Bruce Davison
Acting
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.
As actor 257
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Criminal Minds
2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
CSI: Miami
2002
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Castle
2009
Lost
2004
JAG
1995
The Closer
2005
Without a Trace
2002
Star Trek: Voyager
1995
Seinfeld
1989
Psych
2006
Ghost Whisperer
2005
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Unforgettable
2011
Blindspot
2015
Chicago Hope
1994
Star Trek: Enterprise
2001
Numb3rs
2005
The Lincoln Lawyer
2022
The Practice
1997
The Waltons
1972
Battlestar Galactica
2004
The Legend of Korra
2012
Golden Globe Awards
1944
American Playhouse
1982
Childrens Hospital
2008
Tales from the Darkside
1984
Touched by an Angel
1994
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Ozark
2017
Hunter
1984
Designated Survivor
2016
The Fosters
2013
Hotel
1982
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2008
Lou Grant
1977
1923
2022
The Outer Limits
1995
Designing Women
1986
Leverage
2008
Bosch: Legacy
2022
Police Woman
1974
Drop Dead Diva
2009
The L Word
2004
La La Land
2016
Amazing Stories
1985
thirtysomething
1987
Close to Home
2005
Cybill
1995
Universal Basic Guys
2024
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Creepshow
2019
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
2012
The Hunger
1997
Harry and the Hendersons
1991
Knight Rider
2008
Crossing Lines
2013
V
1984
Mozart in the Jungle
2014
Police Story
1973
Kingdom
2014
High Crimes
2002
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
Runaway Jury
2003
Project Greenlight
2001
Last Resort
2012
TripTank
2014
The American Revolution
2025
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
2004
The Son
2017
Breach
2007
Spies Like Us
1985
The Triangle
2005
Apt Pupil
1998
The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice
2008
The Lords of Salem
2013
The Crucible
1996
Titanic II
2010
Get a Job
2016
Those Who Kill
2014
The Cure
1995
The Dead Girl
2006
Short Cuts
1993
Paulie
1998
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
2010
Summer Catch
2001
Crazy/Beautiful
2001
Ulzana's Raid
1972
Sequestered
2014
Six Degrees of Separation
1993
The Good Neighbor
2022
Arctic Blast
2010
Itsy Bitsy
2019
Crimes of Passion
1984
Knight Rider
2008
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
2016
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
9/11
2017
At First Sight
1999
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
2020
8MM 2
2005
Lady in a Corner
1989
Along Came the Devil
2018
Suitable Flesh
2023
Last Rampage
2017
The Manor
2021
Captors
2020
Willard
1971
Words and Pictures
2014
Camp Hell
2010
High Risk
1981
The Clinic
2004
Dahmer
2002
Along Came the Devil II
2019
Corbin Nash
2018
Wish Man
2019
The Baby-Sitters Club
1995
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
1995
L.A. Law: The Movie
2002
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974
The Congregation
2011
Steel and Lace
1991
Condor's Nest
2023
The Line
2009
MegaFault
2009
The Ladies Club
1986
Any Bullet Will Do
2018
Last Summer
1969
Bigfoot
2012
The Lightning Code
2025
Game of Power
Mame
1974
Short Eyes
1977
The Misfit Brigade
1987
LoveLife
1997
From the Shadows
2023
Bender
2016
Brass Target
1978
Godmother
2026
Christmas at the Plaza
2019
Out of the Ashes
2003
The Slider
2017
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
2000
It's My Party
1996
Earth's Final Hours
2011
Kingdom Hospital
2004
Vendetta
1999
The Leisure Class
2015
On the Edge
2001
Glow and Darkness
2021
The Bronx Bull
2016
Confession
2005
Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976
3 Holiday Tails
2011
Longtime Companion
1989
Await the Dawn
2020
Persecuted
2014
Grace of My Heart
1996
Love Locks
2017
A Golden Christmas
2009
Mourning Becomes Electra
1978
The Great Alaskan Race
2019
Christmas Angel
2009
The Strawberry Statement
1970
A Mother's Revenge
1993
Hate Crime
2005
The Roommates
Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent
2016
Color of Justice
1997
Someone Else's Child
1994
Ghost Dancing
1983
Incident at Crestridge
1981
Stephen King's Golden Tales
1993
Hidden in America
1996
The Horror Show
1979
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
2017
Camera
2024
The King Is Alive
2000
Tales from the Darkside
1990
We Still Say Grace
2020
X-Men
2000
Beyond the Heavens
2013
The Affair
1973
Black Beauty
2015
Evil at the Door
2022
Kiss My Grits
1982
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
The Wave
1981
Locked in Silence
1999
Homage
1995
Little Girl Fly Away
1998
Widow's Kiss
1996
Saving Lincoln
2013
Displacement
2016
Live! From Death Row
1992
Coffin
2011
Summer of My German Soldier
1978
The Gathering
1977
Off Season
2001
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1992
Mind Over Murder
1979
The Last Survivors
1975
Touched
2005
My True Fairytale
2021
ManFast
2003
Down, Out and Dangerous
1995
The Lathe of Heaven
1980
Special Ops: Delta Force
2006
25 Miles to Normal
2026
Deadman's Curve
1978
Lies
1983
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
2003
Don’t Look Inside
More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
2020
Return of the Killer Shrews
2012
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
1971
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
1983
Elwood
2014
Munger Road
2011
A Violent Man
2019
That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
2012
A Memory in My Heart
1999
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
2003
After Jimmy
1996
The Millionaire Tour
2012
Abnormal Attraction
2018
108 Stitches
2014
X2
2003
God Don't Make the Laws
2011
Too Young to Be a Dad
2002
Influence
2020
A Fairy's Game
2018
Stolen: One Husband
1990
Going Shopping
2005
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
1977
37
2014
The Skateboard Kid II
1995
French Quarter
1978
The Jerusalem File
1972
The Gift of Christmas
2020
Peege
1973
Oceanus: Act One
2015
A Schizophrenic Love Story
2011
The Mystery of Casa Matusita
Evergreen
2004
Out of the Woods
2025
Stealing Roses
2012
Tomorrow's Child
1982
An Ambush of Ghosts
1993
On The Couch
2004
The Gathering, Part II
1979
Grand Jury
1977
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
2018
Charlie's Gift
2016