William B. Davis
出生 : 1938-01-13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
略歴
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.
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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.
Roger Evans
After saving her town from a psychotic killer, Winnie Carruthers' life is less than wonderful. When she wishes she'd never been born, she finds herself in a nightmare parallel universe where without her, things could be much, much worse.
Mr. M
Crystal is a Texan orphan with a horrible and tragic past. Her parents ritually abuse her, but one night strange lights appear outside her home and she blacks out to awake and find them brutally murdered. A few years later when she is a young adult, Crystal flees her Orphanage believing that other worldly forces are after her. Arriving at a remote ranch, she is discovered by a family who are forced to protect her and discover that alien paranormal phenomena is real
Father Grant
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.
Judge Gordon Hoffman
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
Ray - Security
Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.
Radio Host
死神が落としたノートを駆使し、悪人を葬り去る闇の存在となったライト・ターナー。だが謎の名探偵、そして1人の同級生の存在が、その運命を大きく変えていく。
Lamont
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.
Zane
A Texan paranormal radio host, Ridley Kay leads a fairly ordinary existence, until a strange orphan with a tragic past comes crashing into his life. Convinced other-worldly forces are after her, Kay attempts to protect the young girl from an onslaught of deadly alien and extra-terrestrial phenomena. However, as the strange lights continue to stalk her, he discovers the world of the paranormal might be far more sinister than anyone has possibly imagined.
Granddad
In the year 2204, the Earth has become a dystopian wasteland. In order to maintain strict population levels, any newborn is only permitted to live if another person's life is traded in and a receipt issued. Edward K. Wehling, Jr. sits in Chicago Lying-In Hospital waiting for the birth of his triplets, except he has no receipts to collect them.
Himself
VICE meets up with Joe Nickell, a longtime paranormal investigator who’s been called the real-life Scully. We travel with him to Roswell, NM on the anniversary of the 1947 UFO Crash to talk to believers, skeptics and UFO witnesses alike to see if the truth is really out there.
Harper
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.C.
Harper
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.
Mr. Grant
A company man struggles to save his career, his romantic relationship and his friendship with his colleagues in this corporate comedy.
Ben
A storm chaser tries to save Boston from destruction when a freak tornado bombards the city with huge boulders.
Lawrence Cason
Singularity Principle is a feature length science-fiction film about the consequences of renegade experiments into Parallel Universes. Co-written and directed (with Austin Hines) by physicist Dr. David Deranian, the film pays particular attention to accurate scientific detail. The story starts off with the disappearance of noted scientist Professor Jack Brenner (John Diehl) during a fateful parallel universe experiment. Jack's protégé, Dr. Peter Tanning (Michael Denis) is being interrogated by Dr. Lawrence Cason (William B. Davis) of a clandestine Black-Ops Agency to learn about the experiment and to find out what happened to Jack Brenner. Lawrence makes it clear that he wants to know everything about the experiment, including how parallel universes can be manipulated. The story unfolds with Peter describing the events of the experiment up to the fateful day where...
Dr. Willhelm
シカゴで用心棒をしている元戦闘部隊員トミー。ある荷物をかつての仲間であるジャーマンに届ける仕事を引き受けるが、次々に刺客が現れて……。スティーヴ・オースティンとドルフ・ラングレンの激闘アクション。
Henry Engberg
The story of America's first mountain endurance/adventure foot race, which took place in Bellingham, Washington. First run in 1911, the grueling 28 to 32 mile race to the glacial summit of Mount Baker and back lasted only three years due to its dangers. Told in a docudrama style, the film incorporates vintage images, historic film, visual graphics and 3D effects, and recreated dramatizations starring William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files).
Sheriff Chestnut
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
Doctor
Six years after a violent car crash claimed her parents' lives, Jesse is still trying to put her life back together. The situation is complicated by the fact that her parents virtually vanished, as did the accident wreckage, so there's no evidence for the police and certainly no closure for her. Jesse meets her fears head-on when she and a group of filmmakers break into an abandoned mental institution, she immediately experiences a visceral deja-vu. The asylum seems somehow connected to her missing parents and furthermore, the building is far from deserted. The group discovers that a sinister doctor has taken up residence in the building's vast underground and he is using extreme science trying to bring his wife back from the dead! The basement also contains the countless remains of the doctor's failed experiments, all of which are now slowly coming back to life when they make contact with a murky substance that has begun to leak out of several holding tanks!
