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Nigel Bruce is a Actor British born on 3 february 1895 at Ensenada (Mexique)

Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce
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Birth name William Nigel Ernle Bruce
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 february 1895 at Ensenada (Mexique)
Death 8 october 1953 (at 58 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953), best known as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor on stage and screen. He was best known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in a series of films and in the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes). Bruce is also remembered for his roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films Rebecca and Suspicion.

Biography

Bruce was the second son of Sir William Waller Bruce, 10th Baronet (1856–1912) and his wife Angelica, Lady Bruce (died 1917), daughter of General George Selby, Royal Artillery. Bruce was born in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, while his parents were on holiday there. His older brother was the author and adventurer Sir Michael Bruce, 11th Baronet. He was educated at the Grange, Stevenage and at Abingdon School, Oxfordshire. He served in France from 1914 as a lieutenant in the 10th Service Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry and the Honourable Artillery Company, but was severely wounded at Cambrai the following year, with eleven bullets in his left leg, and spent most of the remainder of the war in a wheelchair.
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Best films

Rebecca (1940)
(Actor)
Suspicion (1941)
(Actor)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
(Actor)
Limelight (1952)
(Actor)
The Rains Came (1939)
(Actor)
Frenchman's Creek (1944)
(Actor)

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Filmography of Nigel Bruce (77 films)

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Actor

Jalna
Jalna (1935)

Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kay Johnson, Ian Hunter, C. Aubrey Smith, Peggy Wood, Nigel Bruce, Jessie Ralph
Roles Maurice Vaughn
Rating60% 3.045173.045173.045173.045173.04517
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, 1h11
Directed by Stephen Roberts
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Colin Clive, Nigel Bruce, Montagu Love, Frank Reicher
Roles Ivan
Rating63% 3.1923253.1923253.1923253.1923253.192325
After World War I, in Monte Carlo a girl lures back the Russian one-time aristocrat who broke the bank, and makes him poor; however, she falls in love with him and follows him.
The Lady Is Willing
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Leslie Howard, Cedric Hardwicke, Binnie Barnes, Nigel Bruce, Claud Allister, W. Graham Brown
Roles Welton
Rating62% 3.124033.124033.124033.124033.12403
Set in France, private detective Albert Latour is employed by three men who aim to take revenge on the man responsible for a failed investment. Realising that the man's wife is wealthy, Latour kidnaps her in order to hold a ransom. The matter gets complicated when he finds himself falling in love with her.
The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1h37
Directed by Harold Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Joan Gardner, Melville Cooper
Roles The Prince of Wales
Rating72% 3.6454853.6454853.6454853.6454853.645485
In 1792, at the bloody height of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, vengeful French mobs are outraged when again and again French aristocrats are saved from death by the audacious "Band of the Scarlet Pimpernel", a secret society of 20 English noblemen, "one to command, and nineteen to obey". Among the latest scheduled for execution are the Count de Tournay, former ambassador to Great Britain, and his family. However, one of the Scarlet Pimpernel's men visits them in prison disguised as a priest and gives them a message of hope.
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Stand Up and Cheer!, 1h8
Directed by Hamilton MacFadden
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Warner Baxter, Madge Evans, Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Nigel Bruce, Arthur Byron
Roles Eustis Dinwiddle
Rating54% 2.705722.705722.705722.705722.70572
The President of the United States decides that the true cause of the Great Depression (raging when the film was released) is a loss of "optimism" as a result of a plot by financiers and bankers who are getting rich from the Depression. The President then appoints Lawrence Cromwell as secretary for the newly created Department of Amusement. Cromwell creates an army of entertainers and sends them out across the country. Much of the action centers around Cromwell auditioning acts in his office (with interruptions from janitor "George Bernard Shaw" played by Stepin Fetchit).
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Treasure Island, 1h49
Directed by Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films about disabilities, L'Or
Actors Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce, Otto Kruger
Roles Squire Trelawney
Rating70% 3.541893.541893.541893.541893.54189
Young Jim Hawkins (Cooper) and his mother run the Admiral Benbow, a tavern near Bristol, England. One dark and stormy night, during a birthday celebration, the mysterious Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) arrives and drunkenly talks about treasure. Soon after, Bones is visited by Black Dog then Pew, and drops dead, leaving a chest, which he bragged contained gold and jewels. Instead of money, Jim finds a map that his friend Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger) realizes will lead them to the famous Flint treasure.
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Springtime for Henry
Directed by Frank Tuttle
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Otto Kruger, Nancy Carroll, Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Herbert Mundin, Arthur Hoyt
Roles Johnny Jewlliwell
Rating60% 3.033093.033093.033093.033093.03309
Henry Dewlip is the heir to his late father's prosperous automobile plant. He lets underlings run things while he indulges in wine, women and song, stringing women along. Julia Jelliwell is the latest woman to have the key to his apartment but there are problems, like her husband. Also the strait-laced Miss Smith, his latest secretary who secretly harbours a crush on him. She manages to spoil things with Julia and then to try to get him to take an interest in his car plant, spoiling a chance for Johnny to sell him a carburetor.
The Lady Is Willing, 1h14
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Leslie Howard, Cedric Hardwicke, Binnie Barnes, Nigel Bruce, Claud Allister, W. Graham Brown
Roles Welton
Rating62% 3.124033.124033.124033.124033.12403
Set in France, private detective Albert Latour is employed by three men who aim to take revenge on the man responsible for a failed investment. Realising that the man's wife is wealthy, Latour kidnaps her in order to hold a ransom. The matter gets complicated when he finds himself falling in love with her.
I Was a Spy, 1h29
Directed by Victor Saville, Herbert Mason
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn, Gerald du Maurier, Donald Calthrop
Roles Scottie
Rating65% 3.2833653.2833653.2833653.2833653.283365
In German occupied Belgium 1914, a Belgian woman employed by the Allies nurses injured soldiers and falls in love with a German commandant.
Lord Camber's Ladies, 1h20
Directed by Benn W. Levy
Genres Drama
Actors Gerald du Maurier, Gertrude Lawrence, Hal Gordon, Benita Hume, Nigel Bruce, Clare Greet
Roles Lord Camber
Rating68% 3.434543.434543.434543.434543.43454
An aristocrat marries a singer, but then tries to murder her when he falls in love with another woman.