Art Davis (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Art Davis (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Audrey "Art" Davis (May 31, 1913 â€" January 16, 1987) was an American

musician, singer and actor.Davis was born in Paradise, Texas, United

States. His family moved to Oklahoma when he was two and then back to

Texas to the town of Lewisville. His father was a musician, and by the

age of seven, Davis was an accomplished fiddler. His parents divorced

and his mother moved the family to Dallas where Davis enrolled in high

school. He played football and was in the school band playing

clarinet. He served in the 112th Cavalry Regiment of the Texas

National Guard where he gained riding experienceHis first band was

called The Rhythm Aces and they worked with many Western Swing bands

such as Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies, the Light Crust

Doughboys, and Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers. In 1934, Davis was

recording with the Cowboy Ramblers for Bluebird Records. He added the

mandolin to his repertoire of instruments that he played. He became a

staff musician at WRR Radio in Dallas and met Gene Autry who was

looking for a back up fiddler for a recording session. He recorded

with Autry on September 22, 1935 for American Record Corporation.Autry

offered Davis work in Autry's movies and on road tours. He worked with

Autry for three years and then moved to Equity Pictures to work on

Adventures of the Masked Phantom (1939) under the name Larry Mason.

His next movie was The Texas Marshal (1941) with Tim McCoy. He then

appeared in six serial films in 1941 and 1942 with Lee Powell and his

singing buddy Bill Boyd. Davis served in the United States Navy in

World War II. His last time on film was a short musical A Cowboy's

Holiday (1949).
Art Davis (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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