Bruce Davison

Acting

1946-06-28 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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

Theaters

Godmother

2026 · Movie

Theaters

25 Miles to Normal

2026 · Movie

The American Revolution

2025 · Series

Out of the Woods

2025 · Movie

The Lightning Code

2025 · Movie

Universal Basic Guys

2024 · Series

Camera

2024 · Movie

Suitable Flesh

2023 · Movie

From the Shadows

2023 · Movie

Condor's Nest

2023 · Movie

1923

2022 · Series

The Good Neighbor

2022 · Movie

The Lincoln Lawyer

2022 · Series

Bosch: Legacy

2022 · Series

Evil at the Door

2022 · Movie

The Manor

2021 · Movie

Glow and Darkness

2021 · Series

My True Fairytale

2021 · Movie

We Still Say Grace

2020 · Movie

The Gift of Christmas

2020 · Movie

Captors

2020 · Movie

Await the Dawn

2020 · Movie

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

2020 · Movie

More Beautiful for Having Been Broken

2020 · Movie

Influence

2020 · Movie

Christmas at the Plaza

2019 · Movie

Along Came the Devil II

2019 · Movie

Creepshow

2019 · Series

Itsy Bitsy

2019 · Movie

Wish Man

2019 · Movie

The Great Alaskan Race

2019 · Movie

A Violent Man

2019 · Movie

Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters

2018 · Movie

Any Bullet Will Do

2018 · Movie

Along Came the Devil

2018 · Movie

A Fairy's Game

2018 · Movie

Corbin Nash

2018 · Movie

Abnormal Attraction

2018 · Movie

Insidious: The Last Key

2018 · Movie

The Slider

2017 · Movie

Last Rampage

2017 · Movie

Yamasong: March of the Hollows

2017 · Movie

9/11

2017 · Movie

Ozark

2017 · Series

The Son

2017 · Series

Love Locks

2017 · Movie

Charlie's Gift

2016 · Movie

La La Land

2016 · Movie

Bender

2016 · Movie

Designated Survivor

2016 · Series

Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent

2016 · Movie

Displacement

2016 · Movie

The Bronx Bull

2016 · Movie

The Curse of Sleeping Beauty

2016 · Movie

Get a Job

2016 · Movie

The Leisure Class

2015 · Movie

Blindspot

2015 · Series

Oceanus: Act One

2015 · Movie

Black Beauty

2015 · Movie

Kingdom

2014 · Series

108 Stitches

2014 · Movie

Sequestered

2014 · Series

Elwood

2014 · Movie

Words and Pictures

2014 · Movie

Persecuted

2014 · Movie

TripTank

2014 · Series

Those Who Kill

2014 · Series

Mozart in the Jungle

2014 · Series

Beyond the Heavens

2013 · Movie

Crossing Lines

2013 · Series

The Fosters

2013 · Series

The Lords of Salem

2013 · Movie

Saving Lincoln

2013 · Movie

Return of the Killer Shrews

2012 · Movie

Bigfoot

2012 · Movie

That Guy... Who Was in That Thing

2012 · Movie

Last Resort

2012 · Series

The Millionaire Tour

2012 · Movie

Stealing Roses

2012 · Movie

The Legend of Korra

2012 · Series

Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

2012 · Series

God Don't Make the Laws

2011 · Movie

3 Holiday Tails

2011 · Movie

Coffin

2011 · Movie

Munger Road

2011 · Movie

Unforgettable

2011 · Series

A Schizophrenic Love Story

2011 · Movie

Earth's Final Hours

2011 · Movie

The Congregation

2011 · Movie

Hawaii Five-0

2010 · Series

Camp Hell

2010 · Movie

Titanic II

2010 · Movie

Arctic Blast

2010 · Movie

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

2010 · Movie

A Golden Christmas

2009 · Movie

Christmas Angel

2009 · Movie

MegaFault

2009 · Movie

Celebrity Ghost Stories

2009 · Series

Drop Dead Diva

2009 · Series

The Line

2009 · Movie

Castle

2009 · Series

Childrens Hospital

2008 · Series

Leverage

2008 · Series

The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice

2008 · Movie

Knight Rider

2008 · Series

Knight Rider

2008 · Movie

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

2008 · Series

Breach

2007 · Movie

The Dead Girl

2006 · Movie

Special Ops: Delta Force

2006 · Movie

Psych

2006 · Series

The Triangle

2005 · Series

Confession

2005 · Movie

8MM 2

2005 · Movie

Touched

2005 · Movie

Going Shopping

2005 · Movie

Ghost Whisperer

2005 · Series

Criminal Minds

2005 · Series

Close to Home

2005 · Series

The Closer

2005 · Series

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

2005 · Series

Numb3rs

2005 · Series

Hate Crime

2005 · Movie

Battlestar Galactica

2004 · Series

Lost

2004 · Series

On The Couch

2004 · Movie

