Was excellent


in Midnight Express but I can't remember seeing him in anything else. It looks like he slipped in to mostly TV Movies and didn't get the roles his talent might have earned him. Maybe it was at least partly his choice - maybe he was very much his own man which closed a lot of doors but perhaps also allowed him to pick the interesting roles - at least I assume they were interesting because you don't seem to see them anymore so how can we judge.
I remember reading his career was damaged because he was gay and he died young from Aids and that was pretty much the whole story - of course it wasn't but that's how it was told at the time.

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https://www.datalounge.com/thread/29661807-hello-eldergays.-please-tell-me-about-actor-brad-davis

Brad (real name Robert) Davis was a tormented train wreck. He came from a crazy Southern family. His mother was in love with him and had sex with him. He married a co-dependent, heavy Jewish woman named Susan Bluestein, who later became a successful casting director. She stuck by him through thick and thin.

After the success of "Midnight Express" he went totally crazy, wilding indulging in drugs and sex. He was a drug and sex addict. He fucked anything. His wife believed he was NOT gay, just gay friendly. She said he did same gay hustling early in his career but wasn't to her knowledge sexually involved with men in any real capacity. Yeah, right.!

He died of AIDS.. He may have gotten from drug use or sex, who knows.

He and Bluestein had a daughter Alexandra. She is now a transgendered man named Alex.

by Anonymous reply 11 November 7, 2021 3:09 AM

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Wife: "He was gay... but he wasn't GAY gay."

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