Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett (born May 19, 1906 in Tacoma , Washington , † February 24, 2007 in Los Angeles , California ; actually Herman Harold Brix ) was an American athlete and actor of German descent.
Life
Herman Brix Harold was the son of from the in 1896 Region Fishing , Schleswig-Holstein immigrant Minna Petersen and Anton H. Brix from Struxdorf born. In his father's business, which dealt with logging, timber trade and a sawmill, the young Brix worked from the age of 12. Brix successfully participated in the 1928 Olympic Games , where he won the silver medal in the shot put competitions with 15.75 meters behind his compatriot John Kuck . On July 13, 1930, he improved the world record in the shot put to 16.04 m. He held this record from June 4, 1931, together with František Douda , who equalized him, until Leo Sexton improved it on July 17, 1932.
After the end of his sporting career, Herman Brix was best known as a Tarzan actor and stuntman under the stage name Bruce Bennett . Brix, who used the stage name Bruce Bennett from 1939 to differentiate himself from the Austrian actor Hermann Brix , was a busy US actor from the 1930s to 1950s, with leading roles in smaller films and supporting roles in larger films. In contrast to other athletic actors like Johnny Weissmüller , Bennett also played more dramatic and demanding roles from the 1940s, for example as the husband of Joan Crawford in the drama Solange a Heart Beats and as a murdered American in John Huston's classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart . Bennett was also seen in many television series from the 1950s onwards, also as an advertising medium for various companies. Bennett took his last film role in 1980.
Bruce Bennett died in 2007 at the age of 100 from complications from a broken hip. From 1933 until her death in 2000 he was married to Jeannette C. Braddock and they had two children.
Filmography (selection)
- 1931: touchdown
- 1932: Legs are worth gold (Million Dollar Legs)
- 1934: Treasure Island (Treasure Iceland)
- 1935: Tarzan's newest adventure ( The New Adventures of Tarzan )
- 1937: A Million to One
- 1938: Tarzan on Treasure Island ( Hawk of the Wilderness )
- 1939: The yellow circle ( Daredevils of the Red Circle )
- 1940: Escape to Glory
- 1941: The Officer and the Lady
- 1943: Always more, always happier ( The More the Merrier )
- 1943: Sahara
- 1945: As long as a heart beats ( Mildred Pierce )
- 1946: The Big Lie (A Stolen Life)
- 1947: Dirty Dollars ( Cheyenne )
- 1947: The Black Snake ( Dark Passage )
- 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( The Treasure of the Sierra Madre )
- 1948: The Lord of the Silver Mines ( Silver River )
- 1949: They rode with Jesse James ( The Younger Brothers )
- 1949: Storm over the Pacific ( Task Force )
- 1950: The Dead in the Dunes ( Mystery Street )
- 1953: You and no other ( Dream Wife )
- 1955: In a secret matter of command ( Strategic Air Command )
- 1956: Gunpowder Steam and Hot Songs ( Love Me Tender )
- 1961: The Outsider ( The Outsider )
- 1968: Daktari (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1973: Labor of Horror ( The Clones )
- 1980: Laat de dokter maar schuiven
Web links
- Bruce Bennett in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bruce Bennett in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bennett, Bruce |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herman Harold Brix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American athlete and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tacoma , Washington |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 2007 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |