William B. Davis

Known for ActingBorn 1938-01-13 (age 88)Toronto, Ontario, Canada

William Bruce Davis (born January 13, 1938) is a Canadian actor, known for his role as The Smoking Man on The X-Files. He has also appeared in Stargate SG-1 as Damaris, a Prior of the Ori and as Mayor Tate on Smallville. Most recently he has appeared in FOX's Human Target as an aging mobster. Davis was born in Toronto, Ontario, to an attorney father and psychologist mother. In 1959, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. in philosophy. Afterwards, he went on to become a drama professor at Bishop's University. He is also the founder of the William Davis Centre for Actors Study acting school in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is also a former national champion water skier. Despite being known for his smoking character, Davis actually quit smoking in the 1970s; when The X-Files started up, he was given a choice between herbal cigarettes and actual cigarettes. At first he chose the actual cigarettes, but switched to herbal shortly after for fear of becoming addicted again while playing the Cigarette Smoking Man. He voiced the antagonist Colonel Whitley of the game The Thing. Davis had a co-starring role in a 2001 episode of The Outer Limits revival series, playing the ruthless director of a secret scientific project, in an episode entitled "Worlds Within." Davis also hosts and narrates the series Critical Eye on the Science Channel. In 2011, he will also co-star in The Tall Man. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRead more

Movies & web series

Bribe, Inc.

Dark Pines

Secrets of the X-Files

The Mountain Runners

Broken Saints

The Real 'X-Files'?

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Supernatural

The X-Files

R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour

Stargate SG-1

Smallville

Out of Line

Upload

The Outer Limits

Continuum

MacGyver

Sliders

Focus

Airwolf

Tilt

50 States of Fright

Human Target

Dangerous Intentions

Danger Bay

MythQuest

Deadly Deception

Max Rules: Adventures of a Super Spy

Murder in a Small Town

First Wave

Word of Honor

Andromeda

21 Jump Street

The Commish

Bad Times at the El Royale

Caprica

Inside The X-Files

Not Our Son

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Impossible Dream

Anything to Survive

The X-Files

Sworn to Silence

The Dead Zone

Fear Itself

It

Damage

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Truth Be Told

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