Bruce Davison

Acting · Born 1946-06-28 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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…

Filmography

• Short Cuts as Howard Finnigan
• Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths as President Wilson (voice)
• Runaway Jury as Durwood Cable
• X-Men as Senator Kelly
• X2 as Senator Kelly
• X-Men: The Mutant Watch as Sen. Robert Kelly
• The Cure as Dr. Stevens
• La La Land as Mia's Father (uncredited)
• The King Is Alive as Ray
• Crazy/Beautiful as Tom Oakley

TV

• Seinfeld as Wyck Thayer
• Castle as Lou Karnacki
• Ghost Whisperer as Josh Bedford
• CSI: Miami as Dane Daniels
• Star Trek: Voyager as Jareth
• Tales from the Crypt as Luden Sandelton
• Battlestar Galactica as Dr. Michael Robert
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Graham Mandell
• The L Word as Leonard Kroll
• Criminal Minds as Father Davison