Jim Davidson (actor)

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| name = Jim Davidson

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|1|18}}

| birth_place = Pennsylvania, U.S.

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| occupation = Actor, model

| notable_works = Pacific Blue

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| yearsactive = 1994–2005

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Jim Davidson (born January 18, 1963) is an American actor and model active in the 1990s and early 2000s. Davidson is a graduate of Lehigh University. He starred in the 2003 film Disaster (also known as Cult of Fury) as Roger Goodwin.

Career

He graduated from Selinsgrove High School in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States . Jim earned his Bachelor of Science from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He worked as a public accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City before he was discovered by a model agency.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}

Davidson's first television role came as the pit reporter on the monster truck racing series Monster Wars, which lasted one season in 1993 before being cancelled. He is best known for his work on the mid-1990s television drama Pacific Blue. Since then, Davidson has guest-starred in a number of prime time dramas and appeared on CBS's Soap Guiding Light from 2001 to 2002 and 2005. In 2003, he starred as Roger Goodwin in the film Disaster. {{citation needed|date=July 2016}}

A television pilot based on the Snopes.com website by writer-director Michael Levine called Snopes: Urban Legends was completed in 2002 with Davidson as host, but major networks passed on the project.{{cite news |last=Bond |first=Paul |date=September 7, 2002 |title=Web site separates fact from urban legend |work=SFGATE |url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Web-site-separates-fact-from-urban-legend-2800717.php |accessdate=July 17, 2012}}

Filmography

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Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1994 \|Monster Wars \|Pit Reporter \|Unknown episodes
1995 \|Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman \|Assassin / Boomer \|2 episodes
1995 \|Crowfoot \|Det. Nick Crowfoot \|Television film
1995 \|Last Gasp \|Julian Weeks \|
1996 \|Reasons of the Heart \|Berkeley Russell \|
1996–2000 \|Pacific Blue \|TC Callaway \|101 episodes
1997 \|The Sentinel \|Mitch Jaeger \|
2000 \|Charmed \|Evan Stone \|
2000 \|18 Wheels of Justice \|Jesse James Rader \|3 episodes
2003 \|Disaster \|Roger Goodwin \|
2005 \|The Bold and the Beautiful \|Dr. Johnny Berlanti \|2 episodes
2005 \|CSI: Miami \|Rod Merrick \|

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Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1994

|Monster Wars

|Pit Reporter

|Unknown episodes

1995

|Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

|Assassin / Boomer