Bruce Davison
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Seinfeld
Wyck Thayer
1989
Series
The Legend of Korra
Lord Zuko (voice)
2012
Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Dr. Graham Mandell
1999
Series
Criminal Minds
Father Davison
2005
Series
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Avery Tinsdale
2000
Series
Hawaii Five-0
Steven Carver
2010
Series
CSI: Miami
Dane Daniels
2002
Series
Castle
Lou Karnacki
2009
Series
Lost
Douglas Brooks
2004
Series
JAG
Morris Sperling
1995
Series
Star Trek: Voyager
Jareth
1995
Series
Psych
Walter Snowden
2006
Series
The Closer
Russell Clark
2005
Series
Ghost Whisperer
Josh Bedford
2005
Series
The Practice
Scott Wallace
1997
Series
Chicago Hope
Burt Peters
1994
Series
Numb3rs
Robert Oliver
2005
Series
Murder, She Wrote
David Carroll
1984
Series
Without a Trace
Paul Cartwright
2002
Series
Star Trek: Enterprise
Menos
2001
Series
The Waltons
1972
Series
The Waltons
Bob Hill
1972
Series
Unforgettable
Edward Wythe
2011
Series
Blindspot
Jean-Paul Bruyere
2015
Series
The Lincoln Lawyer
Walter Abrams
2022
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Series
Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Michael Robert
2004
Series
Touched by an Angel
Jake Weiss
1994
Series
American Playhouse
David
1982
Series
The Fosters
Stewart Adams
2013
Series
Hotel
1982
Series
The Outer Limits
Dr. 'Mac' McEnerney
1995
Series
Ozark
Randall Schafer
2017
Series
1923
Arthur
2022
Series
Hunter
Wyler
1984
Series
Leverage
Dan Blackwell
2008
Series
Designated Survivor
Ray Beckett
2016
Series
Childrens Hospital
Narrator
2008
Series
The L Word
Leonard Kroll
2004
Series
Drop Dead Diva
Judge Cyrus Maxwell
2009
Series
Lou Grant
Andrew Raines
1977
Series
Tales from the Darkside
Richard Hagstrom
1984
Series
Tales from the Crypt
Luden Sandelton
1989
Series
Police Woman
1974
Series
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Dr. Peter Silberman
2008
Series
Cybill
Mark Davis
1995
Film
La La Land
Mia's Father (uncredited)
2016
Series
thirtysomething
1987
Series
Amazing Stories
Richard
1985
Series
Bosch: Legacy
James Rafferty
2022
Series
The Triangle
Stan Lathem
2005
Series
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self
2009
Series
Close to Home
Doug Hellman
2005
Series
Mozart in the Jungle
Hesby Ennis
2014
Series
Creepshow
Avery Whitlock
2019
Series
Police Story
1973
Series
Police Story
Victor Joe Vero
1973
Series
Kingdom
Ron Prince
2014
Series
Crossing Lines
Tactical Leader
2013
Series
Harry and the Hendersons
George Henderson
1991
Series
V
John Langley
1984
Series
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
Gabe Sharpe
2012
Series
The Hunger
New Lighthouse Keeper
1997
Series
Knight Rider
Charles Graiman
2008
Series
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Peter Betts
2005
Series
Universal Basic Guys
(voice)
2024
Series
Project Greenlight
Self
2001
Series
The Son
ENDICOTT
2017
Film
Insidious: The Last Key
Christian Rainier
2018
Series
Designing Women
1986
Series
TripTank
Daytona Jack (voice)
2014
Series
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
Dr. Stegman
2004
Series
Last Resort
ARTHUR SHEPARD
2012
Series
The American Revolution
(voice)
2025
Series
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Jimmy Donahue
1989
Series
Sequestered
2014
Series
Those Who Kill
Howard Burgess
2014
Film
The Good Neighbor
Grant
2022
Film
The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice
Professor Lazlo
2008
Film
Mame
Older Patrick
1974
Film
Runaway Jury
Durwood Cable
2003
Film
High Crimes
General Bill Marks
2002
Film
Paulie
Dr. Reingold
1998
Film
MegaFault
Dr. Mark Rhodes
2009
Film
