{{for|the basketball coach|Kate Bruce (basketball)}} {{Short description|American actress (1860–1946)}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Kate Bruce | image = Kate Bruce - Dec 1921 Photoplay.jpg | caption = Bruce in 1921 ''Photoplay'' | birth_name = Kate Bruce Bryant | birth_date = {{Birth date|1860|02|17|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Columbus, Indiana, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|04|02|1860|02|17|mf=yes}} | death_place = Bronx, New York City, U.S. | resting_place = Gate of Heaven Cemetery | years_active = 1903–1931 | occupation = Actress }}
'''Kate Bruce Bryant'''<ref name="wilson">Wilson, Scott (2016). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.]''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 96. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-7992-4}}.</ref><ref name="columbus girl">[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-republic/153132498/ "Additional Personals"]. ''The Republic''. December 15, 1904. p. 5. Retrieved August 12, 2024. See also: * [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-republic/153132555/ "American Theatre Today: Special Attraction New Year's, Matinee and Evening"]. ''The Republic''. January 1, 1920. p. 6. * [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-republic/153132854/ "American: Tomorrow and Thursday, A Paramount Super Special"]. ''The Republic''. February 28, 1922. p. 6. </ref> (February 17, 1860 – April 2, 1946) was an American actress of the silent era,<ref name="BFI">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f3b25ae |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231212052/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f3b25ae |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 31, 2017 |title=Kate Bruce |access-date=December 31, 2017 |work=British Film Institute}}</ref> famed for her screen portrayals of mothers.<ref>Slide, Anthony (2002). ''[https://archive.org/details/biographicalauto00slid/page/54/mode/2up?q=%22kate+bruce%22 A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses]''. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. p. 55. {{ISBN|9780813122496}}.</ref> She appeared in more than 280 films between 1908 and 1931.
==Early life and career== Born and raised in Columbus, Indiana,<ref name="usc x 3">"United States Census, 1870", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXX8-PVZ : Tue Jul 16 13:39:28 UTC 2024), Entry for Newton S Bryant and Matilda S Bryant, 1870. See also * "United States Census, 1880", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHM8-TFD : Wed Jul 24 19:36:48 UTC 2024), Entry for Newton ... Bryant and Katie Bryant, 1880. * "United States Census, 1860", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4FC-F3V : Mon Jul 08 05:54:26 UTC 2024), Entry for Margaret O'Brien and Frank O'Brien, 1860.</ref><ref name="columbus girl"/> Bruce was the youngest of three children of Newton and Matilda Bryant.<ref name="usc x 3"/><ref name="familysearch.org">"New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WL6-42P : 13 May 2022), Kate Bruce Bryant, 1946.</ref> In 1885, she left Boone, Iowa, in a wagon with a group of traveling actors at a time when stages were illuminated by oil lights.<ref name="t">{{cite news |title=A Place Where Old Age Is an Asset |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35689855/kate_bruce/ |access-date=September 6, 2019 |work=The Times |date=February 26, 1925 |location=Illinois, Streator |page=6|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> On Broadway, Bruce performed in ''The Starbucks'' (1903).<ref>{{cite web |title=Kate Bruce |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kate-bruce-33432 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=September 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190907003606/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kate-bruce-33432 |archive-date=September 7, 2019}}</ref> The following year she toured in ''Our New Man'' with Harry Beresford.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-courier/153143100/ "At the Theatres"]. ''The Buffalo Courier''. June 26, 1904. p. 37. Retrieved August 12, 2024.</ref><ref name="columbus girl"/>
