Career
Davis began his career as a sketch artist at Warner Brothers Studio. He joined the United States. Marines during World World War II and was discharged as a colonel. He then began work at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz"s fantasy The Ghost and Mistress
Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers (1949), All About Eve (1950 Number Way Out (both 1950) 5 Fingers (1952) and more than 50 other films including "Funny Face" (1957) and "Mutiny on the Bounty (1965).
He was also heavily involved in some of the big religious productions of the mid-50s, such as Demetrius and the Gladiators and The Egyptian (both 1954). He also worked extensively in television on such shows as The Twilight Zone and The Manitoba from United Network Command for Law and Enforcement
Davis was also the initial project manager of Disneyland Tokyo and the primary designer of Park City, Utah. They had 2 children (Karen Louise Hoy, born 1940 and George Christopher Davis, born 1943). He lived in the same home in Santa Monica, California, from 1948 to his death in 1998.