The Cure
Dr. Stevens
1995
Film
The Crucible
Reverend Parris
1996
Film
Spies Like Us
Ruby
1985
Film
Crazy/Beautiful
Tom Oakley
2001
Film
Godmother
Mr. Martinson
2026
Film
The Lords of Salem
Francis Matthias
2013
Film
Short Cuts
Howard Finnigan
1993
Film
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
President Wilson (voice)
2010
Film
Apt Pupil
Richard Bowden
1998
Film
Six Degrees of Separation
Larkin
1993
Film
LoveLife
Bruce
1997
Film
Ulzana's Raid
Lt. Garnett DeBuin
1972
Film
Knight Rider
Charles Graiman
2008
Series
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974
Film
Crimes of Passion
Donny Hopper
1984
Film
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
Richard
2016
Film
Breach
John O'Neill
2007
Glow and Darkness
Pope Urban III
2021
Film
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Self
2020
Film
Titanic II
James Maine
2010
Film
8MM 2
Ambassador Harrington
2005
Film
At First Sight
Dr. Charles Aaron
1999
Film
9/11
Monohan
2017
Film
Summer Catch
Rand Parrish
2001
Film
A Mother's Revenge
Bill Sanders
1993
Film
Willard
Willard Stiles
1971
Film
Itsy Bitsy
Walter
2019
Film
The Misfit Brigade
Porta
1987
Film
Get a Job
Lawrence Wilheimer
2016
Film
Arctic Blast
Winslaw
2010
Film
Captors
Silas Visler
2020
The Clinic
Martin Landrum
2004
Film
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Sen. Robert Kelly
2000
Film
Grace of My Heart
John Murray
1996
Film
The Baby-Sitters Club
Watson
1995
Film
Summer of My German Soldier
Anton Reiker
1978
Film
Words and Pictures
Walt
2014
Film
It's My Party
Rodney Bingham
1996
Film
Christmas at the Plaza
Reginald Brookwater
2019
Film
The Manor
Roland
2021
Series
Mourning Becomes Electra
Orin Mannon
1978
Film
The Great Alaskan Race
Governor Bone
2019
Film
Earth's Final Hours
Rothman
2011
Film
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
John McCormick
1995
Film
Wish Man
Frank Shankwitz Sr.
2019
Film
The Dead Girl
Leah's Father
2006
Film
Suitable Flesh
Ephraim Waite
2023
Film
Along Came the Devil
Reverend Michael
2018
Someone Else's Child
Nick Callahan
1994
Film
The Congregation
Amos Christner
2011
Film
Lady in a Corner
Bill Guthrie
1989
Film
Bigfoot
Sheriff Walt Henderson
2012
Film
Longtime Companion
David
1989
Film
Any Bullet Will Do
Jonathan Carrington
2018
Film
Vendetta
Thomas Semmes
1999
Film
The Line
Anthony
2009
Film
The Lightning Code
Nikola Tesla
2025
Film
Out of the Ashes
Peter Schuman, Interrogator
2003
Film
Dahmer
Lionel Dahmer
2002
Film
Bender
Mayor Prentiss
2016
Film
More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
Colin
2020
Film
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
P'Torr The Exile (voice)
2017
Film
Last Summer
Dan
1969
Film
3 Holiday Tails
Rod Wright
2011
Film
Mother, Jugs & Speed
Leroy
1976
Film
Evil at the Door
John Doe
2022
Film
Touched
Robert Davis
2005
Film
We Still Say Grace
Harold
2020
Game of Power
Ballard Wright
Film
Golden Tales
Richard Hagstrom
1993
Film
Camera
Frank Flynn
2024
Film
The King Is Alive
Ray
2000
Film
The Leisure Class
Edward
2015
Film
The Roommates
Arthur
Film
On the Edge
(segment "The Other Side")
2001
Film
Corbin Nash
Jack
2018
Film
Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent
Pastor Ezekiel
2016
Film
Love Locks
Hugo Blanchet
2017
Film
The Ladies Club
Richard Harrison
1986
Film
Last Rampage
Cooper
2017
Film
Kingdom Hospital
Dr. Stegman
2004
Film
The Slider
Ispector Wiesel
2017
Film
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
Self
2003
Film
Christmas Angel
Nick Anderson
2009
Film
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
2003
Film
Condor's Nest
Gerhardt Schrude
2023
Film
The Wave
Ben Ross
1981
Film
