Wee Willie Davis
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Wee Willie Davis
William "Wee Willie" Davis (December 7, 1906 – April 9, 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.[1]
Filmography
- Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
- Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
- Bowery Bombshell (1946)
- Night in Paradise (1946)
- Mighty Joe Young (1949)
- Samson and Delilah (1949)
- Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- Son of Paleface (1952)
- To Catch a Thief (1955)
References
- ↑ Mechanix Illustrated, July 1950, pp 60
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