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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Lost Spider Pit Sequence
2005
as Jack Driscoll (archive footage)
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
1992
as Jeff Surrett in 'Dodge City'
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
1991
as actor 'In Harm's Way' (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
1971
as Albert R. Saxby
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
1971
as Sam Sharpnose
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.

WUSA
1970
as King Wolyoe
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
1970
as Sheriff Brady
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
1969
as Jeff Newby
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
1968
as Joe Horn
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
1968
as Colonel Morgan
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
1967
as Frank Pierce
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
1966
as Sol
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Town Tamer
1965
as Riley Condor
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
1965
as Sheriff Maledon
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

Black Spurs
1965
as Bill Henderson
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
1965
as Quartermaster Quoddy
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
1964
as Joe Rile
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.

McLintock!
1963
as Ben Sage
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly ...

Hatari!
1962
as Little Wolf
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.

The Comancheros
1961
as Maj. Henry (Ranger CO)
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
1960
as Nick Nolan
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
1959
as Alboino
When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.

Guardatele ma non toccatele
1959
as il pilota
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
1959
as Gunner Lowrie
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
1958
as Jack
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
1958
as Bill Granger
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
1957
as Mike
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?
1956
as Nick Molise
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
1955
as Welles
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
1955
as Captain Raniero of Anversa
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
1953
as Captain Jost
A short that follows the legend of Wilhelm Gorkeit of Tellikon (William Tell), the legendary archer and hero from Switzerland.

Lost in Alaska
1952
as Jake Stillman
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.

Kid Monk Baroni
1952
as Mr. Hellman
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
1951
as Cole Younger
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
1950
as Cart Belknap
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
1950
as Kirby Morrow
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

Sorrowful Jones
1949
as Big Steve Holloway
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
1948
as Beau Laroux
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
1947
as Bard Macky
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
1947
as Laredo Stevens
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
1946
as Steve Batchellor
Two T-men track a tax evader and his money to an Idaho ski resort, where a raven tends bar.

Smoky
1946
as Frank Denton
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
1945
as Dave Atkins
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
1945
as Bob Phillips
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
1945
as Doc Baxter
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.

The Desert Song
1943
as Col. Fontaine
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

Silver Queen
1942
as Gerald Forsythe
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
1942
as 'Jap' Durkin
A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.

Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
as Wild Bill Hickok
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

Sundown
1941
as William Crawford
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
1941
as Robert Latour
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

Girls Under 21
1940
as Smiley Ryan
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
1940
as Lehrman Slade
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
1940
as Michael
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
as Self
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
1939
as Ritzy Kerry
Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.

Traitor Spy
1939
as Carl Beyersdorf / Ted Healey
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.

Mickey the Kid
1939
as Jim Larch / Jim Adams
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.

Dodge City
1939
as Jeff Surrett
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
1939
as Dr. Bob Clayton
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.

Homicide Bureau
1939
as Jim Logan
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
1938
as Jim 'Silk' Loomis
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
1938
as Steve Lawrence
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
1938
as Robert "The Torpedo" Malone
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
1937
as Chester "Black Jack" McCreedy
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.

Love Takes Flight
1937
as Neil Bradshaw
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.

Bad Guy
1937
as John 'Lucky' Walden
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
1936
as Ernie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.

Legion of Terror
1936
as Frank Marshall
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
1936
as Cal Calhoun
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

Don't Turn 'em Loose
1936
as Robert Webster - Alias Bat Williams
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
1936
as Magua
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
1936
as Kirby Dawson
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
1936
as Bill Warren
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
1936
as Jerry Edwards
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!
1935
as Pitch
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

Let 'em Have It
1935
as Joe Keefer
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
1935
as David Cole
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
1934
as Hal Ashby
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
1934
as Det. Sgt. 'Stake-Out' Kelly
"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
1934
as Ted Brown
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
1934
as Lane Franklyn
Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.

His Greatest Gamble
1934
as Stephen
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

Murder on the Blackboard
1934
as Addison
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
1934
as Ralph McFarland
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
An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.

Ann Vickers
1933
as Captain Lafe Resnick
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
1933
as Jack Austin
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Flying Devils
1933
as 'Ace' Murray
A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.

Disgraced!
1933
as Kirk Undwood, Jr.
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
1933
as Jack Driscoll
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
1933
as Himself (uncredited)
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
1933
as Roger McGowd (adult)
Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son.

Lucky Devils
1933
as Happy White
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.

The Roadhouse Murder
1932
as Dykes
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
1932
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
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
1931
as Student at Dance
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...