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Actor, Roger Davis, was born on Jan 20, 1884 in unknown, MD. Davis died at the age of 96 on Mar 3, 1980 in Woodland Hills, CA .

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Roger Davis Facts
Roger Davis appeared as the lead in the first "Alias Smith and Jones" (1971) pilot, which was televised as an ABC Movie of the Week, under the title, "The Young Country (1970) (TV). His co-star was his friend, Pete Duel, a Universal Studios contract player who was cast as the second lead. The pilot was not picked up, but ABC did pick up the second "Alias Smith and Jones" pilot, that paid homage to the smash hit Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), starring Duel as a character inspired by Paul Newman's Butch Cassidy. Davis was replaced by Universal Studios contract player Ben Murphy, with Universal pushing Murphy for the role as he resembled Newman. A successful voice-over artiste as well as actor, Davis narrated the opening of each "Alias Smith and Jones" episode with Duel & Murphy and appeared as an actor in one episode, "Alias Smith an
Attended Columbia University, where he took architecture courses as an undergraduate. This education has come in handy in his second career as a real estate developer and builder.
In 1971, he narrated the title sequence voice-over for the comedy western TV series "Alias Smith and Jones" (1971), starring Pete Duel as "Hannibal Heyes/Joshua Smith" and Ben Murphy as "Kid Curry/Thaddeus Jones". Roger also guest-starred in one of the episodes ("Alias Smith and Jones: Smiler with a Gun (#2.4)" (1971)) as gunfighter "Danny Bilson". His Bilson character has the distinction of being the only character Kid Curry was driven to kill during the series. When star Pete Duel committed suicide during the Christmas holiday season of 1971, Davis replaced him as Hannibal Heyes. However, after Davis completed just seventeen episodes, the series was canceled the next season in 1973.
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