Nigel De Brulier

Who was Nigel De Brulier?

Nigel De Brulier was an English film actor, who launched his career in the theatre stage in his native country and transferred to films after moving to USA. His first film role was a poet in The Pursuit of the Phantom in 1914. In 1915 he acted in the film Ghosts based on a play by Henrik Ibsen.

Nigel De Brulier acted Cardinal Richelieu in the four films: The Three Musketeers, The Iron Mask, The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask. De Brulier appeared with Douglas Fairbanks in The Gaucho and was also one of the few actors of the silent era who reached reasonable success in talkies, although his roles in them were quite minor. He played the wizard Shazam in the 1941 Republic serial Adventures of Captain Marvel and also acted in Charlie Chan in Egypt in 1935.

He played Jokaanan, the Prophet in a silent film version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. A clip of De Brulier in Salomé was used in Before Stonewall, a film documenting the gay rights movement