Robert Davi
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"Gentlemen's Quarterly" has compared him to silver screen classic leading men Robert Mitchum and Lee Marvin. "Interview Magazine" called him a latter-day Humphrey Bogart. He has worked opposite Sinatra, Brando, Schwarzenegger, Begnigni and Eastwood; with top directors Steven Spielberg, Richard Donner and John Glenn; with producers Joel Silver and the legendary Albert R. Broccoli, among many others. He studied with Stella Adler and is a member of the prestigious Actors' Studio. Today, he's instantly recognized throughout the world and often found chatting in coffee shops with delighted fans.
He is actor Robert Davi, an Actor's Actor who has appeared in over 70 films and in only the best that television has to offer.
He was the first to bring the now ubiquitous subject of profiling to public attention with NBC's "Profiler," where he played FBI Agent Bailey Malone for 4 1/2 years. His authentic portrayal of Agent Malone makes it challenging to believe he was also the Colombian drug lord Franz Sanchez in James Bond's "License to Kill," or the Palestinian terrorist Salim Ajami in the acclaimed television presentation, "Terrorist on Trial," or the Hungarian, Ivan Nagy in "The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss." His range extends to the realm of science fiction as well, where he played Acastus Kolya on the sci-fi hit "Stargate: Atlantis."
Robert's bold approach, metamorphic range and uncanny ability to absorb accents like a sponge allow him to burrow into a role and emerge with a character that etches itself deep in the viewer's brain -- embedding itself for future recall as a reference to the real thing -- so much so, in fact, that acting classes throughout the country sometimes use his approach to a role as an example for budding young actors.
His directorial debut is the feature film "The Dukes," starring Robert and three Academy Award Nominees: Chazz Palminteri, Peter Bogdanovich and Miriam Margolyes. It was a hit at the ROME INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, where it screened in the Premiere Section along with Francis Ford Coppola, Sean Penn, Robert Redford and several other legendary filmmakers. At the MONTE CARLO FESTIVAL OF COMEDY, Robert received two awards from legendary filmmaker, Ettore Scola. At the FRENCH FESTIVAL OF COMEDY, he received the COUP DU COEUR.
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