: Movie
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest with the wrong woman, while his bride-to-be is waiting, none too happy, at the church.
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The Good Bad Egg
Title: The Good Bad Egg
Character: Member of Board of Directors (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1947
Type: Movie
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by a lonely widow with one child. He accepts, and soon finds out the boy is the "bad" part of the egg in the title, as he soon destroys whatever it was that Joe had invented.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: High School Teacher at Poolside (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Society Mugs
Title: Society Mugs
Character: Mr. Davis (uncredited)
Released: September 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Muriel Allen needs an escort to Alice Preston's dinner party, and her maid Petunia mistakenly places a telephone call to Acme Exterminators instead of Acme Escorts. It's Shemp and Tom to the rescue, and they're assumed to be cultured college seniors. Guest of honor Lord Wafflebottom follows the pest exterminators' lead in proper American party manners, turning the dinner party into an uncouth display. When mice are conveniently spotted, the boys go to work, disrupting the party and the entire mansion.
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Mr. Noisy
Title: Mr. Noisy
Character: Stadium Announcer (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1946
Type: Movie
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
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A Hit with a Miss
Title: A Hit with a Miss
Character: Ring Announcer (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." He hears it enough here, from various and outlandish sources, to eventually win his championship match.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Fish Hawker (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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Along Came Jones
Title: Along Came Jones
Character: Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1945
Type: Movie
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
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Off Again, On Again
Title: Off Again, On Again
Character: Man on Street (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.
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Belle of the Yukon
Title: Belle of the Yukon
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
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One Mysterious Night
Title: One Mysterious Night
Character: Exhibit Attendee (Uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1944
Type: Movie
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
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Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Title: Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
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Murder in Times Square
Title: Murder in Times Square
Character: Reporter
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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Dr. Broadway
Title: Dr. Broadway
Character: Weasel-faced man
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Title: Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Character: Ship's Waiter
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
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The Remarkable Andrew
Title: The Remarkable Andrew
Character: Bit Role
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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The Great Dictator
Title: The Great Dictator
Character: Hospital Orderly (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Mooching Through Georgia
Title: Mooching Through Georgia
Character: Union Soldier
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
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Only Angels Have Wings
Title: Only Angels Have Wings
Character: Shorty - Mechanic
Released: May 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Heavy (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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Three Little Sew and Sews
Title: Three Little Sew and Sews
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
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A Doggone Mixup
Title: A Doggone Mixup
Character: Man talking to Fetherston
Released: December 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.
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Adventure in Sahara
Title: Adventure in Sahara
Character: Steward
Released: November 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
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Tarnished Angel
Title: Tarnished Angel
Character: Nightclub Waiter
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Start Cheering
Title: Start Cheering
Character: Candy Vendor on Train
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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I'll Take Romance
Title: I'll Take Romance
Character: Sailor
Released: November 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
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Cash and Carry
Title: Cash and Carry
Character: Con-Man (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boys operation they buy a phony treasure map from a con man. Thinking the treasure is buried beneath an old house, the boys start digging and wind up in a US treasury vault where they are promptly arrested. The president (FDR) gives them amnesty and arranges for the boy's operation.
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New News
Title: New News
Character: Guard
Released: April 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and situations from their short CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944). Yes, this version came out BEFORE the Stooges version...so anyone that says these guys are ripping the Stooges off, they are wrong! Columbia made 526 slapstick two-reelers between 1933-1958...190 starred the Stooges...336 others starred a variety of comedians.
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Knee Action
Title: Knee Action
Released: January 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Andy takes his newest invention, a knee-action washing machine, before a group of potential investors, but his idiot stepson proceeds to disrupt the demonstration.
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Slippery Silks
Title: Slippery Silks
Character: Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1936
Type: Movie
The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
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The Crime Patrol
Title: The Crime Patrol
Character: Bar Customer (uncredited)
Released: May 12, 1936
Type: Movie
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his fellow officers round-up a gang of fur thieves in a warehouse shoot-out.
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The Little Red Schoolhouse
Title: The Little Red Schoolhouse
Character: Mac, Pete's Henchman
Released: March 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
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Movie Maniacs
Title: Movie Maniacs
Character: Studio Employee (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business. They sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. After taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram explaining why they haven't arrived, the stooges must leave on the run.
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If You Could Only Cook
Title: If You Could Only Cook
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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The Girl Who Came Back
Title: The Girl Who Came Back
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
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Uncivil Warriors
Title: Uncivil Warriors
Character: Union Orderly (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
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Pop Goes the Easel
Title: Pop Goes the Easel
Character: Art Student (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
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Counsel on De Fence
Title: Counsel on De Fence
Released: October 24, 1934
Type: Movie
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.