By William B Davis
Chronicling his personal existence and occasions, William B. Davis, the actor who performed the infamous villain Cancerman on The X-Files, discusses his loves, losses, hopes, fears, and accomplishments during this particular and interesting autobiography. An all-access inspect the lifetime of a flexible actor, this lifestyles tale comprises anecdotes, reminiscences, and gossip from roles with such greats as Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Martin Sheen, Brian Dennehy, and Donald Sutherland. From the college of Toronto and theater university in Britain to Hollywood and appearances on Smallville and Stargate SG-1, this memoir remembers one actor’s trip from the most level to the mainstream.
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I was coordinated, even athletic. Skiing became a lifelong passion, even when it conflicted with career or marriage. Childhood academic success comes with another price. When you are in Grade 10, how do you avoid the shower room after sports? When you have no pubic hair and everyone else in class does? Or how do you explain that you don’t shave yet? You are just a kid in a class of young men. Well, they don’t skip students anymore. Maybe that’s a good thing. But I sometimes had trouble with bullies.
I know this doesn’t sound very sophisticated, but each of us had a stable and kept detailed records. Every race was a claiming, or an allowance, or a stakes race, and we kept track of earnings. We bought, sold, and claimed horses. To the bemusement of my mother, when I returned from Britain in 1965 at the age of twenty-seven, the first thing Rolph and Tim and I did was get out our old horses, get down on our knees, and restart the races. We had different games in the city. Besides playing baseball in the backyard and destroying the flower beds or bombing Germans from our upper bunk, we invented a game we often thought later we could have marketed and made our fortunes called Flick Hockey.
So I stretch my elbow across the top of the cabinet, cross my feet, and watch the action from this new position, a praying mantis with a cigarette. An icon was born. You can buy the trading card if you want. At that moment my career went up in smoke. Well, perhaps it had been smouldering for some time. Once a boy wonder, I had failed in my major ambition. I was not the Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival at the age of twenty-nine, unlike my idol, Peter Hall, who headed the Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK at that age.