The character actor Don S. Davis has died at 65 of a heart attack. Born in Aurora, Missouri, Davis spent served three terms of active duty in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of Captain, before pursuing a degree in theater and spending a decade working as a teacher at the University of British Columbia. He was forty when he began to get work acting in film and television. Squat, burly and bald, he was a natural for authoritarian figures and played many a dad, judge, doctor, prison guard, and befuddled bystander in such movies as Stakeout, A League of Their Own, Hero, and Con Air. But it was his role in Twin Peaks that earned him a permanent place in pop culture history and made him a cult character god.
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