Bruce Bennett
Acting
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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Filmography of
Bruce Bennett
passeggero all'areoporto
... 2013
Clone Lab Assistant
... 1973
Johnny Mesquitero
... 1972
Bert Daniels
... 1970
... 1966
Gen. Bridges
... 1961
Charlie Davis
... 1961
Dr. Eric Lorimer
... 1959
Dr. Karl Sorenson
... 1959
Capt. Jim Hewson
... 1958
Commissioner Harrison
... 1956
Maj. Kincaid
... 1956
Daniel Boone
... 1956
Charlie Trenton
... 1956
Brand
... 1956
Stragg
... 1956
Gen. Espy
... 1955
'Bull' Herrick
... 1955
Bob Gilmore
... 1955
Dr. Stephen Cottrell
... 1954
Charlie Elkwood
... 1953
Steve Kearney
... 1952
Saul Hellman
... 1951
Col. Jeb Britton
... 1951
Cole Younger
... 1951
Paul Curtis
... 1950
David Glover
... 1950
Dr. McAdoo
... 1950
Det. Charles "Chuck" Reckling
... 1949
Fred Bandle
... 1949
Dr. Alfred Norton
... 1949
Matthew J. Keever
... 1949
Jim Younger
... 1949
Henderson
... 1948
Marty Fain
... 1948
Stanley Moore
... 1948
James Cody
... 1948
Bob
... 1947
Ed Landers
... 1947
Dr. Joel Merriam
... 1947
San Thomas
... 1946
Jack R. Talbot
... 1946
Prison Guard (archive footage)
... 1946
Dr. Andrew Lang
... 1945
Albert 'Bert' Pierce
... 1945
Bob Hamlin
... 1944
Archie Gibbs
... 1944
Frank Molloy
... 1943
"Waco" Hoyt
... 1943
Clem Hawkins (uncredited)
... 1943
Supai George
... 1943
FBI Agent Evans
... 1943
Lee Graham
... 1942
Lieutenant John Cronin
... 1942
Capt. Morgan
... 1942
1st Office Russell
... 1942
Tommy Lydel
... 1942
Skelly
... 1941
Reporter
... 1941
Federal Agent
... 1941
Soldier in General's Office (uncredited)
... 1941
Paul Sinclair
... 1940
Scotty
... 1940
Frank Garfield
... 1940
Cop (uncredited)
... 1940
Mordini's former assistant
... 1940
Dr. Paul Ames
... 1940
Workman with Leaky Lunchpail (uncredited)
... 1940
Officer Sullavan
... 1940
Detective
... 1940
Policeman
... 1940
Park Ranger (uncredited)
... 1940
McManus
... 1940
Hazen - Guard (uncredited)
... 1940
Ship's gunnery officer
... 1940
Prison Warden
... 1940
State Trooper (uncredited)
... 1940
Bert Rogers
... 1940
Geologist Winthrop
... 1940
Ole Margarine
... 1940
Jim - King's Chauffeur
... 1940
Reporter (uncredited)
... 1940
Budge
... 1940
Rich Man (uncredited)
... 1939
Lefty
... 1939
Mason's Chauffeur
... 1939
Tom - King's Chauffeur
... 1939
Tiny Dawson
... 1939
Lincoln Rand Jr / Kioga
... 1938
Lieutenant Frank Corby
... 1938
Tarzan
... 1938
Bert Rogers
... 1938
Jimmy Baxter
... 1937
Eric Lane - Agent 17
... 1937
Lawrence 'Larry' Duane (as Herman Brix)
... 1937
Hal "Chopper' Donovan, aka Hal Smith
... 1937
Johnny Kent (as Herman Brix)
... 1937
Martin Granville
... 1936
Martin Andrews
... 1936
Tarzan (as Herman Brix)
... 1935
Tarzan
... 1935
Hercules
... 1934
Man at Cannes Bar (uncredited)
... 1934
Train Passenger (uncredited)
... 1933
Student
... 1933
Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
... 1932