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Starring:

Sammy Davis Jr.

  • First Movie - Viva Las Vegas! 1956
  • Last Movie - The Kid Who Loved Christmas 1990
  • Total Movies - 33
  • Highest Grossing Movies
    • UK: Cannonball Run II (1984) - £1,293,349
    • US: The Cannonball Run (1981) - $72,179,579
    • World: Broadway Danny Rose (1984) - $10,920,443
  • Combined grosses
    • UK - £1.3 Million
    • US - $82.8 Million
    • Global - $10.9 Million

Acting credits By Year of release

By Year
By UK Gross
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By Global Gross
Starring With
SEE SHORT LIST
Year

The Kid Who Loved Christmas

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Sideman)

Director(s):
Arthur Allan Seidelman

Starring:
Cicely Tyson • Michael Warren • Sammy Davis Jr. • Gilbert Lewis • Charlie Murphy

1990

Tap

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Little Mo)

Director(s):
Nick Castle

Starring:
Gregory Hines • Suzzanne Douglas • Sammy Davis Jr. • Savion Glover • Joe Morton

1989

Moon Over Parador

Director(s):
Paul Mazursky

Starring:
Richard Dreyfuss • Raul Julia • Sonia Braga • Jonathan Winters • Fernando Rey

1988

The Perils of P.K.

Director(s):
Joseph Green

Starring:
Nora Hayden • Dick Shawn • Jackie Mason • Larry Storch • Louise Lasser

1986

Cannonball Run II

Director(s):
Hal Needham

Starring:
Burt Reynolds • Frank Sinatra • Jamie Farr • Dom DeLuise • Dean Martin

1984

Broadway Danny Rose

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Thanksgiving Parade's Grand Marshall)

Director(s):
Woody Allen

Starring:
Woody Allen • Mia Farrow • Nick Apollo Forte • Sandy Baron • Corbett Monica

1984

Smorgasbord (The Movie)

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Sammy Davis, Jr.)

Director(s):
Jerry Lewis

Starring:
Jerry Lewis • Milton Berle • Sammy Davis Jr. • Herb Edelman • Foster Brooks

1983

Heidi's Song

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Head Ratte)

Director(s):
Robert Taylor

Starring:
Lorne Greene • Sammy Davis Jr. • Margery Gray • Michael Bell • Peter Cullen

1982

The Cannonball Run

Director(s):
Hal Needham

Starring:
Burt Reynolds • Roger Moore • Farrah Fawcett • Dom DeLuise • Dean Martin

1981

Sammy Stops the World

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Littlechap)

Director(s):
Mel Shapiro

Starring:
Sammy Davis Jr. • Dennis Daniels • Randon Lo • Marian Mercer • Shelly Burch

1979

Gone With the West

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Kid Dandy)

Director(s):
Bernard Girard

Starring:
James Caan • Stefanie Powers • Aldo Ray • Barbara Werle • Robert Walker Jr.

1974

Poor Devil

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Sammy)

Director(s):
Robert Scheerer

Starring:
Sammy Davis Jr. • Christopher Lee • Jack Klugman • Adam West • Gino Conforti

1973

Old Faithful

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Sammy Davis Jr.)

Director(s):
Jorn H. Winther

Starring:
Zero Mostel • John Daenen • Sammy Davis Jr. • Joey Heatherton • Burgess Meredith

1973

The Trackers

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Ezekiel Smith)

Director(s):
Earl Bellamy

Starring:
Sammy Davis Jr. • Ernest Borgnine • Julie Adams • Connie Kreski • Norman Alden

1971

One More Time

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Charles Salt)

Director(s):
Jerry Lewis

Starring:
Sammy Davis Jr. • Peter Lawford • John Wood • Dudley Sutton • Maggie Wright

1971

Sweet Charity

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Big Daddy)

Director(s):
Bob Fosse

Starring:
Shirley MacLaine • John McMartin • Ricardo Montalban • Sammy Davis Jr. • Chita Rivera

1969

The Pigeon

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Larry Miller)

Director(s):
Earl Bellamy

Starring:
Sammy Davis Jr. • Dorothy Malone • Victoria Vetri • Ricardo Montalban • Pat Boone

1969

Salt and Pepper

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Charles Salt)

Director(s):
Richard Donner

Starring:
Sammy Davis Jr. • Peter Lawford • Michael Bates • Ilona Rodgers • John Le Mesurier

1968

Alice In Wonderland Or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays The Cheshire Cat)

Director(s):
Alex Lovy

Starring:
Sammy Davis Jr. • Zsa Zsa Gabor • Bill Dana • Howard Morris • Janet Waldo

1966

A Man Called Adam

Director(s):
Leo Penn

Starring:
Sammy Davis Jr. • Ossie Davis • Cicely Tyson • Louis Armstrong • Frank Sinatra Jr.

1966

Licensed to Kill

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Singer behind opening credits)

Director(s):
Lindsay Shonteff

Starring:
Tom Adams • Karel Stepanek • Peter Bull • John Arnatt • Francis De Wolff

1966

The Disorderly Orderly

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Title Song Singer)

Director(s):
Frank Tashlin

Starring:
Jerry Lewis • Glenda Farrell • Susan Oliver • Everett Sloane • Karen Sharpe

1965

Nightmare In the Sun

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Truck Driver)

Director(s):
John Derek • Marc Lawrence

Starring:
John Derek • Aldo Ray • Arthur O'Connell • Ursula Andress • Sammy Davis Jr.

1965

Robin and the 7 Hoods

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Will)

Director(s):
Gordon Douglas

Starring:
Frank Sinatra • Dean Martin • Sammy Davis Jr. • Bing Crosby • Peter Falk

1964

Three Penny Opera

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Ballad Singer)

Director(s):
Wolfgang Staudte

Starring:
Curd Jurgens • Hildegard Knef • Gert Frobe • Hilde Hildebrand • June Ritchie

1964

Johnny Cool

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Educated)

Director(s):
William Asher

Starring:
Henry Silva • Elizabeth Montgomery • Richard Anderson • Jim Backus • Joey Bishop

1963

Reprieve

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Wino)

Director(s):
Millard Kaufman

Starring:
Ben Gazzara • Stuart Whitman • Ray Walston • Vincent Price • Rod Steiger

1963

Sergeants 3

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Jonah Williams)

Director(s):
John Sturges

Starring:
Frank Sinatra • Dean Martin • Sammy Davis Jr. • Peter Lawford • Joey Bishop

1962

Ocean's Eleven

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Josh Howard)

Director(s):
Lewis Milestone

Starring:
Frank Sinatra • Dean Martin • Sammy Davis Jr. • Peter Lawford • Angie Dickinson

1960

Pepe

Director(s):
George Sidney

Starring:
Cantinflas • Dan Dailey • Shirley Jones • Carlos Montalban • Vicki Trickett

1960

Porgy and Bess

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Sportin' Life)

Director(s):
Otto Preminger • Rouben Mamoulian

Starring:
Sidney Poitier • Dorothy Dandridge • Sammy Davis Jr. • Pearl Bailey • Brock Peters

1959

Anna Lucasta

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Danny)

Director(s):
Arnold Laven

Starring:
Eartha Kitt • Frederick O'Neal • Henry Scott • Rex Ingram • James Edwards

1959

Viva Las Vegas!

(Sammy Davis Jr. plays Sammy Davis Jr.)

Director(s):
Roy Rowland

Starring:
Dan Dailey • Cyd Charisse • Agnes Moorehead • Lili Darvas • Jim Backus

1956