Nigel Bruce
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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 Doctor 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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.464 |
| Birthday | 1895-02-03 |
| Place of Birth | Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico |
| Also Known As | William Nigel Ernle Bruce, Willie Bruce, Найджел Брюс, |
1940
Rebecca
7.9/1757
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died myste...
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Rebecca
1943
Lassie Come Home
6.6/124
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling t...
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Lassie Come Home
1943
The Spider Woman
6.866/86
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomou...
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The Spider Woman
1946
Terror by Night
6.6/125
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging...
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Terror by Night
1946
Dressed to Kill
6.5/113
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purc...
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Dressed to Kill
1941
Suspicion
7.114/804
A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for mo...
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Suspicion
1934
The Scarlet Pimpernel
6.9/63
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an un...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
6.5/92
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terr...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles
7.1/197
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds tha...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1945
The House of Fear
6.842/98
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest...
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The House of Fear
1944
The Pearl of Death
7.036/83
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to Lon...
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The Pearl of Death
1944
The Scarlet Claw
6.891/92
When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the ca...
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The Scarlet Claw
1945
The Woman in Green
6.425/127
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes...
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The Woman in Green
1947
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
6.563/72
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suff...
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls
1954
World for Ransom
5/19
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of s...
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World for Ransom
1952
Limelight
7.9/524
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
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Limelight
1943
Crazy House
5/3
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names eva...
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Crazy House
1940
The Blue Bird
5.675/40
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...
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The Blue Bird
1935
She
5.448/29
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover...
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She
1945
Son of Lassie
5.9/19
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?
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Son of Lassie
1945
The Corn Is Green
7.1/33
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believe...
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The Corn Is Green
1942
Journey for Margaret
6.6/17
An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her ba...
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Journey for Margaret
1943
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
6.735/66
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on She...
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1934
Treasure Island
6.5/66
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in searc...
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Treasure Island
1936
The Charge of the Light Brigade
6.451/72
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances w...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1935
Becky Sharp
5.6/19
The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanit...
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Becky Sharp
1952
Bwana Devil
4.7/8
British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to ki...
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Bwana Devil
1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
4.8/10
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...
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Stand Up and Cheer!
1939
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
6.844/144
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes,...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
6.3/120
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quic...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1945
Pursuit to Algiers
6.754/65
After the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean...
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Pursuit to Algiers
1948
Julia Misbehaves
6.5/11
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites...
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Julia Misbehaves
1943
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
6.865/78
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master dete...
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
1938
The Baroness and the Butler
5.2/13
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
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The Baroness and the Butler
1937
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
6/18
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1936
Under Two Flags
6/2
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle...
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Under Two Flags
1942
Roxie Hart
6.935/23
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was ju...
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Roxie Hart
1936
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
6.333/27
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1941
The Chocolate Soldier
6.6/7
Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. Karl decides to masquerade as a Russian guardsman...
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The Chocolate Soldier
1937
Thunder in the City
5.4/5
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
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Thunder in the City
1947
The Exile
6.1/8
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwel...
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The Exile
1941
Hudson's Bay
6.2/9
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the F...
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Hudson's Bay
1938
Kidnapped
6/2
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Kidnapped
1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
5.7/11
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6/2
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1942
This Above All
6.6/17
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with t...
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This Above All
1941
Play Girl
6.3/6
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
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Play Girl
1944
Frenchman's Creek
5/15
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet i...
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Frenchman's Creek
1939
The Rains Came
5.9/19
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken art...
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The Rains Came
1950
Vendetta
0/0
The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.
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Vendetta
1940
Adventure in Diamonds
5.2/4
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
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Adventure in Diamonds
1952
Hong Kong
4.5/10
American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a beau...
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Hong Kong
1935
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
6.3/3
A Russian prince goes to Monte Carlo just after World War I with money supplied to him by Parisian Russians. He wins but the casino operators want him...
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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1940
Lillian Russell
6.1/9
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Lillian Russell
1933
I Was a Spy
5.5/4
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matte...
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I Was a Spy
1936
Follow Your Heart
0/0
An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
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Follow Your Heart
1944
Gypsy Wildcat
5.7/3
In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wi...
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Gypsy Wildcat
1938
Suez
5.4/14
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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Suez
1934
Springtime for Henry
1/1
A rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship. T...
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Springtime for Henry
1930
Birds of Prey
6/3
At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was...
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Birds of Prey
1940
Susan and God
6.5/14
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
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Susan and God
1930
Escape!
6.3/3
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day...
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Escape!
1936
The Man I Marry
0/0
A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
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The Man I Marry
1932
Lord Camber's Ladies
6/1
In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out...
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Lord Camber's Ladies
1936
The White Angel
8/4
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable professio...
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The White Angel
1934
The Lady Is Willing
6/1
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap...
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The Lady Is Willing
1932
The Midshipmaid
0/0
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show util...
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The Midshipmaid
1935
Jalna
4.8/4
A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
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Jalna
1942
Eagle Squadron
0/0
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Eagle Squadron
1941
Free and Easy
5.5/4
This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max rom...
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Free and Easy
1933
Channel Crossing
0/0
Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value sys...
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Channel Crossing
1943
Forever and a Day
7.333/9
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
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Forever and a Day
1941
This Woman Is Mine
3.2/5
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
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This Woman Is Mine
1934
Murder in Trinidad
0/0
Author/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator for the League of Nations. He is Trinidad's Port o' Spa...
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Murder in Trinidad
1930
Red Aces
0/0
A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.
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Red Aces
1931
The Calendar
0/0
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations....
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The Calendar
1930
The Squeaker
0/0
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
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The Squeaker
1985
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
7/2
This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interviews and archival film clips featuring the original c...
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The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
1936
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
6/1
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1934
Coming Out Party
5/1
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-wille...
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Coming Out Party
1996
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
0/0
Actor Patrick Macnee leads the viewer through London in the footsteps of the genius private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his assistant and friend,...
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