Sid Davis

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sidney Davis (1 April 1916 - 16 October 2006) was an American director and producer who specialized in social guidance films. Davis was born to a housepainter father and a dressmaker mother. The family moved to Hollywood, California when Davis was four years old. He began working in the film industry as a child, obtaining bit parts. When he was older he often worked as a stand-in for Leif Erickson and John Wayne. In November 1949 Linda Joyce Glucoft, a six-year-old girl in Los Angeles, California, was molested and murdered by a man named Fred Stroble. The story was front-page news in the Los Angeles Times for a week as police and the FBI searched for Stroble.