Jon Davison (born July 21, 1949) is an American film producer.

Career

Davison worked at

New World Pictures New World Pictures (also known as New World Entertainment and New World Communications Group, Inc.) was an American independent production, distribution, and (in its final years as an autonomous entity) multimedia company. It was founded in 197 ...

in the 1970s. His producing credits include ''

Airplane! ''Airplane!'' (alternatively titled ''Flying High!'') is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David Zucker, David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts, and produced by Jon Davison (film prod ...

'' (1980), '' RoboCop'' (1987), ''

RoboCop 2 ''RoboCop 2'' is a 1990 American science fiction action film directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Frank Miller and Walon Green. It stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan and Gabriel Damon. It is the ...

'' (1990), '' Starship Troopers'' (1997), and ''

The 6th Day ''The 6th Day'' is a 2000 American science fiction action film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rapaport, and Robert Duvall. In the film, a family man of the future is illegally cloned ...

'' (2000). Davison and animator

Sally Cruikshank Sarah Cruikshank (born 1949) is an American cartoonist, animator and artist, whose work includes animation for the Children's Television Workshop program ''Sesame Street'', and whose short ''Quasi at the Quackadero'' (1975) was inducted into the U ...

Dixon, Wheeler Winston, ed. ''Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-Century Cinema.''

Carbondale, Illinois Carbondale is a city in Jackson and Williamson Counties, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt". The city developed from 1853 because of the stimulation of railroad construction into the ...

: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, p. 209. were married March 17, 1984, and have a daughter, Dinah.

Select filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

;As an actor ;Miscellaneous crew ;Second unit director or assistant director ;Production manager ;Thanks

Television

;As an actor ;Miscellaneous crew

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