Bruce Cabot Bio

Bruce Cabot – John Wayne’s toadie

Bruce Cabot

Bruce Cabot is well known to you whether you know it or not. Moving from a leading man to a sidekick role Cabot became a regular feature in most John Wayne movies such as The Comancheros (1961), Hatari! (1962), McLintock! (1963), In Harm’s Way (1965), The War Wagon (1967), The Green Berets (1968), Hellfighters (1969), The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970), and Big Jake (1971), a movie that has more quotable lines than a showing of Game of Thrones. Cabot became Wayne’s on-screen and off-screen drink buddy.

Bruce Cabot was the leading man and hero in King Kong (1933) but somehow he never made the transition to leading man. Cabot auditioned for the role of The Ringo Kid in Stagecoach (1939). John Wayne was eventually cast in the John Ford western and became one of the most important actors in Hollywood. Cabot was reduced to supporting roles from then on out. This clearly illustrated the main point of On Any Given Sunday when Al Pacino gives the life is a game of inches speech. When the duke and Bruce Cabot were cast in Angel and the Badman (1937) they became drinking buddies and continued this both on and off-screen. Cabot was in at least 10 movies with John Wayne. Cabot could rely on Wayne for a supporting part in one of the Duke’s movies.

Cabot joined the Army Air Corp and worked in intelligence during World War II. At least a part of his job involved smuggling gold from the Middle East.

Cabot was cast as the heel in many movies during the 1930s. He played a mobster in Let ’em Have It (1935) and the revengeful Magua in The Last of the Mohicans (1936). This was not the only time he played a Native American. He was cast as Indian tracker Sam Sharpnose in Big Jake (1971) and delivered great lines like “I don’t hunt Indians.”

Cabot was born in New Mexico in 1904 and died at the age of 68 from lung cancer.

Reviewed Cabot Films

King Kong (1933) Revised – The Monster Movie That Changed Cinema Forever”

Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast – King Kong (1933) King Kong (1933) Revised The post King Kong (1933) Revised – The Monster Movie That Changed Cinema Forever” appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.
Hellfighters (1968) Classic Movie Review 195

There’s no mystery. There just seems to be. We are taking on the wonderfully bad movie Hellfighters (1968). This is The post Hellfighters (1968) Classic Movie Review 195 appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.
Fallen Angel (1945) Classic Movie Review 132

Eric my boy, you’re an artist. You have my sympathy. And a bus ticket on the firm This Film-Noir is The post Fallen Angel (1945) Classic Movie Review 132 appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.
Big Jake (1971) Classic Movie Review 106

Not if we kill them first! – Big Jake (1971) Today’s movie is Big Jake (1971) a romping stomping rooting The post Big Jake (1971) Classic Movie Review 106 appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.
Angel and the Badman (1947) Classic Movie Review 74

Pony walks as soft as you do Welcome to today’s show, Angel and the Badman (1947), my name is John. The post Angel and the Badman (1947) Classic Movie Review 74 appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.
Cat Ballou (1965) Classic Movie Review 71

You’d like a drink better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stub, wouldn’t you? Welcome to today’s The post Cat Ballou (1965) Classic Movie Review 71 appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.
The Undefeated (1969) Classic Movie Review 15

Tell them from me, I meant every damn word. – The Undefeated (1969) Well, this is a manly-manly movie with The post The Undefeated (1969) Classic Movie Review 15 appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.
The Undefeated (1969) Classic Movie Review 15

Tell them from me, I meant every damn word. Well, this is a manly-manly movie with lots of horses and The post The Undefeated (1969) Classic Movie Review 15 appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.
The Green Berets (1968) Classic Movie Review 11

My home is in Hanoi. You see, first I kill all stinking Cong, then go home. The Green Berets (1968) The post The Green Berets (1968) Classic Movie Review 11 appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.
Bruce Cabot Bio

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In Harm’s Way (1965) Classic Movie Review 4

Old Rock of Ages, we’ve got ourselves another war. A gut bustin’, mother-lovin’ Navy war. For In Harm’s Way (1965), we The post In Harm’s Way (1965) Classic Movie Review 4 appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.
McLintock! (1963) Classic Movie Review 3

I haven’t lost my temper in forty years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this morning, might have The post McLintock! (1963) Classic Movie Review 3 appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.
Chisum (1970) Classic Movie Review 2

Sergeant, there’s one thing I oughtta tell you; if you lay a hand on White Buffalo again, I’ll kill ya’. The post Chisum (1970) Classic Movie Review 2 appeared first on ClassicMovieRev.com.