Bruce Allen Davison (born June 28, 1946) is an American actor and director. He's known for his role as Senator Robert Kelly in the X-Men film franchise – through X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003). He's also well known for his starring role as Willard Stiles in the cult horror film Willard (1971) and 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 se...
Known For
Movies
- Short Cuts
1993
- The King Is Alive
2000
- Crazy/Beautiful
2001
- The Crucible
1996
- MegaFault
2009
- The Misfit Brigade
1987
- La Linea
2009
- Justice League: Crisis ...
2010
- High Crimes
2002
- 8MM 2
2005
- The Wave
1981
- Runaway Jury
2003
- Steel and Lace
1991
- Apt Pupil
1998
- Spies Like Us
1985
- Dahmer
2002
- Hate Crime
2005
- Summer Catch
2001
- Charlie's Gift
2016
- The Good Neighbor
2022
- The Horror Show
1979
- The Lathe of Heaven
1980
- Far from Home: The Adve...
1995
- The Dead Girl
2006
- Crimes of Passion
1984
- Mame
1974
- Paulie
1998
- X-Men
2000
- X2
2003
- Ulzana's Raid
1972
- Willard
1971
- The Gathering, Part II
1979
- The Librarian: The Curs...
2008
- Last Summer
1969
- Titanic II
2010
- Arctic Blast
2010
- Camp Hell
2010
- Camera
2024
- High Risk
1981
- The Baby-Sitters Club
1995
- Confession
2005
- Out of the Ashes
2003
- Touched
2005
- A Golden Christmas
2009
- Christmas Angel
2009
- The Strawberry Statement
1970
- Short Eyes
1977
- Influence
2020
- Brass Target
1978
- Off Season
2001
- Munger Road
2011
- Tomorrow's Child
1982
- Been Down So Long It Lo...
1971
- The Roommates
- The Millionaire Tour
2012
- The Lords of Salem
2013
- That Guy... Who Was in ...
2012
- Locked in Silence
1999
- Ghost Dancing
1983
- X-Men: The Mutant Watch
2000
- Live! From Death Row
1992
- Lovelife
1997
- Return of the Killer Sh...
2012
- The Gathering
1977
- Bigfoot
2012
- The Skateboard Kid II
1995
- 3 Holiday Tails
2011
- Saving Lincoln
2013
- On the Edge
2001
- Peege
1973
- Deadman's Curve
1978
- Grand Jury
1977
- Knight Rider
2008
- Words and Pictures
2014
- From the Shadows
2023
- A Memory in My Heart
1999
- Beyond the Heavens
2013
- Someone Else's Child
1994
- Grace of My Heart
1996
- Summer of My German Sol...
1978
- Persecuted
2014
- The Jerusalem File
1972
- Hidden in America
1996
- The Affair
1973
- The Clinic
2004
- Game of Power
- Stealing Roses
2012
- The Last Survivors
1975
- Suitable Flesh
2023
- Six Degrees of Separati...
1993
- 37
2014
- A Mother's Revenge
1993
- Widow's Kiss
1996
- Homage
1995
- Down, Out and Dangerous
1995
- Lies
1983
- Breach
2007
- The Cure
1995
- Black Beauty
2015
- Yamasong: March of the ...
2017
- Evergreen
2004
- Little Girl Fly Away
1998
- Portrait of Grandpa Doc
1977
- Desperate Choices: To S...
1992
- Mind Over Murder
1979
- Condor's Nest
2023
- Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976
- After Jimmy
1996
- Get a Job
2016
- The Leisure Class
2015
- ManFast
2003
- Stolen: One Husband
1990
- Kingdom Hospital
2004
- L.A. Law: The Movie
2002
- French Quarter
1978
- The Curse of Sleeping B...
2016
- Displacement
2016
- It's My Party
1996
- A Schizophrenic Love St...
2011
- At First Sight
1999
- Kiss My Grits
1982
- Along Came the Devil
2018
- Fishes 'n Loaves: Heave...
