Bill C. Davis Dies: ‘Mass Appeal’ Playwright/Screenwriter Was 69

Bill C. Davis, whose 1981 Broadway hit play Mass Appeal was adapted for a 1984 feature film starring Jack Lemmon and Željko Ivanek, died Feb. 26 following a brief illness, his family has announced. He was 69. Born in Ellenville, New York and raised in the state’s Hudson Valley, Davis attended Catholic schools and, after graduating […]