Bruce Davison
Biography
Bruce Allen Davison (born June 28, 1946) is an American actor and director. He portrayed Senator Robert Kelly in X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003). Davison is also well known for his starring role as Willard Stiles in the cult horror film Willard (1971), his Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning performance in Longtime Companion (1989), and as Thomas Semmes in the HBO original movie Vendetta. His other notable film roles are as Grandpa in Black Beauty (2015), Brig. Gen. Bill Marks in High Crimes, Durwood Cable in Runaway Jury, Dr. Charles Aaron in At First Sight, Richard Bowden in Apt Pupil, Reverend Parris in The Crucible, Ruby in Spies Like Us, and Richard Hagstrom in Stephen King's Golden Tales and Tales from the Darkside - the TV movie and originally in an episode of the anthology series. His best known TV roles are as Dr. Charles Graiman on the TV movie and series Knight Rider (2008), Doug Hellman on Close to Home (2005-2007), Dr. Stegman on Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital (2004-2005), George Henderson on the series Harry and the Hendersons (1991-1993), and Scott Wallace on The Practice.
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Movies (40)
The Lightning Code
as Nikola Tesla
2025
Camera
as Frank Flynn
2024
Suitable Flesh
as Ephraim Waite
2023
From the Shadows
as Dr. Joseph Cawl
2023
Condor's Nest
as Gerhardt Schrude
2023
The Good Neighbor
as Grant
2022
Evil at the Door
as John Doe
2022
The Manor
as Roland
2021
My True Fairytale
as Martin Goodwin
2021
We Still Say Grace
as Harold
2020
The Gift of Christmas
as Bob Rodgers
2020
Captors
as Silas Visler
2020
Await the Dawn
as David
2020
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
as Self
2020
More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
as Colin
2020
Influence
as Walter Klein
2020
Christmas at the Plaza
as Reginald Brookwater
2019
Along Came the Devil II
as Reverend Michael
2019
Itsy Bitsy
as Walter
2019
Wish Man
as Frank Shankwitz Sr.
2019
The Great Alaskan Race
as Governor Bone
2019
A Violent Man
as Benjamin Green
2019
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
2018
Any Bullet Will Do
as Jonathan Carrington
2018
Along Came the Devil
as Reverend Michael
2018
A Fairy's Game
as Spindly (voice)
2018
Corbin Nash
as Jack
2018
Abnormal Attraction
as Dr. Stanley Cole
2018
Insidious: The Last Key
as Christian Rainier
2018
The Slider
as Ispector Wiesel
2017
Last Rampage
as Cooper
2017
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
as P'Torr The Exile (voice)
2017
9/11
as Monohan
2017
Love Locks
as Hugo Blanchet
2017
Charlie's Gift
2016
La La Land
as Mia's Father (uncredited)
2016
Bender
as Mayor Prentiss
2016
Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent
as Pastor Ezekiel
2016
The Mystery of Casa Matusita
as Victor
2016
Displacement
as Prof. Peter Deckard
2016
TV Shows (10)
The American Revolution
2025
Universal Basic Guys
as (voice)
2024
1923
as Arthur
2022
The Lincoln Lawyer
as Judge Walter Abrams
2022
Bosch: Legacy
as James Rafferty
2022
Glow and Darkness
as Pope Urban III
2021
Creepshow
as Avery Whitlock
2019
Ozark
as Senator Randall Schafer
2017
The Son
as ENDICOTT
2017
Designated Survivor
as Ray Beckett
2016