Jon Davison

Jon Davison was born on July 21 1949 in Haddonfield New Jersey Davison studied at New York Universitys Film Institute where one of his instructors was director Martin Scorsese While attending NYU Jon staged film retrospectives at the Fillmore East in the East Village Davison began his career running the St Marks Cinematheque movie theater in New York Fellow NYU classmate and future film director Jonathan Kaplan suggested to Jon that he move to Los Angeles California In 1972 Davison hooked up with Roger Cormans prolific Bflick outfit New World Pictures where he initially was the director of advertising and publicity Davison made his debut as associate producer of Big Bad Mama He went on to produce the hilarious exploitation feature parody Hollywood Boulevard Ron Howards delightful directorial debut Grand Theft Auto and Joe Dantes terrific tongueincheek killer animal treat Piranha for New World Pictures Jon left New World Pictures in 1980 He produced the uproarious comedies Airplane and Top Secret for Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers Davison subsequently produced the excellent and exciting science fiction cult favorites RoboCop and Starship Troopers for director Paul Verhoeven He went on to produce sequels for those two films In addition Jon handled second unit director chores on both RocknRoll High School and The Howling Moreover Jon Davison has popped up in small parts in a few movies hes especially memorable as the tinny metallic voice of the murderous malfunctioning robot ED209 in RoboCop