David Bruce

David Bruce

Nacimiento : 1916-01-06, Kankakee, Illinois, USA

Muerte : 1976-05-03

Historia

David Bruce (born Marden Andrew McBroom; January 6, 1914 – May 3, 1976) was an American film actor, known for his chilling performance as Ted Allison in The Mad Ghoul. He was a company member of Peninsula Players Theatre in Fish Creek, Wisconsin in 1939. Born in Kankakee, Illinois, he signed a movie contract with Warner Brothers in 1940. The Northwestern University graduate appeared in many movies from the 1940s until 1955 when Bruce decided to give up acting. The 6' 1" (1.85 m) actor appeared in over 60 movies including Flying Tigers (1942), Christmas Holiday (1944) and Lady on a Train (1945).

Perfil

David Bruce
David Bruce

Películas

Jungle Hell
Dr. Paul Morrison
Jungle natives are treated by a physician who goes against the wishes of a witch doctor to provide burn healing methods caused by radioactive rocks discovered when the elephants were felling trees.
Cannibal Attack
Arnold King
Jungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.
Guante de acero
Austrian Sergeant at Tavern
En el siglo XVIII, el patriota irlandés Charles Wogan de Rathecoffey llega a Escocia para ayudar al Príncipe Jacobo en su búsqueda para reclamar el trono de Jorge II. El pretendiente reconoce que sus fuerzas son demasiado pequeñas y vuelve al exilio en Francia. Poco después en una taberna, Charles escucha al Duque de Somerfield insultar descaradamente al rey Jorge II. El Duque es herido y Charles es arrestado y encarcelado. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
Alan Duncan
Two British officers are assigned to collect information to convict Captain Kidd of piracy.
The Yellow Haired Kid
Charles
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok", The Yellow Haired Kid and Johnny Deuce, edited together and released as a feature.
Revenue Agent
Cliff Gage
Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
Tom Adams, Smith's Attorney
An elderly man leaves Wyoming to visit his daughter in a small Massachusetts town because, even though she didn't say so, he believes she needs his help. When he gets there he discovers that his daughter, a lawyer, is under great stress because of her biggest client, an old geezer who is the wealthiest and most powerful man in town. The girl's father decides to make the old man "disappear" by performing a rain dance he learned from an Indian chief back in Wyoming--and lo and behold it starts to rain and the old man does indeed disappear. The local sheriff, however, suspects foul play and arrests the girl's father.
Pygmy Island
Maj. Bolton
Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) fights a gorilla, finds a Wac (Ann Savage) and keeps high fiber from falling into enemy hands.
Hi-Jacked
Matt
A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.
Pier 23
Charles Giffen
Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison. The film's two-part structure leads to repetition and predictability, but it's fun to watch TV's "Ward Cleaver" making like Philip Marlowe.
Young Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
Frontier scout Daniel Boone is sent out to locate the only two survivors of General Braddock's men that are believed two have lived through an Indian massacre.
Prejudice
Joe Hanson
Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to realize that he is prejudiced against many of them.
The Sickle or the Cross
George Hart
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
Tom Conway
Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.
Racing Luck
Jeff Stuart
Brother and sister "Boots" Warren and Phyllis Warren inherit two race horses. One of the horses is claimed by a rival horse-owner, Jeff Stuart, when it wins a claiming race at Santa Anita. Then Stuart learns that the horse will not run without its former stablemate. But neither Stuart nor the Warrens want to give up their respective horses. It is finally agreed that both horses will be entered in the same race, and the winning owner will gain possession of both horses. The only complication is that Phyllis has fallen in love with Stuart.
Aquella noche contigo
Johnny
Penny es una joven que sueña con convertirse en una estrella de Broadway. Para conseguir un papel e ingresar como actriz y bailarina en el espectáculo inventa una mentira, y le dice al productor Paul Renaud que ella es su hija, fruto de la relación que tuvo con su madre hace muchos años.
La dama del tren
Wayne Morgan
Mientras espera en la estación la llegada del tren que la conducirá desde San Francisco a Nueva York, Nikki Collins es testigo accidental de un asesinato que se comete en un inmueble cercano. Nadie cree su versión, incluida la policía que no descubre rastro alguno cuando llega al supuesto lugar de los hechos, excepto un famoso escritor de novelas policíacas, que está dispuesto a colaborar con ella para demostrar que, efectivamente, se ha cometido un crimen y hay un peligroso asesino en libertad.
Salomé, la embrujadora
Cleve Blunt
Una bailarina hace su debut en el Tivoli, como invitada del Duque de Prusia Von Bismark. Cuando llega la revolución de 1865, Mariana, que actúa bajo el nombre artístico de Salomé, debe huir del país.
Can't Help Singing
Latham
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Luz en el alma
Gerald Tyler
Jackie Lamont (Deanna Durbin), la joven cantante de un club privado, le cuenta al teniente Charles Mason las dificultades de su matrimonio con el aristócrata sureño Robert Manette (Gene Kelly), un hombre de carácter inestable, al que se acusa de haber asesinado a su jefe
Allergic to Love
J. Roger Mace
Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she starts sneezing, and hay fever's uncontrollable grip does not seem to want to let up.
El fantasma de la momia
Radio Announcer (uncredited; voice)
La Momia busca por todas partes la última reencarnación de su amada, la princesa Ananka. Mientras tanto, el Sumo Sacerdote de la Secta instruye a uno de sus acólitos sobre la manera de resucitar a la Momia hirviendo unas hierbas milenarias.
South of Dixie
Danny Lee
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
Moon Over Las Vegas
Richard Corbett
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
Ladies Courageous
Frank Garrison
Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
Todos a Una (Gung Ho!)
Larry O'Ryan