William Walsh
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.
Calvin
Amazon Falls tells the story of a faded B-movie actress JANA who refuses to let go of her dream of being a star. Famous for her roles in Amazon movies where she portrayed a variety of pre-Xena warrior-princesses, she desperately tries to keep her leg in the B-movie game, and pursues her career with a zealous fervor.
Dr. Robert Parker
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.
Veltz
An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.
Mr. Dutton
When a young lawyer is murdered to cover up a dangerous corporate secret, his sister must face off against the ruthless killer sent to finish the job. Trapped by a severe thunderstorm in her family's secluded estate manor, she and a handful of friends must fight to survive nature's assault and that of the killer sent to silence them all for good.
Ted
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. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
Hypnotist
A woman's life is thrown into chaos after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law into comas. Thrills arrive after the brother-in-law wakes up, thinking he's his brother.
Jack
セラピストをしているドクター、クレア・サマーズは、ある日飛行機事故で生存した５人を受け持つことになった。
グループカウンセリングの度に、窓の外にある人物の影が…そして、メンバーが一人ずつ消えていく…。
クレアは徐々に、航空会社が過失を組織ぐるみで隠すために、生存者を口封じのため狙っているものと疑い出し、解明のため奔走する。
その中、生存者の一人エリックは、唯一自宅での個人カウンセリングを希望。
事故のショックからか、躁状態とも言える彼の突拍子もない行動に、振り回されっぱなしのクレア。しかし、自分の心の痛みにそっと寄り添ってくれている彼に、戸惑いながらも次第に惹かれていく。
そして、最後に意外な真相が明かされることに…。
Peter Milbank
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a dizzying variety of pills get him through the day, but don't quite solve his problem. His writing partner tries everything to get him back to normal, but it's not until Hudson meets Sara that he finds a real motivation to get better and to actually start feeling again. From the writer of Deuce Bigalow, comes NUMB, a romantic comedy following an unusual man looking for strange love.
Senator Garland Wolf
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.
Colby Price
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. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions and endure attacks from a supernatural source. Jess must warn her disbelieving family before it is too late to save them.
Richard O'Brien
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. If that isn't bad enough, his only alibi is his one-night-stand with Laney. Watch what happens when this talented lawyer puts her career - and her heart - on the line.
Dr. Lucas Bryant
A reporter witnesses a brutal murder, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of Siamese twins who were separated at birth, one of them forced to live under the eye of a watchful, controlling psychiatrist.
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. But during her stay, this devoted daughter learns that the shooting was no mistake. As Maggie attempts to unravel the mystery of what really happened, secrets start to surface that put her life in grave danger! Grab some popcorn and kick back for this thrill ride.
General Killion
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. But when the Eruptor malfunctions and a leading scientist on the project is blasted with Dark Matter, he receives incredible abilities
Max and his friends Jessica and Scott get their thrills by spying on their families sneaking into each others houses and organizing elaborate pranks. Thanks to Max's Uncle, a Government Scientist, they have access to some of the most modern and Hi-tech equipment in the world. When they discover the whereabouts of a stolen FBI microchip Max and his friends must use their skills and cutting edge technology to embark on what could prove to be the most risky and exciting mission of their lives.
Alderman Godfrey Shepcote
In late 19th century Toronto, Detective William Murdoch investigates the murder of a young girl found in the red light district. When a possible witness to the murder is also killed, Murdoch must stop the killer before he strikes again.
Doc Jenkins
A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into the local lake in the hopes of reviving the local fishing industry. Thriving on the hormones, the Snakehead fish grow to monstrous proportions, devouring everything within reach. Capable of moving and eating on land, they are forced to leave the now barren lake in a desperate search for food - animal, vegetable or human.
Alex Myerson
The suicide of a pregnant woman begins to look like murder and a county prosecutor is called in to investigate.
Father Michael
In 1815 a monk, Tomas Alcala, unwittingly unleashes two female succubi, Munkar and Nakir, upon an unsuspecting 21st century. He is chosen by God to travel through the centuries and stop the demons' rampage.
Deputy Director Edwards
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. Stars Sean Young and Tim Post.
