Bruce Davis, who served as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ chief executive for 22 of the 30 years that he spent with the organization, during which he made a profound impact on Hollywood and global cinema, has died. He was 83. Davis died Saturday evening following a battle with leukemia, his wife, Joann, told The Hollywood Reporter. Davis, born in Washington, D.C., on March 10, 1943, received an undergraduate degree in English from Juniata College in Pennsylvania and a masters degree in Medieval Literature from the University of Maryland. He initially entered academia and rose to become chair of the theater department at…
