 He played the wizard Shazam in the 1941 Republic serial "Adventures of Captain Marvel" and also acted in "Charlie Chan in Egypt" in 1935.He played Jokaanan, the Prophet in a silent film version of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" (1923).A clip of De Brulier in "Salomé" was used in "Before Stonewall", a film documenting the gay rights movement.