Nigel Bruce

His last movie, World for Ransom, was released in 1954. Clift has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Blvd. Bruce died in 1953, aged 57, in Santa Monica, California. He is interred in the Quaker Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. There were 14 films made and he also played Watson on the radio. Montgomery Clift died at the age of 45 of heart problems brought on by his drug and alcohol addictions. But for millions of fans, Bruce was the definitive Watson. He turned down the starring roles in East of Eden and Sunset Blvd..

Holmes purists objected that Watson in the books was an intelligent and capable person, just not a super detective, and that the Bruce portrayal made him seem dimmer and more bumbling than he was. He needed reconstructive surgery on his face, but returned to acting and to stardom. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes series beginning in 1939 with his good friend Basil Rathbone. In 1956, while filming Raintree County, he smashed his car into a tree, and only quick thinking by co-star Elizabeth Taylor, who pulled two teeth out of his throat to keep him from choking, saved his life. He played buffoonish, fuzzy-minded gentlemen and his signature role was that of Dr. But the public never knew until after his death that he was a bisexual, and his guilt over this led to his continuing alcoholism and drug use. During his career he worked on 77 movies, including Treasure Island, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Lassie Come Home, The Corn is Green, and Bwana Devil. Amazingly, Clift was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for Judgement At Nuremberg in a role that only took up seven minutes of screen time.

In 1934 he moved to Hollywood. He had a highly successful film career, performing in many Oscar-nominated roles and becoming a matinee idol for his good looks. In 1920 he began his career on stage and eight years later started working in silent films. Clift was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor that same year for The Search. He was severely wounded in World War I and spent most of the war in a wheelchair. He achieved success on the stage and starred there for ten years before moving to Hollywood, debuting in 1948's Red River opposite John Wayne. The son of a baronet, he was born in Ensenada, Mexico, where his parents were on vacation. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Clift appeared on Broadway at the age of thirteen.

Watson in a series of films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 - July 23, 1966) was an American actor. William Nigel Bruce (September 4, 1895 - October 8, 1953), usually credited as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor, best known as Dr. The Defector. Freud. Judgment at Nuremberg.

The Misfits. Wild River. Suddenly, Last Summer. Lonelyhearts.

The Young Lions. Raintree County. From Here to Eternity. Indescretion of an American Wife.

I Confess. A Place in the Sun. The Big Lift. The Heiress.

Red River. The Search. 1949 - Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Search. 1952 - Best Actor in a Leading Role - A Place in the Sun.

1954 - Best Actor in a Leading Role - From Here to Eternity. 1962 - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Judgment at Nuremberg.