Bruce Cabot

Bruce Cabot
Cabot in a scene from the 1947 western Angel and the Badman.
Born	Etienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac (1904-04-20)April 20, 1904 Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States
Died	May 3, 1972(1972-05-03) (aged 68) Woodland Hills, California, United States
Cause of death	lung cancer
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1931–71
Spouse(s)	Gracy Mary Mather Smith (divorced) Adrienne Ames (1933-37; divorced) Francesca De Scaffa (1950-1957; divorced)

Bruce Cabot (April 20, 1904 – May 3, 1972) was an American film actor, best remembered as Jack Driscoll in King Kong (1933) and for his roles in films such as the 1936 version of Last of the Mohicans, Fritz Lang's Fury and the western Dodge City. He was also known as one of "Wayne's Regulars", appearing in a number of John Wayne films beginning with Angel and the Badman.

Cabot was born Étienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac in Carlsbad, New Mexico, to a prominent local lawyer, Colonel Etienne de Bujac, and Julia Armandine Graves, who died shortly after giving birth to him. Leaving the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee without graduating, Cabot worked at many jobs, including as a sailor, an insurance salesman, oil worker, surveyor, prize fighter, sold cars, handled real estate and also worked at a slaughterhouse. A meeting with David O. Selznick at a Hollywood Party started his acting career.

Cabot appeared in nearly one hundred feature films. He made his debut in 1931 in Heroes of the Flames. He played a soldier who seduced a naive woman (portrayed by Irene Dunne) and got her pregnant as he left for the war, in Ann Vickers (1933). He then starred in the blockbuster film King Kong, which became an enormous success and established Cabot as a star.

He also played villains, appearing as a gangster boss in Let 'Em Have It (1935) and as the Huron warrior Magua opposite Randolph Scott in The Last of the Mohicans (1936). He starred with Spencer Tracy, playing the leader of a lynch mob in Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, Fury (1936), and with Errol Flynn in Michael Curtiz's epic western Dodge City, which became one of Warner Bros.'s biggest hits. He tested for the lead role of The Ringo Kid in John Ford's Stagecoach (1939), but John Wayne got the part. A consistent box office draw, Cabot appeared in many movies at many studios before leaving Hollywood to serve in World War II.