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