Alan Davis
Known For & Full Filmography26 Titles
Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Mr. Walsingham
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Henchman (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Driver (uncredited)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Vermont Man in Speakeasy (uncredited)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Reporter (uncredited)
A federal tax agent goes undercover as a reporter and, working with a mobster's pretty bookkeeper, infiltrates a crime ring to catch the racketeer. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Young Drunk (uncredited)
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Pilot (uncredited)
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Clerk (uncredited)
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Cameraman (uncredited)
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Soldier
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Maitland's Secretary-Lieutenant
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Capt. Link
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Truck Driver (uncredited)
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Pete
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Check Pilot
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as G-Man
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Reporter
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Joe - Policeman
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as First Engineer (uncredited)
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Lt. Cooper, test pilot
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Joe
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Guard (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Second Henchman
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Jack Stafford
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Lefty (uncredited)
A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.