Brad Davis
Birthday: Born in 1949-11-06 in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
Deathday: 1991-09-08
Robert Creel "Brad" Davis (November 6, 1949 – September 8, 1991) was an American actor, known for starring in the 1978 film Midnight Express and 1982 film Querelle.
TV Credits
The Twilight Zone
Character: Arthur Lewis (segment "Button, Button")
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy....
Baretta
Character: Ray
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title...
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Arthur
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents....
The Hitchhiker
Character: Rulack
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series....
Robert Kennedy & His Times
Character: Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy & His Times is a 1985 American television miniseries directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. The miniseries was released in three parts and depicts the life of Robert F. Kennedy....
Chiefs
Character: Sonny Butts
Three different police chiefs in three different eras become involved in a growing mystery -- who is the mass murderer behind the killing of transient youths in and around the fictional southern town of Delano over a forty year period?...
Sybil
Character: Richard
A young woman whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 13 different personalities....
A Rumor of War
Character: Philip "Phil" Caputo
Miniseries based on the 1977 autobiography by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War....
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker...
Movie Credits
The Player
Character: Brad Davis
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?...
Midnight Express
Character: Billy Hayes
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express"....
Cold Steel
Character: Johnny Modine
On Christmas Eve, Johnny Modine's father is murdered by a psycho cut-throat. The cop swears bloody revenge, though he's taken off the case. He doesn't suspect yet that he's also the target in a diabolic plan of revenge....
Chariots of Fire
Character: Jackson Scholz
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest....
The Greatest Man in the World
Character: Jack Smurch
This version of James Thurber's tale tells the story of a young amateur pilot who beats Charles Lindbergh's feat of nonstop flying around the world--with his own unique ways of conserving fuel and energy....
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
Character: Tony Cimo
A true story of the lives of a family from South Carolina torn apart after the murder of Bill and Myrtle Moon. Although the killer is caught the judicial system takes too long for the Moon's devoted stepson and he takes matter into his own hands....
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Character: Count Claus von Stauffenberg
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government....
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
Character: Neil Travers
Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985....
Unspeakable Acts
Character: Joseph Braga
Two psychologists try to demonstrate that a man is a pedophile and has abused many children....
Hangfire
Character: Sheriff Ike Slayton
When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders determined to kill or capture all the convicts, even if it means killing all the hostages in the crossfire....
A Small Circle of Friends
Character: Leonardo DaVinci Rizzo
In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica, Leo and Nick grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by romantic feelings both men develop for Jessica....
Blood Ties
Character: Julian Salina
An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia....
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Phillip Francis Queeg
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny"....
Heart
Character: Eddie
Eddie Brennan is a down-and out fighter with nowhere to go but up... and with just the right combination of guts and spirit to become a winner. Once a contender, Brennan is now a washed-up has-been living in a fantasy world halfway between the dreams of his glory days and the dreams of a comeback. And when a set-up fight disguised as a legitimate bout comes his way, he jumps at the chance. No one thinks Eddie can win... least of all his trainer. No one wants Eddie to win... especially the crooke...
Child of Darkness, Child of Light
Character: Dr. Tuckner
A Catholic priest is sent to investigate reports of two virgin conceptions. One is about to give birth to the child of God and the other is the child of the Devil and he must decide which one is good and which one is evil before Satan's followers can stop him....
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Character: Ray 'Liebling' Greenspace
Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top....
Mrs. Reinhardt
Character: The American
An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at a French hotel....
When the Time Comes
Character: Dean
A terminally ill woman seeks assistance in taking her life when her husband refuses....
The Habitation of Dragons
Character: George Tolliver
Two brothers of totally different natures live in a small town in Texas. Since the death of their father they confront one another all the time for all kind of major and minor problems....
The Edge
Character: Kenny
A three-part anthology suspense program in which men and women face life's ultimate danger zone. Each episode is introduced by a mysterious figure known as The Watcher (Barry Sattels), who arrives on the scene just as strange things being to happen - pushing men and women in crisis over the edge and into bizarre, unexpected actions....
The Secret Life of John Chapman
Character: Andy Chapman
The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life outside his well-ordered but insulated college environment....
Querelle
Character: Querelle
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was....