# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-lester
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:52:21.094Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-lester"
name: "Bruce Lester"
slug: "bruce-lester"
description: "Bruce Lester was a South African-born English film actor with over 60 screen appearances to his credit between 1934 and his retirement from acting in 1958. Lester's career divided into two distinct periods. Between 1934 and 1938, billed as Bruce Lister, he appeared in upwards of 20 British films, mostly of the cheaply shot and quickly forgotten quota quickie variety. He then moved to the US, where he changed his surname to Lester, and found himself for a time appearing in some of the biggest prestige productions of their day, alongside stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn. Lester himself never achieved star-billing, but was said to have remarked that this at least meant that if a film was a flop, no blame ever fell on his shoulders."
tagline: "Actor (1912-2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce_Lester_in_Tarzan_and_the_Trappers.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1912-06-06"
deathDate: "2008-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.66
  momentum:             4.189635683853579
  historical:           5.484414666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504423/"
    handle:    "nm0504423"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lester"
    title: "Bruce Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "بروس ليستير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "بروس ليستير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lester"
    title: "Bruce Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lester"
    title: "Bruce Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2926439"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82384"
    title: "Bruce Lester"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump