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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 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

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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.

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