Acting credits
19
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
William 'Wee Willie' Davis
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.3
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Movies: 19Series: 0
TMDB ID: 96140
IMDb ID: nm0205655
Known for: Acting
Born: December 7, 1906
Died: April 9, 1981
Age: 74
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1942 - 1955
Years active: 14
Average TMDB rating: 6.58
Wikidata: Q7979311
Also known as
William "Wee Willie" Davis
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with William 'Wee Willie' Davis.
7.3
To Catch a Thief
as Big Man in Kitchen (uncredited)
1955 Movie
6.3
Son of Paleface
as Blacksmith
1952 Movie
6.0
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
as Abdullah
1950 Movie
7.5
The Asphalt Jungle
as Timmons
1950 Movie
6.6
Samson and Delilah
as Garmiskar
1949 Movie
6.4
Mighty Joe Young
as Strongman (uncredited)
1949 Movie
5.9
The Red Pony
as Truck driver
1949 Movie
3.0
Fool's Gold
as Blackie
1946 Movie
6.0
Bowery Bombshell
as Moose McCall (as Wee Willie Davis)
1946 Movie
6.9
Pursuit to Algiers
as Gubek
1945 Movie
1.0
Wildfire
as Moose Harris
1945 Movie
6.3
Having Wonderful Crime
as Zacharias, the Porter
1945 Movie
5.5
Gypsy Wildcat
as Dota
1944 Movie
6.1
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
as Arab Giant (uncredited)
1944 Movie
6.8
Johnny Come Lately
as Bouncer
1943 Movie
6.1
Above Suspicion
as Hans (Uncredited)
1943 Movie
6.0
Arabian Nights
as Valda
1942 Movie
7.1
Gentleman Jim
as Flannagan (uncredited)
1942 Movie
6.4
Reap the Wild Wind
as The Lamb
1942 Movie