Bruce Dern Trivia

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  • Of German and Scottish ancestry.
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt was his godmother.
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  • Father-in-law of (musician) Ben Harper.
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  • Grandfather of Ellery Walker Harper & Jaya Harper.
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  • Nephew of poet Archibald Macleish.
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  • His grandfather was George Dern, former Governor of Utah & President Franklin Delano Roosevelt`s first Secretary of War.
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  • He had two daughters by Diane Ladd. His eldest daughter, born in 1961, accidentally drowned at 18 months of age, years before his second child, Laura Dern, was born in 1967.
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  • One of the few actors to have killed John Wayne on screen (The Cowboys (1972)). He even received some death threats out of it.
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  • Born at 3:11am-CDT
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  • Alumnus of New Trier Township High School East, Winnetka, Illinois. Other New Trier graduates include Ralph Bellamy, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Hugh O`Brien, Ann-Margret, Penelope Milford, Virginia Madsen and Liz Phair.
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