Dave Davis (actor)

Dave Davis
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

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

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 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

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.

External links

• Dave Davis at IMDb