Career
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina as Altovise Joanne Gore, she was raised in Brooklyn, New New York Her relationship with Sammy Davis, Junior. started in 1968 while they were working in the same show. Sammy Davis, Junior. died from throat cancer on May 16, 1990, five days after their 20th wedding anniversary.
In the 1970"s and 1980"s Altovise Davis made a few guest appearances in major television series such as Charlie"s Angels and CHiPs and minor roles in films such as Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974), Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), Boardwalk (1979), and Can"t Stop the Music (1980).
Davis was portrayed in a sketch titled "Ghost II: Sammy"s Visit" on the sketch comedy/variety show In Living Color in its third season by Kim Wayans. The sketch was a parody sequel to the Whoopi Goldberg film Ghost.
In the sketch, Goldberg"s character Oda Mae (T"Keyah Keymah) meets the spirit of Sammy Davis Junior. (Tommy Davidson) to help him reunite with Altovise once last time.
She died of complications from a stroke on March 14, 2009 at age 65 in Los Los Angeles
She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, next to her husband, Sammy Davis, Junior.