
William 'Wee Willie' Davis
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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
Credits

To Catch a Thief (1955)
as Big Man in Kitchen (uncredited)

Samson and Delilah (1949)
as Garmiskar

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
as Timmons

Mighty Joe Young (1949)
as Strongman (uncredited)

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)
as Arab Giant (uncredited)

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
as The Lamb

The Red Pony (1949)
as Truck driver

Arabian Nights (1942)
as Valda

Gentleman Jim (1942)
as Flannagan (uncredited)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
as Abdullah

Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
as Gubek

Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
as Dota

Son of Paleface (1952)
as Blacksmith

Above Suspicion (1943)
as Hans (Uncredited)

Having Wonderful Crime (1945)
as Zacharias, the Porter

Johnny Come Lately (1943)
as Bouncer

Wildfire (1945)
as Moose Harris

Bowery Bombshell (1946)
as Moose McCall (as Wee Willie Davis)

Fool's Gold (1946)
as Blackie