==Death== Bruce died at the age of 86 in the Bronx, New York on April 2, 1946.<ref name="familysearch.org"/> She was buried at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.<ref name="wilson"/> Later that month, Hedda Hopper reported that Bruce's entire estate had been left to her longtime friends and sometime co-stars Lillian and Dorothy Gish.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Looking at Hollywood|author=Hopper, Hedda|date=April 13, 1946|work=Los Angeles Times|page=A5|quote=Kate Bruce, the famous Biograph actress who died recently at the age of 84 [sic], left her entire estate to Dorothy and Lillian Gish. The three worked together in 'Orphans of the Storm.'|id={{ProQuest|165642863}}}}</ref><ref>Affron, Charles (2001). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=X44SqEVU2r4C&pg=PA136&dq=%22kate+bruce%22 Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life]''. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 136. {{ISBN|0-520-23434-0}}.</ref>
==Partial filmography== [[File:Kate Bruce and Ynez Seabury in The Sunbeam.jpg|thumb|right|Bruce (left) with Ynez Seabury in ''The Sunbeam'' (1912)]] {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * ''The Greaser's Gauntlet'' (1908) * ''Betrayed by a Handprint'' (1908) * ''Behind the Scenes'' (1908) * ''An Awful Moment'' (1908) * ''One Touch of Nature'' (1909) * ''The Golden Louis'' (1909) * ''At the Altar'' (1909) * ''The Girls and Daddy'' (1909) * ''The Country Doctor'' (1909) * ''The Hessian Renegades'' (1909) * ''The Red Man's View'' (1909) * ''A Trap for Santa'' (1909) * ''In Little Italy'' (1909) * ''To Save Her Soul'' (1909) * ''Choosing a Husband'' (1909) * ''The Rocky Road'' (1910) * ''All on Account of the Milk'' (1910) * ''The Woman from Mellon's'' (1910) * ''The Two Brothers'' (1910) * ''A Romance of the Western Hills'' (1910) * ''The Unchanging Sea'' (1910) * ''Ramona'' (1910) * ''May and December'' (1910) * ''What the Daisy Said'' (1910) * ''The Lucky Toothache'' (1910) * ''The Fugitive'' (1910) * ''The Modern Prodigal'' (1910) * ''His Trust'' (1911) * ''His Trust Fulfilled'' (1911) * ''The Spanish Gypsy'' (1911) * ''How She Triumphed'' (1911) * ''Fighting Blood'' (1911) * ''A Country Cupid'' (1911) * ''The Long Road'' (1911) * ''Swords and Hearts'' (1911) * ''Her Awakening'' (1911) * ''The Battle'' (1911) * ''The Voice of the Child'' (1911) * ''The Eternal Mother'' (1912) * ''The Transformation of Mike'' (1912) * ''A String of Pearls'' (1912) * ''The Punishment'' (1912) * ''Won by a Fish'' (1912) * ''One Is Business, the Other Crime'' (1912) * ''The Spirit Awakened'' (1912) * ''The School Teacher and the Waif'' (1912) * ''A Feud in the Kentucky Hills'' (1912) * ''The One She Loved'' (1912) * ''The Painted Lady'' (1912) * ''Heredity'' (1912) * ''The Informer'' (1912) * ''Just Like a Woman'' (1912) * ''The New York Hat'' (1912) * ''My Hero'' (1912) * ''A Cry for Help'' (1912) * ''The Telephone Girl and the Lady'' (1913) * ''A Girl's Stratagem'' (1913) * ''The Unwelcome Guest'' (1913) * ''The Sheriff's Baby'' (1913) * ''A Frightful Blunder'' (1913) * ''A Misunderstood Boy'' (1913) * ''The Wanderer'' (1913) * ''The Stolen Loaf'' (1913) * ''The House of Darkness'' (1913) * ''Olaf—An Atom'' (1913) * ''Just Gold'' (1913) * ''The Mothering Heart'' (1913) * ''The Enemy's Baby'' (1913) * ''The Perfidy of Mary'' (1913) * ''The Strong Man's Burden'' (1913) * ''The Stopped Clock'' (1913) * ''The Battle at Elderbush Gulch'' (1913) * ''The Tender Hearted Boy'' (1913) * ''The Little Tease'' (1913) * ''The Yaqui Cur'' (1913) * ''A Nest Unfeathered'' (1914) * ''Judith of Bethulia'' (1914) * ''The Rebellion of Kitty Belle'' (1914) * ''His Desperate Deed'' (1915) * ''Intolerance'' (1916) * ''Gretchen the Greenhorn'' (1916) * ''The House Built Upon Sand'' (1916) * ''Souls Triumphant'' (1917) * ''Madame Bo-Peep'' (1917) * ''Betsy's Burglar'' (1917) * ''A Woman's Awakening'' (1917) * ''Time Locks and Diamonds'' (1917) * ''The Stainless Barrier'' (1917) * ''Hearts of the World'' (1918) * ''Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal'' (1918) * ''The Greatest Thing in Life'' (1918) * ''A Romance of Happy Valley'' (1919) * ''Scarlet Days'' (1919) * ''True Heart Susie'' (1919) * ''Way Down East'' (1920) * ''Flying Pat'' (1920) * ''The City of Silent Men'' (1921) * ''His Darker Self'' (1924) * ''A Bowery Cinderella'' (1927) * ''Ragtime'' (1927) * ''The Struggle'' (1931) {{Div col end}}
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==External links== {{commons category}} * {{IMDb name|115524}} * {{IBDB name|33432}}
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