18 Facts About Bruce Cabot

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Bruce Cabot was born on Etienne de Pelissier Bujac Jr.

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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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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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Bruce Cabot was married three times, in Florida to Mary Mather Smith, whom he divorced prior to moving to Hollywood, and to actresses Adrienne Ames and Francesca De Scaffa.

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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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David Niven, part of Flynn's social pack, in his autobiography accused Bruce Cabot of being missing when debts were to be paid.

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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.