Actor
William 'Wee Willie' Davis
119 years · 19 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 19
To Catch a Thief
1955 · Big Man in Kitchen (uncredited)
On Kanopy
Son of Paleface
1952 · Blacksmith
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950 · Abdullah
The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · Timmons
On TCM
Samson and Delilah
1949 · Garmiskar
On Kanopy
Mighty Joe Young
1949 · Strongman (uncredited)
The Red Pony
1949 · Truck driver
Fool's Gold
1946 · Blackie
Bowery Bombshell
1946 · Moose McCall (as Wee Willie Davis)
Pursuit to Algiers
1945 · Gubek
Wildfire
1945 · Moose Harris
On Philo
Having Wonderful Crime
1945 · Zacharias, the Porter
Gypsy Wildcat
1944 · Dota
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944 · Arab Giant (uncredited)
Johnny Come Lately
1943 · Bouncer
Above Suspicion
1943 · Hans (Uncredited)
On Artiflix
Arabian Nights
1942 · Valda
Gentleman Jim
1942 · Flannagan (uncredited)
Reap the Wild Wind
1942 · The Lamb