Bruce Cabot

Bruce Cabot

1904-04-20 Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA 97 Credits

Biography

Bruce Cabot (April 20, 1904 – May 3, 1972) was an American film actor. Tall and athletic looking, he is best remembered as Jack Driscoll in King Kong (1933). He is also well known for his roles in films such as the original Last of the Mohicans, Fritz Lang's Fury and the classic western Dodge City. The character of "Bruce Baxter" in the 2005 remake of King Kong was based on Cabot. The 2005 remake includes a dedication to the other two lead actors in the 1933 original, but not to Cabot.

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The Lost Spider Pit Sequence

The Lost Spider Pit Sequence

2005

as Jack Driscoll (archive footage)

6.8
Acting

What the "spider-pit" sequence from the original King Kong (1933) probably looked like (the original sequence was cut out of the original movie becaus...

Legends of the West

Legends of the West

1992

as Jeff Surrett in 'Dodge City'

Acting

Host Jack Palance explores how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer, Billy the Kid, Crazy Horse and the O.K. Corral

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991

as actor 'In Harm's Way' (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.7
Acting

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...

Diamonds Are Forever

Diamonds Are Forever

1971

as Albert R. Saxby

6.4
Acting

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The missio...

Big Jake

Big Jake

1971

as Sam Sharpnose

6.9
Acting

An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.

WUSA

WUSA

1970

as King Wolyoe

5.4
Acting

Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's rea...

Chisum

Chisum

1970

as Sheriff Brady

6.7
Acting

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.

The Undefeated

The Undefeated

1969

as Jeff Newby

6.2
Acting

After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through st...

Hellfighters

Hellfighters

1968

as Joe Horn

6.3
Acting

The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the worl...

The Green Berets

The Green Berets

1968

as Colonel Morgan

5.7
Acting

Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken ...

The War Wagon

The War Wagon

1967

as Frank Pierce

6.8
Acting

An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the ...

The Chase

The Chase

1966

as Sol

7.1
Acting

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Town Tamer

Town Tamer

1965

as Riley Condor

6.4
Acting

A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruc...

Cat Ballou

Cat Ballou

1965

as Sheriff Maledon

6.4
Acting

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

Black Spurs

Black Spurs

1965

as Bill Henderson

6.1
Acting

A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad f...

In Harm's Way

In Harm's Way

1965

as Quartermaster Quoddy

6.6
Acting

A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Law of the Lawless

Law of the Lawless

1964

as Joe Rile

6.1
Acting

A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.

McLintock!

McLintock!

1963

as Ben Sage

6.6
Acting

Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly ...

Hatari!

Hatari!

1962

as Little Wolf

6.7
Acting

A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.

The Comancheros

The Comancheros

1961

as Maj. Henry (Ranger CO)

6.6
Acting

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of rene...

The Slowest Gun in the West

The Slowest Gun in the West

1960

as Nick Nolan

2.0
Acting

The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. ...

Goliath and the Barbarians

Goliath and the Barbarians

1959

as Alboino

4.8
Acting

When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.

Guardatele ma non toccatele

Guardatele ma non toccatele

1959

as il pilota

5.5
Acting

An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crash lands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers.

John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

1959

as Gunner Lowrie

6.1
Acting

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

1958

as Jack

6.4
Acting

English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of qu...

The Quiet American

The Quiet American

1958

as Bill Granger

5.8
Acting

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her att...

The Love Specialist

The Love Specialist

1957

as Mike

5.8
Acting

A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but thing...

Totò Double or Nothing?

Totò Double or Nothing?

1956

as Nick Molise

7.0
Acting

The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between t...

Rommel's Treasure

Rommel's Treasure

1955

as Welles

4.0
Acting

The underworld of Cairo is alerted to certain moves of various people in the search for Rommel's treasure. Some are intent on the valuables, while oth...

The Red Cloak

The Red Cloak

1955

as Captain Raniero of Anversa

Acting

Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knight wearing a red cloak enters the scene...

The Story of William Tell

The Story of William Tell

1953

as Captain Jost

Acting

A short that follows the legend of Wilhelm Gorkeit of Tellikon (William Tell), the legendary archer and hero from Switzerland.

Lost in Alaska

Lost in Alaska

1952

as Jake Stillman

6.0
Acting

After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.

Kid Monk Baroni

Kid Monk Baroni

1952

as Mr. Hellman

6.2
Acting

Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York.

Best of the Badmen

Best of the Badmen

1951

as Cole Younger

6.5
Acting

After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegi...

Fancy Pants

Fancy Pants

1950

as Cart Belknap

5.6
Acting

An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The compli...

Rock Island Trail

Rock Island Trail

1950

as Kirby Morrow

6.0
Acting

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones

1949

as Big Steve Holloway

6.1
Acting

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a...

The Gallant Legion

The Gallant Legion

1948

as Beau Laroux

7.0
Acting

When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Co...

Gunfighters

Gunfighters

1947

as Bard Macky

5.5
Acting

Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as ...

Angel and the Badman

Angel and the Badman

1947

as Laredo Stevens

6.4
Acting

Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes...

Avalanche

Avalanche

1946

as Steve Batchellor

Acting

Two T-men track a tax evader and his money to an Idaho ski resort, where a raven tends bar.

Smoky

Smoky

1946

as Frank Denton

5.2
Acting

Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her ranch...

Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel

1945

as Dave Atkins

6.5
Acting

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely wa...

Divorce

Divorce

1945

as Bob Phillips

5.0
Acting

A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the ...

