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This listing is for one Mystery Cuts Authentic Cut Autograph card of BRUCE BENNETT, from 2008 Upper Deck SP Legendary Cuts MLB Baseball Trading Cards. The Signature is in Black Ink with serial number #1/1, in NRMT-MINT condition. This card has been Professionally Authenticated by Beckett as "Authentic". The Autograph Grade is 10. Listing photo #3 is the item before authentication.
Bruce Bennett (May 19, 1906 – February 24, 2007) was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. Born as Harold Herman Brix in Tacoma, Washington, his first career was as an athlete. At University of Washington, where he majored in economics, he played football in the 1926 Rose Bowl. Two years later he won the silver medal for shot-putting in the 1928 Olympic Games, and held the indoor and outdoor records for shot-putting.
In 1931, MGM, adapting author Edgar Rice Burroughs's popular Tarzan adventures for the sound-movie screen, selected Herman Brix to play the title character. Unfortunately, Brix was injured filming the 1931 football movie Touchdown, which also prevented his entry into the 1932 Olympics. Swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller replaced Brix and became a major star.
After Ashton Dearholt convinced Burroughs to allow him to form Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises, Inc. and make a Tarzan serial film, Dearholt cast Brix in the lead. Pressbook copy has it that Burroughs made the choice himself, but in fact, in his biography, Brix confirmed that Burroughs never even saw him until after the contract was signed, and then only briefly. The film was begun on location in Guatemala, under rugged conditions (jungle diseases and cash shortages were frequent). Brix did his own perilous stunts, including a harrowing fall to rocky cliffs below.Due to financial mismanagement, Dearholt had to complete filming of much of the serial back in Hollywood, and Brix, although his travel and daily living expenses in Guatemala were covered throughout the shoot, never received his contracted salary, along with the rest of the cast. The finished film, The New Adventures of Tarzan, was released in 1935 by Burroughs-Tarzan, and offered to theaters as a 12-chapter serial or a seven-reel feature. A second feature was culled from the footage in 1938: Tarzan and the Green Goddess.
Brix continued to work in serials and action features for low-budget studios until 1939. Finding himself still typecast as Tarzan in the minds of major producers, Brix changed his name to "Bruce Bennett" and became a member of Columbia Pictures' stock company. During the next few years he would be seen playing minor roles in many Columbia films, from expensive dramas to B mysteries to Three Stooges short subjects (How High Is Up? being a memorable appearance). His screen career was interrupted by World War II, when he entered the service.
Bennett appeared in many top-notch films in the 1940s and early 1950s including Sahara (1943) with Humphrey Bogart, Mildred Pierce (1945) (as Joan Crawford's husband), Nora Prentiss (1947), Dark Passage (1947) with Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) opposite Humphrey Bogart, Mystery Street (1950) and Sudden Fear (1952) with Joan Crawford.
From the mid-1950s on, Bennett mainly appeared in lesser films, such as The Alligator People (1959), and on television in guest starring roles. He was a very successful businessman during the 1960s outside of acting.
Bennett reached his 100th birthday on May 19, 2006, and died less than a year later in February 2007 of complications from a broken hip.
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