Bruce Davison

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Bruce Davison (born 28 June 1946; age 77) is a veteran character actor who played Jareth in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Remember". He later portrayed Menos in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Seventh".

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Davison began acting in the 1960s. He first gained recognition for his role in the 1969 teen drama Last Summer, which marked his film debut. He followed this with the lead role opposite TOS guest actress Kim Darby in the 1970 drama The Strawberry Statement, and the following year, he starred in the cult horror movie Willard. He played the title character in this film – a social misfit who uses rats to terrorize people – a role for which he is still well known.

Davison continued to act steadily throughout the 1970s and 1980s, appearing on both film and television and amassing some 60 credits in the process. Among his most notable films during this time period include the 1972 Western Ulzana's Raid, the 1974 musical Mame (starring Lucille Ball and featuring Barbara Bosson), the 1976 comedy Mothers, Jugs & Speed, the 1984 drama Crimes of Passion, the 1985 comedy Spies Like Us (co-starring Bernie Casey), and the 1987 war movie The Misfit Bridgade, in which he had the lead role opposite Keith Szarabajka. Davison gained much acclaim for his lead role as George Orr in the 1980 made-for-TV movie adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction work The Lathe of Heaven, where he starred along with Kevin Conway. Also during this time, he made guest appearances on such popular TV shows as Marcus Welby, M.D., Police Story, The Waltons, Lou Grant, V, and Murder, She Wrote.

Davison's talent and hard work ultimately led to an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of a gay man whose lover is dying of AIDs in the 1990 drama Longtime Companion. Davison went on to become a regular on the TV series Harry and the Hendersons, which aired for three seasons from 1991 through 1993. He then had a major role in the 1993 ensemble drama Short Cuts, which won awards at the Golden Globes and the Venice Film Festival for Best Ensemble Cast. Others who were a part of that cast include fellow Voyager guest actor Charles Rocket and fellow Enterprise guest actor Zane Cassidy, the latter of whom played Davison's son in the film.

He went on to have roles in such films as Six Degrees of Separation (1993), The Cure (1995, with John Carroll Lynch and Mary McCusker), The Crucible (1996), Apt Pupil (1998), and At First Sight (1999, co-starring Steven Weber). He also continued acting on television, including multiple appearances as Wyck Fayer on Seinfeld (starring Jason Alexander) and an Emmy Award-nominated performance in a 1998 episode of Touched by an Angel.

Davison is currently best known for playing Senator Robert Kelly in X-Men in 2000, working alongside Star Trek: The Next Generation actors Patrick Stewart and Famke Janssen. Although his character died in that movie, Davison returned for its sequel in 2003 to play the role of a mutant shape-shifter who had taken Senator Kelly's form. His other film credits following the turn of the century include 2001's Crazy/Beautiful (in which he played the father of Kirsten Dunst's character), 2002's High Crimes (working alonside Ashley Judd and co-starring Jude Ciccolella and Enterprise star John Billingsley), 2003's Runaway Jury (with Bruce McGill, Leland Orser, and Henry Darrow), 2006's The Dead Girl (featuring Eva Loseth and Amy Benedict), and 2007's Breach.

In 2002, Davison was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for directing the children's movie Off Season. He also starred in the movie.

Davison had a recurring role as an investment banker accused of murdering his wife on the TV series The Practice, co-starring with the likes of Rene Auberjonois, Jerome Butler, Daniel Davis, Bruce French, Zach Grenier, Dakin Matthews, Tracy Middendorf, Randy Oglesby, Steve Rankin, and Jeremy Roberts. More recently, he had a recurring role as defense attorney Doug Hellman on Close to Home, working with Erich Anderson, Ann Cusack, Jennifer Hetrick, Thomas Kopache, John Carroll Lynch, and Anne Ramsay.

Other TV shows he has appeared on recently include JAG (in an episode with Michael Reilly Burke, Scott Lawrence, and Zoe McLellan), Numb3rs (with Elizabeth Dennehy), J.J. Abrams' Lost (starring Daniel Dae Kim and Terry O'Quinn), and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (starring Thomas Dekker and featuring location work by Scott Trimble). He even appeared on Ronald D. Moore's popular re-imagining of the classic science fiction series Battlestar Galactica, which airs on the Sci-Fi Channel.

Davison will next be seen in the TV movie The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice, directed by Jonathan Frakes.

External links

• Bruce Davison at Wikipedia
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