Bruce Bennett

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
Birthday: 1906-05-19
Place of Birth: Tacoma, Washington, USA
Also Known As: Harold Herman Brix, Herman Brix

Movies List of Bruce Bennett

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Mildred Pierce

1945 Movie
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The Secret Seven

1940 Movie
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Danger Patrol

1937 Movie
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Land of Fighting Men

1938 Movie
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Before I Hang

1940 Movie
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Nora Prentiss

1947 Movie
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The Man I Love

1946 Movie
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Danger Signal

1945 Movie
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The Alligator People

1959 Movie
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Without Honor

1949 Movie
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A Stolen Life

1946 Movie
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Strategic Air Command

1955 Movie
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Dark Passage

1947 Movie
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The Big Tip Off

1955 Movie
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Love Me Tender

1956 Movie
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Silver River

1948 Movie
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Sahara

1943 Movie
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Mystery Street

1950 Movie
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Sudden Fear

1952 Movie
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The Spook Speaks

1940 Movie
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Shakedown

1950 Movie
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Girls of the Road

1940 Movie
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The Cosmic Man

1959 Movie
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Undertow

1949 Movie
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The Three Outlaws

1956 Movie
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Submarine Raider

1942 Movie
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Fiend of Dope Island

1961 Movie
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The Second Face

1950 Movie
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Shadow of Chinatown

1936 Movie
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The Younger Brothers

1949 Movie
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The Last Outpost

1951 Movie
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A Million to One

1936 Movie
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So Long Mr. Chumps

1941 Movie
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No Census, No Feeling

1940 Movie
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The Outsider

1961 Movie
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Cheyenne

1947 Movie
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Dragonfly Squadron

1954 Movie
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Amateur Crook

1937 Movie
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Flying Fists

1937 Movie
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Robbers' Roost

1955 Movie
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Sky Racket

1937 Movie
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Student Tour

1934 Movie
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With This Ring

1954 Movie
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Silks and Saddles

1936 Movie
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The Lone Ranger

1938 Movie
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The More the Merrier

1943 Movie
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Death on the Diamond

1934 Movie
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I'm from Arkansas

1944 Movie
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Two Minutes to Play

1936 Movie
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Dream Wife

1953 Movie
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Treasure Island

1934 Movie
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Hidden Guns

1956 Movie
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College Humor

1933 Movie
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Shadow of Chinatown

1936 Movie
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Boobs in the Woods

1940 Movie
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West of Abilene

1940 Movie
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The Heckler

1940 Movie
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To the Victor

1948 Movie
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Atlantic Convoy

1942 Movie
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Million Dollar Racket

1937 Movie
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U-Boat Prisoner

1944 Movie
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

1942 Movie
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My Son Is Guilty

1939 Movie
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The Phantom Submarine

1940 Movie
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Sabotage Squad

1942 Movie
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Honolulu Lu

1941 Movie
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Underground Agent

1942 Movie
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Babies for Sale

1940 Movie
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Beer Barrel Polecats

1946 Movie
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Frontier Fury

1943 Movie
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Hi-Yo Silver

1940 Movie
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Island of Doomed Men

1940 Movie
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Cafe Hostess

1940 Movie
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Meet the Baron

1933 Movie
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Lassie: Well of Love

1970 Movie
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Blazing Six Shooters

1940 Movie
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Escape to Glory

1940 Movie
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The Clones

1973 Movie
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Deadhead Miles

1972 Movie
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Torpedo of Doom

1966 Movie
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How High Is Up?

1940 Movie
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Dutiful But Dumb

1941 Movie
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Convicted Woman

1940 Movie
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Three Violent People

1956 Movie
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Flaming Frontier

1958 Movie
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Million Dollar Legs

1932 Movie
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Glamour for Sale

1940 Movie
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Riptide

1934 Movie
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Invisible Stripes

1939 Movie
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Movie Crazy

1932 Movie