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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.
Davis came to the Academy after chairing the theater department at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. He started out at the Academy overseeing public programming, and was named Executive Director in 1989. He retired from the Academy in 2011.
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