James D. Davis

Total Credits at Criticker: 19 (Director), 4 (Writer)
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The Doughboy (1926) - Short Film
The film begins with Snub going off to war in WWI. He manages to get lost behind enemy lines and spends most of the movie hiding or just barely escaping encounter after encounter with German soldiers. (imdb (user)
The Yokel (1926) - Short Film
Snub comes to town with his pet duck where people think that he has struck oil at home, and so is briefly pursued by the young women, before settling on Thelma Daniels. (imdb)
The Big Shot (1929) - Short Film
Fat and Snub are a reporter and photographer who try to track down a reclusive Scotsman for an interview and photo. (imdb)
Mitt the Prince (1927) - Short Film
The film begins with Snub and Fat (yes, that IS the politically incorrect and cruel name given to Snub's partner in this and several other films made for the Weiss Brothers) want to make a few bucks. The film begins with them doing some maintenance sort of work--with Fat on a ladder and Snub sweeping outside. When this doesn't work out, a random stranger just happens to walk up to them and offer them HIS MOTHER'S CAR and asks them to make a delivery. (imdb)
Double Trouble (1927) - Short Film
"Snub" and his much larger dancing partner, "Fat" (Marvin Loback), struggle with each other in the room they share, try to crash the local vaudeville house and end up having to repossess a piano from their former landlord. (imdb (user)
Lightning Love (1923) - Short Film
The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors. (lordheath.com)
Horseshoes (1923) - Short Film
A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups--including hitting the boxer in the face with a tomato--winds up in the ring with him but, with the aid of some strategically placed horseshoes, manages to knock the boxer out. When he comes to and finds out what happened, the outraged boxer sets out after Larry. (imdb)
Tailoring (1925) - Short Film
A 'Ton of Fun' slapstick comedy from the heaviest trio Hollywood has ever produced! (imdb)
Shine 'Em Up! (1922) - Short Film
Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train station he proves his worth. (imdb)
All Wet (1926) - Short Film
In this film, Snub leaves his extremely tiny town to go live with his aunt, who he doesn't even know. He arrives at her house when she's throwing a party and she doesn't want to invite him inside...until she learns he owns an oil well. Then she encourages him to meet and become smitten with her daughter. However, Snub isn't that interested in this vamp and instead is interested in the maid. But due to their persistence, Snub finally agrees to marry the cousin. (imdb)
The Golf Bug (1922) - Short Film
The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.
Fire!! (1926) - Short Film
At the Sans Scruples Hotel, the house fire inspector has to steer clear of a vamp and her jealous husband, and put out a fire to win the girl.
The Bum's Rush (1927) - Short Film
A bum and an escaped convict find a kidnapped boy and try to bring him home.
Harvest Hands (1922) - Short Film
Paul, a great college athlete, is sent to his uncle's farm to be developed, but turns against the continual round of chores. And at the table he is continually elbowed aside by the huskier farmhands, until he gives up in disgust. But a last attempt to understand the intricacies of the tractor results in his demolishing the house, and the farmer's daughter aids his escape.
Trouble Brewing (1924) - Short Film
This film, with Larry as a dry agent, pokes fun at the situations which the enforcement act has produced throughout the country.
Toot Hoot (1918) - Short Film
Magnolia Milkshake, having a husband who is exempted because of possessing a disease which might be called "too much fat" is desirous of helping the boys across the ferry mop up Bill Hohenzollern's place, tries very hard to join the Red Cross. After various tests she is finally rejected. Since this plan didn't work out she decides to join the kaiser-killers herself and so enters the recruiting station right next door. Here she is again rejected because of a flat head.