Nigel De Brulier

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Nigel De Brulier

Born	July 8, 1877(1877-07-08) Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Died	January 30, 1948 Los Angeles, California United States
Other name(s)	Nigel deBrulier, Nigel De Bruillier, Nigel De Brullier
Years active	1914-1943

Nigel De Brulier (b. July 8, 1877(1877-07-08) in Bristol, England, United Kingdom – d. January 30, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an English film actor, who launched his career in the theatre stage in his native country and transferred to movies 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 (1921), The Iron Mask (1929), The Three Musketeers (1935) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1939). He was an one of a few actors of the silent era which reached reasonable success in talkies, although his roles in them were quite minor. Appearance of De Brulier had inspired a figure of the wizard in an episode The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the Walt Disney's animated cartoon film Fantasia. He actually played the wizard Shazam in the Republic serial "Adventures of Captain Marvel" Nigel De Brulier also acted in one of the Charlie Chan films, Charlie Chan in Egypt in 1935.

He played Jokaanan, the Prophet in a silent film version of Oscar Wilde's "Salomé (1923 film)" (1923), which is said to have been done with an all-homosexual cast, in tribute to the author. He appeared in a clip of that film in "Before Stonewall," the documentary of the gay rights movement^[1]

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Persondata
NAME	Brulier, Nigel De
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 8, 1877(1877-07-08)
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bristol, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 1948
PLACE OF DEATH	Los Angeles, California United States