2016
- Evolution X - The Makin...
2003
- Insidious: The Last Key
2018
- The Bronx Bull
2016
- The Mystery of Casa Mat...
2016
- Last Rampage
2017
- Lady in a Corner
1989
- Love Locks
2017
- Oceanus: Act One
2015
- The Congregation
2011
- Longtime Companion
1989
- A Violent Man
2019
- 9/11
2017
- Stephen King's Golden T...
1985
- Corbin Nash
2018
- The Ladies Club
1986
- God Don't Make the Laws
2011
- Going Shopping
2005
- William Shakespeare's T...
1983
- Bender
2016
- Itsy Bitsy
2019
- Coffin
2011
- Vendetta
1999
- Too Young to Be a Dad
2002
- An Ambush of Ghosts
1993
- The Great Alaskan Race
2019
- Any Bullet Will Do
2018
- More Beautiful for Havi...
2020
- Tales from the Darkside
1990
- Color of Justice
1997
- Cemetery Tales: A Tale ...
2018
- Abnormal Attraction
2018
- Along Came the Devil II
2019
- Wish Man
2019
- A Fairy's Game
2018
- Captors
2020
- Christmas at the Plaza
2019
- The Slider
2017
- Incident at Crestridge
1981
- 108 Stitches
2014
- Skin: A History of Nudi...
2020
- Await the Dawn
2020
- We Still Say Grace
2020
- The Manor
2021
- The Gift of Christmas
2020
- My True Fairytale
2021
- Evil at the Door
2022
- Earth's Final Hours
2011
- The Trial of Adolf Eich...
1997
- On The Couch
- Elwood
2014
- The Lightning Code
2025
TV Shows
- Murder, She Wrote
1984
- Seinfeld
1989
- Star Trek: Enterprise
2001
- Castle
2009
- thirtysomething
1987
- Stephen King's Kingdom ...
2004
- Ghost Whisperer
2005
- CSI: Miami
2002
- Star Trek: Voyager
1995
- Tales from the Crypt
1989
- Battlestar Galactica
2004
- Cybill
1995
- Law & Order: Special Vi...
1999
- The New Alfred Hitchcoc...
1985
- Law & Order: Trial by J...
2005
- Without a Trace
2002
- Hotel
1982
- The L Word
2004
- V
1984
- Criminal Minds
2005
- The Practice
1997
- CSI: Crime Scene Invest...
2000
- Lost
2004
- Close to Home
2005
- Hunter
1984
- Chicago Hope
1994
- The Waltons
1972
- The Triangle
2005
- Police Woman
1974
- Police Story
1973
- Harry and the Hendersons
1991
- Tales from the Darkside
1984
- Drop Dead Diva
2009
- Knight Rider
2008
- The Outer Limits
1995
- Hunter
1984
- Sequestered
2014
- Psych
2006
- Poor Little Rich Girl: ...
1989
- Amazing Stories
1985
- The Fosters
2013
- Kingdom
2014
- Crossing Lines
2013
- Childrens Hospital
2008
- Don't Trust the B---- i...
2012
- Bosch: Legacy
2022
- Ozark
2017
- The Lincoln Lawyer
2022
- Hawaii Five-0
2010
- The Lives of Benjamin F...
1974
- Mourning Becomes Electra
1978
- TripTank
2014
- Those Who Kill
2014
- Blindspot
2015
- Unforgettable
2011
- The Hunger
1997
- Terminator: The Sarah C...
2008
- Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
- Designated Survivor
2016
- 1923
2022
- Leverage
2008
- El Resplandor y las Tin...
- Creepshow
2019
- Last Resort
2012
- The Son
2017
- JAG
1995
- Mozart in the Jungle
2014
- Numb3rs
2005
- Touched by an Angel
1994
- The Closer
2005
- Designing Women
1986
- Golden Globe Awards
1944
- Universal Basic Guys
2024
- The Waltons
1972
- Golden Globe Awards
1944