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)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
as Timmons
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
as The Lamb
Samson and Delilah (1949)
as Garmiskar
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)
as Arab Giant (uncredited)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
as Strongman (uncredited)
Arabian Nights (1942)
as Valda
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
as Gubek
Gentleman Jim (1942)
as Flannagan (uncredited)
Above Suspicion (1943)
as Hans (Uncredited)
Son of Paleface (1952)
as Blacksmith
The Red Pony (1949)
as Truck driver
Johnny Come Lately (1943)
as Bouncer
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
as Abdullah
Bowery Bombshell (1946)
as Moose McCall (as Wee Willie Davis)
Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
as Dota
Fool's Gold (1946)
as Blackie
Wildfire (1945)
as Moose Harris
Having Wonderful Crime (1945)
as Zacharias, the Porter