Herman Brix, aka Bruce Bennett, Dies
Sphere: Related ContentHerman Brix, who parlayed a silver medal for the shot put in the 1928 Olympics into a Hollywood career that included playing Tarzan in a 1935 movie, has died. He was 100.
Brix, who later adopted the stage name Bruce Bennett and appeared as Joan Crawford’s husband in “Mildred Pierce” and as an ill-fated gold prospector in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” died of complications from a broken hip Saturday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, his son Christopher said Tuesday.
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Christopher Brix said that depending on how someone best knew his father  as an Olympic athlete or as a Hollywood actor  he would be called either Herman Brix or Bruce Bennett.
“He’d answer to either name,” Christopher Brix said. “I think he was proud of both.”
Jeannette, Brix’s wife of 67 years, died in 2000. In addition to his son, he is survived by his daughter, Christina Katich; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be sent to the Olympic Committee, National Headquarters, 1 Olympic Plaza, Colorado Springs, CO 80909.
Services will be private.