Bruce Cabot

Bruce Cabot was an American film actor, best remembered as Jack Driscoll in King Kong and for his roles in films such as the 1936 version of Last of the Mohicans, Fritz Langs Fury and the western Dodge City. He was also known as one of Waynes Regulars, appearing in a number of John Wayne films beginning with Angel and the Badman.

Cabot was born tienne 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.

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