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.[1]
[edit] Filmography
- Sherlock Holmes in the Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
- Bowery Bombshell (1946)
- Night in Paradise (1946)
- Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- To Catch a Thief (1955)
- Son of Paleface (1952)
- Samson and Delila (1949)
- Mighty Joe Young (1949)
[edit] References
- ^ Mechanix Illustrated, July 1950, pp 60
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