Bruce Bennett

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Tacoma, Washington, USA, 1906-05-19

Died: 2007-02-24

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1932	Million Dollar Legs	Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)	66
2	1932	Movie Crazy	Dinner Guest (Uncredited)	62
3	1933	College Humor	Student	56
4	1933	Meet the Baron	Train Passenger (uncredited)	43
5	1934	Riptide	Man at Cannes Bar (uncredited)	62
6	1934	Treasure Island	Man at Tavern (uncredited)	65
7	1934	Death on the Diamond	Man on Ticket Line (uncredited)	70
8	1934	Student Tour	Hercules	50
9	1935	The New Adventures of Tarzan	Tarzan	40
10	1935	The New Adventures of Tarzan	Tarzan	45
11	1936	Shadow of Chinatown	Martin Andrews	46
12	1936	Shadow of Chinatown	Martin Andrews	30
13	1936	Two Minutes to Play	Martin Granville	50
14	1936	Silks and Saddles	Jimmy Shay	60
15	1936	A Million to One	Johnny Kent	30
16	1937	Flying Fists	Hal "Chopper' Donovan, aka Hal Smith	50
17	1937	Million Dollar Racket	Larry Duane	60
18	1937	Sky Racket	Eric Lane - Agent 17	28
19	1937	Danger Patrol	Joe	53
20	1937	Amateur Crook	Jimmy Baxter	10
21	1938	The Lone Ranger	Bert Rogers	60
22	1938	Tarzan and the Green Goddess	Tarzan	45
23	1938	The Fighting Devil Dogs	Lieutenant Frank Corby	60
24	1938	Land of Fighting Men	Fred Mitchell	0
25	1938	Hawk of the Wilderness	Lincoln Rand Jr / Kioga	70
26	1939	Daredevils of the Red Circle	Tiny Dawson	40
27	1939	Five Little Peppers And How They Grew	Tom - King's Chauffeur	62
28	1939	Blondie Brings Up Baby	Mason's Chauffeur (uncredited)	65
29	1939	My Son Is Guilty	Lefty	75
30	1939	Invisible Stripes	Rich Man (uncredited)	63
31	1940	Cafe Hostess	Budge	55
32	1940	Convicted Woman	Reporter (uncredited)	37
33	1940	Five Little Peppers at Home	Jim - King's Chauffeur	63
34	1940	The Heckler	Ole Margarine	50
35	1940	Hi-Yo Silver	Bert Rogers	60
36	1940	Blazing Six Shooters	Geologist Winthrop	0
37	1940	The Man with Nine Lives	State Trooper (uncredited)	62
38	1940	The Man from Tumbleweeds	Prison Warden	30
39	1940	Island of Doomed Men	Hazen - Guard (uncredited)	53
40	1940	Escape to Glory	Ship's gunnery officer	60
41	1940	The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady	McManus	63
42	1940	Boobs in the Woods	Park Ranger (uncredited)	0
43	1940	Babies for Sale	Policeman	55
44	1940	The Taming of the Snood	Detective	55
45	1940	Girls of the Road	Officer Sullavan	50
46	1940	How High Is Up?	Workman with Leaky Lunchpail (uncredited)	67
47	1940	The Secret Seven	Patrick Norris	0
48	1940	Before I Hang	Dr. Paul Ames	61
49	1940	The Spook Speaks	Mordini's former assistant	50
50	1940	Glamour for Sale	Cop (uncredited)	47
51	1940	No Census, No Feeling	Football Player #20 (uncredited)	64
52	1940	West of Abilene	Frank Garfield	0
53	1940	The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date	Scotty	59
54	1940	The Phantom Submarine	Paul Sinclair	60
55	1941	So Long Mr. Chumps	Prison Guard / Truck Driver (uncredited)	62
56	1941	Dutiful But Dumb	Vulgarian Soldier in General's Office (uncredited)	63
57	1941	Two Latins from Manhattan	Federal Agent	50
58	1941	The Officer and the Lady	Bob Conlon	60
59	1941	Three Girls About Town	Reporter	53
60	1941	Honolulu Lu	Skelly	42
61	1942	Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!	Tommy Lydel	35
62	1942	Submarine Raider	1st Office Russell	50
63	1942	Atlantic Convoy	Capt. Morgan	53
64	1942	Sabotage Squad	Lieutenant John Cronin	60
