Brute

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Brute or The Brute may refer to:

People

  • Brute, a pseudonym of English commercial artist Aidan Hughes (born 1956)
  • "Brute", nickname of US Marine Corps Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak (1913–2008)
  • Brute Bernard, ring name of Canadian wrestler Jim Bernard (1921–1984)
  • Simon Bruté (1779–1839), missionary and first bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana
  • Brutus, the cognomen of an Ancient Roman family whose vocative form is "Brute"
  • Bill "The Brute" Sanger, a member of the Cherry Hill Gang, a late nineteenth century New York City street gang
  • The Brute (wrestler), ring name of professional wrestler John Czawlytko in the early 1990s
  • "The Brute", nickname of American jazz tenor saxophonist Ben Webster (1909–1973)
  • Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, a Roman politician and one of Julius Caesar's assassins

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • BRUTE!, a magazine published by English artist Aidan Hughes who also occasionally uses "Brute" as pseudonym
  • Et tu, Brute?, famous statement by Julius Caesar to Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar
  • The Brute: A Joke in One Act (1888), a play by Anton Chekhov
  • The Brute: A Comic Opera in One Act (1967), an comic opera by Lawrence Moss based on the Chekhov play

Fictional or mythological entities

  • Brute (comics), various characters
  • Brute or Brutus of Troy, a legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Æneas, in mediæval British legend the founder and first king of Britain
  • Brutes (Halo), an alien race in the Halo video game franchise

Films

  • The Brute (1914 film), a lost early silent feature film
  • The Brute (1920 film), an American film produced for African-American audiences by director Oscar Micheaux
  • The Brute (1927 film), a lost silent American Western film
  • La Brute (1921), a French film directed by Daniel Bompard
  • El Bruto (1953), a Mexican drama film directed by Luis Buñuel
  • The Brute (1961 film), a Hungarian production directed by Zoltán Fábri
  • The Brute (1977), a British film directed by Gerry O'Hara

Literature

  • "The Brute" (1906), a short story by Joseph Conrad
  • The Brute (1912), a novel by Frederic Arnold Kummer
  • The Brute (1924), a novel by W. Douglas Newton
  • The Brute (1925), a novel by Max Brand, writing as David Manning
  • The Brute (1946), a novel by Paul Rénin
  • The Brute (1951), a novel by Guy des Cars
  • Les Brutes (2006), a novel by Philippe Jaenada
  • Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine (2010), a biography by Robert Coram
  • Brutes (2015), a novel by Anthony Breznican
  • Brutes (2021), a book by Bill Whitten

Music

  • Brute (band), a side project band of guitarist Vic Chesnutt and members of blues-rock band Widespread Panic
  • Brute (album), a 2016 protest album by Kuwait musician Fatima Al Qadiri
  • "Brute" (song), a single from 1995 album, Nihil, by Hamburg-based, German industrial rock/metal group KMFDM

Television

  • "The Brute", Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans episode 17 (1957)

Transportation

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Brute
  • All pages with titles containing Brute
  • Brute force (disambiguation)
  • Bruting
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