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Bruce Bennett

Bruce Bennett (born Harold Herman Brix, 1906-2007) was an American Olympic shot put silver medalist (1928) who became a Hollywood actor, playing Tarzan in The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935) before reinventing himself for Mildred Pierce and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Bruce Boxleitner

Bruce Boxleitner (born 1950, Elgin, Illinois) is an American actor known as Tron/Alan Bradley in Tron and Tron: Legacy, Lee Stetson in Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and Captain John Sheridan on Babylon 5; also a Western TV star and author of two science fiction novels.

Bruce Cabot

Bruce Cabot (Etienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac, 1904–1972), American film actor best known as Jack Driscoll in King Kong (1933); villain roles in the 1930s, World War II Army Air Forces service, and 11 films with John Wayne.

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Lorne Campbell (born 1958, Royal Oak, Michigan), American actor, producer, director, and author; Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films and Ash vs Evil Dead, Brisco County Jr., Burn Notice's Sam Axe, NYT-bestselling author.

Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), British writer of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz; former Sotheby's and Sunday Times figure whose fact-and-fiction travel books reshaped travel writing.

Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn (born 1945, Ottawa) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist whose career runs from the 1970 self-titled debut on True North through 'Wondering Where the Lions Are,' 'If I Had a Rocket Launcher,' 12 Juno Awards, and the Order of Canada.

Bruce Davison

Bruce Davison (born 1946, Philadelphia) is an American character actor with over 300 credits, known for Willard (1971), his Oscar-nominated Longtime Companion role, and Senator Kelly in X-Men.

Bruce Dern

Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936, Chicago) is an American character actor of over 80 films, known for villains in Marnie, The Cowboys, and Coming Home, with two Oscar nominations and Cannes Best Actor wins for Coming Home and Nebraska.

Bruce Dickinson

Bruce Dickinson (born Paul Dickinson, 1958) is the English lead vocalist of Iron Maiden since 1981, also a solo artist, commercial airline pilot, Cardiff Aviation founder, author, and fencer.

Bruce Fairbairn

Bruce Fairbairn (1949-1999), Canadian record producer and trumpeter from Vancouver; produced Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, Aerosmith's Pump, AC/DC's The Razors Edge; Juno-winning founder of the Little Mountain Sound production school.

Bruce Forsyth

Sir Bruce Forsyth (Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson, 1928–2017), British variety entertainer and game-show host of The Generation Game and Play Your Cards Right, Palladium star and Strictly co-host.

Bruce Foxton

Bruce Foxton (born 1955, Woking, England) is the bassist of The Jam (1977–1982), 18 UK hits and four No 1s, later Stiff Little Fingers and From the Jam; announced Parkinson's diagnosis in 2026.

Bruce Glover

Bruce Herbert Glover (1932–2025), American character actor, father of Crispin Glover; played Bond assassin Mr. Wint in Diamonds Are Forever and Duffy in Chinatown.

Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood (Stuart Bruce Greenwood, born 1956) is a Canadian actor known for JFK in Thirteen Days, Captain Pike in Star Trek, Dr. Randolph Bell in The Resident, and Roderick Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher.

Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Hornsby (born 1954, Williamsburg, Virginia), American singer-pianist-songwriter, also known as leader of Bruce Hornsby and the Range and Grateful Dead collaborator. Known for the 1986 No. 1 hit The Way It Is, three Grammy Awards, and genre-spanning bluegrass, jazz, and classical work.

Bruce Johnston

Bruce Johnston (Bruce Arthur Johnston), American singer-songwriter, keyboardist, bassist, and producer; Beach Boys member 1965 to 2026 (with a mid-1970s hiatus), first sang on "California Girls," sang on Pet Sounds, wrote "I Write the Songs" for Barry Manilow, and left the touring band in 2026.

Bruce Jones (actor)

Bruce Jones (born 1953, real name Ian Roy Jones) is an English actor who played Les Battersby on Coronation Street (1997–2007), starred in Raining Stones and The Full Monty, and made a 2024 pro-wrestling debut.

Bruce Kirby (actor)

Bruce Kirby (Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, 1925–2021), American character actor, father of Bruno Kirby; played Sgt. Kramer on Columbo, DA Bruce Rogoff on L.A. Law, and Pop Ryan in Crash.

Bruce Kulick

Bruce Kulick (born 1953, Brooklyn) is an American guitarist, KISS lead guitarist 1984–1996, later UNION co-founder and Grand Funk Railroad guitarist 2000–2023, with solo albums Audio Dog, Transformer, and BK3.

Bruce Lansbury

Bruce Lansbury (1930–2017), London-born American TV producer and executive, twin of Edgar, brother of Angela Lansbury; produced The Wild Wild West, Mission: Impossible, and Murder, She Wrote.

Bruce Lee (ப்ரூஸ் லீ) (2017 film)

Bruce Lee (புரூஸ் லீ) is a 2017 Tamil action-comedy film directed by Prashanth Pandiraj, starring G. V. Prakash Kumar and Kriti Kharbanda, released 17 March 2017, retitled from Baasha Engira Antony, and poorly received by critics.

Bruce Lee filmography

Bruce Lee filmography: over 20 Hong Kong child-actor films (1941-1960), Kato in The Green Hornet, and four completed martial arts features, The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, The Way of the Dragon, and Enter the Dragon, plus the posthumous Game of Death (1978).

Bruce Lee: The Fighter (బ్రూస్ లీ – ది ఫైటర్)

Bruce Lee: The Fighter (బ్రూస్ లీ), 2015 Telugu action drama by Sreenu Vaitla starring Ram Charan, Rakul Preet Singh, Kriti Kharbanda, with Chiranjeevi's comeback cameo; stuntman mistaken for a policeman; released 16 October 2015, flop verdict.

Bruce McCulloch

Bruce McCulloch (Bruce Ian McCulloch, born 1961) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, and director, a member of the Kids in the Hall sketch troupe, director of Dog Park, Superstar, and Stealing Harvard, and creator of Carpoolers and Young Drunk Punk.

Bruce McGill

Bruce McGill (born 1950, San Antonio, Texas) is an American character actor; also known as Bruce Travis McGill. Known for D-Day in Animal House, Jack Dalton in MacGyver, Det. Vince Korsak in Rizzoli & Isles, Ron Motley in The Insider, and Edwin Stanton in Lincoln.

Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman (born 1941) is an American contemporary artist in sculpture, video, neon, and performance, known for using his own body and for having no single signature style.

Bruce Onobrakpeya

Bruce Onobrakpeya (born 30 August 1932, Agbarha-Otor, Nigeria) is a Nigerian printmaker, painter, and sculptor who co-founded the Zaria Art Society and invented techniques including plastograph and bronzed lino relief.

Bruce Paltrow

Bruce William Paltrow (1943-2002), American TV producer-director, creator of The White Shadow and executive producer of St. Elsewhere; husband of Blythe Danner, father of Gwyneth Paltrow; 1997 DGA Diversity Award recipient.

Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe, born 1947, is an Australian writer and historian of Bunurong, Palawa, and Yuin heritage, best known for Dark Emu (2014), arguing Aboriginal Australians practiced agriculture before colonization.

Bruce Payne

Bruce Payne (Bruce Martyn Payne, born 1958) is an English actor and producer known for villain roles: Charles Rane in Passenger 57, Jacob Kell in Highlander: Endgame, and Damodar in Dungeons & Dragons.