Brad Davis (actor)
Brad Davis (* 6. November 1949 in Tallahassee , Florida as Robert Creel Davis , † 8. September 1991 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor .
Life and accomplishments
Davis was born in Tallahassee in 1949. His brother Eugene M. "Gene" Davis is also an actor.
Brad Davis moved to the high school first to Georgia , then to New York City . There he studied at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in the early 1970s and appeared in a number of plays. In 1972 he starred alongside Karl Malden and Michael Douglas in the pilot of the crime series The Streets of San Francisco and later appeared in several episodes of the series. In 1974 he starred alongside F. Murray Abraham and Armand Assante in the television series How to Survive a Marriage .
In 1978, Davis starred in the drama Midnight Express, an American student named Billy Hayes , who was jailed in Turkey for a drug offense. For this role he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actor in 1979 and was nominated for a Golden Globe in another category. He was also nominated for a BAFTA Award and won the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award .
In the 1982 film Querelle by Rainer Werner Fassbinder he played the leading role of the sailor of the same name. In 1985 he took over in the off-Broadway -Inszenierung of Larry Kramer's AIDS -Drama The Normal Heart the lead role of Ned Weeks . In 1987 Davis starred in the thriller Cold As Steel in one of the leading roles alongside Sharon Stone .
The bisexual Davis died of a deliberate drug overdose in 1991 after years of suffering from AIDS.
He was married to casting director Susan Bluestein from 1976 until his death . The marriage resulted in a child. His wife and Hilary De Vries wrote the biography After Midnight: The Life and Death of Brad Davis after his death .
Filmography (selection)
- 1972: The streets of San Francisco
- 1976: Song of Myself (short film)
- 1976: eat my dust! (Eat My Dust!)
- 1977: Roots
- 1978: 12 noon - Midnight Express (Midnight Express)
- 1980: raiding party through the green hell ( A Rumor of War , miniseries)
- 1981: The Victory's Hour (Chariots of Fire)
- 1982: Querelle (Querelle)
- 1983: The Delano Police Chiefs ( Chiefs , Miniseries)
- 1985: Robert Kennedy and His Times (miniseries)
- 1987: Cold Steel
- 1989: Rosalie Goes Shopping
- 1990: Stauffenberg - Conspiracy against Hitler (The Plot to Kill Hitler)
- 1992: The Player
- 1992: The Habitation of Dragons
Theater (selection)
- 1973: Crystal and Fox (McAlpin Rooftop Theater)
- 1973: Naomi Court (Stage 73)
- 1975: Four Friends (Lucille Lortel Theater)
- 1977: The Elusive Angel (Marymount Manhattan Theater)
- 1981: Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Cherry Lane Theater)
- 1985: The Normal Heart (The Public Theater)
literature
- Susan Bluestein, Hilary De Vries: After Midnight: The Life and Death of Brad Davis . Pocket Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0-6717-9672-3 .
Web links
- Brad Davis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Brad Davis on the Internet Off-Broadway Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brad Davis In: Gay for Today, November 6, 2008
- ↑ Alex Witchel: For the Widow Of Brad Davis, Time Cannot Heal All the Wounds . In New York Times of 16 April 1997
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Davis, Brad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Davis, Robert Creel (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tallahassee , Florida, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1991 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California, USA |