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  • Monday Night in America William B. Davis (X-Files, Upload, and many others) joins us for a live chat. (Season 2, Episode 6)
  • Podcast Episode | 109 min | Talk-Show

Monday Night in America

William B. Davis (X-Files, Upload, and many others) joins us for a live chat. (Season 2, Episode 6)
Podcast Episode | 109 min | Talk-Show
The man behind one of the most iconic villains in the history of television is a Canadian actor and director, who began his long-lasting acting career at age 11, when his older cousins needed a boy actor for the murder mystery they were ...See moreThe man behind one of the most iconic villains in the history of television is a Canadian actor and director, who began his long-lasting acting career at age 11, when his older cousins needed a boy actor for the murder mystery they were staging for their summer theatre. Work on stage and radio followed. While at the University of Toronto, he turned his attention from acting to directing and continued down that path for the next twenty years. He spent a formative year at The London Academy of Dramatic Art in Britain before beginning several intensive years directing in British Rep, from Colchester to Dundee, where he was artistic director for a year. He joined Britain's National Theatre in 1964, working with Maggie Smith and Laurence Olivier and returned to Montreal the following year to become first Assistant Artistic Director and subsequently Artistic Director, of the National Theatre School of Canada. An active career in Canada followed, directing in many regional theaters and becoming the founding Artistic Director of Festival Lennoxville in Lennoxville, Quebec. After decades of working as a theatre director and actor in Canada, the UK, and the US, William B. Davis rose to prominence as the enigmatic Cigarette Smoking Man who fascinated legions of fans of the 1990s' hit TV series, The X-Files. Besides appearing in hundreds of TV shows and movies - most recently, Upload on Amazon video and Midnight Club on Netflix - Davis also founded his own acting school, the William Davis Centre for Actors' Study in Vancouver. While continuing to act, he has recently returned to directing and has published two books, Where There's Smoke ... Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, in 2011 and On Acting... and life, in 2022. An avid skier, on both water and snow, Davis attends fan conventions and gives talks on skepticism, climate change, and acting philosophy. William lives with his wife, Emmanuelle Davis, in Vancouver. He has two adult children and three grandchildren. See less
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