Bruce Bennett
male

Born on May 19, 1906 (119 years old)
Passed Away on February 24, 2007
From Tacoma, Washington, USA
Known for Acting
Biography
Bruce Bennett (born Harold Herman Brix) was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. His first career was as an athlete. At the University of Washington, where he majored in economics, he played football (tackle) in the 1926 Rose Bowl and was a track-and-field star. Two years later, he won the Silver medal for the shot put in the 1928 Olympic Games. Brix moved to Los Angeles in 1929 after being invited to compete for the Los Angeles Athletic Club and befriended actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who arranged a screen test for him at Paramount. In 1931, MGM, adapting author Edgar Rice Burroughs's popular Tarzan adventures for the screen, selected Brix to play the title character. Brix, however, broke his shoulder filming the 1931 football film Touchdown, so swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller replaced Brix and became a major star. After Ashton Dearholt convinced Burroughs to allow him to form Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises, Inc., and make a Tarzan serial film, Dearholt cast Brix in the lead. Pressbook copy has it that Burroughs made the choice himself, but, in fact, in his biography, Brix confirmed that Burroughs never even saw him until after the contract was signed, and then only briefly. The film was begun on location in Guatemala, under rugged conditions (jungle diseases and cash shortages were frequent). Brix did his own stunts, including a fall to rocky cliffs below. The Washington Post quoted Gabe Essoe's passage from his book Tarzan of the Movies: "Brix's portrayal was the only time between the silents and the 1960s that Tarzan was accurately depicted in films. He was mannered, cultured, soft-spoken, a well educated English lord who spoke several languages, and didn't grunt."[4] Brix shown in the opening credits of the serial The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935). Due to financial mismanagement, Dearholt had to complete filming of much of the serial back in Hollywood, and Brix, although his travel and daily living expenses in Guatemala were covered throughout the shoot, never received his contracted salary, along with the rest of the cast. The finished film, The New Adventures of Tarzan, was released in 1935 by Burroughs-Tarzan, and offered to theatres as a 12-chapter serial or a seven-reel feature. A second feature, Tarzan and the Green Goddess, was culled from the footage in 1938.
Cast Credits
- 2017
- 2003
- 1996
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- 1940
The Secret Seven
as
Patrick Norris
1940
Before I Hang
as
Dr. Paul Ames
1940
The Taming of the Snood
as
Detective
1940
The Spook Speaks
as
Mordini's former assistant
1940
Girls of the Road
as
Officer Sullavan
1940
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
as
Scotty
1940
No Census, No Feeling
as
Football Player #20 (uncredited)
1940
The Man with Nine Lives
as
State Trooper (uncredited)
1940
Boobs in the Woods
as
Park Ranger (uncredited)
1940
West of Abilene
as
Frank Garfield
1940
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
as
McManus
1940
The Heckler
as
Ole Margarine
1940
Five Little Peppers at Home
as
Jim - King's Chauffeur
1940
The Phantom Submarine
as
Paul Sinclair
1940
Babies for Sale
as
Policeman
1940
The Man from Tumbleweeds
as
Prison Warden
1940
Hi-Yo Silver
as
Bert Rogers
1940
Island of Doomed Men
as
Hazen - Guard (uncredited)
1940
Cafe Hostess
as
Budge
1940
Blazing Six Shooters
as
Geologist Winthrop
1940
Escape to Glory
as
Ship's gunnery officer
1940
How High Is Up?
as
Workman with Leaky Lunchpail (uncredited)
1940
Convicted Woman
as
Reporter (uncredited)
1940
Glamour for Sale
as
Cop (uncredited)
1940
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- 1938
- 1937
- 1936
- 1935
- 1934
- 1933
- 1932