# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-b-davis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:10:06.806Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/william-b-davis"
name: "William B. Davis"
slug: "william-b-davis"
description: "William Bruce Davis is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files. Besides appearing in many TV programs and movies, he founded his own acting school, the William Davis Centre for Actors Study. In 2011 he published his memoir, Where There's Smoke ... The Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man."
tagline: "Canadian actor"
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gender: "male"
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category:
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birthDate: "1938-01-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump