Bruce Davison is an award-winning, acclaimed performer. Bruce Davison first gained notoriety on the Broadway stage in the role of Troilus in Tiger at the Gates. Following his breakthrough debut, Davison's versatile talent continued to shine in numerous theater productions, notably Streamers and The Normal Heart, both of which earned him the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award. Throughout the seventies and eighties, he entranced audiences and critics alike with riveting performances as John Merrick in Broadway's The Elephant Man; as Tom opposite Jessica Tandy in The Glass Menagerie; as Clarence in Richard III; as well as prominent roles in The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, directed by Henry Fonda, and Off-Broadway plays, A Home Away from Home, The Cocktail Hour and How I Learned to Drive.
His portrayal of David, a middle-aged gay man, caring for his life partner dying of AIDS in the critically lauded and ground-breaking film, Longtime Companion, garnered numerous Best Supporting Actor honors, including a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a National Society of Film Critics Award and a New York Film Critics Circle Award as well as an Academy Award nomination. Davison made his film debut in the coming-of-age film, Last Summer, co-starring Barbara Hershey and Richard Thomas. He went on to star in The Strawberry Statement, and then the serie thriller Willard. Not one to shy away from the controversial, Mr. Davison portrayed a child molester in Robert M. Young's prison drama Short Eyes, Jeffrey Dahmer's father in Dahmer, and a bigoted, murderous pastor in Hate Crime. He appeared opposite Burt Lancaster in Ulzana's Raid and Lucille Ball in Mame.
In addition to acting, in 2001, he directed and co-starred in the holiday television movie Off Season, garnering a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special.
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