Birthday:
Jun 28, 1946
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bruce Davison
Bruce Allen Davison (born June 28, 1946) is an American actor and director. He's known for his role as Senator Robert Kelly in the X-Men film franchise – through X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003). He's also well known for his starring role as Willard Stiles in the cult horror film Willard (1971) and 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.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Short Cuts | Howard Finnigan | 1993 |
| The King Is Alive | Ray | 2000 |
| Crazy/Beautiful | Tom Oakley | 2001 |
| The Crucible | Reverend Parris | 1996 |
| MegaFault | Dr. Mark Rhodes | 2009 |
| The Misfit Brigade | Porta | 1987 |
| The Line | Anthony | 2009 |
| Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths | President Slade Wilson (voice) | 2010 |
| High Crimes | Brig. Gen. Bill Marks | 2002 |
| 8MM 2 | Ambassador Harrington | 2005 |
| The Wave | Ben Ross | 1981 |
| Runaway Jury | Durwood Cable | 2003 |
| Steel and Lace | Albert Morton | 1991 |
| Apt Pupil | Richard Bowden | 1998 |
| Spies Like Us | Ruby | 1985 |
| Dahmer | Lionel Dahmer | 2002 |
| Hate Crime | Pastor Boyd | 2005 |
| Summer Catch | Rand Parrish | 2001 |
| Charlie's Gift | 2016 | |
| The Good Neighbor | Grant | 2022 |
| The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979 |
| The Lathe of Heaven | George Orr | 1980 |
| Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog | John McCormick | 1995 |
| The Dead Girl | Leah's Father | 2006 |
| Crimes of Passion | Donny Hopper | 1984 |
| Mame | Patrick as an adult | 1974 |
| Paulie | Dr. Reingold | 1998 |
| X-Men | Senator Kelly | 2000 |
| X2 | Senator Kelly | 2003 |
| Ulzana's Raid | Lt. Garnett DeBuin | 1972 |
| Willard | Willard Stiles | 1971 |
| The Gathering, Part II | George | 1979 |
| The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice | Professor Lazlo | 2008 |
| Last Summer | Dan | 1969 |
| Titanic II | James Maine | 2010 |
| Arctic Blast | Winslaw | 2010 |
| Camp Hell | Fr. Phineas McAllister | 2010 |
| Camera | Frank Flynn | 2024 |
| High Risk | Dan | 1981 |
| The Baby-Sitters Club | Watson | 1995 |
| Confession | Father Thomas Parker | 2005 |
| Out of the Ashes | Peter Schuman, Interrogator | 2003 |
| Touched | Robert Davis | 2005 |
| Christmas Angel | Nick Anderson | 2009 |
| A Golden Christmas | Rod Wright | 2009 |
| The Strawberry Statement | Simon | 1970 |
| Short Eyes | Clark Davis | 1977 |
| Influence | Walter Klein | 2020 |
| Brass Target | Col. Robert Dawson | 1978 |
| Off Season | Dr. Zimmer | 2001 |
| Munger Road | Chief Kirkhoven | 2011 |
| Tomorrow's Child | Cliff Bender | 1982 |
| Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me | Fitzgore | 1971 |
| The Roommates | Arthur | 1970 |
| The Millionaire Tour | The Roman | 2012 |
| The Lords of Salem | Francis Matthias | 2013 |
| That Guy... Who Was in That Thing | Self | 2012 |
| Locked in Silence | Jim | 1999 |
| Ghost Dancing | Calvin Oberst | 1983 |
| X-Men: The Mutant Watch | Sen. Robert Kelly | 2000 |
| Live! From Death Row | Laurence Dvorak | 1992 |
| Lovelife | Bruce | 1997 |
| Return of the Killer Shrews | Jerry Farrell | 2012 |
| The Gathering | George | 1977 |
| Bigfoot | Sheriff Walt Henderson | 2012 |
| The Skateboard Kid II | Burt Squires | 1995 |
| 3 Holiday Tails | Rod Wright | 2011 |
| Saving Lincoln | William H. Seward | 2013 |
| On the Edge | (segment "The Other Side") | 2001 |
| Peege | 1973 | |
| Deadman's Curve | Dean Torrence | 1978 |
| Grand Jury | Bobby Allen | 1977 |
| Knight Rider | Charles Graiman | 2008 |
| Words and Pictures | Walt | 2014 |
| From the Shadows | Dr. Joseph Cawl | 2023 |
| A Memory in My Heart | Chase Stewart | 1999 |
| Beyond the Heavens | Oliver Henry (adult) | 2013 |
