John Davidson
Biography
John Davidson is an American performer who has worked as an actor, a singer and a game show host since the early 1960s. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in part in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, he attended Denison University. He appeared in a 1964 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of The Fantasticks and made his Broadway debut that same year in Foxy. His first screen role came in The Happiest Millionaire (1967), and he acted alongside Lesley Ann Warren again in The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968). He went on to appear in The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) and Edward Scissorhands (1990). On television he co-hosted That's Incredible! from 1980 to 1984, hosted a revival of Hollywood Squares, and handled 170 episodes of a revived The $100,000 Pyramid in 1991. He also recorded twelve albums, five of which charted on the Billboard 200.
84years old
Turns 85 on December 13in 32 days
- Born Pittsburgh
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
- Also credited as John Hamilton Davidson
Movie Career
- Films
- 5
- Career span
- 23 years1967 to 1990
Every film, newest first
- 1990Edward ScissorhandsIMDb rating 7.8
- 1987The SqueezeIMDb rating 4.9
- 1979The Concorde... Airport '79IMDb rating 4.5
- 1968The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family BandIMDb rating 6.3
- 1967The Happiest MillionaireIMDb rating 6.5
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A role that slipped away
After his time on Hollywood Squares, Davidson was among six people who tried out for the CBS daytime host job on Wheel of Fortune. Bob Goen ended up getting hired.
A first
In the late 1970s, Davidson was a regular guest host on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, filling that role 87 times.
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Worked with
John Davidson shares two films with Lesley Ann Warren, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Lesley Ann Warren's page
Vincent Price's page
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David Lowell RichDirector, 1 film, 1979
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Norman TokarDirector, 1 film, 1967
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Official profiles and reference pages.