As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

He then moved to television to be in the BBC Television adaptation of the classic The Chronicles of Narnia specifically in Prince Caspian The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (as Reepicheep) and The Silver Chair (as Glimfeather) and an episode of Zorro filmed in Madrid. Davis starred in the film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as the "body" of Marvin the Paranoid Android (the voice was provided by Alan Rickman). 2003) also have SED.

He played the title characters in Willow and the Leprechaun film series the Ewok Wicket in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter films. Davis has also starred as a fictionalised version of himself in the sitcom Life's Too Short written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.