Bruce Bennett

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

120

Movies

122

Born: May 19, 1906 – February 24, 2007
From: Tacoma, Washington, USA

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.

Works

122 films

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

19488.0

Angels in the Outfield

19517.0

Dark Passage

19477.3

Mildred Pierce

19457.6

Treasure Island

19346.5

Love Me Tender

19566.2

Sahara

19437.2

The Alligator People

19595.6

Sudden Fear

19527.3

Three Violent People

19565.9

Before I Hang

19406.3

The Man I Love

19466.1

A Stolen Life

19466.4

Nora Prentiss

19476.2

Mystery Street

19506.8

Silver River

19486.2

Invisible Stripes

19396.2

The Man with Nine Lives

19406.3

Strategic Air Command

19556.1

Flying Fists

19376.0

Dream Wife

19535.4

The More the Merrier

19437.0

The New Adventures of Tarzan

19354.9

The Last Outpost

19516.1

College Humor

19335.6

Cheyenne

19477.0

Tarzan and the Green Goddess

19384.9

The Clones

19734.6

The Outsider

19616.5

The Man from Tumbleweeds

19405.0

Girls of the Road

19405.5

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

20037.4

Undertow

19496.1

Meet the Baron

19335.3

Million Dollar Legs

19326.8

Riptide

19346.7

No Census, No Feeling

19406.6

Three Girls About Town

19416.5

The Bottom of the Bottle

19565.7

The Big Tip Off

19557.0

Island of Doomed Men

19405.5

Tarzan: Lord of the Movies

2017

The Doctor and the Girl

19495.9

Honolulu Lu

19415.8

Shakedown

19506.4

Dragonfly Squadron

19546.5

Babies for Sale

19406.3

Hidden Guns

19565.7

A Million to One

19365.0

The Phantom Submarine

19406.3

Danger Patrol

19376.4

The Younger Brothers

19497.5

Silks and Saddles

19368.0

Smart Girls Don't Talk

19485.7

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

19406.2

Glamour for Sale

19405.0

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

19406.4

The Cosmic Man

19595.0

Convicted Woman

19404.6

Sabotage Squad

19427.5

Daredevils of the Red Circle

19394.8

Robbers' Roost

19555.9

To the Victor

19486.5

Murder in Times Square

19434.7

Student Tour

19346.7

Without Honor

19494.7

The Fighting Devil Dogs

19386.8

The Taming of the Snood

19406.0

Cafe Hostess

19405.4

Beer Barrel Polecats

19466.4

U-Boat Prisoner

19447.3

Blondie Brings Up Baby

19396.9

Lassie: Well of Love

19706.4

Boobs in the Woods

19407.5

Shadow of Chinatown

19365.2

Hi-Yo Silver

19407.0

Death on the Diamond

19347.3

West of Abilene

194010.0

Escape to Glory

19407.5

The Great Missouri Raid

19516.8

The New Adventures of Tarzan

19355.2

Movie Crazy

19326.4

Amateur Crook

19375.0

Underground Agent

19429.0

The Lone Ranger

19387.0

There's Something About a Soldier

19435.4

Five Little Peppers at Home

19407.0

Danger Signal

19456.0

Deadhead Miles

19726.2

My Son Is Guilty

19397.5

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

19425.3

The Secret Seven

194010.0

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

19397.0

The Three Outlaws

19566.0

Submarine Raider

19425.7

Two Latins from Manhattan

19416.0

Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer

19564.5

The Heckler

19407.0

The House Across the Street

19494.8

The Second Face

19507.0

Sky Racket

19373.9

The Officer and the Lady

19418.0

I'm from Arkansas

19446.0

Atlantic Convoy

19426.3

Land of Fighting Men

19387.0

Hawk of the Wilderness

19387.0

Million Dollar Racket

19376.5

Fiend of Dope Island

19604.1

With This Ring

19546.0

Blazing Six Shooters

19408.0

Laat de dokter maar schuiven

19809.0

Ain't No Time for Glory

1957

The Spook Speaks

19406.0

Two Minutes to Play

19365.7

Flaming Frontier

19587.0

Torpedo of Doom

196610.0

Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan

1996

Shadow of Chinatown

19364.0

Dutiful But Dumb

19416.4

How High Is Up?

19407.1

Frontier Fury

19437.0

So Long Mr. Chumps

19416.5