RobertBruce
- Actor's agent
- Stunts
Marriage brought Scottish-born Robert Bruce down under, where he wrestled on hit show On the Mat, and acted and did stunts for movies. The Robert Bruce Ugly Agency was born in 1978, representing both actors and stuntpeople. The agency's stable of actors would expand to include Cliff Curtis, Joel Tobeck and Temuera Morrison. Bruce died on 2 March 2009, after a short illness.
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Biography
The life of stuntman turned agent Robert Bruce sounds like the back-story from a knockabout adventure movie. Described by Listener writer Finlay MacDonald as "an ex-pupil of the School of Hard Knocks", Bruce began learning about negotiation as a teenager, while working as a bouncer. After a spell as a wrestler, he reinvented himself as a talent agent, a job where negotiation skills can make or break the deal.
“Whenever anyone needed some ugly people or some stunt work or fight sequences they called the ugly agency.”
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