Born on for the time being in 1895: stage and masks actor Nigel Bruce of The Scarlet Pimpernel, She, Below Two Flags, Kidnapped, Lassie Approach House, The Two Mrs. Carrolls and more, however in particular because the lovable and bumbling model of Doctor John H. Watson in each and each of the fourteen Fox and Universal Sherlock Holmes photos starring Basil Rathbone!
from “Clodumbo” in MAD #156 (January 1973), script by Lou Silverstone, pencils and inks by Angelo Torres
Nigel Bruce looked in Lassie Approach House with Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowell, and since I once met Roddy McDowell ar a convention, I’m handiest one Kevin William Maxwell Aitken some distance from Nigel! (And handiest three, by the usage of Hillbillys in a Taken aback House, from Ferlin Husky!)
from “Elizabeth Taylor” in Famed Stars #5 (Ziff-Davis, Wintry weather 1951), creators uncredited and unknown
Gay birthday, Nigel Bruce!
from Dressed to Homicide (Universal, 1946), starring here Nigel Bruce and Topsy Glyn, written by Frank Gruber and Leonard Lee, directed by Roy William Neill