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William B. Davis
🎂 Jan 13, 1938 (88)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
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The X-Files
1998
The Dead Zone
1983
The Messengers
2007
Damage
2009
Passengers
2008
The Tall Man
2012
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
2001
Look Who's Talking
1989
Game Over, Man!
2018
The Thaw
2009
The Hitman
1991
Sisters
2006
Numb
2007
It's a Wonderful Knife
2023
Head Office
1985
Phil
2019
Mindstorm
2001
Behemoth
2011
Possession
2009
Anthrax
2001
Unforgettable
1996
Singularity Principle
2013
Judicial Indiscretion
2007
Focus
2014
The Package
2013
The Proposal
2001
Rise of the Damned
2011
Goose on the Loose
2006
Something Evil Comes
2009
Residue
2017
Abduct
2016
Murder Most Likely
1999
Max Rules: Adventures of a Super Spy
2005
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The X-Files
1993
Upload
2020
Continuum
2012
Broken Saints
2001
Stargate SG-1
1997
Airwolf
1984
Smallville
2001
50 States of Fright
2020
It
1990
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
2018
21 Jump Street
1987
Andromeda
2000
Nightmare Cafe
1992
Fear Itself
2008
Human Target
2010
The Outer Limits
1995
Supernatural
2005
Danger Bay
1985
MythQuest
2001
Tilt
2005
Sliders
1995
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
2010
Poltergeist: The Legacy
1996
Caprica
2010
First Wave
1998
Murder in a Small Town
2024
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William B. Davis
1938-01-13 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.