- Liam Davis is born William Hillery Davis on Good Friday April 7, 1950 in Appalachia Mountains in Cumberland in western Maryland to a surgical nurse mother and a railroad bull (police) father.
After high school and flunking out of college, Liam volunteered for the U.S. Navy as a medical corpsman during the Viet Nam War. Military orders sent him to Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington, D.C. working blood bank. In the military Liam resumed taking college night classes. After an honorable military discharge Liam graduated with a B.S. in Biology at Towson University, Baltimore. At Towson he sang baritone in the college male glee club.
Liam first began stage and television acting in Los Angeles. He worked graveyard blood bank at UCLA while studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute. In return for acting lessons Liam managed the school's front desk and ran errands for Lee Strasberg. His first two plays were "Twelfth Night" with Sally Kirkland and "Drayman Henschel" with John Agar. He remained friends with John Agar until his death. Liam's first television work was a bar patron in "Archie Bunkers Place" with Carroll O'Connor.
Liam next enrolled in graduate school in northern California and took a M.A. in Biology at Sonoma State University while working at Pt. Reyes National Seashore as a biologist. Afterward he worked twenty years as a wildlife biologist / supervisor with California Department of Fish and Wildlife. He left state service to pursue acting again full time.
Liam worked with director Philip Kaufman in "Hemingway and Gellhorn" in a special effects bombing scene with Nicole Kidman. He next worked with director Paul Thomas Anderson in "The Master" playing an assistant to cult leader Dr. Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Liam plays a school wrestler's parent opposite Jon Voight in "American Wrestler: The Wizard".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Liam Davis (IV) - Liam has worked background in 3 seasons of Netflix "13 Reasons Why". Season one as a cafe patron. Season two as an attorney attending a court room trail both sitting in the courtroom and standing outside in the foyer. Season three an attendee at a funeral memorial service and later attending, after the memorial service, a reception at a mansion.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Liam Davis
- Bird watching Liam met Dr. Helen B. Taussig in woods behind her house. Dr. Taussig, known as "the blue baby doctor", was emeritus at Johns Hopkins Medical University, Baltimore. She hired Liam as her personal assistant during last two years of his college studies. Dr. Taussig, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and founder of Pediatric Cardiology, was a pioneer proponent of open heart surgery.
- Liam's maternal great grandmother Emily Thomas is first cousin to Metropolitan Opera baritone John Charles Thomas. John Charles, as his family called him, grew up in Cumberland, Maryland.
- Actor William H. Macy and Liam graduated same year from different high schools in Cumberland, Maryland. Both actors have worked for director Paul Thomas Anderson.
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