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 Burroughss 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 Essoes passage from his book Tarzan of the Movies Brixs 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 didnt 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.
James Cody
Filme 1948
Patrick Norris
Filme 1940
Joe
Filme 1937
Fred Mitchell
Filme 1938
Dr. Paul Ames
Filme 1940
Dr. Joel Merriam
Filme 1947
San Thomas
Filme 1946
Matthew J. Keever
Filme 1949
Dr. Andrew Lang
Filme 1945
Bob Conlon
Filme 1941
Dr. Eric Lorimer
Filme 1959
Fred Bandle
Filme 1949
Marty Fain
Filme 1948
Bob Gilmore
Filme 1955
Stanley Moore
Filme 1948
Daniel Boone
Filme 1956
Waco Hoyt
Filme 1943
Dr. McAdoo
Filme 1950
Steve Kearney
Filme 1952
Detective
Filme 1940
Mordini's former assistant
Filme 1940
David Glover
Filme 1950
Officer Sullavan
Filme 1940
Dr. Karl Sorenson
Filme 1959
Tarzan
Filme 1938
Charlie Trenton
Filme 1956
1st Office Russell
Filme 1942
Dr. Alfred Norton
Filme 1949
Supai George
Filme 1943
Tarzan
Filme 1935
Charlie Davis
Filme 1961
Paul Curtis
Filme 1950
Scotty
Filme 1940
Brand
Filme 1956
Martin Andrews
Filme 1936
Jim Younger
Filme 1949
Col. Jeb Britton
Filme 1951
James Cody (archive footage)
Filme 2003
Johnny Kent
Filme 1936
Prison Guard / Truck Driver (uncredited)
Filme 1941
Football Player #20 (uncredited)
Filme 1940
Gen. Bridges
Filme 1961
Ed Landers
Filme 1947
Jimmy Baxter
Filme 1937
Tiny Dawson
Filme 1939
Lincoln Rand Jr / Kioga
Filme 1938
Hal "Chopper' Donovan, aka Hal Smith
Filme 1937
'Bull' Herrick
Filme 1955
Eric Lane - Agent 17
Filme 1937
Hercules
Filme 1934
Frank Molloy
Filme 1943
Filme 1954
Jimmy Shay
Filme 1936
Bert Rogers
Filme 1938
Lieutenant Frank Corby
Filme 1938
FBI Agent Evans
Filme 1943
Man on Ticket Line (uncredited)
Filme 1934
Martin Granville
Filme 1936
State Trooper (uncredited)
Filme 1940
Charlie Elkwood
Filme 1953
Man at Tavern (uncredited)
Filme 1934
Stragg
Filme 1956
Student
Filme 1933
Mason's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Filme 1939
Martin Andrews
Filme 1936
Park Ranger (uncredited)
Filme 1940
Frank Garfield
Filme 1940
McManus
Filme 1940
Ole Margarine
Filme 1940
Henderson
Filme 1948
Tom - King's Chauffeur
Filme 1939
Capt. Morgan
Filme 1942
Larry Duane
Filme 1937
Archie Gibbs
Filme 1944
Tommy Lydel
Filme 1942
Paul Sinclair
Filme 1940
Skelly
Filme 1941
Lee Graham
Filme 1942
Lieutenant John Cronin
Filme 1942
Prison Warden
Filme 1940
Prison Guard (archive footage)
Filme 1946
Clem Hawkins (uncredited)
Filme 1943
Saul Hellman
Filme 1951
Bert Rogers
Filme 1940
Hazen - Guard (uncredited)
Filme 1940
Budge
Filme 1940
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Filme 1933
Bert Daniels
Filme 1970
Geologist Winthrop
Filme 1940
Reporter
Filme 1941
Clone Lab Assistant
Filme 1973
Johnny Mesquitero
Filme 1972
Lt. Frank Corley
Filme 1966
Vulgarian Soldier in General's Office (uncredited)
Filme 1941
Workman with Leaky Lunchpail (uncredited)
Filme 1940
Reporter (uncredited)
Filme 1940
Commissioner Harrison
Filme 1956
Capt. Jim Hewson
Filme 1958
Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
Filme 1932
Federal Agent
Filme 1941
Cop (uncredited)
Filme 1940
Man at Cannes Bar (uncredited)
Filme 1934
Tarzan
Filme 1935
Rich Man (uncredited)
Filme 1939
Dinner Guest (Uncredited)
Filme 1932
Tv 1958
Gen. Adams
Tv 1963
Tv 1954
Silas Graham
Tv 1962
Dr. Grant
Tv 1950
Tv 1956
Judge Paul Maston
Tv 1951
Tv 1965
Tv 1958
Tv 1957
Seth Ranson
Tv 1953
Ben Archer
Tv 1950
William Clark Charles Quantrill
Tv 1954