Bruce Lester
Actor, Film actor
1912 – 2008
Who was Bruce Lester?
Bruce Lester was a South African-born English film actor with over 60 screen appearances to his credit between 1934 and his retirement from acting in 1958. Lester's career divided into two distinct periods. Between 1934 and 1938, billed as Bruce Lister, he appeared in upwards of 20 British films, mostly of the cheaply shot and quickly forgotten quota quickie variety. He then moved to the U.S., where he changed his surname to Lester, and found himself for a time appearing in some of the biggest prestige productions of their day, alongside stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn. Lester himself never achieved star-billing, but was said to have remarked that this at least meant that if a film was a flop, no blame ever fell on his shoulders.
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- Born
- Jun 6, 1912
Johannesburg - Also known as
- Bruce Somerset Lister
- Bruce Lister
- Spouses
- Nationality
- South Africa
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Brighton College
- Died
- Jun 13, 2008
Los Angeles - Resting place
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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