ROGER DAVIS
FILMOGRAPHY
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(L) Anchor Bob Schieffer talks with Katie Couric about "You Are There;" background screens show Roger with co-star Fred Gwynne;
(C) A young Schieffer reports "live" from the Alamo; Roger is seen climbing the ladder to Bob's right; (R) Roger looks for war casualties

2006:  "CBS Evening News," CBS news program, archived footage, as Colonel William Travis in "You Are There:  Siege of the Alamo" from November, 1971 (see entry under 1971, below,) 8/31/2006

2004:  "Beyond the Pale:  A Look Back," TV documentary, as himself; televised in Ireland

2000:  "Beyond the Pale," independent theatrical movie, lead role, as Jeffrey; released 4/12/2000 
1999:  "Mysteries and Scandals: Peter Duel," 'E!' cable network TV documentary series, as himself, 11/1/1999

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1998:  "Tex Murphy:  Overseer," animated interactive video adventure game, as the Law and Order Party's gubernatorial candidate Robert Knott, released 2/28/1998 

1998:  "Night Man," syndicated TV series, guest star, as Dr. Bauman in "Double Vision" episode, 5/4/1998; series starred Earl Holliman and Matt McColm 
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1989:  "Matlock," NBC TV series, guest star, as religious leader Joshua Bradbury in "The Cult" episode, 5/2/1989; also guest starred Jack Dodson and Wallace Langham (pictured, who later starred in "The Unauthorized Story of 'Charlie's Angels,'" alongside a fake "Roger" and his wife "Jaclyn")

Publicity photo; Roger not pictured
1989:  "Chameleons," TV movie/pilot (not picked up as a series,) lead role; released 12/29/1989; also starred Crystal Bernard ("Wings," pictured;) produced by Glen Larson of "Alias Smith and Jones" fame

Publicity photo; Roger not pictured
1988:  "The Highwayman," syndicated TV series, guest star, as Chief Jim Townsend in "Frightmare" episode, 4/22/1988; series starred Sam Jones (pictured,) and also guest starred Lara Parker (from "Dark Shadows") and Vince Edwards
1984:  "The Act" (aka "Bless 'em All,") theatrical movie, lead role, as Deputy Police Chief Howard; filming completed in 1982, but not released until August, 1984; also starred Robert Ginty, Pat Hingle and Eddie Albert (Sr.)
1981:  "Conquest of the Earth," TV movie packaged for individual station purchase in the US; consisted of two merged episodes of "Galactica 1980" (see below)
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1980:  "Galactica 1980," ABC TV series, guest star, as Andromus in "The Night the Cylons Landed" and "So This is New York" episodes (also packaged together as the theatrical movie "Conquest of the Earth" in Europe and Australia, and later shown as a 1981 TV movie in the States,) 4/13 and 4/20/1980; directed by Glen Larson.  See the "Cylons" episode here
1979: "The Innocent and the Damned," NBC TV mini-series, 5/31 to 6/28/1979; repackaging of 1977 mini-series "Aspen" (see below)
1977:  "Wonder Woman," ABC TV series, guest star, as Jack Corbin in "The Man Who Made Volcanoes" episode, 11/18/1977; series starred Lynda Carter and also guest-starred Roddy McDowell (pictured) 
1977:  "Aspen," NBC TV mini-series, lead role, as Maxfield Kendrick, 11/5 to 11/7/1977 (rerun as "The Innocent and the Damned," 5/31 to 6/28/1979;) also starred Sam Elliott, Michelle Phillips and Gene Barry
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1977:  "Quincy, M.E.," NBC TV series, guest star, as Dr. Paul Taggart in "Visitors in Paradise" episode, 2/18/1977; series starred Jack Klugman (pictured) 
1977:  "Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries," ABC TV series, guest star, as Sonny/Will in "The Mystery of the Haunted House" series premiere episode, 1/30/1977; series starred Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson (pictured) 
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1977:  "Ruby," theatrical movie (aka "Blood Ruby,") lead role, as Dr. Paul Keller; also starred Piper Laurie (pictured, left; Laurie was fresh from her starring role in the 1976 horror classic "Carrie,") & Stuart Whitman (pictured, right) 
1976:  "The Bionic Woman," ABC TV series, guest star, as Lieutenant Colonel Tom Hollaway in "Welcome Home, Jaime, Part 1" series premiere episode, 1/11/1976; series starred Lindsey Wagner (pictured)
1976:  "Nashville Girl," theatrical movie (aka "Country Music Daughter," aka "New Girl in Town,") lead role, as Kelly; also starred Monica Gayle (pictured) and Glenn Corbett 

