Don S. Davis
Don Sinclair Davis (born August 4, 1942 in Aurora , Missouri , † June 29, 2008 in Gibsons , British Columbia , Canada ) was an American actor . One of his best-known roles is that of Major / Lieutenant General George Hammond in the Stargate - Kommando SG-1 series from 1997 to 2004.
Life
Davis was born the youngest of four children and grew up in the Ozark Mountains in the US state of Missouri on. Davis took acting classes while in college. After sustaining several American football injuries , he focused on theater work at Southwest Missouri State University.
In the 1960s, Davis served three years as a captain in the US Army in Korea and moved to Southern Illinois University on his return . After receiving his master's degree in drama in 1970, he taught acting for almost 12 years until he finally got his Ph.D. in theater studies in 1982.
Davis moved to Vancouver , British Columbia , where he continued to teach at the University of British Columbia . He also played extra roles in various television productions and first supporting roles, including in the series Joanie Loves Chachi (1982).
With a leading role in the film The Journey of Natty Gann , Davis switched full-time to film acting in 1985. Two years later, in 1987, he quit teaching after a total of 17 years to devote himself entirely to acting.
At the end of the 1980s, many smaller and larger roles followed in cinema and television films, including the box office hit Look who's talking! from 1989. In the 1990s Davis starred in dozens of films, one of which Look Who's Talking 2 (1990), Cadence (1991), Omen IV: The Awakening (1991), Hook (1991), Eine Class of their own (1992), Dead Ahead: The Exxon-Valdez Disaster (1992), Columbo : A Bird In The Hand (1992), Cliffhanger - Only the Strong Survive (1993), In a Small Town (1993), Avalanche - Hostage in the Snow (1994), She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal (1995), Alaska - The Polar Bear Trail (1996), The Fan (1996), Prisoner of Zenda, Inc. (1996) and Wyvern - The Return of the Dragons (2009) are among the most famous.
In addition to his film work, Davis also worked in many television series. These include: The Beachcombers (1988), Booker (1990), Nightmare Cafe (1992), Cobra (1993), Street Justice (1993), Highlander (1993), Alaska (1994), MANTIS (1994), Poltergeist - Die Eerie Power (1996), Viper (1996), The Sentinel (1998), Darling, I've Shrunk the Kids (1998), The Chris Isaak Show (2002) and Twilight Zone (2003), as well as in some episodes of the series Navy CIS as a supporting character, mostly seen in the video conference room (MTAC).
The impersonation of Major Garland Briggs in the 1990 television series Twin Peaks is one of his most noteworthy series roles. Recurring roles in television series such as MacGyver (1987 and 1988), where he met the actor and later producer of the television series Stargate - Kommando SG-1 , Richard Dean Anderson , made him famous. Other well-known series from the late 1980s and 1990s in which Don S. Davis participated include 21 Jump Street - Crime Scene Classroom (1987, 1988 and 1991), Madison (1994), The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases ( as Dana Scully's father Captain William Scully in two episodes of the series; 1994) and Outer Limits - The Unknown Dimension (1995).
From 1997 to 2004 Davis played the character of Major / Lieutenant General George Hammond in almost every episode of the first seven seasons of the science fiction series Stargate - Kommando SG-1 , which he also made a guest appearance on the Stargate Atlantis series , a spin -off from Stargate - Command SG-1 , embodied. He also played this character in the direct-to-DVD film Stargate: Continuum , which was completed 3 months before his death. At the same time, Davis appeared in the films Vulkan - Berg in Flammen (1997), Con Air (1997), Reise ins Jenseits (1999), Best In Show (2000), The 6th Day (2000), Suspicious River (2000), The Artist's Circle (2000), The Hostage Negotiator (2001), Deadly Little Secrets (2001) and Savage Island (2002) with. He was also in the films Far Cry , Wyvern - Return of the Dragons (2008) and Vipers (2008) to see. He also had guest appearances in Andromeda (season 5 episode 5; 2004), The West Wing - In the Center of Power (season 6 episode 20; 2005) as well as in Supernatural (season 3 episode 4; 2007) and Loch Ness - The Beast of the Depth (2007).
In addition to his acting career, Davis was also a recognized painter , sculptor, and wood carver, whose work has been exhibited in a few private collections , galleries, and smaller museums . Davis and his wife Sandy have a son.
Don S. Davis died on June 29, 2008 of complications from a heart attack .
Honors
The creators of the Stargate universe took his death as an opportunity to rename a fictional spaceship in the name of its longstanding role.
Web links
- Don S. Davis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gateworld - Don S. Davis: 1942-2008. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 27, 2011 ; accessed on June 30, 2008 (death report on GateWorld.net). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article on the role and the spaceship in Stargate Wiki
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Davis, Don S. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Davis, Don Sinclair |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aurora , Missouri , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 2008 |
| Place of death | Gibsons , British Columbia , Canada |