William B. Davis Trailers
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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.
Most Popular William B. Davis Trailers
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12 October 1988
Even though a devastating murder took place during a small town's horror film festival two years earlier, townspeople want another festival.
13 September 2015
The POstables are on a mission to deliver a soldier's letter from Afghanistan to a teenager who's being relentlessly bullied, while Oliver's estranged father surprises him with news that shakes him to his core.
01 November 1995
Patty Duke plays a divorced woman who goes to law school to defend herself in court after a chauvinistic judge awards her rotten husband their property.
06 December 2003
Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder.
03 October 2008
A formerly athletic retiree has a crippling heart attack in his late sixties. He challenges his fate to compete again in the National Water Ski Championships.
29 August 2004
Packing up his office on his last day, a university professor discovers that retirement may not be what he had hoped.
06 April 1987
A lawyer who is defending an accused murderer, is told by his client the whereabouts of the bodies. However, being his lawyer, he is unable to reveal this information.
19 June 1998
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
26 October 2002
In 1815 a monk, Tomas Alcala, unwittingly unleashes two female succubi, Munkar and Nakir, upon an unsuspecting 21st century.
09 April 2024
The making of the 2023 horror comedy It's a Wonderful Knife as told by the filmmakers, queers, enbys and trans people who brought it to life.
25 August 2017
Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.
09 May 1994
For Fred and Karen Schouten, the news that she is pregnant is most welcome, having been trying for a while with no success.
04 October 2015
The Postables work against the clock decoding a letter to rescue a soldier in Afghanistan and reunite her with her family, while Rita competes for the national Miss Special Delivery title in Washington, D.
09 April 2007
A federal judge’s life is disrupted by sexual assault, blackmail and murder after she’s put on the shortlist to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat.
30 August 2003
A sexually charged power struggle ensues when a university professor confronts his young student with evidence of cheating.
04 October 2018
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past.
27 September 2012
The story of America's first mountain endurance/adventure foot race, the Mount Baker Marathon, which took place in Bellingham, Washington.
01 January 2001
After ignoring death for most of our history, the medical and scientific communities have begun to focus their attention on how our bodies behave on our journey to the great beyond.
19 April 1995
A psychopath is obsessed with the wife of his longtime friend, which leads to a series of brutal murders.
21 October 1983
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years.
02 February 2007
When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows.
30 April 2007
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings.
26 September 2008
After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors.
05 October 2009
An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim.
23 March 2018
Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.
22 August 2001
When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that leaves them out of any royalties, the pair travels to Tinseltown to sabotage the production.
19 March 2012
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
12 October 1989
After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver.
02 January 1998
An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
05 February 1990
A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse.
06 August 2010
Capturing the sadistic serial killer "The Wolf" was just the beginning for rookie cop Johnny Morgan. As he escorts the monster to his new home in the dark underground halls of Parker's Asylum, bedlam ensues and Johnny along with a handful of civilians become players in a night of survival against the world's most terrifying inmates.
09 February 2013
A courier for a local crime lord must deliver a mysterious package while being chased by a horde of unusual gangsters.
30 August 2009
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it.
31 August 2000
Story of a struggling New York actor who discovers the formula for success and suddenly finds himself richer and more famous than he could have imagined.
24 November 2006
If you think your dating life is hard, check out what happens to poor Laney! Talk about a love hangover: The nice guy this prominent attorney spent last night with winds up being the main suspect in the brutal murder of a Chicago city councilman.
19 July 1991
Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys.
04 December 2015
VICE meets up with Joe Nickell, a longtime paranormal investigator who’s been called the real-life Scully.
10 November 2006
A reporter witnesses a brutal murder and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of twins.
16 July 2009
A woman's life is thrown into chaos after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law into comas.
17 January 2000
Seriously strapped for cash, three college roommates decide to solve their financial woes by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
29 October 2006
After her dad is critically injured in a so-called hunting accident, Maggie returns to her hometown in the mountains of Colorado to be by his side.
03 February 2002
Special Agent Rachel Anderson is charged with protecting a key witness, Richard Harper. But Harper himself is a suspect in several bomb attacks, one of which killed Rachel's partner.
10 November 2023
Winnie's life is less than wonderful one year after saving her town from a psychotic killer on Christmas Eve.
01 May 1991
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man.
18 May 2010
A smart, attractive, ER physician, Beth, turns to an internet site for medical personnel to share the frustrations of her job and the stress of her family life and connects with someone.
15 January 2011
Scientists discover a giant creature under the Earth that is wrapped around the entire planet. When the creature wakes all grumpy, it causes worldwide destruction.
13 March 2004
A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings.
06 June 1985
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions.
23 February 1996
Seattle medical examiner David Krane is obsessed with solving his wife's murder. A possible solution presents itself in an experimental "memory" serum designed by a neurobiology professor, which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but with potentially fatal consequences.
28 November 1999
In 1981, former RCMP Undercover Agent "Patrick Kelly" was accused of causing the mysterious death of his wife.
15 June 2006
On a secret military base a group of scientists have made a discovery unequaled since the invention of the A-bomb; code-named Eruptor, it's a device that supercharges Dark Matter and uses it to change the molecular structure of its target, thereby eradicating it.
05 July 2019
A depressed dentist in mid-life crisis tries to learn why one of his happiest patients suddenly commits suicide, and a dark comedic adventure ensues.
11 September 2010
Amazon Falls tells the story of a faded B-movie actress JANA who refuses to let go of her dream of being a star.
13 March 2013
Singularity Principle is a feature length science-fiction film about the consequences of renegade experiments into Parallel Universes.
01 February 1998
Inside the X-Files for a behind-the-scenes look at the show. Also included are interviews with the cast and creator Chris Carter, never before seen segments from the show, outtakes and a sneak preview of the upcoming feature film.
09 June 2011
Six years after a violent car crash claimed her parents' lives, Jesse is still trying to put her life back together.
03 March 1995
A Seattle household secretly cooperates with police in a case that links a family member to widespread arson.
11 August 1999
A mysterious disease threatens airline passengers.
18 July 2017
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives.
28 February 2001
A psychic's investigation into the disappearance of a Senator's daughter leads her to a dangerous cult and the truth about her mysterious past.
