Bruce Bennett
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1906-05-19
- Décès:
- 2007-02-24
- Lieu de naissance:
- Tacoma, Washington, USA
Biographie
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.
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Filmographie
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
Laat de dokter maar schuiven
The Clones
Deadhead Miles
Lassie: Well of Love
Torpedo of Doom
Branded
Haute Tension
Le Virginien
Le héros d'Iwo-Jima
Fiend of Dope Island
The Alligator People
L'Homme Cosmique
77 Sunset Strip
The Texan
Flaming Frontier
Perry Mason
Ain't No Time for Glory
Panic!
Terre sans pardon
Le Cavalier du crépuscule
Daniel Boone et les Pionniers
Les cadets de West-Point
The Three Outlaws
Le Fond de la bouteille
Hidden Guns
Robbers' Roost
Damon Runyon Theater
Strategic Air Command
The Big Tip Off
Lassie
Dragonfly Squadron
Stories of the Century
With This Ring
Letter to Loretta
La Femme rêvée
Cavalcade of America
Le Masque arraché
Angels in the Outfield
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Le Dernier Bastion
Les rebelles du Missouri
The Second Face
Lux Video Theatre
Shakedown
Le Mystère de la plage perdue
Undertow
Crépuscule
The Doctor and the Girl
The House Across the Street
The Younger Brothers
To the Victor
Smart Girls Don't Talk
La Rivière d'argent
Le Trésor de la Sierra Madre
Les Passagers de la nuit
Cheyenne
Nora Prentiss
The Man I Love
La voleuse
Beer Barrel Polecats
Danger Signal
Le Roman de Mildred Pierce
I'm from Arkansas
U-Boat Prisoner
There's Something About a Soldier
Sahara
Frontier Fury
Plus on est de fous
Murder in Times Square
Underground Agent
Sabotage Squad
Atlantic Convoy
Submarine Raider
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Honolulu Lu
Three Girls About Town
The Officer and the Lady
Two Latins from Manhattan
Dutiful But Dumb
So Long Mr. Chumps
The Phantom Submarine
Le Lone Wolf garde une date
West of Abilene
No Census, No Feeling
Glamour for Sale
The Spook Speaks
Avant de me pendre
The Secret Seven
How High Is Up?
Girls of the Road
The Taming of the Snood
Babies for Sale
Boobs in the Woods
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Island of Doomed Men
Escape to Glory
The Man from Tumbleweeds
L'homme avec Nine Lives
Hi-Yo Silver
Blazing Six Shooters
The Heckler
Five Little Peppers at Home
Convicted Woman
Cafe Hostess
Invisible Stripes
My Son Is Guilty
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Daredevils of the Red Circle
Hawk of the Wilderness
Land of Fighting Men
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Tarzan et la déesse verte
The Lone Ranger
Amateur Crook
Danger Patrol
Sky Racket
Million Dollar Racket
Flying Fists
A Million to One
Silks and Saddles
Two Minutes to Play
Shadow of Chinatown
Shadow of Chinatown
Les nouvelles aventures de Tarzan
Les nouvelles aventures de Tarzan
Student Tour
Death on the Diamond
L'Île au Trésor
Riptide
Meet the Baron
College Humor
Silence, on tourne !
Million Dollar Legs