Bunny Breckinridge

American actor (1903–1996)

John Cabell "Bunny" Breckinridge (August 6, 1903 – November 5, 1996) was an American movie and television actor and drag queen. He was best known for his role as The Ruler in Ed Wood's movie Plan 9 from Outer Space. That was the only movie role in his career.

Breckinridge in c. 1950

He was born in Paris, France to an American family. Breckinridge was gay and talked about having a sex change operation but never had it.[1] He died on November 5, 1996 in San Francisco, California from natural causes, aged 93. In the 1994 movie Ed Wood he was played by Bill Murray.

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  1. Meyerowitz, Joanne Jay (2002), How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States, Harvard University Press, p. 84, ISBN 0-674-01379-4

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