Salty O'Rourke

Salty O'Rourke

1945

as Doc Baxter

5.2
Acting

A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.

The Desert Song

The Desert Song

1943

as Col. Fontaine

5.9
Acting

Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

Silver Queen

Silver Queen

1942

as Gerald Forsythe

5.7
Acting

A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.

Pierre of the Plains

Pierre of the Plains

1942

as 'Jap' Durkin

4.2
Acting

A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

1942

as Wild Bill Hickok

4.7
Acting

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

Sundown

Sundown

1941

as William Crawford

5.4
Acting

Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.

The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans

1941

as Robert Latour

6.3
Acting

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

Girls Under 21

Girls Under 21

1940

as Smiley Ryan

4.5
Acting

Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's acti...

Captain Caution

Captain Caution

1940

as Lehrman Slade

5.6
Acting

When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.

Susan and God

Susan and God

1940

as Michael

6.5
Acting

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

1940

as Self

5.5
Acting

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother ...

My Son Is Guilty

My Son Is Guilty

1939

as Ritzy Kerry

7.5
Acting

Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.

Traitor Spy

Traitor Spy

1939

as Carl Beyersdorf / Ted Healey

4.0
Acting

A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.

Mickey the Kid

Mickey the Kid

1939

as Jim Larch / Jim Adams

Acting

A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.

Dodge City

Dodge City

1939

as Jeff Surrett

6.9
Acting

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

Mystery of the White Room

Mystery of the White Room

1939

as Dr. Bob Clayton

Acting

A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.

Homicide Bureau

Homicide Bureau

1939

as Jim Logan

6.0
Acting

After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Burea...

Tenth Avenue Kid

Tenth Avenue Kid

1938

as Jim 'Silk' Loomis

5.0
Acting

In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his f...

Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets

1938

as Steve Lawrence

5.5
Acting

Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile...

Sinners in Paradise

Sinners in Paradise

1938

as Robert "The Torpedo" Malone

5.4
Acting

The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must...

The Bad Man of Brimstone

The Bad Man of Brimstone

1937

as Chester "Black Jack" McCreedy

6.0
Acting

A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.

Love Takes Flight

Love Takes Flight

1937

as Neil Bradshaw

3.0
Acting

A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.

Bad Guy

Bad Guy

1937

as John 'Lucky' Walden

6.0
Acting

A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.

Sinner Take All

Sinner Take All

1936

as Ernie

4.8
Acting

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.

Legion of Terror

Legion of Terror

1936

as Frank Marshall

6.0
Acting

Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and 'Slim" Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, durin...

The Big Game

The Big Game

1936

as Cal Calhoun

5.8
Acting

A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

Don't Turn 'em Loose

Don't Turn 'em Loose

1936

as Robert Webster - Alias Bat Williams

4.8
Acting

A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast th...

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

1936

as Magua

6.3
Acting

The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acqu...

Fury

Fury

1936

as Kirby Dawson

7.4
Acting

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wr...

Robin Hood of El Dorado

Robin Hood of El Dorado

1936

as Bill Warren

4.0
Acting

In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and...

Don't Gamble with Love

Don't Gamble with Love

1936

as Jerry Edwards

Acting

Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to st...

Show Them No Mercy!

Show Them No Mercy!

1935

as Pitch

7.0
Acting

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

Let 'em Have It

Let 'em Have It

1935

as Joe Keefer

7.0
Acting

Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.

Without Children

Without Children

1935

as David Cole

Acting

Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadv...

Night Alarm

Night Alarm

1934

as Hal Ashby

3.7
Acting

A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He be...

Men of the Night

Men of the Night

1934

as Det. Sgt. 'Stake-Out' Kelly

2.0
Acting

"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Dav...

Redhead

Redhead

1934

as Ted Brown

6.0
Acting

A girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However, her new father-in-law turns his ne'er-do-well son out in...

Their Big Moment

Their Big Moment

1934

as Lane Franklyn

4.5
Acting

Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.

His Greatest Gamble

His Greatest Gamble

1934

as Stephen

5.0
Acting

A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

Murder on the Blackboard

Murder on the Blackboard

1934

as Addison

5.7
Acting

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in h...

Finishing School

Finishing School

1934

as Ralph McFarland

6.2
Acting

Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the dir...

Signing 'em Up

1933

as Himself

Acting

An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.

Ann Vickers

Ann Vickers

1933

as Captain Lafe Resnick

5.9
Acting

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge...

Midshipman Jack

Midshipman Jack

1933

as Jack Austin

6.0
Acting

Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Flying Devils

Flying Devils

1933

as 'Ace' Murray

4.4
Acting

A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.

Disgraced!

Disgraced!

1933

as Kirk Undwood, Jr.

6.0
Acting

A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets...

King Kong

King Kong

1933

as Jack Driscoll

7.6
Acting

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darro...

Scarlet River

Scarlet River

1933

as Himself (uncredited)

4.5
Acting

Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.

The Great Jasper

The Great Jasper

1933

as Roger McGowd (adult)

Acting

Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son.

Lucky Devils

Lucky Devils

1933

as Happy White

6.2
Acting

Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.

The Roadhouse Murder

The Roadhouse Murder

1932

as Dykes

4.2
Acting

After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news.

Lady with a Past

Lady with a Past

1932

as Party Guest (Uncredited)

5.8
Acting

A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all...

Confessions of a Co-Ed

Confessions of a Co-Ed

1931

as Student at Dance

5.8
Acting

A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soo...