After graduating from Harvard University, where he was one of the founding members of the improv comedy group On Thin Ice, Davis co-wrote the novel Boone with his friend Brooks Hansen.

Early in his career, Davis co-produced The Language of Life with Bill Moyers for PBS and produced Money and Power: The History of Business for CNBC.

[3] The Los Angeles Times called it "a deeply impressionistic and impressively cinematic portrait....an ironic and irreverent sense of Kennedy’s superstardom, as well as how images made the man.

"[4] In 1998 he wrote and directed 1999, an independent feature film starring Jennifer Garner, Dan Futterman, and Amanda Peet, which aired on the Sundance Channel.

Production highlights include, a Bravo Profile of actor Gene Wilder, A&E’s New York at the Movies, hosted by Meryl Streep[1] and the Hugo Award-winning series, Stories of the Innocence Project, which explored the role of DNA testing in exonerating the wrongfully imprisoned.

The Wall Street Journal has described the short films that Davis produces for individuals as "a sub-genre that stands at the confluence of current Gilded Age wealth and power.

[8] In 2018, he produced and directed a film for PBS' American Masters program, Ted Williams: "The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived," narrated by Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor Jon Hamm.

[13] This multi-part documentary features hours of never-before-seen footage that, according to Awful Announcing, "provides both a rich, affectionate reminder of The '86 Mets and an in-depth biography of a collection of players whose exploits are part of baseball lore.

[18] According to the Los Angeles Times, the book is "a tasty combination of film history, family album and psychological study..."Idiots" makes a fine companion to 2020's Mank, the double Oscar winner from David Fincher, while going well beyond that movie's focus on Kane, Herman's 1941 masterpiece.