His film credits include Vice, 20th Century Women, Free State of Jones, Get On Up, Contraband, Texas Killing Fields, White Lightnin', The Butterfly Circus, and God Bless America.

He had a recurring guest star role on HBO's hit series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as Donald Sterling.

The series was created by Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht, based on the book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s by Jeff Pearlman.

Other recent television credits includes guest star and recurring roles on CSI: Vegas, Better Call Saul, American Horror Story: Asylum, Perfect Harmony, Hawaii Five-0, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Bosch.

He followed that with roles in a number of shows, including Criminal Minds, CSI, Young Sheldon, NCIS, Shameless, Grey's Anatomy, Leverage, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Sons of Anarchy, Southland, and Days of Our Lives.

That was followed up with several film roles including; Adam McKay's Oscar winning Vice as Henry Kissinger with Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Sam Rockwell, Mike Mills's 20th Century Women with Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning and Billy Crudup, the James Brown biopic Get On Up, with Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Chadwick Boseman, and helmed by Tate Taylor, Contraband with Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster and Giovanni Ribisi, Texas Killing Fields with Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, The Butterfly Circus, God Bless America, Paramount's Circle of 8, and Footprints.

Prior to entering into the entertainment industry, Bovill was an international marketing executive in high technology in the optoelectronics field for a number of years.