James Gunnis Davis (21 December 1873 – 23 March 1937) was a British-born American actor and director who had a career in films in the US.

In 1904 he and his wife Mary moved to New York as stage manager for Charles Frohman and Henry W. Savage.

[1] After a period treading the boards, including as Little Billee in the Sherlock Holmes parody Sheerluck Jones, or Why D’Gillette Him Off (1901), Davis entered the film world in 1912.

He played the auction clerk in Captain Blood (1935), Uncle Glutz in Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Secretary in The White Angel (1936) and Doctor in Show Boat (1936).

[5] Davis died on 23 March 1937 at St. Vincent Hospital in Los Angeles after a brief illness following which the Troupers arranged his funeral at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.