Davis' acting career began in 2004 with his first role as Leroy in the film, "Mindbenders". In 2005, he made a guest appearance in a two episodes of "Everybody Hates Chris" as a preacher. The following year, Davis was cast as the cranky patriarch of the Payne family, Curtis Payne, in the TBS sitcom "Tyler Perry's House of Payne". Davis worked with Perry again in two of his feature films including "Daddy's Little Girls" in 2007 and "Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns" in 2008.