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Watch for more information on Davis' memoir Where There's Smoke .... Musings of the Cigarette Smoking Man.

Davis will be signing autographs at Dragoncon on Labour Day weekend in Atlanta, Georgia.

Davis was inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame on June 27, 2010 in the Pioneer Category.

Amazon Falls will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and The Vancouver International Film Festival.

Amazon Falls is now complete and looks terrific. Director Katrin Bowen and actress April Telek have done an excellent job. Davis is pretty creepy himself in an excellent cast. The film has been bought by The Movie Network and will be submitted to festivals in the coming year. For more information on the film, go to www.amazonfalls.com. Believe it or not Davis does not die in this movie.

But he is back to usual bad ends in the film Medium Raw which got its initial screening this spring in Toronto.

Davis spoke on Skepticism and The X-Files at the Vancouver Library last fall. This was a reprise of the talk he gave to Atheists Alliance earlier in the year in LA and coverd various skeptic related subjects including a defense of the show against attacks from Richard Dawkins. He was invited to give another talk at the University of Fraser Valley in March where among other topics Davis stressed the importance of dealing with climate change.

Last fall Davis shot a major role in the tv movie, Behemoth.

Matters Domestic completed its run at the Vancouver International Fringe Festival last September and played two holdover performances at The Jericho Arts Centre. Two terrific short plays by partner, Barbara Ellison, (49th and Main), with an excellent cast of graduates from The William Davis Centre, D.N.A. and Download, present different and highly unusual versions of the conflict between single parenthood and career. Davis returned to his roots, directing for the theatre. Barbara Ellison is currently developing a screenplay of Download.

Davis and April Telek in Amazon Falls

2008 was a busy year for Davis. Despite playing Donald Rumsfeld in Stuff Happens at The Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver he is delighted that Obama is the new president!

After shooting an episode of Fear Itself he shot Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica and a movie, Web of Desire. He was off to Regina in July to shoot, The Shortcut, an excellent new horror film. As Davis says, "I hate horror films but I love this one!". After playing a character that couldn't stop himself from killing people, Davis then moved to a film called Death Among Friends where he played Mr. Dutton, the nicest butler you could imagine. After that he went to Toronto for another horror film, Medium Raw. He has some wonderful scenes in that film, dresses up as a wolf, and gets killed yet again. Fourth time in 2008!

Davis  new short film, Reverse, played in both the Vancouver and Whistler film festivals.  For more information go to William B. Davis Productions.

Davis in Shortcut	Davis as Mr. Dutton

Davis recently shot Passengers with Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson. Guess what? Davis plays a mysterious stranger hovering in the background. (But he doesn't smoke) Passengers is now available on DVD.