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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 ... more

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.

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X2
(2003)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.
Runtime:
133 min
Director:
Bryan Singer
Cast:
Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen
7.5
86%
68
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X-Men
(2000)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Bryan Singer
Cast:
Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden
7.4
81%
64
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Runaway Jury
(2003)
Drama, Thriller
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Gary Fleder
Cast:
John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce McGill
7.1
73%
61
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Short Cuts
(1993)
Comedy, Drama
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker start...
Runtime:
187 min
Director:
Robert Altman
Cast:
Julianne Moore, Andie MacDowell, Tim Robbins, Jack Lemmon, Anne Archer
7.7
95%
79
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Breach
(2007)
Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation of Hanssen's sexual habits, however Hanssen is really suspected of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Billy Ray
Cast:
Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert
7.0
84%
74
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The Crucible
(1996)
Drama, History
Based upon the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller (who wrote the screen adaptation), the Salem witch trials in 1692 plunge the Massachusetts Bay colony into chaos.
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Nicholas Hytner
Cast:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison
6.8
69%
N/A
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Apt Pupil
(1998)
Drama, Thriller
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Bryan Singer
Cast:
Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, David Schwimmer, Elias Koteas
6.7
53%
51
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Spies Like Us
(1985)
Adventure, Comedy
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
John Landis
Cast:
Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison
6.4
32%
22
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High Crimes
(2002)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Carl Franklin
Cast:
Ashley Judd, Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel, Jim Caviezel
6.4
N/A
48
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Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
(2010)
Action, Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction
A heroic version of Lex Luthor from an alternate universe appears to recruit the Justice League to help save his Earth from the Crime Syndicate, an evil version of the League. What ensues is the ultimate battle of good versus evil in a war that threatens both planets and, through a devious plan launched by Batman's counterpart Owlman, ...
Runtime:
75 min
Director:
Sam Liu, Lauren Montgomery
Cast:
Mark Harmon, William Baldwin, James Woods, Nolan North, Chris Noth
7.3
N/A
N/A
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Six Degrees of Separation
(1993)
Comedy, Drama, Mystery
The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Fred Schepisi
Cast:
Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Stockard Channing, Ian McKellen, Mary Beth Hurt
6.8
88%
72
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Crazy/Beautiful
(2001)
Drama, Romance
At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
John Stockwell
Cast:
Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Bruce Davison, Herman Osorio, Miguel Castro
6.4
63%
61
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Insidious: The Last Key
(2018)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Adam Robitel
Cast:
Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Josh Stewart, Caitlin Gerard
5.7
33%
49
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The Dead Girl
(2006)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Karen Moncrieff
Cast:
Toni Collette, Brittany Murphy, Piper Laurie, Giovanni Ribisi, James Franco
6.6
N/A
65
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The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice
(2008)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
While on a dangerous mission to recover the historic Judas Chalice, Flynn is saved by Simone. But when double-crossed by a respected professor and ambushed by a ruthless gang, Flynn realizes Simone's secret, his true mission and a shocking discovery are all lying within a decaying New Orleans crypt.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Jonathan Frakes
Cast:
Noah Wyle, Noah Wyle, Bob Newhart, Stana Katic, Bruce Davison
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Paulie
(1998)
Comedy, Family
Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulie's story begins many years earlier when he is given as a gift to a little girl who stutters. Eventually, he teaches the girl to speak correct...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
John Roberts
Cast:
Gena Rowlands, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison, Trini Alvarado
6.5
62%
N/A
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At First Sight
(1999)
Drama, Romance
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
Runtime:
128 min
Director:
Irwin Winkler
Cast:
Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis, Steven Weber, Bruce Davison
6.0
32%
40
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Words and Pictures
(2014)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Runtime:
111 min
6.6
N/A
49
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The Triangle
(2005)
Fantasy
A group of people haunted by their experiences within the Bermuda Triangle band together to confront its truths.
Runtime:
240 min
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Kingdom Hospital
(2004)
Horror
Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died.
Runtime:
608 min
Director:
Craig R. Baxley
Cast:
Jamie Harrold, Diane Ladd, Bruce Davison, Jack Coleman, Julian Richings
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Knight Rider
(2008)
Science Fiction, TV Movie
When a group of ruthless mercenaries kill a reclusive scientist, his creation, a new model of artificially intelligent supercar, escapes to find his daughter and recruit a ex-soldier to thwart them. Pilot for the reboot of the television series Knight Rider.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Steve Shill
Cast:
Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Bruce Davison, Greg Ellis
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Ulzana's Raid
(1972)
Action, Drama, Western
Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and l...
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Robert Aldrich
Cast:
Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Richard Jaeckel, Joaquin Martinez
7.1
86%
N/A
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Dahmer
(2002)
Drama, Horror
On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his life.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
David Jacobson
Cast:
Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison, Artel Great, Kate Williamson, Matt Newton
5.6
72%
63
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The Lords of Salem
(2012)
Horror, Thriller
Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record - a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?
