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Bruce Davison

Bruce Davison

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 Mark

Born

Jun 28, 1946

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Known For

Acting

Movies

180 acting

2 crew

Popularity

1.8

Known For

La La Land
La La Land
2016 as Mia's Father (uncredited)
★ 7.9
Insidious: The Last Key
Insidious: The Last Key
2018 as Christian Rainier
★ 6.3
Paulie
Paulie
1998 as Dr. Reingold
★ 6.9
Apt Pupil
Apt Pupil
1998 as Richard Bowden
★ 6.5
Runaway Jury
Runaway Jury
2003 as Durwood Cable
★ 6.9
High Crimes
High Crimes
2002 as Brig. Gen. Bill Marks
★ 6.3
Short Cuts
Short Cuts
1993 as Howard Finnigan
★ 7.2
The Good Neighbor
The Good Neighbor
2022 as Grant
★ 6.5
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
2010 as President Wilson (voice)
★ 7.3
Breach
Breach
2007 as John O'Neill
★ 6.6
The Crucible
The Crucible
1996 as Reverend Parris
★ 6.6
The Cure
The Cure
1995 as Dr. Stevens
★ 7.9
The Dead Girl
The Dead Girl
2006 as Leah's Father
★ 6.0
Spies Like Us
Spies Like Us
1985 as Ruby
★ 6.2
Knight Rider
Knight Rider
2008 as Charles Graiman
★ 6.3
Crimes of Passion
Crimes of Passion
1984 as Donny Hopper
★ 6.3
Six Degrees of Separation
Six Degrees of Separation
1993 as Larkin
★ 6.4
The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice
★ 6.3
Grace of My Heart
Grace of My Heart
1996 as John Murray
★ 6.1
Willard
Willard
1971 as Willard Stiles
★ 6.1
Titanic II
Titanic II
2010 as James Maine
★ 4.9
Crazy/Beautiful
Crazy/Beautiful
2001 as Tom Oakley
★ 6.6
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
★ 6.2
The Strawberry Statement
The Strawberry Statement
1970 as Simon
★ 6.0
At First Sight
At First Sight
1999 as Dr. Charles Aaron
★ 6.0
Longtime Companion
Longtime Companion
1989 as David
★ 6.7
Ulzana's Raid
Ulzana's Raid
1972 as Lt. Garnett DeBuin
★ 6.9
Words and Pictures
Words and Pictures
2014 as Walt
★ 6.4
The Great Alaskan Race
The Great Alaskan Race
2019 as Governor Bone
★ 5.8
The Wave
The Wave
1981 as Ben Ross
★ 6.9
The Lords of Salem
The Lords of Salem
2013 as Francis Matthias
★ 5.4
Christmas at the Plaza
Christmas at the Plaza
2019 as Reginald Brookwater
★ 6.4
8MM 2
8MM 2
2005 as Ambassador Harrington
★ 4.8
Summer Catch
Summer Catch
2001 as Rand Parrish
★ 5.4
Get a Job
Get a Job
2016 as Lawrence Wilheimer
★ 5.3
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
2000 as Sen. Robert Kelly
★ 7.0
9/11
9/11
2017 as Monohan
★ 5.1
The Line
The Line
2009 as Anthony
★ 4.8
Arctic Blast
Arctic Blast
2010 as Winslaw
★ 5.6
The Manor
The Manor
2021 as Roland
★ 5.5
Suitable Flesh
Suitable Flesh
2023 as Ephraim Waite
★ 5.3
The Millionaire Tour
The Millionaire Tour
2012 as The Roman
★ 6.3
Dahmer
Dahmer
2002 as Lionel Dahmer
★ 5.3
Christmas Angel
Christmas Angel
2009 as Nick Anderson
★ 7.1
Love Locks
Love Locks
2017 as Hugo Blanchet
★ 5.7
More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
★ 6.7
Confession
Confession
2005 as Father Thomas Parker
★ 4.7
Last Summer
Last Summer
1969 as Dan
★ 6.2
MegaFault
MegaFault
2009 as Dr. Mark Rhodes
★ 5.2
On the Edge
On the Edge
2001 as (segment "The Other Side")
★ 5.6
Kingdom Hospital
Kingdom Hospital
2004 as Dr. Stegman
★ 6.4
Wish Man
Wish Man
2019 as Frank Shankwitz Sr.
★ 6.8
The Misfit Brigade
The Misfit Brigade
1987 as Porta
★ 5.7
High Risk
High Risk
1981 as Dan
★ 5.8
Along Came the Devil
Along Came the Devil
2018 as Reverend Michael
★ 5.6
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
