Miller Lite beer commercial with Ben Davidson, Famous Defensive End – June 1982

Miller Lite beer commercial with Ben Davidson, Famous Defensive End

Benjamin Earl Davidson (June 14, 1940 – July 2, 2012) was an American professional football player who was a defensive end, primarily with the Oakland Raiders of the American Football League (AFL). He was a three-time AFL All-Star with the Raiders. Earlier in his career, Davidson was with the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He later worked as an actor.

Entertainment career
Davidson appeared in a few films including The Black Six, M*A*S*H, and Conan the Barbarian. He portrayed Porter the Bouncer in Behind the Green Door in 1972 and a convict football player in Necessary Roughness in 1991. Davidson played himself in Miller Lite ads featuring John Madden and Rodney Dangerfield. He also appeared in the short lived 1976 show Ball Four as a minor-league baseball player named Rhino Rhinelander, the 1977 pilot for Lucan and the 1984 TV movie Goldie and the Bears. Davidson also appeared in the Happy Days episode “Rules to Date By” (1978) as a lumberjack. He also appeared in the series premiere of Banacek in 1972. In a 1978 first-season episode of CHiPs, “Hitch-Hiking Hitch”, Davidson played a character known as Wrestler who picked up and moved a VW Bug and two CHP motorcycles to clear a parking space for his truck. When confronted by Sgt. Getraer, Davidson sheepishly asks if he could move them back to the street to avoid getting a ticket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Davidson

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