Photo credit: www.asjscenes.com
1976:  "The Long Chase," TV movie packaged for individual station purchase, lead role, as Hannibal Heyes/Joshua Smith; consisted of three merged and edited 1972 episodes of "Alias Smith and Jones:"  'The Long Chase,' 'High Lonesome Country' and 'The Clementine Ingredient;' guest starred Buddy Ebsen
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1975:  "A Little Bit Like Murder," ABC TV movie telecast as part of the late-night "ABC Wide World of Entertainment," lead role, as Jeff, 7/15/1975; also starred Sharon Gless (pictured with Roger in second-from-left photo) and Elizabeth Hartman
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1975:  "Flash and the Firecat," theatrical movie, lead role, as Firecat; also starred Tricia Sembera as Flash (pictured,) and featured Roger's younger brother, Brent Davis 
1974:  "This is the West that Was," NBC TV movie/pilot (not picked up as a series,) narrator, 12/17/1974; also starred Ben Murphy (Roger's co-star in "Alias Smith and Jones")
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1974:  "The Rockford Files," NBC TV series, guest star, as Travis Buckman in "The Kirkoff Case" series premiere episode, 9/13/1974; series starred James Garner; also guest starred Julie Sommars (both pictured); watch this episode here
1974:  "Killer Bees," ABC TV movie, lead role, as Dr. Helmut van Bohlen, 2/26/1974; also starred Gloria Swanson, Eddie Albert, Jr. and Kate Jackson
1974:  "Ironside," NBC TV series, guest star, as Willie Bonner in "Once More for Joey" episode, 1/17/1974; also guest starred Geoffrey Deuel (Peter Duel's brother)
1973:  "Faraday and Company," NBC TV series that was part of the "Wednesday Mystery Movie" rotation with "Madigan," "Tenafly" & "The Snoop Sisters," guest star, as Millgren in "Fire and Ice" episode, 12/12/1973; series starred Dan Dailey
1973:  "The New Adventures of Perry Mason" (aka "The New Perry Mason,") CBS TV series, guest star, Larry Vaughn in "Case of the Murdered Murderer" episode, 10/28/1973; series starred Monte Markham

1973:  "Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law," ABC TV series, guest star, in "Some People in a Park" episode, 2/21/1973; also guest starred Brooke Bundy (pictured)
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1972:  "Night Gallery," NBC TV series, guest star, as college professor George Beaumont in "You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan" episode, 11/12/1972; also guest starred Ozzie Nelson (pictured) and wife Harriet
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(L) Ben and Roger during "ASJ"s original run.  (R)  Ben and Roger, today
(right photo credit, and recent text credit from below:  Sandy Sagala and JoAnne Bagwell)

1972:  "Alias Smith and Jones," ABC TV series, regular, as Hannibal Heyes/Joshua Smith, 2/3/1972 to 1/13/1973.  Davis was brought in to fill the role when series star Peter Duel killed himself at the end of 1971.  Recently, Roger said, "The show had style and charm and wit, and it had grace.  A kind of grace that...has a sense of when to stop short and not be goofy...and a wonderful sense of humor without that yak-yak, ha-ha, laugh track, funny-sort-of-schtick humor.  I credit that to producer Roy Huggins."   Concerning the death of Peter Duel and that it was never dealt with on the show, Roger said, "It was just...nobody knew quite what to do or what to say.  And there were lots of discussions, but I wasn't privy to them.  But...I'm sure that it was all calculated, and there were decisions made, 'we shouldn't do that,' 'I don't think that's proper,' 'we just need to go on,' etc."  Co-star Ben Murphy said, "Just (Peter) shooting himself cast a pall on the show...not only the fact that he wasn't there."  Roger publicly acknowledged viewers' animosity over Peter's role being recast in a 1972 interview:  "Somebody had to take the part," he said.  "I think I probably have some guilt feelings attached to something good happening to me as the result of a friend' s death.  Anybody would feel that way.  I just wish it weren't necessary.  Pete was really my buddy"

