- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- December 7, 1906
- Place of Birth
- —
- Died
- April 9, 1981
William 'Wee Willie' Davis
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.
Filmography
movieTo Catch a Thief
1955 · Big Man in Kitchen (uncredited)
movieSon of Paleface
1952 · Blacksmith
movieBud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950 · Abdullah
movieThe Asphalt Jungle
1950 · Timmons
movieSamson and Delilah
1949 · Garmiskar
movieMighty Joe Young
1949 · Strongman (uncredited)
movieThe Red Pony
1949 · Truck driver
movieFool's Gold
1946 · Blackie
movieBowery Bombshell
1946 · Moose McCall (as Wee Willie Davis)
moviePursuit to Algiers
1945 · Gubek
movieWildfire
1945 · Moose Harris
movieHaving Wonderful Crime
1945 · Zacharias, the Porter
movieGypsy Wildcat
1944 · Dota
movieAli Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944 · Arab Giant (uncredited)
movieJohnny Come Lately
1943 · Bouncer
movieAbove Suspicion
1943 · Hans (Uncredited)
movieArabian Nights
1942 · Valda
movieGentleman Jim
1942 · Flannagan (uncredited)
movieReap the Wild Wind
1942 · The Lamb