Joe W. Davis
Joe W. Davis (born 27 February 1959; age 66) is the former actor who played the 25-year-old Spock in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Davis was a graduate of Syracuse University where he majored in theater. Before his first on-screen role in The Search for Spock, began with an onstage role in the musical The Boogie-Woogie Rumble of a Dream Deferred (1982; with sound by Garland Thompson [1]).
He later appeared in an episode of Riptide (1984, with Daphne Ashbrook, Claudia Christian, Juliana Donald, Ken Olandt, and Don Stark), Better Off Dead (1985, with Kim Darby, Wally Rose, Vincent Schiavelli, and David Ogden Stiers), and an episode of the TV series Hell Town (1985; with Tige Andrews, John Chandler, Jeff Corey, John Hostetter, and Lycia Naff),
After taking his acting skills back to the theater stage, Davis as the lead character, Buddy Holly, in the national tour of the musical, Buddy aka The Buddy Holly Story (circa 1991-1992 [2]), which additionally toured in England and Australia. Nearly a decade later, he reprised his role of Holly for television film Mr. Rock'n' Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999; with Mädchen Amick and Leroy D. Brazile).
Today, Davis lives in South Pasadena, California, where he performs in an acoustic duo with his wife Lynn Clark [3], and is a founding member, who performs rhythm guitar and vocals, of the band The Grateful Dads. [4]