- Bruce had a storybook Broadway debut in January of 1992 when, as the understudy for a leading role in Tony Randall's National Actors' Theatre, he stepped in at the last moment on opening night, playing opposite Tony Randall and Lynn Redgrave! An ailing George Martin had to bow out the morning of Press Night (the play had been in previews for a week already) and with only a few hours' notice Bruce was costumed and ready to go in the Feydeau farce, A Little Hotel On the Side. On stage with him that night were also Maryann Plunkett, Paxton Whitehead and Rob Lowe. Danny Burstein was also a member of the inaugural company.
- Bruce briefly experimented with rodeo-style Bull Riding. Fascinated by rodeo clowns, he researched bull riding for a story he wanted to develop. At the Bob Hope Ranch in Simi Valley in 1979, he rode some bulls and faced off in a ring with a huge white Brahma bull.
- His Drama Teacher at Albert Leonard Junior High School in New Rochelle, NY was Gene Feist, who founded the Roundabout Theatre in 1965. Gene brought some of his students into NYC on Saturday mornings for professional acting training in that undeveloped space in the basement of a supermarket building in NY's Chelsea district where the Roundabout performed its first productions.
- The play, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, ran in San Francisco at the Little Fox Theatre for an unheard of five-and-a-half years in the early 1970's. It was directed by Lee Sankowich. Bruce was in that production for its final eight months in a variety of roles. By closing night, he had been playing Ruckly, the shaved-head lobotomy patient, for four months. Many years later, in 2012, Bruce again worked for Lee Sankowich as the lead in the comic tour-de-force Jacob and Jack, produced in Hollywood at Lee's Zephyr Theatre on Melrose Ave.
- Bruce's brother, Drew, is also an actor and a playwright in Los Angeles. His sister, Mindi, is a painter in Seattle.
- Bruce's first professional audition was in New York City for a TV commercial, on Nov. 22, 1963. As they were driving into the NYC for the audition, the news came on the radio that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. The producers held the audition anyway, but nothing came of it.
- Bruce was inducted into the National Thespian Society, Troupe #1958 (Sarasota High School) in May of 1967.
- Bruce graduated from Sarasota High School in 1969. In the class behind him was Paul Rubenfeld, who later became Paul Reubens (aka/ Pee Wee Herman). Paul played Nathan Detroit in their high school production of Guys and Dolls and Bruce played Harry the Horse. They also apprenticed together at the Asolo Theatre in Sarasota.
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