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name: "Bruce McCandless II"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bruce-mccandless-ii"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 June 1937"
died: "21 December 2017"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:34:46.356380+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Bruce McCandless II

Actor. Born 8 June 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.. Died 21 December 2017.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 June 1937, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- **Died:** 21 December 2017
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2774149

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Apollo 11*](https://film.one/film/apollo-11.md) (85)

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## Biography

Bruce McCandless II was an American NASA astronaut, naval officer and aviator. Selected as an astronaut in 1966, he served as capsule communicator (CAPCOM) for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, including during the first lunar EVA.

He flew on two Space Shuttle missions: STS-41-B in 1984, during which he performed the first untethered spacewalk, and STS-31 in 1990. McCandless appeared in archive footage as himself in the 2019 documentary *Apollo 11*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Apollo 11* (2019), Fi1m 85, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/apollo-11.md)

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