Bruce McRae (January 15, 1867 – May 7, 1927) was an American stage and early silent film actor.
He was elected to The Lambs in 1905. He served as Boy of The Lambs for one term, 1913-1914.
He was the first actor to play Dr. Watson to Lamb William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes (1899), followed by two seasons as principal support to Julia Marlowe, playing Captain Trumbull in Barbara Frietchie and originating Charles Brandon in When Knighthood was in Flower.
For several years, 1903-1908 he worked as leading man to the young Ethel Barrymore, appearing with her in Carrots, A Country Mouse by Arthur Law, Cousin Kate by Hubert Henry Davies, Sunday by Thomas Raceward, A Doll’s House, Alice Sit-by-the-Fire by J. M. Barrie, Captain Jinks by Clyde Fitch, The Silver Box by John Galsworthy and His Excellency the Governor by Robert Marshall. During this time he also participated in a number of special productions, such as the Miller-Anglin revival of Camille, the matinée of Paul Bertons’s Yvette, The Embarrassment of Riches by Louis K. Anspacher at Wallack’s and as leading man of the Bellows Stock Company at Elitch’s Gardens, Denver, for the sumner of 1906.