Nathaniel Davis was born on 12 April 1925 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Elizabeth. He died on 16 May 2011 in Claremont, California, USA.
American ambassador to Chile when Salvador Allende was deposed in
a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. Sued Thomas Hauser, Costa-Gavras, and Universal Pictures for implying in Missing (1982) that he and his team were complicit in the disappearance and death of American journalist Charles Horman. The suit was dismissed.