Jack Davis

Jack Davis

Born: April 5, 1914
Died: November 3, 1992
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Jack Davis...

Getting It On
Title: Getting It On
Character: Party Guest
Released: August 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An ordinary sex-starved teenager and his friends start secretly video recording high school girls and their activity irks the community, as well as their principal.
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Haydee
Title: Haydee
Released: August 17, 1970
Type: Movie
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Title: I Dream of Jeannie
Character: Commander Hastings
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: TV
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
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Title: The Dick Van Dyke Show
Released: October 3, 1961
Type: TV
The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work, where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell, Sally Rogers and producer Mel Cooley.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Title: The Honeymooners
Released: October 1, 1955
Type: TV
A bus driver and his sewer worker friend struggle to strike it rich while their wives look on with weary patience. One of the most influential situation comedy television series in American history.
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Title: Tales of Tomorrow
Released: August 3, 1951
Type: TV
Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.
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Tap Roots
Title: Tap Roots
Character: Militia Captain (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
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Pursued
Title: Pursued
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
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Blondie's Big Moment
Title: Blondie's Big Moment
Character: Mr. Greenleaf
Released: January 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As usual - disaster ensues.
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Lady in the Lake
Title: Lady in the Lake
Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
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Night Editor
Title: Night Editor
Character: District Attorney Bill Halloran (Uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
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Up Goes Maisie
Title: Up Goes Maisie
Character: Jonathan Marbey
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
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Drawing Account
Title: Drawing Account
Character: Reynolds (Engineer)
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes in a 1940s animation studio, showing the making of a Chevrolet advertising cartoon.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Character: Jack McChicken
Released: November 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Many of the boys here want to go swimming but Mickey has to make a delivery. On the way, he encounters a rich boy waiting at a station for his mom and as they get to talking they trade places since Mickey has never seen the inside of a hotel and the rich kid just wants to play. When the rich kid returns to the gang with the goat-pulling wagon, however, they resolve to go where Mickey is which is where the fun really begins...
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Sunday Calm
Title: Sunday Calm
Character: Jack Tucker
Released: December 15, 1923
Type: Movie
The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, manage to elude the adults in this typically charming effort from Our Gang.
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Derby Day
Title: Derby Day
Character: Jack
Released: November 17, 1923
Type: Movie
After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.
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Stage Fright
Title: Stage Fright
Character: Jack
Released: October 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang and other neighborhood kids are forced into starring in the play, much to the chagrin of the gang. They are completely unable to remember their lines, and struggle with maintaing their composure during the more serious moments of the melodrama. Finally, Jackie sets off a slew of firecrackers as the finale, scaring all involved.
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Lodge Night
Title: Lodge Night
Character: John 'Jack' Davis
Released: July 28, 1923
Type: Movie
This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. They decide to form their own lodge. They call themselves the Cluck Cluck Clams. There is nothing racist about their lodge, which includes member Sunshine Sammy Morrison. The film ends with a chase. The gang gets tangled up with bank robbers. Sunshine Sammy gets his uncle and his pals to chase the bank robbers with the gang riding along.
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Dogs of War!
Title: Dogs of War!
Character: Jack
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
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Back Stage
Title: Back Stage
Character: Jack
Released: June 2, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.
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Boys to Board
Title: Boys to Board
Character: Jack
Released: April 7, 1923
Type: Movie
A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a bootlegger's booby-trapped house.
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A Pleasant Journey
Title: A Pleasant Journey
Character: Jack
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places with some runaways about to board a train.
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The Big Show
Title: The Big Show
Character: Jack
Released: February 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.
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The Cobbler
Title: The Cobbler
Character: Jack
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.
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The Champeen
Title: The Champeen
Character: Jackie "Tuffy"
Released: January 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals.
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A Quiet Street
Title: A Quiet Street
Character: Jack
Released: December 30, 1922
Type: Movie
The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind up encountering the police's real quarry: Red Mike.
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One Terrible Day
Title: One Terrible Day
Character: Jack
Released: September 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret.