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Jon Roger Davis (born April 5, 1939) is an American actor and entrepreneur. The sandy-haired Davis is best known for his boyish good looks, and lilting, Henry Fonda-like voice. He came to fame in such television series as ''Dark Shadows'' and ''Alias Smith and Jones''. Davis was born in Louisville, Kentucky. ==Acting career== Davis first appeared on television in 1962. He portrayed Pvt. Roger Gibson in the ABC television series ''The Gallant Men''. In 1963, he co-starred with Richard Egan in the NBC Western drama ''Redigo'', which was the renamed second season of the previous ''Empire'' television series, both set on a ranch in New Mexico. In 1964, Davis appeared in one episode of ''The Twilight Zone'', "Spur of the Moment", co-starring Diana Hyland, and had a supporting role in the 1964 film ''Ride the Wild Surf''. From 1968-70, Davis garnered attention playing multiple characters on the daytime Gothic soap opera, ''Dark Shadows''. He played Peter Bradford, Jeff Clark, Ned Stuart, Dirk Wilkins, and Charles Delaware Tate. In 1971, Davis narrated the voiceover theme sequence for the western series ''Alias Smith and Jones'', starring Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes/Joshua Smith and Ben Murphy as Jedidiah "Kid" Curry/Thaddeus Jones. He also appeared in one of the episodes ("Smiler with a Gun") as slick gunfighter Danny Bilson. Bilson has the distinction of being the only character kind-hearted Kid Curry was ever driven to kill during the series. When Pete Duel committed suicide at the end of 1971, Davis replaced him as Hannibal Heyes. However, after Davis completed just seventeen episodes, it was clear the show would never achieve the same level of popularity as it had with Pete Duel. The series subsequently ended in 1973. Competition from NBC's popular ''Flip Wilson Show'' siphoned the show's ratings. Davis continued to act in guest starring roles on TV series throughout the 1970s, as well as the occasional film appearance in movies such as ''Killer Bees'' (1974), ''Nashville Girl'' (1976) and ''Ruby'' (1977), and he has been the voiceover artist for thousands of TV and radio commercials. In 2000 he acted in the film ''Beyond the Pale''. He regularly participates in ''Alias Smith and Jones'' and ''Dark Shadows'' festivals and reunions, and, in early 2011, reprised his role of Charles Delaware Tate in a new ''Dark Shadows'' play - ''The Blind Painter''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Davis (television actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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