2016 as Richard
★ 5.2
The Ladies Club
The Ladies Club
1986 as Richard Harrison
★ 5.5
Out of the Ashes
Out of the Ashes
2003 as Peter Schuman, Interrogator
★ 6.1
The Baby-Sitters Club
The Baby-Sitters Club
1995 as Watson
★ 5.4
The Bronx Bull
The Bronx Bull
2016 as D.A. Bonomi
★ 4.4
Brass Target
Brass Target
1978 as Col. Robert Dawson
★ 5.4
Camera
Camera
2024 as Frank Flynn
★ 6.4
Homage
Homage
1995 as Joseph Smith
★ 4.2
Earth's Final Hours
Earth's Final Hours
2011 as Rothman
★ 4.3
Vendetta
Vendetta
1999 as Thomas Semmes
★ 6.1
Persecuted
Persecuted
2014 as Senator Donald Harrison
★ 4.3
Touched
Touched
2005 as Robert Davis
★ 6.3
The Leisure Class
The Leisure Class
2015 as Edward
★ 3.8
Hate Crime
Hate Crime
2005 as Pastor Boyd
★ 5.6
Mame
Mame
1974 as Patrick as an adult
★ 6.0
The King Is Alive
The King Is Alive
2000 as Ray
★ 5.5
L.A. Law: The Movie
L.A. Law: The Movie
2002 as Lawrence Diebenkorn
★ 7.2
Stephen King's Golden Tales
Stephen King's Golden Tales
1993 as Richard Hagstrom
★ 4.2
ManFast
ManFast
2003 as Rupert Iris
★ 3.9
Saving Lincoln
Saving Lincoln
2013 as William H. Seward
★ 4.7
Condor's Nest
Condor's Nest
2023 as Gerhardt Schrude
★ 5.4
A Fairy's Game
A Fairy's Game
2018 as Spindly (voice)
★ 6.0
It's My Party
It's My Party
1996 as Rodney Bingham
★ 6.1
A Golden Christmas
A Golden Christmas
2009 as Rod Wright
★ 5.1
Await the Dawn
Await the Dawn
2020 as David
★ 4.1
Last Rampage
Last Rampage
2017 as Cooper
★ 5.4
Bigfoot
Bigfoot
2012 as Sheriff Walt Henderson
★ 3.1
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
2017 as P'Torr The Exile (voice)
★ 3.6
The Horror Show
The Horror Show
1979 as (archive footage)
★ 3.8
Color of Justice
Color of Justice
1997 as Frank Gainer
★ 5.2
Camp Hell
Camp Hell
2010 as Fr. Phineas McAllister
★ 3.7
The Lathe of Heaven
The Lathe of Heaven
1980 as George Orr
★ 6.7
Corbin Nash
Corbin Nash
2018 as Jack
★ 4.5
Mother, Jugs & Speed
Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976 as Leroy
★ 5.3
From the Shadows
From the Shadows
2023 as Dr. Joseph Cawl
★ 5.9
Going Shopping
Going Shopping
2005 as Adam
★ 3.7
Too Young to Be a Dad
Too Young to Be a Dad
2002 as Dan Freeman
★ 7.1
Itsy Bitsy
Itsy Bitsy
2019 as Walter
★ 5.1
Along Came the Devil II
Along Came the Devil II
2019 as Reverend Michael
★ 5.7
Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent
Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent
2016 as Pastor Ezekiel
★ 6.4
A Violent Man
A Violent Man
2019 as Benjamin Green
★ 4.9
The Gathering
The Gathering
1977 as George
★ 3.7
Hidden in America
Hidden in America
1996 as Michael
★ 5.1
The Last Survivors
The Last Survivors
1975 as Michael Larsen
★ 4.7
Captors
Captors
2020 as Silas Visler
★ 4.3
The Lightning Code
The Lightning Code
2025 as Nikola Tesla
★ 6.0
We Still Say Grace
We Still Say Grace
2020 as Harold
★ 5.6
movie
After Jimmy
1996 as Sam Stapp
★ 3.5
Lies
Lies
1983 as Stuart Russell
★ 4.6
Widow's Kiss
Widow's Kiss
1996 as Justin Sager
★ 4.1
Short Eyes
Short Eyes
1977 as Clark Davis
★ 6.7
Tales from the Darkside
Tales from the Darkside
1990 as Richard Hagstrom
★ 6.4
An Ambush of Ghosts
An Ambush of Ghosts
1993 as Bill Betts
★ 3.0
Black Beauty
Black Beauty
2015 as Grandpa
★ 6.7
Stealing Roses
Stealing Roses
2012 as Mr. Lowell
★ 3.0
Kiss My Grits
Kiss My Grits
1982 as Dolin T. Pike
★ 4.0
Influence
Influence
2020 as Walter Klein
★ 4.2
Mind Over Murder
Mind Over Murder
1979 as Jason
★ 6.0
A Memory in My Heart
A Memory in My Heart
1999 as Chase Stewart
★ 5.6
God Don't Make the Laws
