Bruce Davison
Acting
Born: June 28, 1946 (age 80) · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Highest Rated
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 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
2016
X-Men
2000
X2
2003
Lost
2004
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Criminal Minds
2005
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
Ozark
2017
Blindspot
2015
Seinfeld
1989
The Legend of Korra
2012
Castle
2009
Photos (5)
Movies (167)
La La Land
Mia's Father (uncredited)
Runaway Jury
Durwood Cable
Insidious: The Last Key
Christian Rainier
High Crimes
General Bill Marks
Spies Like Us
Ruby
Breach
John O'Neill
The Crucible
Reverend Parris
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
President Wilson (voice)
The Manor
Roland
The Lords of Salem
Francis Matthias
Crazy/Beautiful
Tom Oakley
Crimes of Passion
Donny Hopper
Ulzana's Raid
Lt. Garnett DeBuin
Words and Pictures
Walt
Short Cuts
Howard Finnigan
Paulie
Dr. Reingold
Summer Catch
Rand Parrish
The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice
Professor Lazlo
8MM 2
Ambassador Harrington
Suitable Flesh
Ephraim Waite
At First Sight
Dr. Charles Aaron
Get a Job
Lawrence Wilheimer
It's My Party
Rodney Bingham
Camp Hell
Fr. Phineas McAllister
Itsy Bitsy
Walter
Apt Pupil
Richard Bowden
Christmas at the Plaza
Reginald Brookwater
The Dead Girl
Leah's Father
Await the Dawn
David
Six Degrees of Separation
Larkin
Titanic II
James Maine
Knight Rider
Charles Graiman
Along Came the Devil
Reverend Michael
The Good Neighbor
Grant
The Cure
Dr. Stevens
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
Richard
The Bronx Bull
D.A. Bonomi
The Great Alaskan Race
Governor Bone
Arctic Blast
Winslaw
9/11
Monohan
Earth's Final Hours
Rothman
The Baby-Sitters Club
Watson
Vendetta
Thomas Semmes
Grace of My Heart
John Murray
Wish Man
Frank Shankwitz Sr.
High Risk
Dan
Brass Target
Col. Robert Dawson
From the Shadows
Dr. Joseph Cawl
Willard
Willard Stiles
The Misfit Brigade
Porta
Last Rampage
Cooper
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
P'Torr The Exile (voice)
Longtime Companion
David
Last Summer
Dan
L.A. Law: The Movie
Lawrence Diebenkorn
The Strawberry Statement
Simon
Godmother
Mr. Martinson
Widow's Kiss
Justin Sager
Condor's Nest
Gerhardt Schrude
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Sen. Robert Kelly
Confession
Father Thomas Parker
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
John McCormick
3 Holiday Tails
Rod Wright
The Ladies Club
Richard Harrison
Corbin Nash
Jack
Too Young to Be a Dad
Dan Freeman
Mame
Older Patrick
Abnormal Attraction
Dr. Stanley Cole
Dahmer
Lionel Dahmer
Short Eyes
Clark Davis
The Leisure Class
Edward
Black Beauty
Grandpa
Any Bullet Will Do
Jonathan Carrington
Hate Crime
Pastor Boyd
Mother, Jugs & Speed
Leroy
The Lightning Code
Nikola Tesla
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Yehiel Dinur (voice)
Summer of My German Soldier
Anton Reiker
The Gathering
George
Evil at the Door
John Doe
On the Edge
(segment "The Other Side")
The Line
Anthony
Steel and Lace
Albert Morton
Off Season
Dr. Zimmer
Locked in Silence
Jim
Love Locks
Hugo Blanchet
The Congregation
Amos Christner
The Lathe of Heaven
George Orr
God Don't Make the Laws
Bud Kelly / Mayor
Kingdom Hospital
Dr. Stegman
We Still Say Grace
Harold
MegaFault
Dr. Mark Rhodes
Captors
Silas Visler
Influence
Walter Klein
Out of the Ashes
Peter Schuman, Interrogator
The Affair
Jamie Patterson
Camera
Frank Flynn
Down, Out and Dangerous
Brad Harrington
Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent
Pastor Ezekiel
A Mother's Revenge
Bill Sanders
Christmas Angel
Nick Anderson
Stephen King's Golden Tales
Richard Hagstrom
Out of the Woods
2025
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
2003
The King Is Alive
Ray
Coffin
Garrison
Deadman's Curve
Dean Torrence
Little Girl Fly Away
Frank
Return of the Killer Shrews
Jerry Farrell
More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
Colin
Persecuted
Senator Donald Harrison
Kiss My Grits
Dolin T. Pike
LoveLife
Bruce
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
Richard Robbins
The Millionaire Tour
The Roman
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Fitzgore
Bigfoot
Sheriff Walt Henderson
Lady in a Corner
Bill Guthrie
A Fairy's Game
Spindly (voice)
A Golden Christmas
Rod Wright
Going Shopping
Adam
Mind Over Murder
Jason
The Wave
Ben Ross
A Memory in My Heart
Chase Stewart
Bender
Mayor Prentiss
Tales from the Darkside
Richard Hagstrom
