Bruce Bennett


Actor
Bruce Bennett

About

Also Known As
Herman Brix
Birth Place
Tacoma, Washington, USA
Born
May 19, 1906
Died
February 24, 2007
Cause of Death
Complications From A Broken Hip

Bibliography

"Please Don't Call Me Tarzan"
Mike Chapman, Culture House Books (2001)

Biography

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Deadhead Miles (1982)
Johnny Mesquitero
The Fiend of Dope Island (1961)
Charlie Davis
The Outsider (1961)
Major-General Bridges
The Alligator People (1959)
Dr. Erik Lorimer
The Cosmic Man (1959)
Dr. Karl Sorenson
Flaming Frontier (1958)
Capt. James Huston
Three Violent People (1957)
Harrison
Love Me Tender (1956)
Maj. Kincaid
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
Brand
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956)
Daniel Boone
The Three Outlaws (1956)
Charlie Trenton
Hidden Guns (1956)
Stragg
Strategic Air Command (1955)
Gen. Espy
The Big Tip Off (1955)
Robert Gilmore
Robbers' Roost (1955)
Bull Herrick
Dragonfly Squadron (1954)
Dr. Stephen Cottrell
Dream Wife (1953)
Charlie Elkwood
Sudden Fear (1952)
Steve Kearney
The Last Outpost (1951)
Col. Jeb Britton
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Saul Hellman
The Great Missouri Raid (1951)
Cole Younger
The Second Face (1950)
Paul Curtis
Mystery Street (1950)
Dr. McAdoo
Shakedown (1950)
David Glover
The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
Dr. Alfred Norton
Without Honor (1949)
Fred Bandle
Task Force (1949)
McCluskey
The Younger Brothers (1949)
Jim Younger
The House Across the Street (1949)
Keever
Undertow (1949)
[Chuck] Reckling
Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948)
Marty Fain
Silver River (1948)
Stanley Moore
To the Victor (1948)
Henderson
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Cody
Nora Prentiss (1947)
Dr. Joel Merriman
Dark Passage (1947)
Bob
Cheyenne (1947)
Editor Landers, the Poet
The Man I Love (1947)
San Thomas
A Stolen Life (1946)
Jack Talbot
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Bert Pierce
Danger Signal (1945)
Dr. Andrew Lang
U-Boat Prisoner (1944)
Archie Gibbs
I'm from Arkansas (1944)
Bob Hamline
The More the Merrier (1943)
Evans
Frontier Fury (1943)
Clem Hawkins
Murder in Times Square (1943)
Supal George
Sahara (1943)
"Waco" Hoyt
There's Something About a Soldier (1943)
Frank Malloy
The Fighting Devil Dogs (1943)
Lt. Frank Corby
Underground Agent (1942)
Lee Graham
Sabotage Squad (1942)
Lieutenant John Cronin
Submarine Raider (1942)
First Officer Russell
Atlantic Convoy (1942)
Capt. [Jim] Morgan
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1942)
Tommy Lydel
Tillie the Toiler (1941)
Tom
Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)
American
Three Girls About Town (1941)
Reporter
The Officer and the Lady (1941)
Bob Conlon
Honolulu Lu (1941)
Skelly
Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
King's chauffeur
Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Hazen
Convicted Woman (1940)
Reporter
Girls of the Road (1940)
Officer Sullavan
The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
State trooper
Phantom Submarine (1940)
Paul Sinclair
West of Abilene (1940)
Frank Garfield
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)
Scotty
The Secret Seven (1940)
Pat Norris
Before I Hang (1940)
Dr. Paul Ames
Escape to Glory (1940)
Lieutenant
Blazing Six Shooters (1940)
Winthrop
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)
McManus
Hi-Yo Silver (1940)
Bert Rogers
Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939)
Chauffeur
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)
Chauffeur
My Son Is Guilty (1939)
Lefty
Cafe Hostess (1939)
Budge
Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939)
The Land of Fighting Men (1938)
Fred Mitchell
Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938)
Tarzan
The Lone Ranger (1938)
Flying Fists (1937)
Hal ["Chopper"] Donovan [Also known as Hal Smith]
Sky Racket (1937)
Eric Lane
Danger Patrol (1937)
Joe
Million Dollar Racket (1937)
Lawrence Duane
Shadow of Chinatown (1937)
Martin Andrews
A Million to One (1937)
Johnny Kent
Amateur Crook (1937)
Jimmy Baxter
Two Minutes to Play (1936)
Martin Granville
Silks and Saddles (1936)
Jimmy Shay
The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935)
Tarzan
Death on the Diamond (1934)
Riptide (1934)
Brix
Student Tour (1934)
Hercules
Million Dollar Legs (1932)
Member of the Klopstokian Olympics team
Touchdown! (1931)

Writer (Feature Film)

The Fiend of Dope Island (1961)
Writer

Cast (Special)

Man of the Comstock (1953)
Bill Stewart

Life Events

1926

Played in the annual Rose Bowl football game on the University of Washington team

1928

Earned silver medal in shot put at the Olympics

1935

Cast as Tarzan in the serial "The New Adventures of Tarzan"

1938

Portrayed Tarzan in "Tarzan and the Green Goddess", a compilation of re-edited footage from the serial mixed with newly shot sequences

Videos

Movie Clip

Sahara (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Opening: In Your Own Language, Scram! With standard wartime context provided in the credits from Columbia, Zoltan Korda's North Africa tank drama Sahara, 1943, begins with bad news for Jimmy (Dan Duryea), Waco (Bruce Bennett) and Sergeant Joe Gunn (Humphrey Bogart).
Nora Prentiss (1947) -- (Movie Clip) There's A Certain Dignity San Francisco Dr. Talbott (Kent Smith), established as an upright family man and model professional, rebukes his partner in practice (Bruce Bennett) then, working late, meets Ann Sheridan, the title character, quite by chance, in Vincent Sherman’s Nora Prentiss, 1947.
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, The (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Stinking Badges "Gold Hat" (Alfonso Bedoya) and his gang approach miners Curtin (Tim Holt), Howard (Walter Huston) and Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), for a much-imitated chat about credentials, in John Huston's The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, 1948.
Mildred Pierce (1945) -- (Movie Clip) -- We Don't Need You Title character (Joan Crawford) at the police station after her husband's murder by an unknown subject, where she meets pal Ida (Eve Arden), business rival Wally (Jack Carson), her ex Bert (Bruce Bennett) and cop Peterson (Moroni Olsen), early in Mildred Pierce, 1945.
Before I Hang -- (Movie Clip) I Am A Murderer Opening scene with the automatic Boris Karloff (as Dr. Garth) making a persuasive case before his death sentence (by judge Charles Trowbridge), with support from Evelyn Keyes and Bruce Bennett, in Before I Hang, 1940.

Trailer

Bibliography

"Please Don't Call Me Tarzan"
Mike Chapman, Culture House Books (2001)