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director whose former experience as a cameraman has
enlivened many genre pictures. He worked as a journalist,
TV cameraman, and photographer before serving as a cameraman
on Haskell Wexler's landmark feature, Medium Cool (1969).
He then earned cinematographer's credits on several
low-budget pictures before producing, directing, and
cowriting the independent film Stony Island (1978),
about a group of young rhythm and blues performers.
Davis
went on to direct the low-budget The Final Terror (1981)
and photographed such films as Over the Edge (1979)
and Angel (1984) before he found his niche, as director
of Code of Silence (1985), a cop picture that is considered
the best of the Chuck Norris vehicles. Davis co-wrote
and directed Steven Seagal's successful debut Above
the Law (1988), and also directed Gene Hackman in The
Package (1989). Most recently, he teamed up again with
Seagal for the blockbuster action hit Under Siege (1992),
and directed the crackerjack big-screen adaptation of
the 1960s TV show The Fugitive (1993), with Harrison
Ford in the title role.
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