Major Briggs Gone to the White Lodge

JULY 8, 2008 TAGS: TV, ACTORS ADD A COMMENT

Here's a scene from "Twin Peaks" where Davis, as Major Garland Briggs, shares a vision of the White Lodge.

From the Los Angeles Times:

Don S. Davis, a college professor who found a second career as a
character actor, gaining notice for his roles in TV's "Stargate: SG-1"
and "Twin Peaks," died of a heart attack June 29 at his home in
Gibsons, Canada. He was 65.

Davis was teaching theater arts at the University of British Columbia
in Vancouver in the early 1980s when he decided to pursue acting as a
profession.

A native of the Missouri Ozarks who had served in the U.S. Army, Davis
drew upon those experiences in his frequent portrayals of authority
figures on television and film. He had a regular role as Gen. George
S. Hammond on the science-fiction TV series "Stargate: SG-1" from 1997
to 2006 and a recurring role as Major Garland Briggs on the quirky
"Twin Peaks" in the early '90s. He also appeared periodically as
Scully's father in "The X-Files" TV series about FBI agents
investigating unsolved cases.

"I like sci-fi because it's really one of the last places or genres
that has clearly defined good and evil, and it's a place where you can
have heroes without them having to be overly flawed," Davis told the
Press of Christchurch, New Zealand, last year.