| Someone Else's Child | Nick Callahan | 1994 |
| Grace of My Heart | John Murray | 1996 |
| Summer of My German Soldier | Anton Reiker | 1978 |
| Persecuted | Senator Donald Harrison | 2014 |
| The Jerusalem File | 1972 | |
| Hidden in America | Michael | 1996 |
| The Affair | Jamie Patterson | 1973 |
| The Clinic | Martin Landrum | 2004 |
| Game of Power | Ballard Wright | 2025 |
| Stealing Roses | Mr. Lowell | 2012 |
| The Last Survivors | Michael Larsen | 1975 |
| Suitable Flesh | Ephraim Waite | 2023 |
| Six Degrees of Separation | Larkin | 1993 |
| 37 | Psychic | 2014 |
| Widow's Kiss | Justin Sager | 1996 |
| A Mother's Revenge | Bill Sanders | 1993 |
| Homage | Joseph Smith | 1995 |
| Down, Out and Dangerous | Brad Harrington | 1995 |
| Lies | Stuart Russell | 1983 |
| Breach | John O'Neill | 2007 |
| The Cure | Dr. Stevens | 1995 |
| Black Beauty | Grandpa | 2015 |
| Yamasong: March of the Hollows | P'Torr The Exile | 2017 |
| Evergreen | Frank | 2004 |
| Little Girl Fly Away | Frank | 1998 |
| Portrait of Grandpa Doc | Bruce - as a Young Man | 1977 |
| Desperate Choices: To Save My Child | Richard Robbins | 1992 |
| Mind Over Murder | Jason | 1979 |
| Condor's Nest | Gerhardt Schrude | 2023 |
| Mother, Jugs & Speed | Leroy | 1976 |
| After Jimmy | Sam Stapp | 1996 |
| Get a Job | Lawrence Wilheimer | 2016 |
| The Leisure Class | Edward | 2015 |
| ManFast | Rupert Iris | 2003 |
| Stolen: One Husband | Dr. Peter Foley | 1990 |
| Kingdom Hospital | Dr. Stegman | 2004 |
| L.A. Law: The Movie | Lawrence Diebenkorn | 2002 |
| French Quarter | Kid Ross / Inspector Sordik | 1978 |
| The Curse of Sleeping Beauty | Richard | 2016 |
| Displacement | Prof. Peter Deckard | 2016 |
| It's My Party | Rodney Bingham | 1996 |
| A Schizophrenic Love Story | Dr. Bob | 2011 |
| At First Sight | Dr. Charles Aaron | 1999 |
| Kiss My Grits | Dolin T. Pike | 1982 |
| Along Came the Devil | Reverend Michael | 2018 |
| Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent | Pastor Ezekiel | 2016 |
| Evolution X - The Making of X-Men | 2003 | |
| Insidious: The Last Key | Christian Rainier | 2018 |
| The Bronx Bull | D.A. Bonomi | 2016 |
| The Mystery of Casa Matusita | Victor | 2016 |
| Last Rampage | Cooper | 2017 |
| Lady in a Corner | Bill Guthrie | 1989 |
| Love Locks | Hugo Blanchet | 2017 |
| Oceanus: Act One | Commander Mitch Conrad | 2015 |
| The Congregation | Amos Christner | 2011 |
| Longtime Companion | David | 1989 |
| A Violent Man | Benjamin Green | 2019 |
| 9/11 | Monohan | 2017 |
| Stephen King's Golden Tales | Richard Hagstrom | 1985 |
| Corbin Nash | Jack | 2018 |
| The Ladies Club | Richard Harrison | 1986 |
| God Don't Make the Laws | Bud Kelly / Mayor | 2011 |
| Going Shopping | Adam | 2005 |
| William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew | Tranio | 1983 |
| Bender | Mayor Prentiss | 2016 |
| Itsy Bitsy | Walter | 2019 |
| Coffin | Garrison | 2011 |
| Vendetta | Thomas Semmes | 1999 |
| Too Young to Be a Dad | Dan Freeman | 2002 |
| An Ambush of Ghosts | Bill Betts | 1993 |
| The Great Alaskan Race | Governor Bone | 2019 |
| Any Bullet Will Do | Jonathan Carrington | 2018 |
| More Beautiful for Having Been Broken | Colin | 2020 |
| Tales from the Darkside | Richard Hagstrom | 1990 |
| Color of Justice | Frank Gainer | 1997 |
| Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters | 2018 | |
| Abnormal Attraction | Dr. Stanley Cole | 2018 |
| Along Came the Devil II | Reverend Michael | 2019 |
| Wish Man | Frank Shankwitz Sr. | 2019 |
| A Fairy's Game | Spindly (voice) | 2018 |
| Captors | Silas Visler | 2020 |
| Christmas at the Plaza | Reginald Brookwater | 2019 |
| The Slider | Ispector Wiesel | 2017 |
| Incident at Crestridge | Clint Larsen | 1981 |
| 108 Stitches | Coach Scott Deshields | 2014 |
| Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies | Self | 2020 |