Cigarette Smoking Man (uncredited)
ジェイとサイレントボブは、彼らに基づいたスーパーヒーローコミックであるブラントマンとクロニックの映画が撮影されていることを知ると、友人のバンクーエドワーズが彼らを裏切っており、そのための画像の権利を取得できないことを知ります。 インターネット上でドルを見ずに売り切れたと非難される様子を見た後、彼らはハリウッドに旅行して映画を妨害することに決めました。
Parish
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.
Agent Frank Gruning
An undercover cop lets his job get personal while on an underground assignment.
Tye Crow
When cattle mysteriously start dying of anthrax in a small Alberta ranching community, an RCMP officer tries to keep the peace as ranchers lay the blame on a local agricultural research center. A reporter encourages the angry ranchers - led by the Mountie's mother-in-law - to stage a sit-in at the research center. When an eccentric old rancher dies after being exposed to a deadly strain of anthrax, the protesters are quarantined. No one notices that the reporter has disappeared - along with several vials of the deadly bacteria. The RCMP officer begins his own investigation, gleaning information from a U.S. government agent. He finds himself racing against time to recover the stolen anthrax.
Dr. Hardwin
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.
In 1981, former RCMP Undercover Agent "Patrick Kelly" was accused of causing the mysterious death of his wife. Managing to elude the authorities, Kelly married his second wife, and continued to live the extravagant lifestyle he so desperately desired. However, in 1984, based on the testimony of a key witness, Kelly was finally convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, (allegedly by throwing her off the balcony of their luxury high-rise condo). But then a whole ten years later, the witness claimed she lied on the stand.
Henderson
Seriously strapped for cash, three college roommates decide to solve their financial woes by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy businessman. But the rookie criminals make a huge mistake when they accidentally grab the wrong girl (Tori Spelling). What started out as a simple plan turns into a big mess as the friends struggle to keep up with their hostage's demands. Sean Devine, Danny Strong and Mark Burgess star in this comedy.
Ed
A mysterious disease threatens airline passengers.
The Cigarette-Smoking Man
Xファイル課の閉鎖後、現場任務にまわされたFBI捜査官のモルダーとスカリーは、ビル爆破事件の責任を問われ、左遷の危機にさらされる。スカリーが辞職の決意を固めたと知って、やけ酒をあおるモルダー。そんな彼に、父の友人と名乗る医師が接近。爆破されたビルに、謎の死を遂げた少年と救助隊員の死体があったことを告げる。これをきっかけに事件の調査を始めたモルダーは、おそるべきエイリアン・ウィルスと、その背後にある秘密機関の正体に近づいていく。
Himself
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.
Dr. Norman Ellisy
An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
Dr. Alexander
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.
Gene Reuschel
Judd Nelson plays a psychopath whose obsession with the wife of his longtime friend leads to a string of brutal murders in this adaptation of Jonellen Heckler's 1993 suspense novel.
Police Chief
A Seattle household secretly cooperates with police in a case that links a family member to widespread arson.
Huddleston
After Jane's first marriage collapses, she and her new husband Patrick Brody attempt to build a new life and move to a new state. However, her ex-husband follows them with a view to revenge.
Vern
A drama directed by Sandor Stern.
Lawyer (uncredited)
Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys, Gene and Karen York. When Karen realizes her baby was born under suspicious circumstances, she hires a private investigator to find Delia's real parents. A series of bizarre accidents occur, and Karen begins to suspect everyone of conspiring against her as she unravels the truth about her baby.
Dr. Atkins
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. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
Dr Reynolds
A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse.
Drug Doctor
Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late.
Heath Harris
Even though a devastating murder took place during a small town's horror film festival two years earlier, townspeople want another festival.
Peter Massio
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.
Lawyer
Laurie Shoat, a young mother, struggling with post-partum depression, is found dead and her baby is missing. The police assume it was a murder-suicide, but her husband Jack isn't convinced. He believes that his baby may still be alive and begins a search to clear his wife's name and to find the infant.
University Dean
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.
Ambulance Driver
田舎町の高校教師ジョニー・スミスは恋人とデートが終わった帰り道、自動車事故に会い昏睡状態となってしまう。５年が経ち奇跡的に昏睡から目覚めたジョニー。かつての恋人は結婚し両親も老い全てから取り残された彼には触れた人の過去や未来を瞬時に見抜く超常的な力が備わっていた。そんな彼に助けを求め群がる人々に嫌気がさし隠れるように暮らすジョニーだが、偶然触れた議会議員候補にとんでもない未来を見てしまう。苦悩した末、彼はついにある行動を起こす。
