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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.
Davis is credited with "And Introducing Roger Davis as Stephen Foster Moody" in the opening credits of The Young Country (1970) (TV), the original of two pilots for "Alias Smith and Jones" (1971). The credit was unusual as Davis had been appearing regularly on television (as well as in movies) for eight years, including recurring roles on two TV series in the early 1960s, and had been a regular on the popular day-time soap "Dark Shadows" (1966) for the previous two years. The pilot, which was featured as a TV Movie of the Week on ABC, co-starred Davis' friend Pete Duel. ABC rejected the pilot and the producers went back to the drawing boards, replacing Davis with Ben Murphy in a revised concept for a series that paid homage to the movie blockbuster Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Known for his voice-over work, Davis was given the narrator of "Alias Smith and Jones" in the first season and a-half, eventually taking over for Duel as "Joshua Smuth" after
Davis first attracted attention on TV in the late 1960s playing multiple characters on the daytime gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" (1966).
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