Brad DavisFilmography

Born:: November 6, 1949 in Tallahassee, FL
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Robert Davis
Biography:: American actor Brad Davis set out for a show-business life after winning a music talent contest in his teens. After studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Davis worked in a number of New York stage productions. On TV, he was one of many cast members of the 1977 miniseries Roots, in the...Read More

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The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

4/10/92
The Habitation of Dragons

Synopsis: A dreary and depressing tale despite the excellent assemblage of talent, this is the story of a Depression-era family where sibling rivalry and tragedy seem to be the watch words of their home life. A period piece set in 1930s Texas. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Child of Darkness, Child of Light

Actors: Anthony John Denison, Sela Ward

Synopsis: This effective made-for-TV supernatural thriller (based on the novel Virgin by James Patterson) involves the travails of a Catholic priest (Anthony John Denison) who is ordered by his superiors to investigate the prospect of two separate virgin births -- one of which will bring the Son of God into Read More

1991
Hangfire

Actors: Brad Davis, Kim Delaney, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ken Foree, George Kennedy, Lee de Broux

Synopsis: This Peter Maris action begins at New Mexico State Penitentiary, where a spew of toxic gas from the crash of a tanker truck leads to the evacuation of the prison by the warden (George Kennedy). In the ensuing confusion, anti-social cons Kuttner (Lee De Broux) and Patch (James Tolkan) kidnap prison Read More

1991
When the Time Comes

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a woman suffering the ravages of terminal cancer desires, against the wishes of her husband, to permanently end her suffering. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Rosalie Goes Shopping

Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold, Willy Harlander, Erika Blumberger

Synopsis: Larger-than-life German actress Marianne Sagebrecht stars as Rosalie Greenspace, a German bride raising a wonderful family in Stuttgart, Arkansas who she delights in providing gift after gift of goodies that are procured by her newly acquired talent of buying via "ze vonderful credit card." The Read More

2/9/90
The Plot to Kill Hitler

Actors: Brad Davis, Madolyn Smith, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Inspired suave aristocrat Col. Claus von Stauffenberg's ingenious plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler during the waning days of World War II, director Lawrence Schiller's historical war drama traces the remarkable events that unfolded as the Third Reich's Operation Valkyrie emergency plan was Read More

1990
Unspeakable Acts

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Brad Davis, Bess Meyer, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Unspeakable Acts is the all-too-true story of a 1984 Dade County (Florida) sexual abuse case. Frank and Ilana Fuster (Gregory Sierra and Bess Meyer), who operate an upper-class day care center in a Florida suburb, are accused of committing appalling acts upon their young charges. The prosecution's Read More

1990
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a bereaved bricklayer vows to avenge the brutal murder of his parents. The killer is brought in, but is not given the death penalty. The young man then decides to take matters into his own hands. He oversteps the law and eventually begins to question his actions. Read More

1989
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial

Actors: Brad Davis, Eric Bogosian, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk, this thought-provoking made-for-television drama chronicles the court martial of the lieutenant who commandeered the U.S.S. Caine during a potentially deadly storm. The only way his attorney can save him is to prove that Captain Queeg was Read More

1988
Heart

Actors: Brad Davis, Frances Fisher, Steve Buscemi, Robinson Frank Adu, Jess Doran

Synopsis: A punch-drunk pugilist is set up as meat for a young boxer in this routine mat melodrama. The highlight of the film is the performance of Steve Buscemi as the oily, mob-connected fight promoter Nicky. Eddie (Brad Davis) is the addle-brained boxer Nicky hangs out to dry for quick money. ~ Dan Read More

9/25/87
Cold Steel

Actors: Brad Davis, Sharon Stone, Jonathan Banks, Jay Acovone, Adam Ant

Synopsis: A cop is determined to avenge his father's death in this action-drama. Brad Davis stars as Johnny Modine, a Los Angeles cop whose father is murdered on Christmas Eve. The investigation leads to a bitter and disfigured killer known as Iceman (Jonathan Banks), who has links to Johnny's past as a Read More

1987
The Transformers: Season 04

Actors: Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Gregg Berger, Susan Blu, Arthur Burghardt

Synopsis: The fourth and final season of the original Transformers cartoon series is actually a three-part miniseries titled "The Rebirth." The age-old war between the two rival Transformer factions, the Autobots and the Decepticons, takes the combatants to Nebulos, a planet controlled by evil telepaths. In Read More

1987
Il Cugino americano

Actors: Brad Davis, Tony Lo Bianco, Vincent Spano, Barbara de Rossi, Arnoldo Foa, Ricky Tognazzi, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Blood Ties began life as a 4-hour Italian TV movie. The American version, which premiered December 14, 1986 on the Showtime Cable network, runs 125 minutes, and "runs" is the right word. Brad Davis plays an American naval engineer with familial ties to Sicily. Before he can offer a protest, Davis Read More

1986
The Transformers: Season 03

Actors: Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Gregg Berger, Susan Blu, Arthur Burghardt

Synopsis: Season three of the cartoon series The Transformers opens with an elaborate five-part story (eminently suited to be "transformed" into a single two-hour TV movie), "The Five Faces of Darkness," set largely on Cybertron, home planet of the warring Autobots and Decepticons. This plotline serves to Read More

