Doug Bruce

Who is Doug Bruce?

Doug Bruce is an English-American photographer. He is the subject of Rupert Murray's 2005 documentary film Unknown White Male.

Bruce claims to suffer from an extremely rare, and possibly purely psychological, form of retrograde amnesia. In the film, Bruce alleges that suddenly one day, his entire episodic memory bank of his entire life went missing. According to Bruce, he first became aware that he "didn't know who [he] was," when he had "awakened" on a New York subway train, with no recollection of who he was, including his name, life experiences, family, friends, home and work. After the alleged incident that led to the alleged amnesia, he claims to have gone to the police station and since they didn't know what to do with him, he was admitted to a hospital psychiatric ward, where, with no name to use, 'Unknown White Male' was written on his hospital medical charts and records.