David Pevsner

Acting

David Pevsner

Born 1958-12-31 · Skokie, Illinois, USA

Acting credits

300: Rise of an Empire poster
6.1

Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

300: Rise of an Empire

2014

The Fluffer poster
5.8

Self-effacing, boyish Sean moves to LA to pursue a career in movies but finds it tougher than he imagined. He stumbles onto porn star Johnny Rebel - a handsome, muscled dream of men and women alike - who awakens Sean’s deep obsession.

The Fluffer

2001

Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story poster
5.1

A small town news team discovers a box of videotapes wherein a faceless figure, dressed in a dark suit, haunts and torments a family...slowly driving them insane. Soon after, they realize that the 'Operator' has begun to stalk them as well.

Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story

2015

Annie poster
6.5

Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure that takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms of bighearted billionaire Oliver Warbucks - with plenty of mischief and music in between.

Annie

1999

Scrooge & Marley poster
4.0

A modern day, queer variation on Charles Dickens' classic story of the holidays, "A Christmas Carol." On Christmas Eve, Ben Scrooge, the man who hates the holidays, is given the chance to begin again when he is visited by three spirits - the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Recounted from a gay sensibility with heart, comedy and music.

Scrooge & Marley

2012

Adam & Steve poster
5.4

Adam and Steve are two gay youths who have a one-night stand that ends embarrassingly. Nearly two decades later, Adam, now a Manhattan tour guide, and Steve, a psychiatrist, meet again -- but neither remembers the other from years before. The two begin dating, even playing matchmaker for their friends Michael and Rhonda, but their promising relationship hits a major snag when Adam and Steve finally recall their past connection.

Adam & Steve

2005

Liz & Dick poster
3.6

On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again - only to divorce again - but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.

Liz & Dick

2012

Spa Night poster
5.6

A young Korean-American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.

Spa Night

2016

Waiting in the Wings: The Musical poster
5.0

Two entertainers destined for the big time are mismatched in a casting office from two very different online contests. Tony, a stripper from New York, is cast in an Off-Broadway musical and needs to trade in his tear-away trunks for tap shoes and tights. Anthony, a naive musical theatre enthusiast from Montana, needs to decide if he can strip all the way down just to stay in town. Hilarity ensues as they realize that "to make it" they're gonna have to learn some new tricks.

Waiting in the Wings: The Musical

2014

Role/Play poster
5.4

A recently outed soap opera actor crosses paths with a recently divorced gay marriage activist, forcing them to confront the price of fame and the fickle nature of celebrity within the gay community.

Role/Play

2010

Love & Teleportation poster
6.0

Brian Owens was once a prominent professor of quantum mechanics until an accident stripped him of his credentials; he now teaches at a community college. In order to reclaim his stature, he is trying to build the world's first teleportation machine in his garage at night. All of this while being romantically pursued by one of the art professors at the college, avoiding the crazy old lady next door, and being harassed by the loan sharks he borrowed money from to build his machine. But his biggest problem is he can't get his machine to work.​

Love & Teleportation

2013

Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean poster
5.9

Part period melodrama, part film noir, part 50s road movie "JOSHUA TREE, 1951" is a portrait of screen legend and outsider icon James Dean as you have never seen him before.

Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean

2012

Coffee House Chronicles: The Movie poster
4.9

This film, based on the web series, features nine vignettes in the lives of LGBT people as they date and hook up in Los Angeles.

Coffee House Chronicles: The Movie

2016

Lez Be Friends poster
1.1

Glenn Gaylord presents this comedy about a butch lesbian in 1969 Greenwich Village as a 70s-style sitcom, complete with a laugh track and vintage commercials.

Lez Be Friends

2007

Open poster
4.3

A married couple is celebrating their 10-year anniversary (10 years of monogamy) when they begin to wonder if they are missing out on something.

Open

2017

David Searching poster
5.6

The story of a young gay man's search to find himself. David is a young, gay aspiring documentary filmmaker and takes his first tentative steps towards his adult life. His roommate, Gwen, after ending a mysterious marriage, is looking for stability. Together they try to manoeuvre their way through New York on a search for happiness. Instead, they find bad dates, worse job interviews and bizarre sexual encounters.

David Searching

1997

Unspoken poster
NR

Noam Stein is a closeted teenager in a religious community who discovers he might not be alone. When he finds a love letter written to his grandfather by another man before the Holocaust, he sets out to find this mysterious person and uncover both his grandfather's identity as well as his own.

Unspoken

2024

Just Not Naked Enough poster
NR

Two men meet on a birthday evening, each knowing far too much about the other. What begins as a return to an old love quickly turns into an emotional rollercoaster, where past grievances and still‑burning feelings fight for the final word.

Just Not Naked Enough

2026

Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption poster
5.0

Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi is a play retelling the Jesus story, with Jesus as a gay man living in the 1950s in Corpus Christi, Texas. This documentary follows the troupe, playwright, and audience around the world on a five-year journey of Terrence McNally’s passion play, where voices of protest and support collide on one of the central issues facing the LGBT community: religion.

Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption

2013

Musical Comedy Whore! poster
NR

A daring one-man show starring David Pevsner based on his own journey of self acceptance. It’s all about sex…and regrets, shame, finding and understanding love, and owning your past.

Musical Comedy Whore!

2020

Breaking the Rules poster
NR

Kyle and his husband David are bored and having marital problems mostly because they envy their close friends Mark and Richard who keep extolling the virtues of an open relationship. One night while lying in bed Kyle and David decide to do something to spice things up by declaring they are going to pursue a "non-sexual open relationship". Kyles's sister Gabby is claiming to be "bi" because she thinks it makes her look cool. So Kyle also decides to help his sister out by finding her a woman who is willing to help her explore her bisexuality. Enter Trey a former student of David who leads him into sexual relationship thus breaking the rules of he and Kyle's new open relationship arrangement. Enter Margaret who has every intention of dating Gaby and pursuing true love. Enter a series of bad dates that Kyle goes on in retaliation of David's affair and chaos ensues. Can these relationships be saved?

Breaking the Rules

2017

Behind the camera