[1] He joined the opening season of the York Citizens' Repertory Theatre in 1935 as an actor-stage manager.
[1] During World War II he served in the British Army, rising to the rank of captain and seeing action in Italy, Greece, and Austria.
[4][5] In 1950 he undertook a lecture tour of American university theaters for the Rockefeller Foundation.
During this time, he was hired to direct the period epic Rogue's March for MGM, his only major American film;[6] the film was released in 1953, featuring climactic battle footage shot at the real Khyber Pass by Geoffrey Barkas in 1935.
Davis was a director and producer in London West End theaters from 1954 on but returned to Australia in the 1960s to tour for J.C. Williamson's.