Donald Davis (actor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian actor
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Place of Birth: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
About Donald Davis (actor)
- Donald George Davis (February 26, 1928 – January 23, 1998) was a Canadian actor. He was born in Newmarket, Ontario, where his father Elihu James Davis (and uncle Aubrey Davis) owned the Davis Leather Company.
- He attended St.
- Andrew's College from 1941–1946, graduating with the Class of 1946, and studied theatre at the University of Toronto.
- He performed at the Woodstock Playhouse in New York in 1947.
- In 1948, with his brother Murray Edward Davis, he founded a summer theatre company, the Straw Hat Players, at Muskoka, Ontario. Davis performed in Britain from 1950 to 1953.
- In 1953, with his brother and sister Barbara Chilcott, he founded the Crest Theatre in Toronto, which operated until 1966.
- Davis also performed at the Stratford Festival and on radio and television. He was also a member of the acting company at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.
- In 1959, he began performing off-Broadway.
- He played Krapp in the North American premiere production of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, for which he won an Obie Award.
- He performed in regional theatres in Canada and the United States. Davis died of emphysema at Toronto in 1998 at age 69.
- St.
- Andrew's College opened the Donald Davis Theatre posthumously in his honour.
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