Bruce Allen Davison was born on June 28,1946 and is an American actor and director.
33 Facts About Bruce Davison
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Bruce Davison is well known for his starring role as Willard Stiles in the cult horror film Willard and his Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning performance in Longtime Companion, and as Thomas Semmes in the HBO film Vendetta.
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Bruce Davison's parents divorced when he was three years old.
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Bruce Davison was raised by his mother and spent weekends with his father.
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Bruce Davison graduated in 1964 from Marple Newtown Senior High School, entered Penn State as an art major, and then stumbled into acting when he accompanied a friend to an audition.
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Bruce Davison attended New York University's acting program, graduating in 1969.
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Bruce Davison made his Broadway debut in Tiger at the Gates in 1968.
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Bruce Davison appeared as John Merrick in The Elephant Man, and starred in The Glass Menagerie with Jessica Tandy.
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Bruce Davison was one of a quartet of newcomers, including Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, and Catherine Burns when he made his film debut in Last Summer in 1969.
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Bruce Davison was an uncredited extra in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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In 1978, Bruce Davison appeared as Dean Torrence with Richard Hatch in the made-for-TV biopic Deadman's Curve.
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Bruce Davison starred in Tales from the Darkside and played the role of the father in the short-lived Harry and the Hendersons TV series.
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Bruce Davison played the role of Ruby in the 1985 comedy Spies Like Us, starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase.
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Bruce Davison concluded his Golden Globe acceptance speech with the hope that humankind would devote as much effort to the war on AIDS as its wars against each other.
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Bruce Davison appeared in other films addressing AIDS: In 1995's The Cure, he portrayed a physician sought by a young boy with AIDS in search of medical help.
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In 1996, Bruce Davison appeared in the film It's My Party, which chronicled the true events of a man dying with AIDS who decides to hold a farewell party for family and friends before taking his own life.
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Bruce Davison is a spokesperson for many AIDS-related groups and is a board member of the industry AIDS organization Hollywood Supports.
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In Los Angeles, Bruce Davison has appeared on stage in Streamers and The Normal Heart, winning the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and Drama-Logue Award for his performances.
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Bruce Davison had roles in Runaway Jury and Apt Pupil, as well as the X-Men film franchise as Robert Kelly in the first film and a shapeshifting imposter in X2.
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Bruce Davison was the fanatical Reverend Samuel Parris in Arthur Miller's screen adaptation of his play The Crucible.
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Bruce Davison portrayed a rich philanthropist in the film Christmas Angel.
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Bruce Davison played Mark Davis, a therapist who was a love interest for Cybill Shepherd's character in a Season 1 episode of her sitcom Cybill.
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Bruce Davison had the recurring role of defense attorney Doug Hellman in Close to Home.
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In 2001, Bruce Davison directed the TV film Off Season, which starred Sherilyn Fenn, Rory Culkin, Hume Cronyn and Adam Arkin.
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In 2007, Bruce Davison returned to the big screen as the father of Eric O'Neill in Breach.
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Also in that year, Bruce Davison was cast in the role of Charles Graiman, a protege of Wilton Knight who was the creator of the Knight Industries Three Thousand, in NBC's revival of the television series Knight Rider.
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Bruce Davison played the role of Dr Silberman, the psychiatrist who once tormented Sarah Connor, in the seventh episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
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Bruce Davison portrayed Nick Anderson in the television film Christmas Angel in 2009.
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In May 2010, Bruce Davison was cast to portray art dealer Wilhelm Van Schlagel for several episodes on ABC's General Hospital to begin airing in July 2010.
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Bruce Davison played the role of Rear Admiral Arthur Shepard, Lieutenant Grace Shepard's father, in the short-stint TV series Last Resort.
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Bruce Davison has been married three times and has two children.
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Bruce Davison was once engaged to actress Karen Austin and was married to actress Jess Walton in 1972 but the marriage was annulled in 1973.
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Bruce Davison has a son, Ethan, born in 1996, from his marriage to actress Lisa Pelikan.