William 'Wee Willie' Davis
- Acting
- December 7, 1906
- April 9, 1981
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.
Known for
Filmography
- To Catch a Thief · Big Man in Kitchen (uncredited)
- Son of Paleface · Blacksmith
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion · Abdullah
- The Asphalt Jungle · Timmons
- Samson and Delilah · Garmiskar
- Mighty Joe Young · Strongman (uncredited)
- The Red Pony · Truck driver
- Fool's Gold · Blackie
- Bowery Bombshell · Moose McCall (as Wee Willie Davis)
- Pursuit to Algiers · Gubek
- Wildfire · Moose Harris
- Having Wonderful Crime · Zacharias, the Porter
- Gypsy Wildcat · Dota
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves · Arab Giant (uncredited)
- Johnny Come Lately · Bouncer
- Above Suspicion · Hans (Uncredited)
- Arabian Nights · Valda
- Gentleman Jim · Flannagan (uncredited)
- Reap the Wild Wind · The Lamb