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