Bruce Davison
Acting • Born 1946-06-28
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.
Filmography
258 credits
Short Cuts
Movie • 1993
Howard Finnigan
The King Is Alive
Movie • 2000
Ray
Crazy/Beautiful
Movie • 2001
Tom Oakley
The Crucible
Movie • 1996
Reverend Parris
MegaFault
Movie • 2009
Dr. Mark Rhodes
The Misfit Brigade
Movie • 1987
Porta
The Line
Movie • 2009
Anthony
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
Movie • 2010
President Wilson (voice)
High Crimes
Movie • 2002
Brig. Gen. Bill Marks
8MM 2
Movie • 2005
Ambassador Harrington
The Wave
Movie • 1981
Ben Ross
Runaway Jury
Movie • 2003
Durwood Cable
Steel and Lace
Movie • 1991
Albert Morton
Apt Pupil
Movie • 1998
Richard Bowden
Spies Like Us
Movie • 1985
Ruby
Dahmer
Movie • 2002
Lionel Dahmer
Hate Crime
Movie • 2005
Pastor Boyd
Summer Catch
Movie • 2001
Rand Parrish
Charlie's Gift
Movie • 2016
The Good Neighbor
Movie • 2022
Grant
The Horror Show
Movie • 1979
(archive footage)
The Lathe of Heaven
Movie • 1980
George Orr
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
Movie • 1995
John McCormick
The Dead Girl
Movie • 2006
Leah's Father
Crimes of Passion
Movie • 1984
Donny Hopper
Mame
Movie • 1974
Patrick as an adult
Paulie
Movie • 1998
Dr. Reingold
X-Men
Movie • 2000
Senator Kelly
X2
Movie • 2003
Senator Kelly
Ulzana's Raid
Movie • 1972
Lt. Garnett DeBuin
Willard
Movie • 1971
Willard Stiles
The Gathering, Part II
Movie • 1979
George
The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice
Movie • 2008
Professor Lazlo
Last Summer
Movie • 1969
Dan
Titanic II
Movie • 2010
James Maine
Arctic Blast
Movie • 2010
Winslaw
Camp Hell
Movie • 2010
Fr. Phineas McAllister
Camera
Movie • 2024
Frank Flynn
High Risk
Movie • 1981
Dan
The Baby-Sitters Club
Movie • 1995
Watson
Confession
Movie • 2005
Father Thomas Parker
Out of the Ashes
Movie • 2003
Peter Schuman, Interrogator
Touched
Movie • 2005
Robert Davis
A Golden Christmas
Movie • 2009
Rod Wright
Christmas Angel
Movie • 2009
Nick Anderson
The Strawberry Statement
Movie • 1970
Simon
Short Eyes
Movie • 1977
Clark Davis
Influence
Movie • 2020
Walter Klein
Brass Target
Movie • 1978
Col. Robert Dawson
Off Season
Movie • 2001
Dr. Zimmer
Munger Road
Movie • 2011
Chief Kirkhoven
Tomorrow's Child
Movie • 1982
Cliff Bender
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Movie • 1971
Fitzgore
The Roommates
Movie
Arthur
The Millionaire Tour
Movie • 2012
The Roman
The Lords of Salem
Movie • 2013
Francis Matthias
That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
Movie • 2012
Self
Locked in Silence
Movie • 1999
Jim
Ghost Dancing
Movie • 1983
Calvin Oberst
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Movie • 2000
Sen. Robert Kelly
Live! From Death Row
Movie • 1992
Laurence Dvorak
Lovelife
Movie • 1997
Bruce
Return of the Killer Shrews
Movie • 2012
Jerry Farrell
The Gathering
Movie • 1977
George
Bigfoot
Movie • 2012
Sheriff Walt Henderson
The Skateboard Kid II
Movie • 1995
Burt Squires
3 Holiday Tails
Movie • 2011
Rod Wright
Saving Lincoln
Movie • 2013
William H. Seward
On the Edge
Movie • 2001
(segment "The Other Side")
Peege
Movie • 1973
Deadman's Curve
Movie • 1978
Dean Torrence
Grand Jury
Movie • 1977
Bobby Allen
Knight Rider
Movie • 2008
Charles Graiman
Words and Pictures
Movie • 2014
Walt
From the Shadows
Movie • 2023
Dr. Joseph Cawl
A Memory in My Heart
Movie • 1999
Chase Stewart
Beyond the Heavens
Movie • 2013
Oliver Henry (adult)
Someone Else's Child
Movie • 1994
Nick Callahan
Grace of My Heart
Movie • 1996
John Murray
Summer of My German Soldier