1972:  "The Bold Ones: The Lawyers," NBC TV series, guest star, as Jim Lewis in "The Long Morning After, Parts I and II" episodes, 1/9 and 1/16/72; also guest starred Pat Hingle
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1971:  "You Are There," CBS TV anthology series, as Colonel William Travis in "Siege of the Alamo" episode, November, 1971 (taped 6/21/1971;) also starred Fred Gwynne ("The Munsters", pictured) and CBS newsman Bob Schieffer.  Watch part of this episode here
1971:  "Medical Center," CBS TV series, guest star, as Bob MacGill in "Idolmaker" episode, 10/13/1971; series starred Chad Everett; also guest starred Pamela Payton-Wright
1971:  "Alias Smith and Jones," ABC TV series, narrator, 1/21/1971 to 1/27/1972; and guest starred as con artist Danny Bilson in "Smiler With a Gun" episode, 10/7/1971.   (Ralph Story assumed narration duties when Davis took over the Hannibal Heyes/Joshua Smith role in 1972; Story, who died in September, 2006, was a longtime Los Angeles TV news anchor at KNXT [now KCBS] and KABC.)  See various episodes here
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1971:  "River of Gold," ABC TV movie/pilot (not picked up as a series,) lead role, as beach bum Marcus McAllister, 3/9/1971; also starred Dack Rambo (pictured,) Suzanne Pleshette (pictured) and Ray Milland
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1971:  "Bonanza," NBC TV series, guest star, as Bert Yates in "Top Hand" episode, 1/24/1971; also guest starred Walter Barnes (pictured) 
1971:  "Medical Center," CBS TV series, guest star, as Brad Carter in "Web of Darkness" episode, 1/13/1971; series starred Chad Everett; also guest starred Janet Margolin
1970:  "The Most Deadly Game," ABC TV series, guest star, as Tod Masters in "Little David" series premiere episode, 10/10/1970; produced by Aaron Spelling; series starred George Maharis, Ralph Bellamy and Yvette Mimieux (pictured left to right; female lead had originally been given to Inger Stevens, but she committed suicide in April, 1970, just before the series began filming)
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1970:  "The Young Country," ABC TV movie/pilot (not picked up as a series,) lead role, as con man Stephen Foster Moody, 3/17/1970; also starred Peter Duel (pictured with Roger, center photo,) Walter Brennan, Joan Hackett (pictured with Roger, right photo) and Wally Cox
1970:  "The Bold Ones: The Lawyers," NBC TV series, guest star, as Randy Burroughs in "Point of Honor" episode, 1/25/1970; also guest starred Veronica Cartwright
1970:  "House of Dark Shadows," theatrical movie, lead role as Jeff Clark (reprisal of one of his "Dark Shadows" TV series roles;) pictured with Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins)
1969:  "Parachute to Paradise," theatrical movie, lead role, released 6/1969; written by the late guitar designer Allan Gittler (aka Avraham Bar Rashi,) directed by Floyd L. Petersen, and also starred Natividad Abascal (pictured,) Astrid Aanning, Martin J. Kelley, Richard Roundtree (TV's "Shaft,") and the Boston garage band, The Bagatelle.  "Parachute" was an avant-garde 'film fantasy' where Roger played the hero of a popular cigarette commercial campaign who happens to skydive.  It was filmed in 1968 during Roger's short leave of absence from "Dark Shadows" (his character, Peter Bradford, was identity-torn between reincarnation and amnesia, and left Collinwood briefly to find out who he was!)  ABC televised the movie in 1972, at the height of Roger's popularity on "Alias Smith and Jones."  Since "Parachute to Paradise" has gone ignored by IMDB and other web sources, here are some reflections provided by writer Gittler to "Vintage Guitar" magazine in 2000:  "I had had enough of my career, and quit to ride my track bike through Central Park and write the script of my movie, 'Parachute to Paradise.'  After the heartiness of 15 weeks of pre-production, casting the principal players and 200 extras, seven weeks of principal photography, writing the music, and seven months of editing and (doing) enormous publicity, a fallout with my producer relegated the production to a couple of cans in the laboratory vault"
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1968:  "Dark Shadows," ABC TV series, regular, as Peter Bradford (1968-69, 1970,) Jeff Clark (1968-69,) Ghost of Peter Bradford (1968-69,) Ned Stuart (1969,) Dirk Wilkins (1969,) and Charles Delaware Tate (1969-70;) appeared in 129 episodes, 1/11/1968 to 3/11/1970.  Many of Roger's overlapping roles were due to scripts that took the actors back and forth in time, portraying different characters in the various centuries they visited 
1967:  "The Big Valley," ABC TV series, guest star, as Walt Tompkins in "The Haunted Gun" episode, 2/6/1967; series starred Barbara Stanwyck and Richard Long 
1967:  "MacBird!", live theatre, lead role, as Robert Ken O'Dunc, performed in Boston and New York, 1967-1/21/1968; also starred Stacy Keach

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1966: "Bonanza," NBC TV series, guest star, as Harold Stanley in "Ballad of the Ponderosa" episode, 11/13/1966; series starred Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon 
1966:  "From Here to Eternity," TV movie/pilot (not picked up as a series, but a remake in 1980 was,) lead role, as Pvt. Robert "Prew" Prewitt (the role Montgomery Clift originated in the 1953 classic;) also starred Darren McGavin, Sally Kellerman and Tom Nardini.  Pilot was shot on location in Hawaii
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1964:  "Ride the Wild Surf," theatrical movie, lead role, as surfer Charlie, released 8/5/1964; also starred Fabian, Tab Hunter and Shelley Fabares 
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1964:  "The Twilight Zone," CBS TV series, guest star, as lovestruck David Mitchell in "Spur of the Moment" episode, 2/21/1964; also guest starred Philip Ober (pictured, right) and soap star and later "Eight is Enough" mom Diana Hyland (pictured, left, d. 3/1977; left photo shows Diana and Roger made up to be much older) 
1963:  "Redigo" (formerly known as "Empire,") NBC TV series, regular, as ranch hand Mike, 9/24/1963 to 12/31/1963; series also starred Richard Egan and Elena Verdugo
1963:  "PT 109," theatrical movie, as radioman John "Mac" Maguire, released 6/19/1963; starred Cliff Robertson and Robert Culp; movie based on John F. Kennedy's book; Roger pictured at left
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1962:  "The Gallant Men," ABC TV series, regular, as Pvt. Roger Gibson, 10/5/1962 to 9/14/1963; series also starred Richard X. Slattery and William Reynolds
And in a life-imitates-art-imitates-life moment, the 2004 NBC made-for-TV movie, "The Unauthorized Story of 'Charlie's Angels,'" featured an uncredited cast member playing the role of "Roger," who was separated at the time from "Angel" Jaclyn Smith.
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