65	1942	Underground Agent	Lee Graham	0
66	1943	Murder in Times Square	Supai George	46
67	1943	The More the Merrier	FBI Agent Evans	68
68	1943	Frontier Fury	Clem Hawkins (uncredited)	0
69	1943	Sahara	Waco Hoyt	72
70	1943	There's Something About a Soldier	Frank Molloy	48
71	1944	U-Boat Prisoner	Archie Gibbs	60
72	1944	I'm from Arkansas	Bob Hamlin	54
73	1945	Mildred Pierce	Albert 'Bert' Pierce	76
74	1945	Danger Signal	Dr. Andrew Lang	58
75	1946	Beer Barrel Polecats	Prison Guard (archive footage)	60
76	1946	A Stolen Life	Jack R. Talbot	64
77	1946	The Man I Love	San Thomas	62
78	1947	Nora Prentiss	Dr. Joel Merriam	61
79	1947	Cheyenne	Ed Landers	68
80	1947	Dark Passage	Bob	73
81	1948	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	James Cody	80
82	1948	Silver River	Stanley Moore	59
83	1948	Smart Girls Don't Talk	Marty Fain	55
84	1948	To the Victor	Henderson	0
85	1949	The Younger Brothers	Jim Younger	50
86	1949	The House Across the Street	Matthew J. Keever	45
87	1949	The Doctor and the Girl	Dr. Alfred Norton	57
88	1949	Without Honor	Fred Bandle	48
89	1949	Undertow	Reckling	61
90	1950	Mystery Street	Dr. McAdoo	67
91	1950	Shakedown	David Glover	61
92	1950	The Second Face	Paul Curtis	68
93	1951	The Great Missouri Raid	Cole Younger	66
94	1951	The Last Outpost	Col. Jeb Britton	55
95	1951	Angels in the Outfield	Saul Hellman	67
96	1952	Sudden Fear	Steve Kearney	73
97	1953	Dream Wife	Charlie Elkwood	55
98	1954	With This Ring	Frederick C. Miller	60
99	1954	Dragonfly Squadron	Dr. Stephen Cottrell	60
100	1955	The Big Tip Off	Bob Gilmore	55
101	1955	Robbers' Roost	'Bull' Herrick	58
102	1955	Strategic Air Command	Gen. Espy	61
103	1956	Hidden Guns	Stragg	50
104	1956	The Bottom of the Bottle	Brand	55
105	1956	The Three Outlaws	Charlie Trenton	55
106	1956	Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer	Daniel Boone	37
107	1956	Love Me Tender	Maj. Kincaid	61
108	1956	Three Violent People	Commissioner Harrison	61
109	1958	Flaming Frontier	Capt. Jim Hewson	0
110	1959	The Cosmic Man	Dr. Karl Sorenson	46
111	1959	The Alligator People	Dr. Eric Lorimer	56
112	1961	Fiend of Dope Island	Charlie Davis	42
113	1961	The Outsider	Gen. Bridges	64
114	1966	Torpedo of Doom	Lt. Frank Corley	0
115	1970	Lassie: Well of Love	Bert Daniels	58
116	1972	Deadhead Miles	Johnny Mesquitero	55
117	1973	The Clones	Clone Lab Assistant	38
118	1980	Laat de dokter maar schuiven	John	0
119	2003	Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'	James Cody (archive footage)	65
120	2017	Tarzan: Lord of the Movies	Tarzan (Archive Footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Dr. Grant	63
2	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Ben Archer	63
3	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Judge Paul Maston	73
4	1952	Cavalcade of America	Abe Lincoln	35
5	1953	Letter to Loretta	Seth Ranson	65
6	1954	Stories of the Century	William Clark Charles Quantrill	57
7	1954	Lassie		61
8	1955	Damon Runyon Theater	Professor Woodhead	0
9	1956	West Point		50
10	1957	Panic!		0
11	1957	Perry Mason	Lawrence Balfour	77
12	1957	Perry Mason	Dan Morgan	77
13	1957	Perry Mason	Matt Lambert	77
14	1957	Perry Mason	Malone	77
15	1957	Perry Mason	Reve Watson	77
16	1958	The Texan		55
17	1958	77 Sunset Strip		67
18	1962	The Virginian	Silas Graham	65
19	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Gen. Adams	53
20	1965	Branded		64

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