Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis was born on Apr 18, 1864 in USA. Richard Harding Davis's big-screen debut came with Soldiers of Fortune directed by William F. Haddock in 1914. Richard Harding Davis is known for Almost Human directed by Frank Urson, Vera Reynolds stars as Mary Kelly and Kenneth Thomson as John Livingston. The upcoming new movie Richard Harding Davis plays is It's a Dog's Life which will be released on Dec 23, 1955.

American journalist, novelist and playwright Richard Harding Davis was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1864 (literary talent ran in his family: his father was a newspaper editor and his mother was a writer). He attended Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, and in 1886 he began his literary career as a journalist on the "Philadelphia Record" newspaper. Three years later he went over to "The New York Sun". The next year he was hired as managing editor of "Harper's Weekly" magazine, and in that capacity traveled all over the US, Central America and the Mediterranean. He showed a facility for war coverage, reporting on the Greco-Turkish War, the Boer War in South Africa, the Cuban front of the Spanish-American War and World War I. His coverage of the German invasion of Belgium in that war brought his name to the international forefront, and was considered by many to be the quintessential example of war correspondence.