Bruce Cabot

At 68 years old, Bruce Cabot has this physical status:

Bruce Cabot (born Étienne de Pelissier Bujac Jr., April 20, 1904 – May 3, 1972) was an American film actor best known as Jack Driscoll in King Kong (1933) and for his appearances in films including The Last of the Mohicans (1936), Fritz Lang's Fury (1936) and the western Dodge City (1939).

He was also known as one of "Wayne's Regulars" (1947), his appearance in a number of John Wayne films beginning with Angel and the Badman (1947), and ending with Big Jake (1971).

Early life

Cabot was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, to Major Étienne de Pelissier Bujac, Sr., and Julia Armandine Graves, who died shortly after giving birth to her son. Étienne, Sr., was the son of John James Bujac, a Baltimore, Maryland, advocate and mining specialist. Étienne, Sr., graduated from Cumberland School of Law in Nashville, Tennessee, and served in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War before settling in Carlsbad.

Cabot graduated from Sewanee Military Academy in 1921 and briefly attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, but did not graduate without having graduated. He worked in several fields, including as a sailor, an insurance salesman, oil worker, surveyor, and prize fighter; he also sold cars, marketed real estate, and worked at a slaughterhouse. David O. Selznick's appearance at a Hollywood party led to his actor career.

Personal life

Cabot married three times, in Florida, to Mary Mather Smith, who he divorced before deciding to Hollywood, and actress Adrienne Ames and Francesca De Scaffa (1930-1994).

He was one of Errol Flynn's social media for many years, but they fell out during the development of The Story of William Teller, the unfinished book. Flynn was shooting the film and asked Cabot, whom he referred to as "an old, old pal," to appear in it, knowing that Cabot was having trouble finding jobs in Hollywood at the time. Production on the film halted when Flynn's production partners went broke, leaving Flynn trapped in Rome facing financial ruin. Cabot and his wife Patrice Wymore's personal vehicles and clothing were confiscated in Rome's hotel, attempting to be paid as other cast members were working for no money. In his autobiography of Cabot's "betrayal," Flynn screamed angrily. Cabot paid tribute to Flynn in a 1970 interview as a critically underrated actor, but claimed that the drug use had killed him. In his autobiography, David Niven, who was also part of Flynn's social pack, accused Cabot of being missing when debts were due to be paid.

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Acting career

Cabot appeared in over a hundred feature films. He made his debut in an episode of the serial Heroes of the Flames (1931). He portrays a soldier who seduces a naive woman (Irene Dunne), who gives her pregnant before he leaves for war. He appeared in King Kong (also 1933), which was a huge success and established Cabot as a celebrity.

In several films, he also portrays villains, including in Let'Em Have It (1935) and as the Huron warrior Magua opposite Randolph Scott in The Last of the Mohicans (1936). In Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, Fury (1936), he co-stars with Spencer Tracy as the leader of a lynch mob. In Michael Curtiz's epic Western Dodge City, which was also one of Warner Bros.'s greatest hits in 1939.

He auditioned for the lead role in John Ford's Stagecoach (1939), but John Wayne was cast in the role. Cabot appeared in numerous film before leaving Hollywood to serve in World War II. He was a regular box-office draw.

Cabot was commissioned in December 1942 and was sent as the first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force, after Officer Training School in Miami Beach.

Cabot returned to Hollywood and joined John Wayne on the set of Angel and the Badman (1947), and became part of Wayne's circle, this acquaintance continuing in the 1960s, when Wayne cast him in ten more of his films: The Comancheros (1961), Hatari!

(1962), McLintock!

(1963), In Harm's Way (1965), The War Wagon (1967) The Green Berets (1968), The Unconvention (1968), The Green Berets (1968), The Unneated (1969), and Big Jake (1971).

Cabot's last film appearance is in James Bond's Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

In 2012, he was inducted into the New Mexico Entertainment Hall of Fame.

During its second season (1952-53), Cabot appeared in several Tales of Tomorrow, a science-fiction drama, on ABC.

He has appeared on other television shows, including: 'The Cry of the Living Dead.'

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