Movie • 1978
Anton Reiker
Persecuted
Movie • 2014
Senator Donald Harrison
The Jerusalem File
Movie • 1972
David Armstrong
Hidden in America
Movie • 1996
Michael
The Affair
Movie • 1973
Jamie Patterson
The Clinic
Movie • 2004
Martin Landrum
Game of Power
Movie
Ballard Wright
Stealing Roses
Movie • 2012
Mr. Lowell
The Last Survivors
Movie • 1975
Michael Larsen
Suitable Flesh
Movie • 2023
Ephraim Waite
Six Degrees of Separation
Movie • 1993
Larkin
37
Movie • 2014
Psychic
A Mother's Revenge
Movie • 1993
Bill Sanders
Widow's Kiss
Movie • 1996
Justin Sager
Homage
Movie • 1995
Joseph Smith
Down, Out and Dangerous
Movie • 1995
Brad Harrington
Lies
Movie • 1983
Stuart Russell
Breach
Movie • 2007
John O'Neill
The Cure
Movie • 1995
Dr. Stevens
Black Beauty
Movie • 2015
Grandpa
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
Movie • 2017
P'Torr The Exile (voice)
Evergreen
Movie • 2004
Frank
Little Girl Fly Away
Movie • 1998
Frank
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
Movie • 1977
Bruce - as a Young Man
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
Movie • 1992
Richard Robbins
Mind Over Murder
Movie • 1979
Jason
Condor's Nest
Movie • 2023
Gerhardt Schrude
Mother, Jugs & Speed
Movie • 1976
Leroy
After Jimmy
Movie • 1996
Sam Stapp
Get a Job
Movie • 2016
Lawrence Wilheimer
The Leisure Class
Movie • 2015
Edward
ManFast
Movie • 2003
Rupert Iris
Stolen: One Husband
Movie • 1990
Dr. Peter Foley
Kingdom Hospital
Movie • 2004
Dr. Stegman
L.A. Law: The Movie
Movie • 2002
Lawrence Diebenkorn
French Quarter
Movie • 1978
Kid Ross / Inspector Sordik
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
Movie • 2016
Richard
Displacement
Movie • 2016
Prof. Peter Deckard
It's My Party
Movie • 1996
Rodney Bingham
A Schizophrenic Love Story
Movie • 2011
Dr. Bob
At First Sight
Movie • 1999
Dr. Charles Aaron
Kiss My Grits
Movie • 1982
Dolin T. Pike
Along Came the Devil
Movie • 2018
Reverend Michael
Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent
Movie • 2016
Pastor Ezekiel
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
Movie • 2003
Insidious: The Last Key
Movie • 2018
Christian Rainier
The Bronx Bull
Movie • 2016
D.A. Bonomi
The Mystery of Casa Matusita
Movie • 2016
Victor
Last Rampage
Movie • 2017
Cooper
Lady in a Corner
Movie • 1989
Bill Guthrie
Love Locks
Movie • 2017
Hugo Blanchet
Oceanus: Act One
Movie • 2015
Commander Mitch Conrad
The Congregation
Movie • 2011
Amos Christner
Longtime Companion
Movie • 1989
David
A Violent Man
Movie • 2019
Benjamin Green
9/11
Movie • 2017
Monohan
Stephen King's Golden Tales
Movie • 1993
Richard Hagstrom
Corbin Nash
Movie • 2018
Jack
The Ladies Club
Movie • 1986
Richard Harrison
God Don't Make the Laws
Movie • 2011
Bud Kelly / Mayor
Going Shopping
Movie • 2005
Adam
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Movie • 1983
Tranio
Bender
Movie • 2016
Mayor Prentiss
Itsy Bitsy
Movie • 2019
Walter
Coffin
Movie • 2011
Garrison
Vendetta
Movie • 1999
Thomas Semmes
Too Young to Be a Dad
Movie • 2002
Dan Freeman
An Ambush of Ghosts
Movie • 1993
Bill Betts
The Great Alaskan Race
Movie • 2019
Governor Bone
Any Bullet Will Do
Movie • 2018
Jonathan Carrington
More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
Movie • 2020
Colin
Tales from the Darkside
Movie • 1990
Richard Hagstrom
Color of Justice
Movie • 1997
Frank Gainer
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
Movie • 2018
Abnormal Attraction
Movie • 2018
Dr. Stanley Cole
Along Came the Devil II
Movie • 2019
Reverend Michael
Wish Man
Movie • 2019
Frank Shankwitz Sr.