Evergreen
Frank
Live! From Death Row
Laurence Dvorak
The Gift of Christmas
Bob Rodgers
The Last Survivors
Michael Larsen
My True Fairytale
Martin Goodwin
ManFast
Rupert Iris
Saving Lincoln
William H. Seward
The Skateboard Kid II
Burt Squires
Munger Road
Chief Kirkhoven
An Ambush of Ghosts
Bill Betts
Homage
Joseph Smith
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
Along Came the Devil II
Reverend Michael
25 Miles to Normal
John
37
Psychic
Color of Justice
Frank Gainer
The Slider
Ispector Wiesel
French Quarter
Kid Ross / Inspector Sordik
Touched
Robert Davis
The Gathering, Part II
George
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Tranio
The Jerusalem File
David Armstrong
Incident at Crestridge
Clint Larsen
Stealing Roses
Mr. Lowell
Hidden in America
Michael
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
2018
108 Stitches
Coach Scott Deshields
Stolen: One Husband
Dr. Peter Foley
A Schizophrenic Love Story
Dr. Bob
X-Men
Senator Kelly
Displacement
Prof. Peter Deckard
Beyond the Heavens
Oliver Henry (adult)
A Violent Man
Benjamin Green
Lies
Stuart Russell
Elwood
Congressman Barber
Oceanus: Act One
Commander Mitch Conrad
Tomorrow's Child
Cliff Bender
Peege
1973
On The Couch
Daddy
Charlie's Gift
2016
X2
Senator Kelly
TV Shows (73)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Dr. Graham Mandell · 1 eps
Criminal Minds
Father Davison · 1 eps
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Avery Tinsdale · 1 eps
CSI: Miami
Dane Daniels · 1 eps
Seinfeld
Wyck Thayer · 3 eps
Castle
Lou Karnacki · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-0
Steven Carver · 1 eps
JAG
Morris Sperling · 1 eps
Lost
Douglas Brooks · 2 eps
Psych
Walter Snowden · 1 eps
Star Trek: Voyager
Jareth · 1 eps
Without a Trace
Paul Cartwright · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
David Carroll · 1 eps
The Closer
Russell Clark · 1 eps
Star Trek: Enterprise
Menos · 1 eps
Unforgettable
Edward Wythe · 1 eps
Numb3rs
Robert Oliver · 1 eps
Ghost Whisperer
Josh Bedford · 5 eps
Chicago Hope
Burt Peters · 2 eps
The Practice
Scott Wallace · 9 eps
The Legend of Korra
Lord Zuko (voice) · 6 eps
The Waltons
1 eps
The Waltons
Bob Hill · 1 eps
The Lincoln Lawyer
Walter Abrams · 1 eps
Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Michael Robert · 1 eps
Touched by an Angel
Jake Weiss · 1 eps
Blindspot
Jean-Paul Bruyere · 2 eps
Ozark
Randall Schafer · 6 eps
American Playhouse
David · 1 eps
Hotel
1 eps
The Outer Limits
Dr. 'Mac' McEnerney · 1 eps
Lou Grant
Andrew Raines · 1 eps
1923
Arthur · 3 eps
The Fosters
Stewart Adams · 5 eps
Designated Survivor
Ray Beckett · 1 eps
Police Woman
1 eps
Hunter
Wyler · 14 eps
Drop Dead Diva
Judge Cyrus Maxwell · 1 eps
Leverage
Dan Blackwell · 1 eps
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Dr. Peter Silberman · 1 eps
Childrens Hospital
Narrator · 1 eps
Tales from the Darkside
Richard Hagstrom · 1 eps
Tales from the Crypt
Luden Sandelton · 1 eps
The L Word
Leonard Kroll · 3 eps
Bosch: Legacy
James Rafferty · 2 eps
Amazing Stories
Richard · 1 eps
Mozart in the Jungle
Hesby Ennis · 3 eps
Cybill
Mark Davis · 1 eps
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
Gabe Sharpe · 1 eps
Creepshow
Avery Whitlock · 1 eps
thirtysomething
1 eps
Close to Home
Doug Hellman · 13 eps
Police Story
2 eps
V
John Langley · 3 eps
Crossing Lines
Tactical Leader · 1 eps
The Hunger
New Lighthouse Keeper · 1 eps
Designing Women
1 eps
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Peter Betts · 1 eps
Knight Rider
Charles Graiman · 17 eps
Kingdom
Ron Prince · 4 eps
Harry and the Hendersons
George Henderson · 72 eps
The Son
ENDICOTT · 1 eps
TripTank
Daytona Jack (voice) · 1 eps
Universal Basic Guys
(voice) · 2 eps
The American Revolution
(voice) · 2 eps
The Triangle
Stan Lathem · 3 eps
Last Resort
ARTHUR SHEPARD · 1 eps
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
Dr. Stegman · 13 eps
Sequestered
12 eps
Those Who Kill
Howard Burgess · 1 eps
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Jimmy Donahue · 6 eps
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
4 eps
Mourning Becomes Electra
Orin Mannon · 5 eps
Self / Appearances (7)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter · 2 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self · 1 eps
Project Greenlight
Self · 3 eps
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Self
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
Self
That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
Self
