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Brad Davis ( November 6, 1949 - September 8, 1991) American actor, was born in Tallahassee, Florida, and moved to New York to study at the Academy of Dramatic Arts. By the mid 1970s he was performing in off- Broadway plays. He played the lead role in Larry Kramer's play about AIDS, The Normal Heart ( 1985). His most successful film role was as the main character in Midnight Express ( 1978), for which he won a Golden Globe award. In 1991, Davis died of AIDS in Los Angeles. It was stated at the time that he contracted HIV infection as a result of cocaine use in the early 1980s. He kept his condition secret until shortly before his death. His widow, Susan Bluestein , continues to campaign against AIDS.
1 Brad Davis movies
- The Habitation of Dragons (1992)
- Hangfire (1991)
- Child of Darkness Child of Light (1991)
- Rosalie Goes Shopping (1990)
- The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990)
- Unspeakable Acts (1990)
- The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988)
- Cold Steel (1987)
- HeartThis page is about the muscular organ, the Heart . For other meanings of the word, see Heart (disambiguation). The heart ( Latin cor is a hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. The term cardia (1987)
- When the Time Comes (1987)
- Blood Ties (1986)
- Vengeance (1986)
- Robert Kennedy and His Times (1984)
- Chiefs (1983)
- QuerelleQuerelle is both a 1947 novel Querelle de Brest by French author Jean Genet and its film adaptation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from 1982. The plot centers around the handsome sailor Querelle ( Brad Davis), who is also a thief and murderer and has hidden (1983)
- The Greatest Man in the World (1980)
- A Rumor of War (1980)
- A Small Circle of Friends (1980)
- Midnight ExpressMidnight Express is a 1978 biographical film, based on the true story of Billy Hayes, a young American sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey to the US. It stars Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. (1978)
- What Really Happened to the Class of '65 (1978)
- The Campus Corpse (1977)
- RootsRoots is: The plural of Root Roots (album) Roots (TV miniseries), a mini-series based on a novel by Alex Haley Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a novel by Alex Haley Roots Canada Ltd. a Canadian garment manufacturer. Roots type supercharger. (1977)
- SybilIn antiquity, the oracular seeresses of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean were referred to by the Greek term " Sibyls. In modern times, when " Sibyl" is adopted for a woman's name, the conventional spelling is Sybil. Sybil is also the name of a (1976)
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