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Born in Berlin, Germany, Davidson emigrated to the United States in the 1890s where he began working in stock theater and vaudeville.

He entered silent movies in 1912.

By the mid-teens, Davidson had appeared in his first feature film, Edward Dillon's Don Quixote ( 1915 ), followed by D. W. Griffith's Intolerance, and Tod Browning's Puppets ( both 1916 ).

In the 1920s, he began working for Hal Roach, appearing in numerous two-reeler comedies including Call of the Cuckoo with Charley Chase, Pass the Gravy and Get ' Em Young with Stan Laurel, Why Girls Say No and Love ' Em and Feed ' Em with Oliver Hardy, and The Extra Girl with Mabel Normand.

He also portrayed the crazy old man who haunts a house in the Our Gang short Moan and Groan, Inc. ( 1929 ), and starred alongside a young Jackie Coogan in a pair of silent features, The Rag Man ( 1923 ) and Old Clothes ( 1925 ).

He also received the colorization treatment as an irate shopkeeper in the Three Stooges film No Census, No Feeling ( 1940 ).