1. Bruce Cabot was born on Etienne de Pelissier Bujac Jr.
20 Facts About Bruce Cabot
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Bruce Cabot was known as one of "Wayne's Regulars", appearing in a number of John Wayne films beginning with Angel and the Badman, and concluding with Big Jake.
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Bruce Cabot graduated from Sewanee Military Academy in 1921, and briefly attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, but left without graduating.
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Bruce Cabot worked at many jobs, including as a sailor, an insurance salesman, oil worker, surveyor, and prize fighter; he sold cars, managed real estate, and worked at a slaughterhouse.
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Bruce Cabot claimed that he auditioned by acting out a scene from the play Chicago.
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Bruce Cabot made his debut in an uncredited bit part in an episode of the serial Heroes of the Flames.
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Bruce Cabot then appeared in King Kong, which became an enormous success and established Cabot as a star.
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Bruce Cabot portrays villains in several productions, appearing as a gangster boss in Let 'Em Have It and as the Huron warrior Magua opposite Randolph Scott in The Last of the Mohicans.
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Bruce Cabot appears with Errol Flynn in Michael Curtiz's epic Western Dodge City, which in 1939 was one of Warner Bros.
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Bruce Cabot tested for the lead role of the Ringo Kid in John Ford's Stagecoach, but John Wayne was cast in the part.
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Bruce Cabot enlisted in December 1942 and, after Officer Training School in Miami Beach, was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the US Army Air Force.
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In 1943 Bruce Cabot was an Air Transport Command operations officer in Tunis.
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Bruce Cabot was inducted into the New Mexico Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Bruce Cabot starred in a number of the Tales of Tomorrow, a science-fiction drama, during its second season on ABC.
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On New Year's Eve 1926, Bruce Cabot married Grace Mary Mather-Smith at the Cathedral Church of St Luke in Orlando.
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On Halloween 1933, Bruce Cabot married actress Adrienne Ames at his mother's home in Carlsbad.
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On September 17,1950, Bruce Cabot married bit part actress Francesca De Scaffa in Santa Barbara.
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Bruce Cabot was one of Errol Flynn's social pack for several years, but they fell out during the production of the unfinished The Story of William Tell in the mid-1950s.
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Bruce Cabot died May 3,1972, at age 68 in the Motion Picture Country Home at Woodland Hills, California due to lung cancer.
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Bruce Cabot was buried in his hometown of Carlsbad, New Mexico.