Bruce Dern Biography
Bruce Dern (Bruce Dern MacLeish) is an American actor, who plays supporting villainous characters of unstable nature. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home in 1978 and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska in 2013. He also has various films; The Cowboys in 1972, Black Sunday in 1977, Monster in 2003, and The Hateful Eight in 2015.
Bruce Dern Age
Dern was born in Chicago, Illinois, the United States on 4 June 1936. He is 86 years old as of 2023. He celebrates his birthday on June 4 every year.
Bruce Dern Height And Body Statistics
Dern stands on an average height of 5 Feet 4 inches and weighs around 70kgs.
Bruce Dern And Family
He was born in Chicago to the late Jean and John Dern. His father was a utility chief and attorney. He had a paternal grandfather named George. George was a Utah governor and Secretary of War who served in the latter position during Bruce’s birth.
He also had a maternal grandfather who was the chairman of the Carson, Pirie, and Scott stores, his maternal granduncle, Archibald MacLeish, was a poet, and his maternal great-grandfather, Andrew MacLeish, was a Scottish-born businessman. Illinois governor was Dern’s godfather.
Bruce Dern Education
He went to The Choate School which for now is Choate Rosemary Hall and he later proceeded to the University of Pennsylvania.
Bruce Dern Accident
Bruce had fallen down during his normal daily jog in Los Angles at the Silver Lake Reservoir. He fractured his leg and was hospitalized at the Silver Lake Reservoir. After recovering, Lee Wallman, his publicist said that Bruce Dern was eager to get back to work.
Bruce Dern Spouse
Dern married Andrea Beckett in 1969. He has two children whom he got with Marie Dean; Diane Elizabeth Dern who was born on November 29, 1960, and Laura Dern. Diane Elizabeth Dern died at the age of eighteen months from head injuries after falling into a swimming pool on May 18, 1962.
Bruce Dern Divorce
In 1957, Dern married Marie Dawn Pierce. They both had two children. The couple divorced in 1959. In 1960, he married Diane Ladd but divorced in 1969.
Diane Ladd Diane Ladd is an American actress, film director, producer, and author. She has appeared in over 120 film and television roles.
Bruce Dern And Diane
BruceDern, Laura Dern Diane and Ladd Honored
Diane Ladd is also an American actress, film director, producer, and author. She has appeared in over 120 film and television roles.
For the 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for Alice (1980–81), and to receive Academy Award nominations for Wild at Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991).
Her other film appearances include Chinatown (1974), Ghosts of Mississippi(1996), Primary Colors (1998), 28 Days (2000), and American Cowslip(2008). Ladd is the mother of actress Laura Dern, with her ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern.
Bruce Dern Movies
- Year Title
2019 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
In 2019 The Artist’s Wife
2019 The Mustang
In 2019 The Peanut Butter Falcon
2018 American Dresser
In 2018 Lez Bomb - 2018 Nostalgia
In 2018 Warning Shot
2018 White Boy Rick
2017 American Violence
In 2017 Chappaquiddick
2017 Class Rank
2017 Hickok - In 2017 Our Souls at Night
2017 The Lears
2015 The Hateful Eight
2014 Cut Bank
2013 Coffin Baby
In 2013 Fighting for Freedom - 2013 Nebraska
In 2013 Northern Borders
2012 Django Unchained
In 2012 From Up on Poppy Hill
2012 Hitting the Cycle
2011 Choose - 2011 Inside Out
In 2011 Twixt
2010 Trim
2009 American Cowslip
In 2009 The Hole 3D
2009 The Lightkeepers - 2008 Swamp Devil
2008 The Golden Boys
2007 The Cake Eaters
2006 Believe in Me
In 2006 The Astronaut Farmer - 2006 The Hard Easy
2006 Walker Payne
2005 Down in the Valley
2005 Madison
2003 Masked and Anonymous
In 2003 Milwaukee, Minnesota - 2003 Monster
2001 The Glass House
2000 All the Pretty Horses
1999 If… Dog… Rabbit…
In 1999 The Haunting
1998 Small Soldiers - 1996 Down Periscope
1996 Last Man Standing
In 1996 Mulholland Falls
1995 Wild Bill
1992 Diggstown - 1990 After Dark, My Sweet
1989 The ‘Burbs
1987 The Big Town
1987 World Gone Wild
1986 On the Edge
1982 Harry Tracy, Desperado - 1982 That Championship Season
1981 Tattoo
1980 Middle Age Crazy
1978 Coming Home
1978 The Driver
1977 Black Sunday - 1976 Family Plot
- In 1976 Folies bourgeoises
1976 Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1975 Posse
1975 Smile
1974 The Great Gatsby
1973 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - 1973 The Laughing Policeman
1972 Silent Running
In 1972 The Cowboys
1972 The King of Marvin Gardens
1972 Thumb Tripping
1971 Drive, He Said - 1971 The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
1970 Bloody Mama
1970 The Rebel Rousers
1969 Castle Keep
In 1969 Number One
1969 Support Your Local Sheriff! - In 1969 The Cycle Savages
1969 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
1968 Hang ‘Em High
1968 Psych-Out
1967 The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
1967 The Trip - In 1967 The War Wagon
1967 Waterhole No. 3
1967 Will Penny
1966 The Wild Angels - 1964 Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964 Marnie
1962 The Crimebusters
1960 Wild River
Bruce Dern Awards
1972 Drive, He Said National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
1973 The Cowboys Bronze Wrangler for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
1975 The Great Gatsby Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1979 Coming Home Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1983 That Championship Season Silver Bear for Best Actor
2009 Swamp Devil Philadelphia Film Festival Jury Prize
