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Bruce Davis, Longtime AMPAS Executive Director, Dies at 83

Bruce Davis, who served as Executive Director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and helped develop the Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Film Archive, died Sept. 5 in Los Angeles. He was 83.

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Bruce Davis, who served as Executive Director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died on Sept. 5 in Los Angeles at age 83. During his tenure he helped develop the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library and the Academy Film Archive. Davis joined the Academy after previously chairing the theater department at Juniata College in Pennsylvania.

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