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital

2004 · Series

Kingdom Hospital

2004 · Movie

The L Word

2004 · Series

The Clinic

2004 · Movie

Evergreen

2004 · Movie

Runaway Jury

2003 · Movie

Out of the Ashes

2003 · Movie

Evolution X - The Making of X-Men

2003 · Movie

X-Men: Premieres Around the World

2003 · Movie

ManFast

2003 · Movie

Without a Trace

2002 · Series

CSI: Miami

2002 · Series

Dahmer

2002 · Movie

Too Young to Be a Dad

2002 · Movie

L.A. Law: The Movie

2002 · Movie

High Crimes

2002 · Movie

Off Season

2001 · Movie

Project Greenlight

2001 · Series

Star Trek: Enterprise

2001 · Series

Summer Catch

2001 · Movie

Crazy/Beautiful

2001 · Movie

On the Edge

2001 · Movie

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000 · Series

X-Men

2000 · Movie

X-Men: The Mutant Watch

2000 · Movie

The King Is Alive

2000 · Movie

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999 · Series

Vendetta

1999 · Movie

A Memory in My Heart

1999 · Movie

At First Sight

1999 · Movie

Locked in Silence

1999 · Movie

Apt Pupil

1998 · Movie

Little Girl Fly Away

1998 · Movie

Paulie

1998 · Movie

LoveLife

1997 · Movie

Color of Justice

1997 · Movie

The Hunger

1997 · Series

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

1997 · Movie

The Practice

1997 · Series

Hidden in America

1996 · Movie

The Crucible

1996 · Movie

After Jimmy

1996 · Movie

Grace of My Heart

1996 · Movie

It's My Party

1996 · Movie

Widow's Kiss

1996 · Movie

JAG

1995 · Series

Down, Out and Dangerous

1995 · Movie

The Baby-Sitters Club

1995 · Movie

Homage

1995 · Movie

The Cure

1995 · Movie

The Outer Limits

1995 · Series

Star Trek: Voyager

1995 · Series

Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog

1995 · Movie

Cybill

1995 · Series

The Skateboard Kid II

1995 · Movie

Someone Else's Child

1994 · Movie

Touched by an Angel

1994 · Series

Chicago Hope

1994 · Series

Six Degrees of Separation

1993 · Movie

A Mother's Revenge

1993 · Movie

Short Cuts

1993 · Movie

Stephen King's Golden Tales

1993 · Movie

An Ambush of Ghosts

1993 · Movie

Desperate Choices: To Save My Child

1992 · Movie

Live! From Death Row

1992 · Movie

Steel and Lace

1991 · Movie

Harry and the Hendersons

1991 · Series

Tales from the Darkside

1990 · Movie

Stolen: One Husband

1990 · Movie

Lady in a Corner

1989 · Movie

Longtime Companion

1989 · Movie

Seinfeld

1989 · Series

Tales from the Crypt

1989 · Series

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

1989 · Series

thirtysomething

1987 · Series

The Misfit Brigade

1987 · Movie

Designing Women

1986 · Series

The Ladies Club

1986 · Movie

Spies Like Us

1985 · Movie

Amazing Stories

1985 · Series

1984 · Series

Crimes of Passion

1984 · Movie

Murder, She Wrote

1984 · Series

Tales from the Darkside

1984 · Series

Hunter

1984 · Series

Lies

1983 · Movie

Ghost Dancing

1983 · Movie

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

1983 · Movie

Hotel

1982 · Series

Kiss My Grits

1982 · Movie

Tomorrow's Child

1982 · Movie

American Playhouse

1982 · Series

Incident at Crestridge

1981 · Movie

The Wave

1981 · Movie

High Risk

1981 · Movie

The Lathe of Heaven

1980 · Movie

The Gathering, Part II

1979 · Movie

Mind Over Murder

1979 · Movie

The Horror Show

1979 · Movie

Brass Target

1978 · Movie

Mourning Becomes Electra

1978 · Series

Summer of My German Soldier

1978 · Movie

French Quarter

1978 · Movie

Deadman's Curve

1978 · Movie

The Gathering

1977 · Movie

Portrait of Grandpa Doc

1977 · Movie

Short Eyes

1977 · Movie

Lou Grant

1977 · Series

Grand Jury

1977 · Movie

Mother, Jugs & Speed

1976 · Movie

The Last Survivors

1975 · Movie

The Lives of Benjamin Franklin

1974 · Series

Police Woman

1974 · Series

Mame

1974 · Movie

The Affair

1973 · Movie

Peege

1973 · Movie

Police Story

1973 · Series

Ulzana's Raid

1972 · Movie

The Waltons

1972 · Series

The Jerusalem File

1972 · Movie

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

1971 · Movie

Willard

1971 · Movie

The Strawberry Statement

1970 · Movie

Last Summer

1969 · Movie

Golden Globe Awards

1944 · Series

The Roommates

Movie

Game of Power

Movie

The Mystery of Casa Matusita

Movie

Don’t Look Inside

Movie