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Nathan Davis

Actor

Nathan Davis

Born May 22, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, USADied October 15, 200824 films

Nathan Davis was an American stage and screen actor. By trade, he was a pharmaceutical sales rep who decided to pursue acting after being fired from his sales job in the late 1970s.

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Holes posterFirst watchHoles20036.9as GrandfatherA supporting role in one of their most watched films.After being wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley Yelnats is sent away to Camp Green Lake, a boys detention facility where inmates are forced to dig holes all day in…View film

Essential films

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Thief poster7.2Thief1981Flowers in the Attic poster6.3Flowers in the Attic1987The Package poster6.1The Package1989Code of Silence poster5.9Code of Silence1985Risky Business poster6.6Risky Business1983Dunston Checks In poster5.4Dunston Checks In1996Poltergeist III poster5.2Poltergeist III1988Chain Reaction poster5.8Chain Reaction1996

Filmography

24 films as actor
  1. 2006Let's Go to PrisonOld Juror
  2. 2003HolesGrandfather
  3. 2001Almost SalinasZelder Hill
  4. 1996Chain ReactionMorris Grodsky
  5. 1996Dunston Checks InVictor Dubrow
  6. 1995Steal Big Steal LittleHarry Lordly
  7. 1991Shaking the TreeGrandpa Sullivan
  8. 1989The PackageSoviet Press Secretary
  9. 1988Poltergeist IIIKane
  10. 1987Flowers in the AtticGrandfather
  11. 1987Murder OrdainedDoctor
  12. 1987BurglarMr. Paggif
  13. 1986Tough GuysJimmy Ellis
  14. 1985Code of SilenceFelix Scalese
  15. 1984Young Lust: A Soap OperaArthur Levinthal
  16. 1983Risky BusinessBusiness Teacher
  17. 1982Will: G. Gordon Liddy
  18. 1981The Children Nobody WantedOrville
  19. 1981ThiefGrossman
  20. 1981On the Right TrackMario
  21. 1981Hudson Taylor
  22. 1979Flesh & BloodNorth Announcer
  23. 1979DummyCop
  24. 1978Stony IslandLewis Moss