Bruce Cabot

 Bruce Cabot (April 20, 1904 – May 3, 1972)

Cabot is 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 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. He appeared in several more films with Wayne after his return from war; The Comancheros (1961), Hatari! (1962), McLintock! (1963), In Harm's Way (1965), The War Wagon (1967), The Green Berets (1968), Hellfighters (1968), The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970), and Big Jake (1971).

Cabot's final screen appearance was in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. Cabot died in 1972 at the Motion Picture Country Home at Woodland Hills, California from lung cancer. He is buried at Carlsbad Cemetery in Carlsbad, NM.