John Davis (c. 1944 – 7 November 2015) was an Australian documentary filmmaker, mountaineer, television producer, chemical engineer, and member of the Greens.
On 14 February 1965, Davis, together with Bryden Allen, Jack Pettigrew and David Witham, became the first climbers to reach the summit of Ball's Pyramid, the world's tallest volcano stack.
[1] Davis made more than 100 twenty minute programs, focusing primarily on chemistry and physics, for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation beginning in 1966.
[2] Another of Expedition Films' productions, Cats Among the Coral, which Davis co-directed with Gary Steer, followed a catamaran from Port Douglas, Queensland, to Indonesia.
[3] On 7 November 2015, John Davis, together with Richard and Carolyn Green, a husband and wife businessman and graphic artist respectively, were killed in a helicopter crash in Watagans National Park near Martinsville in the Hunter Valley.
[2] Reports suggest that the trio, who were active with The Greens, were filming environmental damage surrounding the Whitehaven Coal mine at Werris Creek at the time of the crash.