 In 1915 he acted in the film "Ghosts" based on a play by Henrik Ibsen.Nigel De Brulier portrayed Cardinal Richelieu in the following four films, "The Three Musketeers" (1921), "The Iron Mask" (1929), "The Three Musketeers" (1935) and "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1939).De Brulier appeared with Douglas Fairbanks in "The Gaucho" (1927) and was also one of the few actors of the silent era who reached reasonable success in talkies, although his roles in them were quite minor.