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Known for:	Midnight Express, Querelle, Chariots of Fire
Birthday:	6 November 1949, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1978" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 30. Contracted AIDS in 1979 from either a dirty needle during shooting cocaine or through heterosexual contact. Brother of actor Gene Davis In 1985 Davis won critical acclaim for his portrayal of the lover of a man dying of AIDS in Larry Kramer's play "The Normal Heart". Still, his film career foundered. The only other movie in which he starred was Percy Adlon's comedy Rosalie Goes Shopping. Davis took a professional risk by accepting the title role as a gay sailor in Querelle, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's screen adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet. Associates in the entertainment industry warned Davis that taking this part, especially after performances in other gay-themed theatrical works such as Larry Kramer's "Sissies' Scrapbook" (1973) and Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" (1981), would be detrimental to his career. Nevertheless, Davis chose to work with Fassbinder on what would turn out to be the director's last film. Unfortunately, Querelle was a commercial failure and generally not well-received by critics.

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