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Brad Davis (born Robert Creel Davis, November 6, 1949 – September 8, 1991) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor, best known for his role in the 1978 film Midnight Express
Midnight Express (film)

Midnight Express is a film, based on Billy Hayes ' Midnight Express adapted into screenplay by Oliver Stone. Hayes was a young United States student sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey....
.

Robert Creel Davis in Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the Capital of the Florida, USA, and the county seat of Leon County, Florida. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida in 1824....
 to Eugene Davis, a dentist whose career declined due to alcoholism
Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions to describe the detrimental effects of alcohol intake.In common and historic usage, alcoholism refers to any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages despite health problems and negative social consequences....
, and his wife, Anne Creel. His brother Gene
Gene Davis (actor)

Eugene M. "Gene" Davis is the brother of actor Brad Davis , perhaps best known for playing the psychotic killer "Warren Stacy" in the 1983 film 10 To Midnight with Charles Bronson....
 is also an actor. According to an article in The New York Times
The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"?named for its staid appearance and style?is regarded as a national newspaper of record....
 published in 1987, Davis suffered physical abuse
Physical abuse

Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, pain, injury, or other physical suffering or harm.Basic forms include:...
 and sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which a child is abused for the sexual gratification of an adult or older adolescent. In addition to direct sexual activity, child sexual abuse also occurs when an adult Indecent exposure to a child, asks or pressures a child to engage in sexual activities, displays pornography to a child, or us...
 at the hands of both parents.






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Brad Davis (born Robert Creel Davis, November 6, 1949 – September 8, 1991) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor, best known for his role in the 1978 film Midnight Express
Midnight Express (film)

Midnight Express is a film, based on Billy Hayes ' Midnight Express adapted into screenplay by Oliver Stone. Hayes was a young United States student sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey....
.

Biography

Born Robert Creel Davis in Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the Capital of the Florida, USA, and the county seat of Leon County, Florida. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida in 1824....
 to Eugene Davis, a dentist whose career declined due to alcoholism
Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions to describe the detrimental effects of alcohol intake.In common and historic usage, alcoholism refers to any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages despite health problems and negative social consequences....
, and his wife, Anne Creel. His brother Gene
Gene Davis (actor)

Eugene M. "Gene" Davis is the brother of actor Brad Davis , perhaps best known for playing the psychotic killer "Warren Stacy" in the 1983 film 10 To Midnight with Charles Bronson....
 is also an actor. According to an article in The New York Times
The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"?named for its staid appearance and style?is regarded as a national newspaper of record....
 published in 1987, Davis suffered physical abuse
Physical abuse

Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, pain, injury, or other physical suffering or harm.Basic forms include:...
 and sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which a child is abused for the sexual gratification of an adult or older adolescent. In addition to direct sexual activity, child sexual abuse also occurs when an adult Indecent exposure to a child, asks or pressures a child to engage in sexual activities, displays pornography to a child, or us...
 at the hands of both parents. As an adult, he was an alcoholic
Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions to describe the detrimental effects of alcohol intake.In common and historic usage, alcoholism refers to any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages despite health problems and negative social consequences....
 and an intravenous drug user before becoming sober
Sobriety

Sobriety is solemn or dignified personal behaviour, in particular abstinence with regard to the consumption of alcoholic beverages or drugs. It is also sometimes applied to the figurative 'consumption' of pornography, video games, DVDs, CDs, books, and the like....
 in 1981. Davis was known as "Bobby" during his youth, but took Brad as his stage name in 1973.

At 17, after winning a music talent contest, Davis worked at Theatre Atlanta. He later moved to New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts
American Academy of Dramatic Arts

The American Academy of Dramatic Arts is a fully accredited two-year College or university school of music with campuses located at 120 Madison Avenue in New York City and 1336 North La Brea Avenue in Hollywood, California ....
, as well as studied acting at the American Place Theater. After a role on the soap opera
Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
 How to Survive a Marriage
How to Survive a Marriage

How to Survive a Marriage was a soap opera which aired on the NBC television network from January 7 1974 to April 17 1975. The serial was created by Anne Howard Bailey, with much input from then-NBC Vice President Lin Bolen....
, he performed in off-Broadway
Off-Broadway

Off Broadway theater is an umbrella term for a defined set of Play , musical theater or revues performed in New York City. Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, New York, the hub of the theater industry in the United States, the term later becam...
 plays. In 1976 he was cast as Sally Field
Sally Field

Sally Margaret Field is an United States two-time Academy Awards-winning actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun....
's love interest in the television film Sybil. He played the lead role in Larry Kramer
Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer is an American playwright, writer, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist. Kramer began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London, where he worked with United Artists and wrote the screenplay for Women in Love in 1969....
's play about AIDS
AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the HIV ....
, The Normal Heart (1985). His most successful film role was as the main character, Billy Hayes, in Midnight Express
Midnight Express (film)

Midnight Express is a film, based on Billy Hayes ' Midnight Express adapted into screenplay by Oliver Stone. Hayes was a young United States student sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey....
 (1978), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actor
Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor

The Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor originated in 1948. Between 1954 and 1965, multiple winners were announced. The category was discontinued following the 1983 ceremonies....
. He was also nominated for a similar award at that year's BAFTA Awards, in addition to receiving Best Actor nominations at both ceremonies (losing the "Best Actor" BAFTA Award to Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss

'Richard Dreyfuss' is an United States actor, known for starring in a number of films, television and theater roles since the late 1960s. He is probably best known for his roles in Jaws , The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr....
 for The Goodbye Girl
The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 United States comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict....
 and the "Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama" Golden Globe Award to Jon Voight
Jon Voight

Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American Academy Award-winning, Emmy Award- and British Academy of Film and Television Arts-nominated film and television actor....
 for Coming Home
Coming Home

Coming Home is a 1978 in film drama film which tells the story of an injured Vietnam War veteran's difficulty in re-entering civilian life after his return from the war....
). He also had a small role in Roots
Roots (TV miniseries)

Roots is a 1977 in television American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family.Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations....
.

