Robert Davi

Robert Davi trained in opera as a young man with the goal of becoming a professional singer, working under Samuel Margolis of the Metropolitan Opera, Daniel Ferro of the Juilliard School of Music, and Italian baritone Tito Gobbi. His path changed course at age twenty when idol Frank Sinatra cast him in the 1977 television movie Contract on Cherry St. Davi’s imposing features and menacing screen presence then led to more than one hundred film roles, among them one of the reckless FBI agents named Johnson in Die Hard and the central antagonist in the James Bond picture License to Kill. His television résumé encompasses the series Profiler, Stargate: Atlantis, and Criminal Minds. He made his directorial bow in 2007 with The Dukes, a film in which he also performed and sang. Davi finally cut his debut album, Davi Sings Sinatra: On the Road to Romance, for Sun Lion Records; the sessions were held at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, produced by Phil Ramone and mixed by Al Schmitt. The recording appeared on October 24, 2011, prompting a promotional tour with a fifty-piece orchestra in New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas.