Acting
William B. Davis
Biography
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 encyclopedia
Movies with William B. Davis
Midnight Matinee
1988
Death Note
2017
Bad Times at the El Royale
2018
The X-Files
1998
The Dead Zone
1983
The Messengers
2007
Passengers
2008
Look Who's Talking
1989
Damage
2009
Game Over, Man!
2018
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
2001
The Tall Man
2012
Head Office
1985
The Hitman
1991
Numb
2007
The Thaw
2009
Omen IV: The Awakening
1991
Judicial Indiscretion
2007
The Package
2013
It's a Wonderful Knife
2023
Stonados
2013
Saint Sinner
2002
Dark Storm
2006
Behemoth
2011
Word of Honor
2003
Unforgettable
1996
The Proposal
2001
Killing Moon
1999
Voyage of Terror
1998
Not Our Son
1995
Web of Desire
2010
Out of Line
2001
Possession
2009
Heart of a Child
1994
Sisters
2006
Sworn to Silence
1987
Don't Talk to Strangers
1994
Better Off
2024
Rise of the Damned
2011
Snakehead Terror
2004
Abduct
2016
Amazon Falls
2010
The Cradle Will Fall
2004
Medium Raw
2010
Phil
2019
More Secrets of the X-Files
1996
Becoming Dick
2000
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Impossible Dream
2015
Exhuming 'The Messengers'
2007
Deadly Deception
1987
Circumstances Unknown
1995
Dark Pines
2005
Aftermath
2002
Secrets of the X-Files
1995
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Truth Be Told
2015
Flowers for Norma
2010
Inside The X-Files
1998
Dangerous Intentions
1995
Mindstorm
2001
Residue
2017
The Real 'X-Files'?
2015
Science Of Death
2001
Singularity Principle
2013
Bribe, Inc.
2024
Anthrax
2001
100 Days in the Jungle
2002
Her Fatal Flaw
2006
The Doctor's Case
2018
Anything to Survive
1990
The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying
2004
2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be
2016
Max Rules: Adventures of a Super Spy
2005
Goose on the Loose
2006
The Secret of Hidden Lake
2006
Murder Most Likely
1999
Fear Itself: In Sickness and in Health
2008
Focus
2014
The Mountain Runners
2012
Something Evil Comes
2009
The Cuckoo Bird
1985
When the Vows Break
1995
Perpetrators of the Crime
2000
Packing Up
2004
Reverse
2008
TV Shows with William B. Davis
Supernatural
2005
Smallville
2001
Stargate SG-1
1997
The X-Files
1993
MacGyver
1985
21 Jump Street
1987
Sliders
1995
Andromeda
2000
Airwolf
1984
The Outer Limits
1995
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
2010
Continuum
2012
It
1990
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
2018
Upload
2020
Human Target
2010
The Commish
1991
First Wave
1998
Wiseguy
1987
Caprica
2010
Murder in a Small Town
2024
Fear Itself
2008
Danger Bay
1985
50 States of Fright
2020
Tilt
2005
Robson Arms
2005
Poltergeist: The Legacy
1996
MythQuest
2001
Broken Saints
2001
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
Nightmare Cafe
1992