Bruce Cabot

He died in Woodland Hills, California from lung cancer and throat cancer. He died from a cerebral haemorrhage in Van Nuys, California. He was married twice, to the actresses Adrienne Ames and Francesca De Scaffa. Donald Crisp has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to Motion Pictures, at 1620 Vine St. Cabot's final film appearance was in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). He was married to the screenwriter Jane Murfin from 1932 until 1944. The eleven films in which they appeared together include The Comancheros (1961), The Green Berets (1968), The Undefeated (1969) and Chisum (1970). His more than 150 films include Broken Blossoms (1919), The Black Pirate (1926), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Jezebel (1938), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Knute Rockne, All American (1940), Lassie Come Home (1943), The Uninvited (1944), National Velvet (1944)The Valley of Decision (1945) Pollyanna (1960) and Greyfriars Bobby (1961).

A lifelong friend of Wayne, they first acted together in Angel and the Badman (1947). With the advent of talking pictures, Crisp established a career as a versatile character actor, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the Welsh father in How Green Was My Valley (1941). Cabot continued acting into the early 1970s, with many of his later performances being supporting roles in John Wayne films. Although he directed his last film in 1930, the Directors Guild of America voted him a Life Member Award in 1957. Among his other films are Fury (1936), The Last of the Mohicans (1936), Dodge City (1939), Susan and God (1940), The Quiet American (1965) and Cat Ballou (1966). During the silent film era, he also directed comedy films, and dramas such as the 1916 version of Ramona. His most widely seen performance was in King Kong (1933) opposite Fay Wray. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation in 1915.

Born Etienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac in Carlsbad, New Mexico, Cabot made his film debut in 1931 and during the course of his career appeared in almost one hundred feature films. W. Bruce Cabot (April 20, 1904 - May 3, 1972) was an American film actor. Born George William Crisp in London, England, he began his film acting career in 1908, and appeared in D. Donald Crisp (July 27, 1880 – May 25, 1974) was a film actor and director.