B: January 13, 1938 in Toronto, Ontario
William Bruce Davis started acting as a child, working in summer stock with The Straw Hat Players in Ontario and working in radio drama for the CBC in the early 1950s. He gave up acting for a time while at university and then embarked on a twenty year career as a theatre director and acting teacher. In the early 1980s, he drifted back to acting. Within a few years his acting career had blossomed and anyone old enough to remember The X-Files knows he played the iconic “Cigarette Smoking Man” on the hit series and returns in that role in the updated series for 2016. In real life he was, and remains, a non-smoker. He founded the William Davis Centre for Actors’ Study in 1989. |
Features & TV Movies: The Dead Zone (1983) Anything to Survive (TV-1990) Killing Moon (TV-2000) Behemoth (2010)
TV Series – Cast: Body & Soul (2002) Continuum (2012-2015) |