William 'Wee Willie' Davis

William 'Wee Willie' Davis

Born: December 7, 1906
Died: April 9, 1981
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.

Movies for William 'Wee Willie' Davis...

To Catch a Thief
Title: To Catch a Thief
Character: Big Man in Kitchen (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.
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Son of Paleface
Title: Son of Paleface
Character: Blacksmith
Released: July 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
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Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
Title: Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
Character: Abdullah
Released: August 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
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The Asphalt Jungle
Title: The Asphalt Jungle
Character: Timmons
Released: May 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: Garmiskar
Released: December 21, 1949
Type: Movie
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
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Mighty Joe Young
Title: Mighty Joe Young
Character: Strongman (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
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The Red Pony
Title: The Red Pony
Character: Truck driver
Released: March 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the city-loving Fred and country-happy Alice -- constantly bickering, Tom looks to cowboy Billy Buck for companionship and paternal love.
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Fool's Gold
Title: Fool's Gold
Character: Blackie
Released: October 9, 1946
Type: Movie
The son of an Army friend is about the join an outlaw gang. Hoppy prevents this and brings the gang to justice.
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Bowery Bombshell
Title: Bowery Bombshell
Character: Moose McCall (as Wee Willie Davis)
Released: July 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.
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Pursuit to Algiers
Title: Pursuit to Algiers
Character: Gubek
Released: October 26, 1945
Type: Movie
After the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.
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Wildfire
Title: Wildfire
Character: Moose Harris
Released: July 18, 1945
Type: Movie
Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali arrive and immediately get into trouble with Fanning and his men. When Alkali is shot, Happy catches the outlaws but the Judge not only releases them, he discharges the Sheriff and tries to arrest Happy for rustling. Happy escapes and he and the Sheriff then set out to prove who the real rustlers are.
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Having Wonderful Crime
Title: Having Wonderful Crime
Character: Zacharias, the Porter
Released: April 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
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Gypsy Wildcat
Title: Gypsy Wildcat
Character: Dota
Released: August 2, 1944
Type: Movie
In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wicked baron blames the gypsies and imprisons them all in his castle. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger on a white horse has hidden the murder arrow and won the heart of gypsy belle Carla, to the discomfiture of her erstwhile fiancée Tonio. Baron Tovar is also fascinated by Carla...especially when he notices her heraldic pendant.
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Title: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Character: Arab Giant (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.
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Johnny Come Lately
Title: Johnny Come Lately
Character: Bouncer
Released: September 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died.
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Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: Hans (Uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Arabian Nights
Title: Arabian Nights
Character: Valda
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Flannagan (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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Reap the Wild Wind
Title: Reap the Wild Wind
Character: The Lamb
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.