[3] In the 1900 U.S. census he was recorded as Francis G. Packer, butler, in a private household in Denver, Colorado.

[5] He appeared with Douglas Fairbanks in The Gaucho (1927)[6] 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.

He played the wizard Shazam in the 1941 Republic serial Adventures of Captain Marvel and also acted in Charlie Chan in Egypt in 1935.

[7] 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.