Bruce Bennett
Acting
- Nascimento:
- 1906-05-19
- Falecimento:
- 2007-02-24
- Local de nascimento:
- Tacoma, Washington, USA
Biografia
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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Filmografia
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
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Virginian
O Sexto Homem
Fiend of Dope Island
O Jacaré Humano
The Cosmic Man
77 Sunset Strip
The Texan
Flaming Frontier
Perry Mason
Ain't No Time for Glory
Panic!
Trindade Violenta
Ama-me com Ternura
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
West Point
The Three Outlaws
The Bottom of the Bottle
Hidden Guns
Covil de Feras
Damon Runyon Theater
Comandos do Ar
The Big Tip Off
Lassie
Dragonfly Squadron
Stories of the Century
With This Ring
Letter to Loretta
Quem é Meu Amor?
Cavalcade of America
Precipícios D'Alma
Anjos e Piratas
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
A Revolta dos Apaches
The Great Missouri Raid
The Second Face
Lux Video Theatre
Extorsão
A Noite de 23 de Maio
Sangue Acusador
Without Honor
O Ideal de uma Vida
The House Across the Street
The Younger Brothers
To the Victor
Armadilha Fatal
Silver River
O Tesouro de Sierra Madre
Prisioneiro do Passado
Cheyenne
A Sentença
Meu Único Amor
Uma Vida Roubada
Beer Barrel Polecats
Sinal de Perigo
Alma em Suplício
I'm from Arkansas
U-Boat Prisoner
There's Something About a Soldier
Sahara: Em Busca da Sobrevivência
Frontier Fury
Original Pecado
Murder in Times Square
Agente Subterrâneo
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
O Lobo Entre Lobos
West of Abilene
No Census, No Feeling
Glamour for Sale
The Spook Speaks
O Mago da Morte
The Secret Seven
How High Is Up?
Girls of the Road
The Taming of the Snood
Babies for Sale
Boobs in the Woods
Noiva da Fatalidade
Island of Doomed Men
Rumo ao Oeste
The Man from Tumbleweeds
A Ilha dos Ressuscitados
Hi-Yo Silver
Blazing Six Shooters
The Heckler
Five Little Peppers at Home
Convicted Woman
Cafe Hostess
Homens Marcados
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 and the Green Goddess
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
Sombras de Chinatown
The New Adventures of Tarzan
The New Adventures of Tarzan
Student Tour
A Mão Invisível
Treasure Island
Riptide
Meet the Baron
College Humor
Cinemaníaco
Million Dollar Legs