James Edgar Davis was an American police officer who served as the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1926 to 1929, and from 1933 to 1938. During his first term as LAPD chief, Davis empha
Davis in 1938
Edgar "Two-Gun Man" Davis during his first stint as chief of police
Los Angeles Police Chief James E. Davis holding and pointing his pistol
Davis with family in 1933
Changeling (film)
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Changeling is a 2008 American crime drama film directed, produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. The story was based on actual events, specifically the 1928 Winev
James E. Davis (Los Angeles police officer)
…Davis died on June 20, 1949, in a Helena, Montana, hospital from the effects of a stroke suffered while visiting a nearby ranch. In the 2008 film Changeling, based on these events, Davis was played by Colm Feore. In James Ellroy's 2014 and 2019 novels Perfidia and This Storm, Ellroy provides a fictionalized…
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Jolie was cast partly because Eastwood believed her face evoked the period in which the film is set.
The production used two functioning replica Pacific Electric Railway streetcars for some scenes. The visual effects team added further streetcars to background shots.
Scenes set outside Los Angeles City Hall were retouched by the effects team to make the building appear new.