Dave Davis (actor)
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Dave Davis | |
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Born | 1989 (age 35–36) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
Education | Tulane University (BFA) |
Occupation | Actor |
Dave Davis (born 1989) is an American actor based in Los Angeles and New Orleans. He is best known for his role in the 2019 horror film The Vigil .
Early life and education
[edit ]Davis was born on June 7, 1989 in Princeton, New Jersey, into a Jewish family. He grew up in New Orleans. Davis graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 2007, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre from Tulane University in 2011.[1] In fulfillment of his thesis, he starred in Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth .
Career
[edit ]Davis spent five years with the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival, culminating with the critically acclaimed role of Hamlet in 2012.[2] Davis then transitioned into screen acting. Based out of New Orleans, Davis starred in many original films for MTV and Syfy, including Ghost Shark , Leprechaun's Revenge , Ozark Sharks , and several others. Notably, he guest starred in True Detective and The Walking Dead , and acted in The Big Short and Logan .
Davis won the Special Jury Prize for Performance at the 2017 Nashville Film Festival for his lead role in the independent film Bomb City .[3] In 2019, Davis starred in the horror film The Vigil , in which he plays a man tasked with watching over a deceased member of an Orthodox Jewish community.[4] [5] [6]
Davis was a member of the comedy group Bare Handed Bear Handlers, releasing a web miniseries, short films, and a number of music videos.[7]
Filmography
[edit ]Film
[edit ]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2007 | Flakes | Stoner #1 | Uncredited |
2012 | Stolen | Taylor | |
2014 | Elsa & Fred | Photographer | |
2014 | Starve | Jiminey | |
2015 | The Final Girls | 50's Counselor | |
2015 | Demonic | Tech 1 | |
2015 | Get Hard | Cross Dresser | |
2015 | N.O.L.A Circus | Vinny | |
2015 | Nocturna | Bobby | |
2015 | The Big Short | Burry's Assistant | |
2015 | Daddy's Home | Panda Singer #1 | |
2016 | The Backup Dancer | Rudy | Uncredited |
2017 | Logan | Convenience Store Clerk | |
2017 | Bomb City | Brian Deneke | |
2017 | Dark Meridian | Tevi Marek | |
2017 | Jeepers Creepers 3 | SWAT Team One | |
2018 | Laundry Day | Ethan | |
2018 | The Domestics | Flame Gambler | |
2019 | The Vigil | Yakov Ronen | |
2019 | The True Don Quixote | Trout | |
2019 | Sunday Girl | Jack | |
2020 | Greyhound | Boatswain's Mate #1 | |
2023 | Resurrected | Father Stanley Martin | |
2025 | Hazard | John Lang | Post-production |
Television
[edit ]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2011 | Memphis Beat | Bryan | Episode: "The Things We Carry" |
2011 | Hide | Young Charlie Marvin | TV movie |
2012 | Red Clover | Dax Spence | |
2012 | American Horror House | Lloyd | |
2012 | The Walking Dead | Gargulio | Episode: "Hounded" |
2013 | Heebie Jeebies | Mace | TV movie |
2013 | Ladies' Man: A Made Movie | Toby Miller | |
2013 | Ghost Shark | Blaise | |
2014 | True Detective | Toby | Episode: "After You've Gone" |
2014 | SnakeHead Swamp | Chris | Television film |
2016 | NCIS: New Orleans | JJ Taylor | Episode: "Help Wanted" |
2016 | Ozark Sharks | Harrison | Television film |
2018 | Bad Stepmother | Jonathan Hawking | |
2019 | Lucifer | Maury Novak | Episode: "Somebody's Been Reading Dante's Inferno" |
References
[edit ]- ^ "Tulane University awards nearly 2,300 degrees today". NOLA.com. May 12, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
- ^ "Summer action hero? Tulane Shakespeare Fest opens with a Hamlet out for revenge". NOLA.com. June 28, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
- ^ "Nashville Film Festival Announces: 2017 Feature Award Winners". Archived from the original on June 16, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
- ^ Mintzer, Jordan (September 12, 2019). "'The Vigil': Film Review | TIFF 2019". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved July 8, 2020.
- ^ Kohn, Eric (September 12, 2019). "'The Vigil' Review: 'The Conjuring' With an Orthodox Jewish Twist That Could Birth a Franchise". IndieWire . Retrieved July 8, 2020.
- ^ Lipsett, Joe (September 13, 2019). "[TIFF Review] 'The Vigil' Introduces a New Kind of Jewish Horror". Bloody Disgusting . Retrieved July 8, 2020.
- ^ "Bare Handed Bear Handlers's sounds on SoundCloud – Hear the world's sounds". Soundcloud.com. Archived from the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
External links
[edit ]- Dave Davis at IMDb
- Living people
- 1989 births
- American male film actors
- Tulane University alumni
- Lawrenceville School alumni
- American male stage actors
- American stand-up comedians
- Male actors from Princeton, New Jersey
- Rappers from New Jersey
- Rappers from New Orleans
- Male actors from Louisiana
- American male television actors
- Writers from Princeton, New Jersey
- Writers from Louisiana
- American male singer-songwriters
- American male Shakespearean actors
- 21st-century American rappers
- 21st-century American comedians
- 21st-century American male musicians
- Singer-songwriters from New Jersey
- Singer-songwriters from Louisiana
- American male comedians
- Comedians from Mercer County, New Jersey
- Comedians from New Orleans