Actor
Bruce Davison
Biography

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 ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- Game of Power | Ballard Wright
2024 -- Camera | Frank Flynn
2023 -- Suitable Flesh | Ephraim Waite
2023 -- From the Shadows | Dr. Joseph Cawl
2023 -- Condor's Nest | Gerhardt Schrude
2022 -- The Good Neighbor | Grant
2022 -- Evil at the Door | John Doe
2021 -- The Manor | Roland
2021 -- My True Fairytale | Martin Goodwin
2020 -- We Still Say Grace | Harold
2020 -- The Gift of Christmas | Bob Rodgers
2020 -- Captors | Silas Visler
2020 -- Await the Dawn | David
2020 -- Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies | Self
2020 -- More Beautiful for Having Been Broken | Colin
2020 -- Influence | Walter Klein
2019 -- Christmas at the Plaza | Reginald Brookwater
2019 -- Along Came the Devil II | Reverend Michael
2019 -- Itsy Bitsy | Walter
2019 -- Wish Man | Frank Shankwitz Sr.
2019 -- The Great Alaskan Race | Governor Bone
2019 -- A Violent Man | Benjamin Green
2018 -- Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters |
2018 -- Any Bullet Will Do | Jonathan Carrington
2018 -- Along Came the Devil | Reverend Michael
2018 -- A Fairy's Game | Spindly (voice)
2018 -- Corbin Nash | Jack
2018 -- Abnormal Attraction | Dr. Stanley Cole
2018 -- Insidious: The Last Key | Christian Rainier
2017 -- The Slider | Ispector Wiesel
2017 -- Last Rampage | Cooper
2017 -- Yamasong: March of the Hollows | P'Torr The Exile
2017 -- 9/11 | Monohan
2017 -- Love Locks | Hugo Blanchet
2016 -- Charlie's Gift |
2016 -- Bender | Mayor Prentiss
2016 -- Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent | Pastor Ezekiel
2016 -- The Mystery of Casa Matusita | Victor
2016 -- Displacement | Prof. Peter Deckard
2016 -- The Bronx Bull | D.A. Bonomi
2016 -- The Curse of Sleeping Beauty | Richard
2016 -- Get a Job | Lawrence Wilheimer
2015 -- The Leisure Class | Edward
2015 -- Oceanus: Act One | Commander Mitch Conrad
2015 -- Black Beauty | Grandpa
2014 -- 108 Stitches | Coach Scott Deshields
2014 -- 37 | Psychic
2014 -- Words and Pictures | Walt
2014 -- Persecuted | Senator Donald Harrison
2013 -- Beyond the Heavens | Oliver Henry (adult)
2013 -- The Lords of Salem | Francis Matthias
2013 -- Saving Lincoln | William H. Seward
2012 -- Return of the Killer Shrews | Jerry Farrell
2012 -- Bigfoot | Sheriff Walt Henderson
2012 -- That Guy... Who Was in That Thing | Self
2012 -- The Millionaire Tour | The Roman
2012 -- Stealing Roses | Mr. Lowell
2011 -- God Don't Make the Laws | Bud Kelly / Mayor
2011 -- 3 Holiday Tails | Rod Wright
2011 -- Coffin | Garrison
2011 -- Munger Road | Chief Kirkhoven
2011 -- A Schizophrenic Love Story | Dr. Bob
2011 -- Earth's Final Hours | Rothman
2011 -- The Congregation | Amos Christner
2010 -- Camp Hell | Fr. Phineas McAllister
2010 -- Titanic II | James Maine
2010 -- Arctic Blast | Winslaw
2010 -- Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths | President Slade Wilson (voice)
2009 -- A Golden Christmas | Rod Wright
2009 -- Christmas Angel | Nick Anderson
2009 -- MegaFault | Dr. Mark Rhodes
2009 -- The Line | Anthony
2008 -- The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice | Professor Lazlo
2008 -- Knight Rider | Charles Graiman
2007 -- Breach | John O'Neill
2006 -- The Dead Girl | Leah's Father
2005 -- Confession | Father Thomas Parker
2005 -- 8MM 2 | Ambassador Harrington
2005 -- Touched | Robert Davis
2005 -- Going Shopping | Adam
2005 -- Hate Crime | Pastor Boyd
2004 -- Kingdom Hospital | Dr. Stegman
2004 -- The Clinic | Martin Landrum
2004 -- Evergreen | Frank
2003 -- X2 | Senator Kelly