God Don't Make the Laws
2011 as Bud Kelly / Mayor
★ 4.8
movie
Game of Power
as Ballard Wright
movie
Someone Else's Child
1994 as Nick Callahan
★ 2.0
Lovelife
Lovelife
1997 as Bruce
★ 4.8
Stolen: One Husband
Stolen: One Husband
1990 as Dr. Peter Foley
★ 2.7
Off Season
Off Season
2001 as Dr. Zimmer
★ 3.2
37
37
2014 as Psychic
★ 4.9
Little Girl Fly Away
Little Girl Fly Away
1998 as Frank
★ 6.0
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1992 as Richard Robbins
★ 3.9
Live! From Death Row
Live! From Death Row
1992 as Laurence Dvorak
★ 6.9
Munger Road
Munger Road
2011 as Chief Kirkhoven
★ 4.3
Steel and Lace
Steel and Lace
1991 as Albert Morton
★ 4.9
Elwood
Elwood
2014 as Congressman Barber
★ 2.3
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
★ 5.9
Abnormal Attraction
Abnormal Attraction
2018 as Dr. Stanley Cole
★ 4.4
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997 as Yehiel Dinur (voice)
★ 5.8
The Affair
The Affair
1973 as Jamie Patterson
★ 3.2
A Mother's Revenge
A Mother's Revenge
1993 as Bill Sanders
★ 5.1
Evergreen
Evergreen
2004 as Frank
★ 3.2
Deadman's Curve
Deadman's Curve
1978 as Dean Torrence
★ 5.2
Summer of My German Soldier
Summer of My German Soldier
1978 as Anton Reiker
★ 5.8
X-Men
X-Men
2000 as Senator Kelly
★ 7.0
X2
X2
2003 as Senator Kelly
★ 7.0
That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
★ 6.4
The Slider
The Slider
2017 as Ispector Wiesel
★ 4.0
The Gift of Christmas
The Gift of Christmas
2020 as Bob Rodgers
★ 4.9
Any Bullet Will Do
Any Bullet Will Do
2018 as Jonathan Carrington
★ 4.8
Lady in a Corner
Lady in a Corner
1989 as Bill Guthrie
★ 4.5
Coffin
Coffin
2011 as Garrison
★ 4.1
Displacement
Displacement
2016 as Prof. Peter Deckard
★ 5.0
The Skateboard Kid II
The Skateboard Kid II
1995 as Burt Squires
★ 2.4
108 Stitches
108 Stitches
2014 as Coach Scott Deshields
★ 2.7
The Gathering, Part II
The Gathering, Part II
1979 as George
★ 2.0
Bender
Bender
2016 as Mayor Prentiss
★ 4.2
My True Fairytale
My True Fairytale
2021 as Martin Goodwin
★ 5.8
Locked in Silence
Locked in Silence
1999 as Jim
★ 5.7
3 Holiday Tails
3 Holiday Tails
2011 as Rod Wright
★ 5.2
The Mystery of Casa Matusita
★ 3.5
Down, Out and Dangerous
Down, Out and Dangerous
1995 as Brad Harrington
★ 5.6
Evil at the Door
Evil at the Door
2022 as John Doe
★ 3.6
Peege
Peege
1973
★ 5.6
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
★ 2.8
Incident at Crestridge
Incident at Crestridge
1981 as Clint Larsen
★ 4.7
The Jerusalem File
The Jerusalem File
1972 as David Armstrong
★ 3.5
Tomorrow's Child
Tomorrow's Child
1982 as Cliff Bender
★ 2.0
Return of the Killer Shrews
Return of the Killer Shrews
2012 as Jerry Farrell
★ 5.3
The Roommates
The Roommates
as Arthur
★ 10.0
Oceanus: Act One
Oceanus: Act One
2015 as Commander Mitch Conrad
★ 6.1
French Quarter
French Quarter
1978 as Kid Ross / Inspector Sordik
★ 2.7
movie
Ghost Dancing
1983 as Calvin Oberst
★ 2.0
movie
Special Ops: Delta Force
2006 as General Preston Rossdale
movie
Grand Jury
1977 as Bobby Allen
★ 2.0
movie
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
1977 as Bruce - as a Young Man
★ 2.0
A Schizophrenic Love Story
A Schizophrenic Love Story
2011 as Dr. Bob
★ 2.0
The Congregation
The Congregation
2011 as Amos Christner
★ 2.0
movie
The Clinic
2004 as Martin Landrum
★ 3.8
Beyond the Heavens
Beyond the Heavens
2013 as Oliver Henry (adult)
★ 5.3
Charlie's Gift
★ 2.0
On The Couch
On The Couch
2004 as Daddy
Godmother
Godmother
as Mr. Martinson