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.
137 acting credits
Acting · 137
Perry Mason
1957
Lassie
1954
The Virginian
1962
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
The Texan
1958
Branded
1965
Cavalcade of America
1952
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Panic!
1957
Letter to Loretta
1953
West Point
1956
Stories of the Century
1954
Angels in the Outfield
1951
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
Mildred Pierce
1945
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Sahara
1943
Dark Passage
1947
Sudden Fear
1952
Damon Runyon Theater
1955
Strategic Air Command
1955
Love Me Tender
1956
Silver River
1948
The Man I Love
1946
The Lone Ranger
1938
Mystery Street
1950
Treasure Island
1934
Nora Prentiss
1947
The More the Merrier
1943
Daredevils of the Red Circle
1939
Invisible Stripes
1939
The Last Outpost
1951
A Stolen Life
1946
Dream Wife
1953
Three Violent People
1956
Deadhead Miles
1972
Shakedown
1950
Dragonfly Squadron
1954
Tarzan and the Green Goddess
1938
There's Something About a Soldier
1943
Hidden Guns
1956
Robbers' Roost
1955
Three Girls About Town
1941
The Man with Nine Lives
1940
The Alligator People
1959
The Outsider
1961
Hi-Yo Silver
1940
Sabotage Squad
1942
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
Undertow
1949
The Clones
1973
The New Adventures of Tarzan
1935
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942
Cheyenne
1947
Riptide
1934
Death on the Diamond
1934
Movie Crazy
1932
Before I Hang
1940
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
2017
Flying Fists
1937
Cafe Hostess
1940
Atlantic Convoy
1942
Underground Agent
1942
Without Honor
1949
Convicted Woman
1940
Danger Signal
1945
A Million to One
1936
Meet the Baron
1933
Five Little Peppers at Home
1940
The Cosmic Man
1959
The Bottom of the Bottle
1956
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
To the Victor
1948
The House Across the Street
1949
The Doctor and the Girl
1949
The Great Missouri Raid
1951
Million Dollar Legs
1932
Sky Racket
1937
Danger Patrol
1937
The Younger Brothers
1949
College Humor
1933
Island of Doomed Men
1940
Two Minutes to Play
1936
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939
Two Latins from Manhattan
1941
Submarine Raider
1942
The Three Outlaws
1956
The Secret Seven
1940
The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940
Flaming Frontier
1958
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938
The New Adventures of Tarzan
1935
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940
Girls of the Road
1940
U-Boat Prisoner
1944
Honolulu Lu
1941
Student Tour
1934
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
1956
Boobs in the Woods
1940
The Officer and the Lady
1941
I'm from Arkansas
1944
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
Glamour for Sale
1940
Hawk of the Wilderness
1938
Murder in Times Square
1943
The Big Tip Off
1955
Blazing Six Shooters
1940
The Spook Speaks
1940
Dutiful But Dumb
1941
West of Abilene
1940
With This Ring
1954
The Heckler
1940
My Son Is Guilty
1939
Amateur Crook
1937
Fiend of Dope Island
1960
Shadow of Chinatown
1936
The Second Face
1950
Babies for Sale
1940
Frontier Fury
1943
Torpedo of Doom
1966
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
1996
How High Is Up?
1940
The Phantom Submarine
1940
So Long Mr. Chumps
1941
Escape to Glory
1940
Silks and Saddles
1936
No Census, No Feeling
1940
Million Dollar Racket
1937
Beer Barrel Polecats
1946
Smart Girls Don't Talk
1948
The Taming of the Snood
1940
Land of Fighting Men
1938
Shadow of Chinatown
1936
Ain't No Time for Glory
1957
Lassie: Well of Love
1970
Laat de dokter maar schuiven
1980