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Bruce Davison

Born: 28 June 1946 (79 years old)
Gender: Male

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Bruce Davison is an American actor best known for his role as Senator Robert Kelly in the X-Men movie franchise.

Davison made his Broadway debut in Tiger at the Gates in 1968. He also appeared as John Merrick in The Elephant Man and in The Glass Menagerie opposite Jessica Tandy.

In 1983, Davison was cast by Joseph Papp in the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival production of King Richard III.

Additional off-Broadway credits include Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, and Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned To Drive.

In Los Angeles, Davison has appeared on stage in Streamers and The Normal Heart, winning the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and Drama-Logue Award for his performances.

Other LA theatre credits include The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (directed by Henry Fonda) and a stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Davison was one of a quartet of newcomers including Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, and Catherine Burns when he made his film debut in Last Summer in 1969. Two years later he portrayed the title role in Willard.

He also appeared in Mame, Mother, Jugs & Speed, The Lathe of Heaven, Six Degrees of Separation, and numerous television series before being cast in his breakthrough role, a gay man whose lover is dying of AIDS, in Longtime Companion (1991), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He is familiar to movie audiences for Runaway Jury, Apt Pupil, and his role as Senator Robert Kelly in the X-Men movie franchise. Though his character died in the first film, Davison appeared in X2 as a shapeshifting impostor of Kelly.

Davison's many television credits include Marcus Welby, M.D., Love, American Style, The Waltons, Lou Grant, Murder, She Wrote, Designing Women, Seinfeld, Chicago Hope, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, V, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, CSI: Miami, the Stephen King mini-series Kingdom Hospital, and a recurring role on The Practice.

At present Davison appears in the recurring role of defense attorney Doug Hellman in the CBS drama Close to Home.

In 2001, Davison directed the TV film Off Season, which starred his Lovelife co-star Sherilyn Fenn, Rory Culkin, Hume Cronyn, and Adam Arkin.

Davison lives in Los Angeles.


Television Roles

Show

Character

Dr. Mike Robert

Lou Karnacki

Doug Hellman

Doug Hellman

Max Langford

Father Davison

Avery Tinsdale

Dane Daniels

Gabe Sharpe

Judge Cyrus Maxwell

Judge Cyrus Maxwell

Josh Bedford

Josh Bedford

Steven Carver

Judge Ryan Byrne

Ron Prince

Charles Graiman

Admiral Arthur Shepard

Dan Blackwell

Dr. Brooks

Dr. Douglas Brooks

Lawyer

Robert Oliver

Walter Snowden

Wyck Thayer

Menos

Dr. Peter Silberman

Quentin O'Hurley

Russell Clark

Stewart Adams

Stewart Adams

Wallace Dosher

Leonard Kroll

Dr. 'Mac' McEnerney

Scott Wallace

Congressman Mainway

Howard Burgess

Dr. Edward Wythe

Paul Cartwright

Senator Kelly


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