2003 -- Out of the Ashes | Peter Schuman, Interrogator
2003 -- Evolution X - The Making of X-Men |
2003 -- Runaway Jury | Durwood Cable
2003 -- ManFast | Rupert Iris
2002 -- Dahmer | Lionel Dahmer
2002 -- Too Young to Be a Dad | Dan Freeman
2002 -- L.A. Law: The Movie | Lawrence Diebenkorn
2002 -- High Crimes | Brig. Gen. Bill Marks
2001 -- Off Season | Dr. Zimmer
2001 -- Summer Catch | Rand Parrish
2001 -- Crazy/Beautiful | Tom Oakley
2001 -- On the Edge | (segment "The Other Side")
2000 -- X-Men | Senator Kelly
2000 -- X-Men: The Mutant Watch | Sen. Robert Kelly
2000 -- The King Is Alive | Ray
1999 -- Vendetta | Thomas Semmes
1999 -- A Memory in My Heart | Chase Stewart
1999 -- At First Sight | Dr. Charles Aaron
1999 -- Locked in Silence | Jim
1998 -- Apt Pupil | Richard Bowden
1998 -- Little Girl Fly Away | Frank
1998 -- Paulie | Dr. Reingold
1997 -- Color of Justice | Frank Gainer
1997 -- The Trial of Adolf Eichmann | Yehiel Dinur (voice)
1997 -- Lovelife | Bruce
1996 -- Hidden in America | Michael
1996 -- The Crucible | Reverend Parris
1996 -- After Jimmy | Sam Stapp
1996 -- Grace of My Heart | John Murray
1996 -- It's My Party | Rodney Bingham
1996 -- Widow's Kiss | Justin Sager
1995 -- Down, Out and Dangerous | Brad Harrington
1995 -- The Baby-Sitters Club | Watson
1995 -- Homage | Joseph Smith
1995 -- The Cure | Dr. Stevens
1995 -- Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog | John McCormick
1995 -- The Skateboard Kid II | Burt Squires
1994 -- Someone Else's Child | Nick Callahan
1993 -- Six Degrees of Separation | Larkin
1993 -- A Mother's Revenge | Bill Sanders
1993 -- Short Cuts | Howard Finnigan
1993 -- An Ambush of Ghosts | Bill Betts
1992 -- Desperate Choices: To Save My Child | Richard Robbins
1992 -- Live! From Death Row | Laurence Dvorak
1991 -- Steel and Lace | Albert Morton
1990 -- Tales from the Darkside | Richard Hagstrom
1990 -- Stolen: One Husband | Dr. Peter Foley
1989 -- Lady in a Corner | Bill Guthrie
1989 -- Longtime Companion | David
1987 -- The Misfit Brigade | Porta
1986 -- The Ladies Club | Richard Harrison
1985 -- Spies Like Us | Ruby
1985 -- Stephen King's Golden Tales | Richard Hagstrom
1985 -- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents | (segment "An Unlocked Window")
1984 -- Crimes of Passion | Donny Hopper
1983 -- Lies | Stuart Russell
1983 -- Ghost Dancing | Calvin Oberst
1983 -- William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew | Tranio
1982 -- Kiss My Grits | Dolin T. Pike
1982 -- Tomorrow's Child | Cliff Bender
1981 -- Incident at Crestridge | Clint Larsen
1981 -- The Wave | Ben Ross
1981 -- High Risk | Dan
1980 -- The Lathe of Heaven | George Orr
1979 -- The Gathering, Part II | George
1979 -- Mind Over Murder | Jason
1979 -- The Horror Show | (archive footage)
1978 -- Brass Target | Col. Robert Dawson
1978 -- Summer of My German Soldier | Anton Reiker
1978 -- French Quarter | Kid Ross / Inspector Sordik
1978 -- Deadman's Curve | Dean Torrence
1977 -- The Gathering | George
1977 -- Portrait of Grandpa Doc | Bruce - as a Young Man
1977 -- Short Eyes | Clark Davis
1977 -- Grand Jury | Bobby Allen
1976 -- Mother, Jugs & Speed | Leroy
1975 -- The Last Survivors | Michael Larsen
1974 -- Mame | Patrick as an adult
1973 -- The Affair | Jamie Patterson
1973 -- Peege |
1972 -- Ulzana's Raid | Lt. Garnett DeBuin
1972 -- The Jerusalem File |
1971 -- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me | Fitzgore
1971 -- Willard | Willard Stiles
1970 -- The Strawberry Statement | Simon
1969 -- Last Summer | Dan
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