Confession
Father Thomas Parker
2005
Film
God Don't Make the Laws
Bud Kelly / Mayor
2011
Film
The Strawberry Statement
Simon
1970
Film
Short Eyes
Clark Davis
1977
Film
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Tranio
1983
Film
Steel and Lace
Albert Morton
1991
Film
The Skateboard Kid II
Burt Squires
1995
Film
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Yehiel Dinur (voice)
1997
Film
A Memory in My Heart
Chase Stewart
1999
Film
Black Beauty
Grandpa
2015
Film
Tales from the Darkside
Richard Hagstrom
1990
Film
Displacement
Prof. Peter Deckard
2016
Film
Brass Target
Col. Robert Dawson
1978
Film
The Lathe of Heaven
George Orr
1980
Film
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
1979
Film
Camp Hell
Fr. Phineas McAllister
2010
Film
Return of the Killer Shrews
Jerry Farrell
2012
Film
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Fitzgore
1971
Film
High Risk
Dan
1981
Film
Too Young to Be a Dad
Dan Freeman
2002
Film
Persecuted
Senator Donald Harrison
2014
Film
A Violent Man
Benjamin Green
2019
Film
That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
Self
2012
Film
Await the Dawn
David
2020
Film
Deadman's Curve
Dean Torrence
1978
Film
The Mystery of Casa Matusita
Victor
Film
The Bronx Bull
D.A. Bonomi
2016
Film
Hidden in America
Michael
1996
Film
Hate Crime
Pastor Boyd
2005
Film
Saving Lincoln
William H. Seward
2013
Film
From the Shadows
Dr. Joseph Cawl
2023
Film
X-Men
Senator Kelly
2000
Film
Off Season
Dr. Zimmer
2001
Film
25 Miles to Normal
John
2026
Film
Kiss My Grits
Dolin T. Pike
1982
Film
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
Richard Robbins
1992
Film
A Golden Christmas
Rod Wright
2009
Film
Down, Out and Dangerous
Brad Harrington
1995
Film
Little Girl Fly Away
Frank
1998
Film
Along Came the Devil II
Reverend Michael
2019
Film
The Last Survivors
Michael Larsen
1975
Film
Color of Justice
Frank Gainer
1997
Film
The Gift of Christmas
Bob Rodgers
2020
Film
L.A. Law: The Movie
Lawrence Diebenkorn
2002
Film
A Fairy's Game
Spindly (voice)
2018
Film
Out of the Woods
2025
Film
Lies
Stuart Russell
1983
Film
Widow's Kiss
Justin Sager
1996
Film
Going Shopping
Adam
2005
Film
37
Psychic
2014
After Jimmy
Sam Stapp
1996
Film
An Ambush of Ghosts
Bill Betts
1993
Film
The Affair
Jamie Patterson
1973
Film
ManFast
Rupert Iris
2003
Film
The Gathering, Part II
George
1979
Film
Mind Over Murder
Jason
1979
Film
X2
Senator Kelly
2003
Film
Elwood
Congressman Barber
2014
Film
Munger Road
Chief Kirkhoven
2011
Film
Stolen: One Husband
Dr. Peter Foley
1990
Film
The Gathering
George
1977
Film
Evergreen
Frank
2004
Film
Abnormal Attraction
Dr. Stanley Cole
2018
Film
French Quarter
Kid Ross / Inspector Sordik
1978
Film
Live! From Death Row
Laurence Dvorak
1992
Film
Homage
Joseph Smith
1995
Film
The Jerusalem File
David Armstrong
1972
Film
My True Fairytale
Martin Goodwin
2021
Film
Incident at Crestridge
Clint Larsen
1981
Film
108 Stitches
Coach Scott Deshields
2014
Film
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
2018
Don’t Look Inside
Film
The Millionaire Tour
The Roman
2012
Film
Coffin
Garrison
2011
Film
Oceanus: Act One
Commander Mitch Conrad
2015
Film
Locked in Silence
Jim
1999
Film
A Schizophrenic Love Story
Dr. Bob
2011
Special Ops: Delta Force
General Preston Rossdale
2006
Film
Beyond the Heavens
Oliver Henry (adult)
2013
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
Bruce - as a Young Man
1977
Film
Influence
Walter Klein
2020
Film
Tomorrow's Child
Cliff Bender
1982
Film
Stealing Roses
Mr. Lowell
2012
Ghost Dancing
Calvin Oberst
1983
Film
On The Couch
Daddy
2004
Film
Peege
1973
Film
Charlie's Gift
2016
Grand Jury
Bobby Allen
1977