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Dave Davis
Born1989 (age 34–35)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
EducationTulane University (BFA)
OccupationActor

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

Davis was born in 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

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

Film

Year Title Role Notes
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
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

Television

Year Title Role Notes
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

  1. ^ "Tulane University awards nearly 2,300 degrees today". NOLA.com. May 12, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
  2. ^ "Summer action hero? Tulane Shakespeare Fest opens with a Hamlet out for revenge". NOLA.com. June 28, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
  3. ^ "Nashville Film Festival Announces: 2017 Feature Award Winners". Archived from the original on June 16, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  4. ^ Mintzer, Jordan (September 12, 2019). "'The Vigil': Film Review | TIFF 2019". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Lipsett, Joe (September 13, 2019). "[TIFF Review] 'The Vigil' Introduces a New Kind of Jewish Horror". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  7. ^ "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.

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