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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
Davis played Robert E. Lee Prewitt in the 1966 pilot for "From Here to Eternity" (1980), which was not picked up. The TV movie made as the pilot from James Jones's classic novel has never been seen on American television. Thirteen years later, "From Here to Eternity (1953)" -- the big screen adaptation of which had won the Oscar as Best Picture of 1953 -- made it to the small screen as a TV movie and was picked up as a series for the 1980 season.
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.
An accomplished designer and real estate developer, his achievements include construction and restoration of hotels, high-rises and 18th century mansions.
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