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.

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Bruce Bennett

Filmografia

Il tesoro della Sierra Madre

Il romanzo di Mildred

The Secret Seven

Danger Patrol

Land of Fighting Men

Prima che m'impicchino

Smarrimento

Io amo

The House Across the Street

Delitti senza sangue

The Officer and the Lady

Uomini Coccodrillo

Without Honor

L'anima e il volto

Aquile nell'infinito

La fuga

Smart Girls Don't Talk

The Big Tip Off

Fratelli rivali

Sul fiume d'argento

La lunga valle verde

Sahara

La strada del mistero

So che mi ucciderai

The Taming of the Snood

The Spook Speaks

Jack il ricattatore

Girls of the Road

The Cosmic Man

Tarzan e la Dea verde

Chicago, bolgia infernale

I tre fuorilegge

Submarine Raider

Il dottore e la ragazza

Murder in Times Square

Le nuove avventure di Tarzan

Fiend of Dope Island

The Second Face

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

Il fondo della bottiglia

Shadow of Chinatown

The Younger Brothers

L'assedio di Fort Point

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

A Million to One

So Long Mr. Chumps

No Census, No Feeling

Il sesto eroe

Notte di bivacco

I dragoni dell'aria

Amateur Crook

Uniti nella vendetta

Hawk of the Wilderness

Daredevils of the Red Circle

Flying Fists

Robbers' Roost

Sky Racket

Student Tour

There's Something About a Soldier

With This Ring

Silks and Saddles

The Fighting Devil Dogs

The Lone Ranger

Molta brigata vita beata

Death on the Diamond

I'm from Arkansas

Two Minutes to Play

Uomini dalle 9 vite

La sposa sognata

L'isola del tesoro

Hidden Guns

College Humor

Blondie Brings Up Baby

Shadow of Chinatown

Boobs in the Woods