Bruce Davison
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.
255 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 255
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Criminal Minds
2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
CSI: Miami
2002
Castle
2009
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Lost
2004
Seinfeld
1989
JAG
1995
Psych
2006
Without a Trace
2002
The Closer
2005
Star Trek: Voyager
1995
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Ghost Whisperer
2005
Star Trek: Enterprise
2001
1923
2022
The Practice
1997
The Lincoln Lawyer
2022
Blindspot
2015
Chicago Hope
1994
Numb3rs
2005
Battlestar Galactica
2004
The Waltons
1972
Ozark
2017
Unforgettable
2011
The Legend of Korra
2012
Hunter
1984
Hotel
1982
Touched by an Angel
1994
The L Word
2004
The Fosters
2013
The Outer Limits
1995
Close to Home
2005
Leverage
2008
Designated Survivor
2016
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Police Woman
1974
Childrens Hospital
2008
Tales from the Darkside
1984
Drop Dead Diva
2009
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2008
Bosch: Legacy
2022
Amazing Stories
1985
Designing Women
1986
Lou Grant
1977
thirtysomething
1987
Cybill
1995
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Mozart in the Jungle
2014
La La Land
2016
Creepshow
2019
Crossing Lines
2013
V
1984
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
2012
Kingdom
2014
Police Story
1973
Harry and the Hendersons
1991
The Hunger
1997
Project Greenlight
2001
Knight Rider
2008
The Son
2017
The American Revolution
2025
Universal Basic Guys
2024
TripTank
2014
Last Resort
2012
The Triangle
2005
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
2004
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
High Crimes
2002
Those Who Kill
2014
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
2010
Runaway Jury
2003
The Crucible
1996
The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice
2008
Paulie
1998
Titanic II
2010
Sequestered
2014
Crimes of Passion
1984
Short Cuts
1993
The Cure
1995
Apt Pupil
1998
Breach
2007
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
2020
Spies Like Us
1985
Summer Catch
2001
Knight Rider
2008
Glow and Darkness
2021
The Lords of Salem
2013
Arctic Blast
2010
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
1995
Six Degrees of Separation
1993
Condor's Nest
2023
The Good Neighbor
2022
8MM 2
2005
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
2000
Suitable Flesh
2023
Dahmer
2002
9/11
2017
Mourning Becomes Electra
1978
Ulzana's Raid
1972
The Dead Girl
2006
At First Sight
1999
Get a Job
2016
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
2016
Words and Pictures
2014
Brass Target
1978
Willard
1971
The Misfit Brigade
1987
The Manor
2021
Itsy Bitsy
2019
Crazy/Beautiful
2001
It's My Party
1996
Mame
1974
The Baby-Sitters Club
1995
Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976
The Line
2009
MegaFault
2009
Hate Crime
2005
Last Rampage
2017
Along Came the Devil
2018
Displacement
2016
Longtime Companion
1989
Corbin Nash
2018
Grace of My Heart
1996
Fishes 'n Loaves: Heaven Sent
2016
Wish Man
2019
Vendetta
1999
Earth's Final Hours
2011
Last Summer
1969
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
2003
The Lightning Code
2025
Love Locks
2017
Confession
2005
The Horror Show
1979
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1992
Little Girl Fly Away
1998
That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
2012
Camera
2024
ManFast
2003
Stephen King's Golden Tales
1993
Kingdom Hospital
2004
Camp Hell
2010
The Wave
1981
The Bronx Bull
2016
Hidden in America
1996
The Great Alaskan Race
2019
L.A. Law: The Movie
2002
Persecuted
2014
From the Shadows
2023
Await the Dawn
2020
Widow's Kiss
1996
We Still Say Grace
2020
Too Young to Be a Dad
2002
108 Stitches
2014
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
Bigfoot
2012
High Risk
1981
3 Holiday Tails
2011
Christmas at the Plaza
2019
Down, Out and Dangerous
1995
Steel and Lace
1991
The Mystery of Casa Matusita
2016
Going Shopping
2005
The Affair
1973
Munger Road
2011
Off Season
2001
Mind Over Murder
1979
Abnormal Attraction
2018
Ghost Dancing
1983
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
2017
Influence
2020
More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
2020
X-Men
2000
Color of Justice
1997
The Strawberry Statement
1970
Homage
1995
A Golden Christmas
2009
Short Eyes
1977
Touched
2005
A Mother's Revenge
1993
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
1983
The Ladies Club
1986
Lady in a Corner
1989
Any Bullet Will Do
2018
Elwood
2014
Along Came the Devil II
2019
Return of the Killer Shrews
2012
Summer of My German Soldier
1978
A Memory in My Heart
1999
Kiss My Grits
1982
Out of the Ashes
2003
Black Beauty
2015
Saving Lincoln
2013
Live! From Death Row
1992
Tales from the Darkside
1990
Locked in Silence
1999
Coffin
2011
On the Edge
2001
The Gathering
1977
The King Is Alive
2000
God Don't Make the Laws
2011
Lies
1983
The Gift of Christmas
2020
The Skateboard Kid II
1995
Christmas Angel
2009
Deadman's Curve
1978
My True Fairytale
2021
Captors
2020
After Jimmy
1996
Lovelife
1997
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
1971
The Last Survivors
1975
The Leisure Class
2015
The Millionaire Tour
2012
Game of Power
—
Beyond the Heavens
2013
The Gathering, Part II
1979
X2
2003
25 Miles to Normal
—
Someone Else's Child
1994
Evergreen
2004
A Fairy's Game
2018
The Clinic
2004
The Jerusalem File
1972
Stolen: One Husband
1990
A Violent Man
2019
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
2003
An Ambush of Ghosts
1993
The Lathe of Heaven
1980
Oceanus: Act One
2015
The Slider
2017
37
2014
Incident at Crestridge
1981
Stealing Roses
2012
Tomorrow's Child
1982
Don’t Look Inside
—
Godmother
—
Peege
1973
A Schizophrenic Love Story
2011
The Roommates
—
Cemetery Tales: A Tale of Two Sisters
2018
Charlie's Gift
2016
Evil at the Door
2022
French Quarter
1978
On The Couch
2004
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
1977
Special Ops: Delta Force
2006
Bender
2016
Grand Jury
1977
The Congregation
2011