Personal life

Davis was married to Susan Bluestein
Susan Bluestein

'Susan Bluestein' is an Emmy Award-winning United States casting director and the widow of actor Brad Davis .Born in Manhattan and raised in the borough of Queens , Bluestein has spent much of her career casting television movies, including Jean Harris, A Piano for Mrs....
, who later became an Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
-winning casting director. They had one child, Alexandra.

Diagnosed with AIDS in 1985, Davis kept his condition secret until shortly before his death. Although it was announced he died of AIDS in 1991 in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, he actually died of an intentional drug overdose
Drug overdose

The term drug overdose describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced....
. Near death and in severe pain in a hospital, he opted to return home and end his life on his own terms. With his wife and a family friend present, he committed assisted suicide
Euthanasia

Euthanasia refers to the practice of ending a life in a painless manner. Many different forms of euthanasia can be distinguished, including euthanasia and human euthanasia, and within the latter, voluntary and involuntary euthanasia....
.

Davis was referred to as "the first heterosexual actor to die of AIDS," although he reportedly was bisexual, a claim disputed by his wife in her book.

Susan Bluestein Davis continues to campaign to combat AIDS.

Filmography

  • The Player
    The Player

    The Player is a satire film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel of the same name. It is the story of Griffin Mill , a Hollywood Movie studio executive who gets away with murdering a wannabe screenwriter who Mill believes is sending him death threats....
     (1992)
  • The Habitation of Dragons (1992)
  • Hangfire (1991)
  • Child of Darkness Child of Light (1991)
  • Rosalie Goes Shopping
    Rosalie Goes Shopping

    Rosalie Goes Shopping is a 1989 in film German film directed by Percy Adlon and starring Marianne S?gebrecht, Brad Davis , and Judge Reinhold....
     (1990)
  • The Plot to Kill Hitler
    The Plot to Kill Hitler (film)

    #The Plot to Kill Hitler is a 1990 in film Television movie....
     (1990)
  • Unspeakable Acts (1990)
  • The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
    The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

    The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is a two-act Play by Herman Wouk, which he adapted from his own novel, The Caine Mutiny.Wouk's novel covered a long stretch of time aboard the United States Navy Caine, a Navy Minesweeper in the Pacific....
     (1988)
  • Cold Steel
    Cold Steel (film)

    Cold Steel is a 1987 in film action film directed by Dorothy Ann Puzo and starred Brad Davis, Sharon Stone, Jonathan Banks and Adam Ant....
     (1987)
  • Heart (1987)
  • When the Time Comes (1987)
  • Blood Ties (1986)
  • Vengeance (1986)
  • Robert Kennedy & His Times
    Robert Kennedy & His Times

    Robert Kennedy & His Times is a 1985 in film United States television miniseries Film director by Marvin J. Chomsky. The film was released in three parts and depicts the life of Robert F....
     (1985)
  • Robert Kennedy and His Times (1984)
  • Chiefs
    Chiefs (TV miniseries)

    Chiefs was a miniseries based upon the novel by Stuart Woods. Filming took place in Chester, South Carolina.The story follows the time in office of 3 small town police chiefs, including Chief Lee, Butts and Tyler as they pursue a child molestor/murderer in Foxy Funderburke....
     (1983)
  • Querelle
    Querelle

    Querelle, a 1982 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapted from France author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle de Brest....
     (1983)
  • Chariots of Fire
    Chariots of Fire

    Chariots of Fire is a United Kingdom film released in 1981 in film. Written by Colin Welland and directed by Hugh Hudson, it is based on the true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics....
     (1981)
  • The Greatest Man in the World (1980)
  • A Rumor of War
    A Rumor of War (miniseries)

    A Rumor of War is a 1980 television miniseries, based on the 1977 A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War....
     (1980)
  • A Small Circle of Friends
    A Small Circle of Friends

    A Small Circle of Friends is a film released in 1980 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Brad Davis , Karen Allen, Jameson Parker, Shelly Long, and an uncredited Craig Richard Nelson, who played Bell in The Paper Chase, another film set at Harvard....
     (1980)
  • Midnight Express
    Midnight Express (film)

    Midnight Express is a film, based on Billy Hayes ' Midnight Express adapted into screenplay by Oliver Stone. Hayes was a young United States student sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey....
     (1978)
  • What Really Happened to the Class of '65 (1978)
  • Roots
    Roots (TV miniseries)

    Roots is a 1977 in television American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family.Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations....
     (1977)
  • Sybil (1976)


External links

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