1906-05-19 ( 118 years old ) in Tacoma, Washington, USA
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.
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Laat de dokter maar schuiven
1980-03-27
The Clones
1973-08-01
Deadhead Miles
1972-08-08
Lassie: Well of Love
1970-01-01
Torpedo of Doom
1966-01-01
The Outsider
1961-12-27
Fiend of Dope Island
1961-01-01
The Alligator People
1959-07-16
The Cosmic Man
1959-02-17
Flaming Frontier
1958-08-01
Three Violent People
1956-12-01
Love Me Tender
1956-11-15
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
1956-10-05
The Three Outlaws
1956-05-13
The Bottom of the Bottle
1956-02-01
Hidden Guns
1956-01-30
Strategic Air Command
1955-07-12
Robbers' Roost
1955-05-30
The Big Tip Off
1955-03-20
Dragonfly Squadron
1954-03-21
With This Ring
1954-01-01
Dream Wife
1953-06-19
Sudden Fear
1952-08-07
Angels in the Outfield
1951-10-19
The Last Outpost
1951-04-04
The Great Missouri Raid
1951-02-01
The Second Face
1950-12-01
Shakedown
1950-09-01
Mystery Street
1950-06-23
Undertow
1949-12-03
Without Honor
1949-10-26
The Doctor and the Girl
1949-09-29
The House Across the Street
1949-09-10
The Younger Brothers
1949-05-03
To the Victor
1948-10-26
Smart Girls Don't Talk
1948-10-09
Silver River
1948-05-20
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948-01-15
Dark Passage
1947-09-05
Cheyenne
1947-06-06
Nora Prentiss
1947-02-22
The Man I Love
1946-12-26
A Stolen Life
1946-05-01
Beer Barrel Polecats
1946-01-10
Danger Signal
1945-11-21
Mildred Pierce
1945-10-20
I'm from Arkansas
1944-10-31
U-Boat Prisoner
1944-07-25
There's Something About a Soldier
1943-11-30
Sahara
1943-09-22
Frontier Fury
1943-06-23
The More the Merrier
1943-05-13
Murder in Times Square
1943-04-01
Underground Agent
1942-12-03
Sabotage Squad
1942-08-27
Atlantic Convoy
1942-07-02
Submarine Raider
1942-06-04
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942-04-02
Honolulu Lu
1941-12-11
Three Girls About Town
1941-10-23
The Officer and the Lady
1941-10-12
Two Latins from Manhattan
1941-10-02
Dutiful But Dumb
1941-03-21
So Long Mr. Chumps
1941-02-07
The Phantom Submarine
1940-12-20
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940-11-02
West of Abilene
1940-10-20
No Census, No Feeling
1940-10-04
Glamour for Sale
1940-09-27
The Spook Speaks
1940-09-20
Before I Hang
1940-09-17
The Secret Seven
1940-08-15
How High Is Up?
1940-07-26
Girls of the Road
1940-07-24
The Taming of the Snood
1940-06-28
Babies for Sale
1940-06-14
Boobs in the Woods
1940-05-31
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940-05-30
Island of Doomed Men
1940-05-20
Escape to Glory
1940-05-20
The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940-05-02
The Man with Nine Lives
1940-04-18
Hi-Yo Silver
1940-04-10
Blazing Six Shooters
1940-04-10
The Heckler
1940-02-16
Five Little Peppers at Home
1940-02-08
Convicted Woman
1940-01-31
Cafe Hostess
1940-01-11
Invisible Stripes
1939-12-30
My Son Is Guilty
1939-12-28
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939-11-08
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939-08-22
Daredevils of the Red Circle
1939-06-10
Hawk of the Wilderness
1938-12-03
Land of Fighting Men
1938-11-03
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938-05-27
Tarzan and the Green Goddess
1938-02-14
The Lone Ranger
1938-02-13
Amateur Crook
1937-12-10
Danger Patrol
1937-11-18
Sky Racket
1937-10-01
Million Dollar Racket
1937-09-30
Flying Fists
1937-07-01
A Million to One
1936-12-31
Silks and Saddles
1936-12-14
Two Minutes to Play
1936-11-02
Shadow of Chinatown
1936-10-17
Shadow of Chinatown
1936-10-10
The New Adventures of Tarzan
1935-05-21
The New Adventures of Tarzan
1935-05-21
Student Tour
1934-10-05
Death on the Diamond
1934-09-14
Treasure Island
1934-08-17
Riptide
1934-03-29
Meet the Baron
1933-10-20
College Humor
1933-07-05
Movie Crazy
1932-09-23
Million Dollar Legs
1932-07-08
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