Probably the hardest working guy in Action, Horror, B and Voiceovers these days. His Old Spice commercials will be legendary, pay special attention to the background when he’s speaking.
The list of his appearances is enormous if you check Bruce out on imdb.com. His voice is always distinctive too so he’s easy to pick out on cartoons. My personal favorite was Himacles on My Life as a Teenage Robot; a villain who was similar to Hercules but he grew stronger through others’ pain or suffering.
Bruce has a huge fan base in Austin. Every few years he comes to Alamo Drafthouse to do either live commentary on Evil Dead 2 or promote his latest project, The Man with the Screaming Brain. Somara and I had the opportunity to meet him at Book People at our first signing together. He ribbed and cajoled the audience pretty well, namely a kid who asked him to appear in a movie the kid and his friends were making.
If you really want to see how talented and clever he can be, check out Bubba-Ho-tep. Bruce plays Elvis and the late Ossie Davis is JFK. Both of these famous people are hidden away in an East Texas retirement home where no one believes much of what they say, especially their claims of a mummy hiding in a ditch that’s murdering the home’s elderly residents.
As for me, I’m going to keep an eye out on My Name is Bruce which is a humorous movie about Bruce the actor versus Bruce’s past characters.