Stargate Closed

Character actor Don S. Davis, best known as MacGyver’s boss on Stargate: SG-1, has died at the age of 65. The former stunt double for Dana Elcar put his military record to use, playing Major Garland Briggs on Twin Peaks, Scully’s dad, Captain William Scully, on The X-Files, and Major General Hammond on Stargate. Other roles included Charlie Collins, coach of the Racine Belles in A League of Their Own, Everett Bainbridge, a Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show judge in Best in Show and Reverend Don Butler, briefly a contender for Arnie Vinick’s VP on The West Wing, but ultimately a critic from the right.