Jack Davis

Birth : 1914-04-05,

Death : 1992-11-03

Movies

Getting It On
Party Guest
An ordinary sex-starved teenager and his friends start secretly video recording high school girls and their activity irks the community, as well as their principal.
Haydee
Around the World in Eighty Days
Extra (uncredited)
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Tap Roots
Militia Captain (uncredited)
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Pursued
Doctor (uncredited)
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
Blondie's Big Moment
Mr. Greenleaf
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As usual - disaster ensues.
Lady in the Lake
Policeman (Uncredited)
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up
Night Editor
District Attorney Bill Halloran (Uncredited)
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Up Goes Maisie
Jonathan Marbey
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
Drawing Account
Reynolds (Engineer)
Behind the scenes in a 1940s animation studio, showing the making of a Chevrolet advertising cartoon.
Fast Company
Jack McChicken
Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Many of the boys here want to go swimming but Mickey has to make a delivery. On the way, he encounters a rich boy waiting at a station for his mom and as they get to talking they trade places since Mickey has never seen the inside of a hotel and the rich kid just wants to play. When the rich kid returns to the gang with the goat-pulling wagon, however, they resolve to go where Mickey is which is where the fun really begins...
Sunday Calm
Jack Tucker
The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, manage to elude the adults in this typically charming effort from Our Gang.
Derby Day
Jack
After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.
Stage Fright
Jack
Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang and other neighborhood kids are forced into starring in the play, much to the chagrin of the gang. They are completely unable to remember their lines, and struggle with maintaing their composure during the more serious moments of the melodrama. Finally, Jackie sets off a slew of firecrackers as the finale, scaring all involved.
Lodge Night
John 'Jack' Davis
This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. They decide to form their own lodge. They call themselves the Cluck Cluck Clams. There is nothing racist about their lodge, which includes member Sunshine Sammy Morrison. The film ends with a chase. The gang gets tangled up with bank robbers. Sunshine Sammy gets his uncle and his pals to chase the bank robbers with the gang riding along.
Dogs of War!
Jack
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
Back Stage
Jack
The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.
Boys to Board
Jack
A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a bootlegger's booby-trapped house.
A Pleasant Journey
Jack
Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places with some runaways about to board a train.
The Big Show
Jack
The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.
The Cobbler
Jack
A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.
The Champeen
Jackie "Tuffy"
Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals.
A Quiet Street
Jack
The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind up encountering the police's real quarry: Red Mike.
One Terrible Day
Jack
Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret.