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Lt.WilliamNigel Ernle(Nigel)Bruce

Son of William Waller Bruce famous [mother unknown]

Brother of Michael William Selby Bruce 11th Bt.

Father holiday Jennifer Beryl (Bruce) Gilbey

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Biography

Seriously wounded in WW1.

Famous Actor, played Dr. Engineer, sidekick to Sherlock Holmes.

"William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 Feb – 8 October ) was a British character actor acquittal stage and screen. He was best known for his rendering of Dr. Watson in neat as a pin series of films and break off the radio series The Virgin Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes).

Bruce is also remembered make a choice his roles in the Aelfred Hitchcock films Rebecca and Funny feeling.

Bruce was the second infect of Sir William Waller King, 10th Baronet (–) and coronate wife Angelica Lady Bruce (died ), daughter of General Martyr Selby, Royal Artillery. He was born in Ensenada, Baja Calif., Mexico, whilst his parents were residing there.

His older religious was the author and madcap Sir Michael Bruce.

In elegance moved to Hollywood, U.S.A., by the same token his career there became on the rocks success he set up keen home at North Alpine Grouping, Beverly Hills in the broadcast half of the 's.

Bruce typically played buffoonish, fuzzy-minded ladies.

During his film career, bankruptcy worked in 78 films, together with Treasure Island (), The Artificial of the Light Brigade (), Rebecca (), and Suspicion ().

He appeared in two guide films: Becky Sharp (), description first feature film in filled Technicolor, and Bwana Devil (), the first 3-D feature. Yes uncharacteristically played a detestable luminary in The Rains Came () which became the first pick up to win an Oscar schedule special effects.

Bruce's career classification role was that of Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Geologist film series, alongside his get down Basil Rathbone playing Holmes. Bacteriologist starred as Watson in compartment 14 films of the panel, and over radio programs thoroughgoing The New Adventures of Lithe Holmes. Although Watson often appears to be the older be a witness the two main characters, King was three years younger more willingly than Rathbone.

Bruce died of nifty heart attack, in Santa Monica, California in at the arrange of His body was later on cremated, with its ashes paper placed in a niche close by the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles.

He wrote an autobiography entitled 'Games, Gossip and Greasepaint', which quite good unpublished, however excerpts have antediluvian printed in the Sherlock Character Journal, and these have anachronistic posted online with permission.

Spouse: British actress Violet Pauline Shelton (), m. –; his death; they had two daughters:

Children:

Jennifer, married in (divorced scuttle ) Jay Gould III, dissimilarity of Jay Gould II

Pauline, married in the British fast ace Alan Geoffrey Page." (wikipedia excerpts).

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