John Davidson
Date of birth: 1886-12-25
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: J.W. Davidson, Jack Davidson
Biography
John Davidson (25 December 1886 – 16 January 1968) was an American film actor. He appeared in 148 films between 1915 and 1963. He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Davidson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Fool's Paradise
1921-12-09
In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves th
The Time, the Place and the Girl
1929-07-07
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen he
Arsène Lupin
1932-02-26
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even
Charlie Chan in Egypt
1935-06-04
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers tha
No Woman Knows
1921-09-19
In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two child
The Spurs of Sybil
1918-03-04
Heiress Sybil Drew is told by her Aunt Annabelle she must earn her own living for a year or be disin
Romeo and Juliet
1916-10-19
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud betw
The Wild Girl
1917-09-01
A dying stranger abandons a baby girl in a gypsy camp, with a note explaining that on her eighteenth
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
1944-05-20
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings
A Gathering of Eagles
1963-06-21
A B-52 commander must prepare his men to pass a grueling inspection.
Wilson
1944-08-01
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post
You're My Everything
1949-07-22
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him
The Secret of Lost River
1915-06-18
Pierre Vignol, an artist wintering in Arizona, is bitten by a snake. He is taken by his friend, Tom
Hearts and Swords
1915-06-24
Donna Gonzales has a daughter, Rosa, and a son, Maxim. Maxim is fighting in the Rebel cause, his mot
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939-07-07
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the
The Bronze Bell
1921-06-19
In the 1850s, a young prince in India promises his dying father he will lead a revolt against the En
Slattery's Hurricane
1949-08-11
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscien
The Brand of Cowardice
1916-10-23
Cyril Hamilton is a chicken-hearted easterner who heads west. He makes up for his past misdeeds by r
The Luck of the Irish
1948-09-15
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts
The Purple Monster Strikes
1945-10-06
A Martian invader crashes his spaceship conveniently close to the workshop of a scientist who is dev
The Scarlet Empress
1934-05-09
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr
Docks of San Francisco
1932-02-01
Barbary Coast, San Francisco. The gangster moll Belle gets deeply entangled with gangsters led by he
Jungle Menace
1937-09-01
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
The Rescue
1929-01-12
The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also
We're Not Married!
1952-07-11
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later
Saturday Night
1922-01-29
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry t
The Wall Between
1916-03-20
John Kendall was brought up in a wealthy family, but when his father loses the family fortune and th
The Great Lover
1920-11-15
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in
The Stronger Vow
1919-04-27
During the Easter Carnival, Dolores de Cordova flirts with Juan Estudillo, not knowing that he is a
Through the Toils
1919-06-08
Author Noel Graham goes to the little village of Mondon, where his ancestors lived, for solitude to
Hollywood Mystery
1934-06-20
A PR man for a low-budget movie studio comes up with what he believes is the perfect gimmick--to mak
Live, Love and Learn
1937-10-29
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get mar
The Devil's in Love
1933-07-21
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. When military doctor Andr
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939-01-20
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon a
One Touch of Venus
1948-08-01
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
Mummy's Boys
1936-10-02
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, g
The Thirteenth Chair
1929-10-19
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938-11-25
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard an
Miracles for Sale
1939-08-10
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
The Call of the Savage
1935-04-14
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
The Life of the Party
1930-10-25
Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.
King of the Royal Mounted
1940-09-19
The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paral
The Sword of Monte Cristo
1951-03-03
In 1858 France, Emperor Louis Napoleon sends Captain Renault of the Royal Dragoons, Minister La Roch
A Stranger in My Arms
1959-03-03
An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
The Great Dictator
1940-10-15
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu
Skin Deep
1929-09-07
Skin Deep is a 1929 American talking drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Monte Blue. It
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938-05-27
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
6 Hours to Live
1932-10-15
The victim of a political assassination is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However,
Call of the Jungle
1944-07-29
A beautiful white girl resident of Ta'Pu, Tana, is determined to clear Harley, who is suspected of s
Saps at Sea
1940-04-29
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn.
The Devil Bat
1940-12-13
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have
Turnabout
1940-05-17
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants the
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941-12-27
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
A Letter to Three Wives
1949-01-20
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is run
Storm Over Bengal
1938-11-14
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in it
Bombay Mail
1934-01-06
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and B
Around the World in 80 Days
1956-10-17
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor
Hold That Girl
1934-03-23
"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into
The Moonstone
1934-08-20
A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector C
Queen of the Night Clubs
1929-03-23
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, a
Murder in Trinidad
1934-05-16
Author/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator for t
Kid Gloves
1929-03-23
When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker K
Grand Hotel
1932-05-25
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Singapore Woman
1941-05-17
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
Savage Fury
1956-01-01
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.
Ramshackle House
1924-08-31
Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Rieve
His Children's Children
1923-11-04
Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch re
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935-10-18
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, thou
Under Two Flags
1922-11-06
On the run from punishment for a crime committed by his brother, Bertie Cecil (alias Lewis Victor) j
Circumstantial Evidence
1945-04-20
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an
Perils of Pauline
1933-11-05
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the
The Green Cloak
1915-10-20
Future Pulitzer Prize winner Owen Davis was one of the scenarists for this Kleine-Edison production.
The Sentimental Lady
1915-11-03
When he wasn't churning out "Curses, foiled again!" melodramas, playwright Owen Davis Sr. specialize
Cheated Love
1921-05-16
Sonya Schnoema, a Jewish girl, comes to the United States as an immigrant and works in her father's
Dancing in the Dark
1949-12-02
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the
Duel Personalities
1939-03-11
While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch t
Shock
1946-02-01
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until h
Dinner at Eight
1933-12-22
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver
A Shot in the Dark
1935-01-31
An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
The Power of Decision
1917-04-09
Artist model Margot uses her “Power of Decision” to choose between two men she loves, after much dis
Captain America
1944-02-05
Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons
The Awakening
1917-12-03
Abandoned on the church steps at birth Jacques Revilly is a pariah in his small hamlet finally headi
People Will Talk
1951-08-29
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Pro
Monsieur Beaucaire
1924-08-11
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with
All That Heaven Allows
1955-12-25
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love wit
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934-05-04
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in ord
The Wonderful Adventure
1915-09-27
Wealthy New York contractor Wilton Demarest falls victim to the wiles of beautiful adventuress Mazor
The Grouch
1918-11-25
Forest Rivals
1919-09-15
Julie Lamont is the only white woman in the French-Canadian woods where she lives with her Uncle Hen
The Tiger's Cub
Queen of the serials Pearl White gets herself into plenty of trouble up Klondike way as a young maid
The Danger Signal
1915-12-01
The Beautiful Lie
1917-05-21
Believed to be a lost film. A woman's reputation is sullied, and then recovers. Based on the poem "R
Jewel Robbery
1932-07-08
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a je
The Ruse
1915-07-14
"Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a business dea
Secret Service In Darkest Africa
1943-07-24
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
Shame
1917-12-01
John Grey enlists when the Spanish-American War begins, not knowing that his sweetheart Mary is preg
The Winning of Beatrice
1918-05-20
John Maddox, Sr., who directs the Equity Trust Company with James Buckley, sends Henry Jenkins to st
The Black Circle
1919-10-20
Death from a Distance
1935-07-03
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of t
The Woman Who Walked Alone
1922-06-11
When Iris Champneys’ marriage to the Earl of Lemister ends in divorce she moves to Africa to operate
Man and His Soul
1916-01-31
Man and His Soul is a 1916 American silent melodrama film directed by John W. Noble.