Liam Davis

Liam Davis is born William Hillery Davis on Good Friday April 7, 1950 in Appalachia Mountains in Cumberland in western Maryland to a surgical nurse mother and a railroad bull (police) father.After hig ...Show More

Liam Davis is born William Hillery Davis on Good Friday April 7, 1950 in Appalachia Mountains in Cumberland in western Maryland to a surgical nurse mother and a railroad bull (police) father.After high school and flunking out of college, Liam volunteered for the U.S. Navy as a medical corpsman during the Viet Nam War. Military orders sent him to Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington, D.C. working blood bank. In the military Liam resumed taking college night classes. After an honorable military discharge Liam graduated with a B.S. in Biology at Towson University, Baltimore. At Towson he sang baritone in the college male glee club.Liam first began stage and television acting in Los Angeles. He worked graveyard blood bank at UCLA while studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute. In return for acting lessons Liam managed the school's front desk and ran errands for Lee Strasberg. His first two plays were "Twelfth Night" with Sally Kirkland and "Drayman Henschel" with John Agar. He remained friends with John Agar until his death. Liam's first television work was a bar patron in "Archie Bunkers Place" with Carroll O'Connor.Liam next enrolled in graduate school in northern California and took a M.A. in Biology at Sonoma State University while working at Pt. Reyes National Seashore as a biologist. Afterward he worked twenty years as a wildlife biologist / supervisor with California Department of Fish and Wildlife. He left state service to pursue acting again full time.Liam worked with director Philip Kaufman in "Hemingway and Gellhorn" in a special effects bombing scene with Nicole Kidman. He next worked with director Paul Thomas Anderson in "The Master" playing an assistant to cult leader Dr. Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Liam plays a school wrestler's parent opposite Jon Voight in "American Wrestler: The Wizard". Hide