Acting

Jack Davis

Born 1914-04-05 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Acting credits

Around the World in 80 Days poster
6.7

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Around the World in 80 Days

1956

Tap Roots poster
6.9

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.

Tap Roots

1948

High Wall poster
6.4

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.

High Wall

1947

Pursued poster
6.5

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Pursued

1947

Lady in the Lake poster
6.1

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

Lady in the Lake

1946

Silver River poster
6.2

Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.

Silver River

1948

One Terrible Day poster
6.5

Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret.

One Terrible Day

1922

Night Editor poster
5.5

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

Night Editor

1946

Blondie's Big Moment poster
5.5

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As usual - disaster ensues.

Blondie's Big Moment

1947

Dynamite Don-Don poster
7.8

Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden Gang. Now with the mediation/interference of the Americans, they decide to settle it in a peaceful, *democratic* way, that is, to settle it with a baseball game. Now, with its money and power, The Hashiden group soon recruits a group of gamblers known to be good at baseball from the whole country. So, what is the Okagen Gumi gonna do?

Dynamite Don-Don

1978

The Millerson Case poster
5.9

While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.

The Millerson Case

1947

The Big Show poster
6.3

The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.

The Big Show

1923

Up Goes Maisie poster
6.8

A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.

Up Goes Maisie

1946

The Champeen poster
6.8

Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals.

The Champeen

1923

The Cobbler poster
6.7

A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.

The Cobbler

1923

Dogs of War! poster
5.8

The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.

Dogs of War!

1923

July Days poster
6.5

The gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual, Mickey and Jack are trying to win the affections of Mary. In the interim, the village blacksmith, "Dad" Anderson, receives a lucrative contract to produce a creation of his: a sail-propelled scooter. The gang is lucky enough to get a hold of a few of these scooters, and happily sail down the city streets.

July Days

1923

Haydee poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Haydee

1970

Getting It On poster
3.4

An ordinary sex-starved teenager and his friends start secretly video recording high school girls and their activity irks the community, as well as their principal.

Getting It On

1983

Sunday Calm poster
6.6

The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, manage to elude the adults in this typically charming effort from Our Gang.

Sunday Calm

1923

Back Stage poster
7.4

The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.

Back Stage

1923

Cryptic Triptych poster
5.0

An art horror anthology featuring 3 stories: "Adoratum Technica", a classical Pygmalion-inspired tale in which an Artist builds an AI, with tragic results; "The Sound of Her Voice", a dark psychodrama in which an young man finds that getting rid of his domineering mother is not so easy; and "Graybeard", a gothic fairy tale loosely based on the real-life case of child killer Albert Fish. Director Fatima Hye.

Cryptic Triptych

2024

Derby Day poster
6.5

After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.

Derby Day

1923

Stage Fright poster
6.9

Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang and other neighborhood kids are forced into starring in the play, much to the chagrin of the gang. They are completely unable to remember their lines, and struggle with maintaing their composure during the more serious moments of the melodrama. Finally, Jackie sets off a slew of firecrackers as the finale, scaring all involved.

Stage Fright

1923

Behind the camera