Owen Davis Jr.

Owen Davis Jr.

Birth : 1907-10-06, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 1949-05-21

History

Owen Davis Jr. was a screen, stage, radio, and television actor, as well as a television producer. He drowned while sailing at age 41.

Profile

Owen Davis Jr.

Movies

Knute Rockne All American
Gus Dorais
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Allen Stevens
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
Henry Goes Arizona
Danny Regan
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
These Glamour Girls
Greg Smith
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
Touchdown, Army
Cadet Kirk Reynolds
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Davy
When the miners of Roaring Camp become Godfathers to a motherless baby, they name the boy Luck and promise to set aside money for him from their diggings. But when they strike it rich the money is gambled away instead.
It Could Happen to You
Fred Barrett
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
The Woman I Love
Mezziores
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
The Plot Thickens
Robert Wilkins
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
Grand Jury
Steve O'Connell
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and put behind bars.
Bunker Bean
Bunker Bean
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Special Investigator
George Fenwick
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
Murder on a Bridle Path
Edward 'Eddie' Fry
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
Good Intentions
Bud Finney
When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Peter
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
They Had to See Paris
Ross Peters
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?