Davey, Bruce

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Davey, Bruce

PERSONAL

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Education: College graduate.

Addresses:

Office—Con Artists Productions, 808 Wilshire Blvd., 4th Floor, Santa Monica, CA 90404.

Career:

Producer and actor. Icon Productions, Santa Monica, CA, founder (with Mel Gibson), 1988, president and chair, 1990—; Con Artists Productions, Santa Monica, partner, 2004—. Also worked as an accountant and as business manager for Gibson.

Awards, Honors:

Golden Globe Award, best motion picture drama, Lloyd Banks Award, favorite film, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, both 1995, and Academy Award, best picture, 1996, all (with others) for Braveheart; Children's Award (with others), best film, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1998, for FairyTale: A True Story; Golden Satellite Award, best producer of a musical or comedy, International Press Academy, 1999, for An Ideal Husband; Genie Award nomination, best picture, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 2000, for Felicia's Journey; Film Award nomination (with Mel Gibson), best film not in English, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 2007, for Apocalypto.

CREDITS

Film Producer:

Forever Young, Warner Bros., 1992.

Airborne, Warner Bros., 1993.

The Man without a Face, Warner Bros., 1993.

Immortal Beloved, Columbia, 1994.

Maverick, Warner Bros., 1994.

Braveheart, Paramount, 1995.

Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (also known as On Our Selection), Roadshow Entertainment, 1995.

Anna Karenina, Warner Bros., 1997.

FairyTale: A True Story (also known as Fairy Tale and Illumination), Paramount, 1997.

One Eight Seven (also known as 187), Warner Bros., 1997.

Felicia's Journey (also known as La voyage de Felicia), Artisan Entertainment, 1999.

An Ideal Husband, Miramax, 1999.

Payback, Paramount, 1999.

The Million Dollar Hotel, Lions Gate Films, 2000.

What Women Want, Paramount, 2000.

Manchester United beyond the Promised Land, 2000.

The Martins, 2001.

We Were Soldiers (also known as Wir waren helden), Paramount, 2002.

The Singing Detective, Paramount, 2003.

The Passion of the Christ (also released as The Passion Recut), Newmarket Films, 2004.

Gladiatress, Icon Film Distribution, 2004.

Paparazzi, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2004.

Apocalypto (also known as Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto"), Buena Vista, 2006.

Seraphim Falls, Destination Films/Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2007.

Infestation, Icon Productions, 2008.

Film Executive Producer:

Hamlet, Warner Bros., 1990.

Bless the Child (also known as Die Prophezeiung), Paramount, 2000.

Kevin & Perry Go Large, Icon Entertainment International, 2000.

The Magic Pudding (animated), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000.

Co-executive producer, When the Sky Falls, Icon Entertainment International, 2000.

Blackball (also known as National Lampoon's "Blackball"), Palisades Pictures, 2004.

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (documentary), Lionsgate, 2005.

Romance and Cigarettes, Boroturro, 2005.

Butterfly on a Wheel (also known as The Butterfly, Desperate Hours, and Shattered), Lionsgate, 2007.

Film Appearances:

Artillery captain, Immortal Beloved, Columbia, 1994.

Television Executive Producer; Series:

Clubhouse, CBS, 2004.

Complete Savages, ABC, 2004-2005.

Television Executive Producer; Movies:

The Three Stooges, ABC, 2000.

Invincible (also known as Invincibles), TBS, 2001.

I Capture the Castle, BBC, 2002.

Evel Knievel, TNT, 2004.

The Dive from Clausen's Pier, Lifetime, 2005.

Television Executive Producer; Episodic:

"Homework," Kevin Hill, UPN, 2004.

Television Executive Producer; Other:

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School (special), HBO, 1991.

Family Curse, 2003.

Complete Savages (pilot), ABC, 2004.

Carrier (miniseries), PBS, 2008.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Mel Gibson's "Braveheart": A Filmmaker's Passion, 2000.

The Passion behind "The Passion," 2004.

Interviewee, The Making of "The Passion of the Christ," I Network, 2004.

The 68th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2006.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Himself (in archive footage), Paybacks Are a Bitch, Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

National Post, September 14, 1999.

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