Runtime:
101 min
5.1
45%
57
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Crimes of Passion
(1984)
Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Joanna Crane lives a double life. During the day she works as fashion designer but during the night she is the high class prostitute China Blue. As she is accused for industrial spying, Bobby Grady is hired to shadow her. However, they fall in love. Meanwhile a psychopathic preacher starts stalking her.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Ken Russell
Cast:
Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, Bruce Davison, Annie Potts, John Laughlin
6.3
33%
N/A
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Summer Catch
(2001)
Comedy, Romance
Local boy Ryan Dunne, now a pitcher for Boston College, meets Tenley Parrish, the daughter of a wealthy couple who summer on the Cape. Ryan and Tenley fall in love, much to the chagrin of their families, while Ryan clings to one last hope of being discovered and signed to a pro baseball contract.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Mike Tollin
Cast:
Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel, Fred Ward, Matthew Lillard, Brian Dennehy
5.0
8%
21
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Grace of My Heart
(1996)
Comedy, Drama, Music
An aspiring singer, Denise Waverly/Edna Buxton, sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. The film follows her life from her first break, through the pain of rejection from the recording industry and a bad marriage, to her final triumph in realizing her dream to record her own hit al...
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Allison Anders
Cast:
Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Eric Stoltz, Matt Dillon, Bridget Fonda
6.7
77%
N/A
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The Wave
(1981)
Drama, TV Movie
A teacher plays a mental game with some of his students. Based on a true story.
Runtime:
44 min
Director:
Alexander Grasshoff
Cast:
Bruce Davison, Lori Lethin, John Putch, Johnny Doran
7.1
N/A
N/A
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The Baby-Sitters Club
(1995)
Comedy, Drama, Family
Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Melanie Mayron
Cast:
Schuyler Fisk, Bre Blair, Rachael Leigh Cook, Larisa Oleynik, Zelda Harris
5.8
64%
N/A
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The Lathe of Heaven
(1980)
Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction, TV Movie, Thriller
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind --- with bizarre and frightening results.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Fred Barzyk, David R. Loxton
Cast:
Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Peyton E. Park, Niki Flacks, Vandi Clark
7.2
N/A
N/A
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The Millionaire Tour
(2012)
Action, Drama, Thriller
A mysterious cab passenger taken hostage must convince the hijackers that he is not the con man they set out to kill.
Runtime:
80 min
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
(1995)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's parents relentlessly badger rescue teams. Angus, schooled by his father in wilderness survival skil...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Phillip Borsos
Cast:
Mimi Rogers, Jesse Bradford, Bruce Davison, Tom Bower, Joel Palmer
6.4
57%
N/A
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Willard
(1971)
Horror, Science Fiction
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Daniel Mann
Cast:
Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine, Sondra Locke, Michael Dante
6.2
63%
N/A
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That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
(2012)
Documentary
Documentary about sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood. They've played cops, lawyers, bosses, best friends, psychopaths, politicians and everything in between. Now you'll know who they are.
Runtime:
79 min
Director:
Ian Roumain, Michael Schwartz
Cast:
Zeljko Ivanek, Craig Fairbrass, Xander Berkeley, Bruce Davison, Timothy Omundson
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Mother, Jugs & Speed
(1976)
Comedy
Mother, Jugs and Speed work for a ambulance company competing for a L.A. city contract.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Peter Yates
Cast:
Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield, Larry Hagman
5.9
50%
N/A
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The King Is Alive
(2000)
Drama
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Kristian Levring
Cast:
Romane Bohringer, David Calder, David Bradley, Brion James, Miles Anderson
6.3
60%
52
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Mame
(1974)
Comedy, Music
Following the death of his father, an orphan is sent to live with his free-spirited aunt.
Runtime:
132 min
Director:
Gene Saks
Cast:
Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur, Robert Preston, Bruce Davison, Kirby Furlong
6.0
29%
N/A
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Last Summer
(1969)
Drama
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Frank Perry
Cast:
Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, Bruce Davison, Ernesto Gonzalez
7.1
86%
N/A
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The Line
(2009)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The story centers around veteran assassin Mark Shields as he tracks down, Pelon, the elusive head of the Salazar Crime Cartel. Through twists of fate, Shields ends up with a local woman, Olivia who is also fighting her own demons for the sake of her daughter. Set in the rich and atmospheric backdrop of Tijuana, Mexico, La Linea (The Li...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
James Cotten
Cast:
Ray Liotta, Andy GarcĂ­a, Esai Morales, Armand Assante, Valerie Cruz
5.2
N/A
N/A
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The Misfit Brigade
(1987)
War
War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Gordon Hessler
Cast:
Bruce Davison, David Patrick Kelly, D.W. Moffett, Jay O. Sanders, Keith Szarabajka
5.8
N/A
N/A