1986
The Transformers: Season 02

Actors: Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Gregg Berger, Susan Blu, Arthur Burghardt

Synopsis: The robotic cartoon adventure series The Transformers begins its second season with the episode "Autobot Spike," in which one of the human allies of the Autobots in their ongoing battle against the Decepticons literally loses his mind to a super-Transformer. "Autobot Spike" is one of the few Read More

1985
Robert Kennedy and His Times

Synopsis: This epic docudrama mini-series boasts a stellar cast and a script based on the tell-all bestseller by Kennedy friend Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Midnight Express' Brad Davis plays Bobby; River Phoenix, Veronica Cartwright, and Ned Beatty all co-star. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
The Transformers: Season 01

Actors: Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Gregg Berger, Susan Blu, Arthur Burghardt

Synopsis: Season one of the "cartoon commercial" The Transformers begins with the three-part "More Than Meets the Eye," which explains how the two warring Transformers armies from the planet Cybertron, Optimus Prime's good-guy Autobots and Megatron's bad-guy Decepticons, were placed in suspended animation Read More

1984
Chiefs

Synopsis: This TV miniseries concerns a Southern village where the murder of a boy has puzzled three different police chiefs since the 1920s. By the time that a black sheriff (Billy Dee Williams) takes over in 1962, he might have just enough evidence to find the culprit. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
The Wizard of Babylon

Actors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jeanne Moreau, Brad Davis, Franco Nero

Synopsis: German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder died of a drug overdose on June 10, 1982, before his last film, Querelle was edited. This documentary is both about the filming of Querelle -- a sailor of that name whose love life left nothing to be desired -- and about director Fassbinder's working Read More

1982
Querelle

Actors: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Hanno Pöschl

Synopsis: A sailor learns to take, and give, it like a man in this surrealistic adaptation of writer and thief Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest by avant-garde German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In a colorful brothel in the port of Brest, proprietor Nono (Gunther Kaufmann) is known for wagering Read More

1982
Chariots of Fire

Actors: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, Ian Holm, Daniel Gerroll, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Chariots of Fire is the internationally acclaimed Oscar-winning drama of two very different men who compete as runners in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a serious Christian Scotsman, believes that he has to succeed as a testament to his undying Read More

1981
A Rumor of War

Actors: Brad Davis, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: The 2-part TV movie Rumor of War was based on the 1977 memoirs of Vietnam veteran Philip Caputo. Brad Davis stars as Caputo, who during the mid-1960s was a Marine lieutenant. In battle after battle, Caputo performs his duties admirably, even when questioning the wisdom of America's Vietnam Read More

1980
A Small Circle of Friends

Actors: Brad Davis, Karen Allen, Jameson Parker, Shelley Long, John Friedrich

Synopsis: Pumped up with energy to spare in its first half, this is an otherwise routine drama about a love triangle set in the turbulent late '60s on the Harvard campus. Harvard takes a remote backseat though, as Leo (Brad Davis) chases after Jessica (Karen Allen) while buddy Nick (Jameson Parker) also Read More

1980
The Greatest Man in the World

Synopsis: The Greatest Man in the World is based on a genteelly vitriolic short story by James Thurber. Brad Davis stars as a '30s-era aviator who becomes a national hero when he flies solo nonstop around the world. The problem: Davis is an illiterate boor. It's up to the journalists who've elevated Davis Read More

1980
A Real American Hero

Actors: Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: This made-for-TV actioner was designed as the pilot for a series based on the popular Walking Tall films of the 1970s. This time out, a young Brian Dennehy is cast as the stick-wielding, scrupulously honest Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser (played in the films by Joe Don Baker and Bo Svenson), with Forrest Tucker Read More

1978
Midnight Express

Actors: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paul L. Smith

Synopsis: Midnight Express is a harrowing tale of a naïve American caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is an American tourist visiting Turkey with his girlfriend Susan (Irene Miracle) when he's caught by customs officials trying to smuggle a Read More

1978
What Really Happened to the Class of '65

Synopsis: In this drama, a psychiatrist works with the police to help them identify a dangerous criminal. Unfortunately, the doctor doesn't realize that the killer is an old high-school buddy of his. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
The Secret Life of John Chapman

Synopsis: In this drama, a college president takes a sabbatical so he can work as a ditch-digger and a cafe cook. The story is based on John Chapman's autobiographical book, Blue Collar Journal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Sybil

Actors: Sally Field, Joanne Woodward, Martine Bartlett, William Prince, Jane Hoffman

Synopsis: The multiple award-winning made-for-TV movie Sybil was based on the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Sally Field won an Emmy for her portrayal of the title character, a substitute teacher in New York who has developed multiple personality disorder. As a coping mechanism to deal with the abuse she Read More

1976
The Streets of San Francisco: Trail of the Serpent

Synopsis: A vicious street gang robs a neighborhood store, kills a cop, and takes Detective Stone (Karl Malden). As the police surround the store, the thugs attempt to strike a bargain: They will let Stone go in exchange for the freedom of Buddy Sims (Cal Bellini), their imprisoned leader. This episode was Read More

1973