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 lat ... er, 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.
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
as James Cody (archive footage)
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Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Gen. Adams
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 10, 1963
Perry Mason
as Lawrence Balfour
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
The Virginian
as Silas Graham
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1962
Lux Video Theatre
as Dr. Grant
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1950
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Judge Paul Maston
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1951
Cavalcade of America
as Abe Lincoln
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1952
Letter to Loretta
as Seth Ranson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1953
Lux Video Theatre
as Ben Archer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1950
Perry Mason
as Dan Morgan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Perry Mason
as Matt Lambert
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Perry Mason
as Malone
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Perry Mason
as Reve Watson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Stories of the Century
as William Clark Charles Quantrill
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 23, 1954
Damon Runyon Theater
as Professor Woodhead
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 16, 1955
Lassie
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Sep 12, 1954
77 Sunset Strip
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 10, 1958
West Point
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1956
Branded
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 24, 1965
The Texan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1958
Panic!
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 05, 1957
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