从影前就读于戏剧协会戏剧学校，13岁开始在百老汇登台，有声片时代开始不久前往好莱坞，1937年因戏路不宽息影后再度回到百老汇。 代表作：《七张面孔》、《天生的鲁莽》等。
Hollywood stalwart Bruce Cabot's main claim to fame, other than rescuing Fay Wray from King Kong (1933), is that he tested for the lead role of The Ringo Kid in John Ford's Western masterpiece Stagecoach (1939). John Wayne got the role and became the most durable star in Hollywood history, while Cabot (eventually) found himself a new drinking partner when the two co-starred in Angel and the Badman (1947). In the latter stages of his career, Cabot could rely on Wayne for a supporting part in one of the Duke's movies.