A Fairy's Game
Movie • 2018
Spindly (voice)
Captors
Movie • 2020
Silas Visler
Christmas at the Plaza
Movie • 2019
Reginald Brookwater
The Slider
Movie • 2017
Ispector Wiesel
Incident at Crestridge
Movie • 1981
Clint Larsen
108 Stitches
Movie • 2014
Coach Scott Deshields
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Movie • 2020
Self
Await the Dawn
Movie • 2020
David
We Still Say Grace
Movie • 2020
Harold
The Manor
Movie • 2021
Roland
The Gift of Christmas
Movie • 2020
Bob Rodgers
My True Fairytale
Movie • 2021
Martin Goodwin
Evil at the Door
Movie • 2022
John Doe
Earth's Final Hours
Movie • 2011
Rothman
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Movie • 1997
Yehiel Dinur (voice)
Elwood
Movie • 2014
Congressman Barber
The Lightning Code
Movie • 2025
Nikola Tesla
25 Miles to Normal
Movie
John
La La Land
Movie • 2016
Mia's Father (uncredited)
Don’t Look Inside
Movie
Special Ops: Delta Force
Movie • 2006
General Preston Rossdale
Godmother
Movie
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
Movie • 2003
Self
On The Couch
Movie • 2004
Daddy
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
David Carroll
Seinfeld
TV • 1989
Wyck Thayer
Star Trek: Enterprise
TV • 2001
Menos
Castle
TV • 2009
Lou Karnacki
thirtysomething
TV • 1987
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
TV • 2004
Dr. Stegman
Ghost Whisperer
TV • 2005
Josh Bedford
CSI: Miami
TV • 2002
Dane Daniels
Star Trek: Voyager
TV • 1995
Jareth
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Luden Sandelton
Battlestar Galactica
TV • 2004
Dr. Michael Robert
Cybill
TV • 1995
Mark Davis
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Dr. Graham Mandell
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
TV • 2005
Peter Betts
Without a Trace
TV • 2002
Paul Cartwright
Hotel
TV • 1982
The L Word
TV • 2004
Leonard Kroll
V
TV • 1984
John Langley
Criminal Minds
TV • 2005
Father Davison
The Practice
TV • 1997
Scott Wallace
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Avery Tinsdale
Lost
TV • 2004
Douglas Brooks
Close to Home
TV • 2005
Doug Hellman
Hunter
TV • 1984
Deputy Chief Wyler
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Burt Peters
The Waltons
TV • 1972
The Triangle
TV • 2005
Stan Lathem
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Police Story
TV • 1973
Harry and the Hendersons
TV • 1991
George Henderson
Tales from the Darkside
TV • 1984
Richard Hagstrom
Drop Dead Diva
TV • 2009
Judge Cyrus Maxwell
Knight Rider
TV • 2008
Charles Graiman
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Dr. 'Mac' McEnerney
Hunter
TV • 1984
Capt. Wyler
Sequestered
TV • 2014
Psych
TV • 2006
Walter Snowden
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
TV • 1989
Jimmy Donahue
Amazing Stories
TV • 1985
Richard
The Fosters
TV • 2013
Stewart Adams
Kingdom
TV • 2014
Ron Prince
Crossing Lines
TV • 2013
Tactical Leader
Childrens Hospital
TV • 2008
Narrator
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
TV • 2012
Gabe Sharpe
Bosch: Legacy
TV • 2022
James Rafferty
Ozark
TV • 2017
Senator Randall Schafer
The Lincoln Lawyer
TV • 2022
Judge Walter Abrams
Hawaii Five-0
TV • 2010
Steven Carver
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
TV • 1974
Mourning Becomes Electra
TV • 1978
Orin Mannon
TripTank
TV • 2014
Daytona Jack (voice)
Those Who Kill
TV • 2014
Howard Burgess
Blindspot
TV • 2015
Jean-Paul Bruyere
Unforgettable
TV • 2011
Dr. Edward Wythe
The Hunger
TV • 1997
New Lighthouse Keeper
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
TV • 2008
Dr. Peter Silberman
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV • 2009
Self
Designated Survivor
TV • 2016
Ray Beckett
1923
TV • 2022
Arthur
Leverage
TV • 2008
Dan Blackwell
Creepshow
TV • 2019
Avery Whitlock
Last Resort
TV • 2012
ARTHUR SHEPARD
The Son
TV • 2017
ENDICOTT
Mozart in the Jungle
TV • 2014
Hesby Ennis
JAG
TV • 1995
Dr. Morris Sperling
Numb3rs
TV • 2005
Robert Oliver
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Jake Weiss
The Closer
TV • 2005
Russell Clark
Designing Women
TV • 1986
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
Universal Basic Guys
TV • 2024
(voice)
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Bob Hill
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Lou Grant
TV • 1977
Andrew Raines
The Legend of Korra
TV • 2012
Lord Zuko (voice)
Glow and Darkness
TV • 2021
Pope Urban III
Project Greenlight
TV • 2001
Self
The American Revolution
TV • 2025
(voice)