Año 1942. Siete semanas después del ataque japonés a Pearl Harbour, un pelotón de marines voluntarios, tras un viaje en submarino, comienzan a desarrollar su peligrosa misión: tomar una isla controlada por los japoneses.
Calling Dr. Death
Robert 'Bob' Duval
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
She's for Me
Michael Reed
Two lawyers fall for their beautiful client.
The Mad Ghoul
Ted Allison
Dr. Alfred Morris, a university chemistry professor, rediscovers an ancient Mayan formula for a gas which turns men into pliant, obedient, zombie-like ghouls. After medical student Ted Allison becomes a guinea pig for Morris, the professor imagines that Allison's fiancée, a beautiful concert singer Isabel Lewis, wants to break off the engagement because she prefers the professor as a more "mature" lover but in reality loves Eric, her accompanist. In order to bring Ted back from his trance-like states, Morris commands him to perform a cardiectomy on recently deceased or living bodies in order to use serum from their hearts as a temporary antidote. When the serial murders seem to coincide with Isabel's touring schedule, ace reporter "Scoop" McClure gets on the mad scientist's trail.
You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith
Harvey Jones
A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to keep him.
Héroes del mar
Lt. Rawlins
En 1943, 'Mac' Macclain, de la marina de guerra canadiense, ha perdido su barco y muchos hombres debido a un torpedo alemán. A la espera de un nuevo barco, se hace amigo de Joyce Cartwright, hermana de uno de sus oficiales muertos. Seguimos la construcción y puesta en marcha de la nueva corbeta K-255, el 'HMCS Donnacona'. ¿Y quién debería ser nuevo subalterno de Mac, sino Paul el otro hermano de Joyce, recién salido de la academia? Mac hará todo lo posible para hacer un buen oficial de Paul... si ambos sobreviven a su deber en el peligroso mar.
Honeymoon Lodge
Horace Crump aka Bob Sterling
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
How's About It
Oliver
A song publisher gets sued for stealing lyrics.
Los tigres voladores
Lt. Barton
Jim Gordon manda una unidad de los famosos Tigres Voladores, el grupo de voluntarios americanos que combatió a los japoneses en China, antes de que los Estados Unidos entraran en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Gordon debe enviar a su grupo de pilotos contra un enemigo muy superior, mientras lidia con las dispares personalidades de sus componentes.
Noches peligrosas
Herman - Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Cuando el joven y serio Tommy Van Steel (Richar Carlson) decide por una vez irse de fiesta para celebrar su cumpleaños, el alcohol le juega una mala pasada y acaba la noche de local en local hasta que se ve envuelto en un asesinato. Infiltrado en una banda de malhechores, intentará desarticularla con la ayuda de una bella joven (Jane Randolph).
The Body Disappears
Jimmy Barbour
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".
El Sargento York
Bert Thomas
Alvin C. York es un joven y trabajador campesino que vive en una de las numerosas granjas de los montes de Cumberland, en el estado de Tennessee. Sólo tiene un defecto: la bebida. Alvin está enamorado de una muchacha, cuya familia de clase alta impide el matrimonio. Basada en hechos reales.
The Smiling Ghost
Paul Myron
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
Singapore Woman
David Ritchie
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
El lobo de mar
Young Sailor
Dos náufragos fugitivos de la justicia, una mujer y un joven novelista, son recogidos en el mar por el capitán Wolf Larsen, que gobierna su barco como un tirano y que considera que la piedad es un signo de debilidad. Con el paso del tiempo los náufragos se dan cuenta de que en realidad son sus prisioneros.
Flight from Destiny
John Saunders
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
Camino de Santa Fe
Phil Sheridan
Como castigo por una pelea con sus compañeros días antes de graduarse en West Point, Jeb Stuart, George Armstrong Custer y cuatro amigos más, son destinados al Segundo de Caballería, estacionado en Fort Leavenworth. Durante su estancia allí, deberán participar en la captura y ejecución del abolicionista, John Brown, tras la Batalla de Harper Ferry.
March On, Marines
Jimmy Lansing
Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at the Officer's Academy in Annapolis if he passes the entrance exam. He soon finds out that his younger brother, Jimmy Lansing, just recently made sergeant as well, will also be taking the exam with him. The Lansing brothers are hard working and patriotic military men and both deserve to be accepted into the Academy, but they learn there is only one spot available. As entrance into Annapolis is dependent both on their exam results and their record, they are encouraged by the base colonel to enter into a friendly rivalry for the three weeks on the base prior to the exam. They also enter into a friendly rivalry for the affections of Penelope Hayworth, the admiral's daughter.
La carta
Man (uncredited)
La fría y calculadora esposa del propietario de una plantación de caucho en Malasia asesina a un hombre, supuestamente en defensa propia. Pero, de repente, aparece una comprometedora carta cuyo contenido echa por tierra la versión de los hechos de la protagonista.
East of the River
Student (uncredited)
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
A Dispatch from Reuter's
Bruce
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Knute Rockne All American
Reporter When Knute is Ill (uncredited)
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Money and the Woman
Depositor (uncredited)
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
River's End
Balt
An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays two roles.
El halcón del mar
Martin Burke
Clásico del género de piratas en el que un pletórico Errol Flynn interpreta a un bucanero inglés del siglo XVI al que la reina Isabel I concede patente de corso para abordar la flota española y atacar y saquear sus ciudades en el Nuevo Mundo. Las autoridades españolas elaboran un plan para acabar con el temido pirata. El maestro Curtiz deja su sello con una perfecta narración y espectaculares batallas navales.
The Man Who Talked Too Much
Gerald Wilson
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.
Pony Express Days
Johnny Frey
In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot.
Alice in Movieland
Assistant Director (uncredited)
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.