David Bruce
Birthday: 1916-01-06
Place of Birth: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Biography: 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).
Movies
Santa Fe Trail
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G...
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Lady on a Train
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When sh...
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Revenue Agent
Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bell...
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Christmas Holiday
A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel....
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The Sea Wolf
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind....
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Calling Dr. Death
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brut...
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Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...
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Can't Help Singing
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young arm...
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That Night with You
In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a...
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Pier 23
Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatri...
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The Smiling Ghost
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hir...
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The Mad Ghoul
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning...
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Hi-Jacked
A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involveme...
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Salome, Where She Danced
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she...
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Jungle Hell
Jungle natives are treated by a physician who goes against the wishes of a witch doctor to provide b...
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Flight from Destiny
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend h...
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The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
Two British officers are assigned to collect information to convict Captain Kidd of piracy....
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The Sickle or the Cross
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty ye...
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Singapore Woman
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama....
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Timber Fury
Phyllis Wilson (Laura Lee) returns to the lumber camp owned by her father, Henry Wilson (Sam Flint))...
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients a...
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Racing Luck
Brother and sister "Boots" Warren and Phyllis Warren inherit two race horses. One of the horses is c...
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Highways by Night
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobs...
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Moon Over Las Vegas
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there ...
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March On, Marines
Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at ...
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The Yellow Haired Kid
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok", The Yellow Haired Kid and Johnny Deuce, edited tog...
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Allergic to Love
Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in...
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Honeymoon Lodge
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol ...
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Cannibal Attack
Jungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles....
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The Sea Hawk
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with D...
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The Letter
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions....
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Pony Express Days
In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand an...
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A Dispatch from Reuters
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age...
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East of the River
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing co...
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Knute Rockne All American
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne....
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The Body Disappears
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor p...
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Young Daniel Boone
Frontier scout Daniel Boone is sent out to locate the only two survivors of General Braddock's men t...
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Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
An elderly man leaves Wyoming to visit his daughter in a small Massachusetts town because, even thou...
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Flying Tigers
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the...
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River's End
An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove h...
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The Mummy's Ghost
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka...
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The Iron Glove
Irishman Charles Wogan wields his sword in the cause of James Stuart who seeks to replace George I o...
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You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith
A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to...
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Corvette K-225
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....
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South of Dixie
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-st...
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Money and the Woman
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him....
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Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big ...
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Gung Ho!
A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World W...
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Prejudice
Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to rea...
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Adventures of Don Juan
Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal a...
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