 But when Benjamin O. Davis Jr.'s great nephew, Doug Melville, attended a Red Tails screening more than a decade ago, he noticed one whopping omission. I was expecting General Benjamin O. Davis, who was being played by Terrence Howard, to be addressed as such in the movie. But then when he walked on screen, he was the commander of the Red Tails. He looked just like him. But when he was addressed, it was Colonel Bullard.