Rex Davis

Rex Davis (1890 – ?) was a British actor.^[1]

According to one source, he got his start in films because he was a good amateur boxer.^[2]

Selected filmography

• The House of Temperley (1913)
• The Fool (1913)
• Won by a Head (1920)
• The Pride of the Fancy (1920)
• Uncle Bernac (1921)
• Mord Em'ly (1922)
• All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1921)
• The Crimson Circle (1922)
• The Lion's Mouse (1923)
• A Couple of Down and Outs (1923)
• The Knockout (1923)
• Married Love (1923)
• Every Mother's Son (1926)
• Motherland (1927)

References

1. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/18392
2. The Silent Picture, Issues 5–16 (1969), p. 34: "A man called Rex Davis; this was the first of my scripts that he had acted in. He wasn't an actor, he was a boxer, an amateur boxer, and that was what we required in THE KNOCKOUT."

Bibliography

• Bamford, Kenton. Distorted Images: British National Identity and Film in the 1920s. I.B. Tauris, 1999.

External links

• Rex Davis at the Internet Movie Database