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William 'Wee Willie' Davis

Born
December 7, 1906
Died
April 9, 1981
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.
Known For
To Catch a Thief
(1955)
Big Man in Kitchen (uncredited)
Samson and Delilah
(1949)
Garmiskar
Mighty Joe Young
(1949)
Strongman (uncredited)
Gentleman Jim
(1942)
Flannagan (uncredited)
Arabian Nights
(1942)
Valda
Reap the Wild Wind
(1942)
The Lamb
Above Suspicion
(1943)
Hans (Uncredited)
The Asphalt Jungle
(1950)
Timmons
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
(1950)
Abdullah
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