Nigel De Brulier

Nigel De Brulier
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Born	(1877-07-08)8 July 1877 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Died	Los Angeles, California, USA
Years active	1914–1943

Nigel De Brulier (8 July 1877 – 30 January 1948), born Francis George Packer, was an English film actor, born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, who launched his career in the theatre stage in his native country and transferred to films after moving to the 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 (1921), The Iron Mask (1929), The Three Musketeers (1935) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1939). De Brulier appeared with Douglas Fairbanks in The Gaucho (1927) 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 (1923). A clip of De Brulier in Salomé was used in Before Stonewall, a film documenting the gay rights movement

De Brulier died in Los Angeles in 1948.

Partial filmography

• Hypocrites (1915)
• Intolerance (1916)
• Joan the Woman (1917)
• Triumph (1917)
• The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918)
• The Romance of Tarzan (1918)
• The Testing of Mildred Vane (1918)
• The Virgin of Stamboul (1920)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
• The Three Musketeers (1921)
• Foolish Wives (1922)
• A Doll's House (1922)
• Salome (1923)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
• Wild Oranges (1924)
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
• The Ancient Mariner (1925)
• Don Juan (1926)
• The Patent Leather Kid (1927)
• Noah's Ark (1928)
• The Iron Mask (1929)
• The Wheel of Life (1929)
• Moby Dick (1930)
• Miss Pinkerton (1932)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

External links

• Nigel De Brulier at the Internet Movie Database