| Await the Dawn | David | 2020 |
| We Still Say Grace | Harold | 2020 |
| The Manor | Roland | 2021 |
| The Gift of Christmas | Bob Rodgers | 2020 |
| My True Fairytale | Martin Goodwin | 2021 |
| Evil at the Door | John Doe | 2022 |
| Earth's Final Hours | Rothman | 2011 |
| The Trial of Adolf Eichmann | Yehiel Dinur (voice) | 1997 |
| The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents | (segment "An Unlocked Window") | 1985 |
| On The Couch | Daddy | 1970 | Series | Cast | Year |
| Murder, She Wrote | David Carroll | 1984 |
| Seinfeld | Wyck Thayer | 1989 |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Menos | 2001 |
| Castle | Lou Karnacki | 2009 |
| thirtysomething | 1987 | |
| Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital | Dr. Stegman | 2004 |
| Ghost Whisperer | Josh Bedford | 2005 |
| CSI: Miami | Dane Daniels | 2002 |
| Star Trek: Voyager | Jareth | 1995 |
| Tales from the Crypt | Luden Sandelton | 1989 |
| Battlestar Galactica | Dr. Michael Robert | 2004 |
| Cybill | 1995 | |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Dr. Graham Mandell | 1999 |
| The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Betty Ames / Man | 1985 |
| Law & Order: Trial by Jury | Peter Betts | 2005 |
| Without a Trace | Paul Cartwright | 2002 |
| Hotel | 1982 | |
| The L Word | Leonard Kroll | 2004 |
| V | John Langley | 1984 |
| Criminal Minds | Father Davison | 2005 |
| The Practice | Scott Wallace | 1997 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Avery Tinsdale | 2000 |
| Lost | Douglas Brooks | 2004 |
| Close to Home | Doug Hellman | 2005 |
| Hunter | Deputy Chief Wyler | 1984 |
| Chicago Hope | 1994 | |
| The Waltons | 1972 | |
| The Triangle | Stan Lathem | 2005 |
| Police Woman | 1974 | |
| Police Story | 1973 | |
| Harry and the Hendersons | George Henderson | 1991 |
| Tales from the Darkside | Richard Hagstrom | 1984 |
| Drop Dead Diva | Judge Cyrus Maxwell | 2009 |
| Knight Rider | Dr. Charles Graiman | 2008 |
| The Outer Limits | Dr. 'Mac' McEnerney | 1995 |
| Hunter | Capt. Wyler | 1984 |
| Sequestered | 2014 | |
| Psych | Walter Snowden | 2006 |
| Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | Jimmy Donahue | 1989 |
| Amazing Stories | Richard | 1985 |
| The Fosters | Stewart Adams | 2013 |
| Kingdom | Ron Prince | 2014 |
| Crossing Lines | Tactical Leader | 2013 |
| Childrens Hospital | Narrator | 2008 |
| Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 | Gabe Sharpe | 2012 |
| Bosch: Legacy | James Rafferty | 2022 |
| Ozark | Senator Randall Schafer | 2017 |
| The Lincoln Lawyer | Judge Walter Abrams | 2022 |
| Hawaii Five-0 | Steven Carver | 2010 |
| The Lives of Benjamin Franklin | 1974 | |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Orin Mannon | 1978 |
| TripTank | Daytona Jack (voice) | 2014 |
| Those Who Kill | Howard Burgess | 2014 |
| Blindspot | Jean-Paul Bruyere | 2015 |
| Unforgettable | Dr. Edward Wythe | 2011 |
| The Hunger | New Lighthouse Keeper | 1997 |
| Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | Dr. Peter Silberman | 2008 |
| Celebrity Ghost Stories | Self | 2009 |
| Designated Survivor | Ray Beckett | 2016 |
| 1923 | Arthur | 2022 |
| Leverage | Dan Blackwell | 2008 |
| Glow and Darkness | Papa Urbano III | 1970 |
| Creepshow | Avery Whitlock | 2019 |
| Last Resort | ARTHUR SHEPARD | 2012 |
| The Son | ENDICOTT | 2017 |
| JAG | Dr. Morris Sperling | 1995 |
| Mozart in the Jungle | Hesby Ennis | 2014 |
| Numb3rs | Robert Oliver | 2005 |
| Touched by an Angel | Jake Weiss | 1994 |
| The Closer | Russell Clark | 2005 |
| Designing Women | 1986 | |
| Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter | 1944 |
| Universal Basic Guys | (voice) | 2024 |
| The Waltons | Bob Hill | 1972 |
| Golden Globe Awards | Self - Winner | 1944 |
