- Was part of a group of actors that John Wayne regularly used in his films, and was variously known as both "The John Wayne Stock Company," and "The John Ford Stock Company".
- Finished his career in the films of his friend and drinking companion John Wayne, of which he appeared in a total of 11 films where John Wayne received top billing. Cabot died the year following the release of his last film with Wayne.
- Most remembered as Fay Wray's savior from the hairy clutches of King Kong (1933).
- He fell out with Errol Flynn while filming the uncompleted "Story of William Tell," in 1953 (it was later re-edited and repackaged as a short, The Story of William Tell (1953)), but later spoke favorably of Flynn in interviews, especially so after Flynn's death in 1959, at age 50 from a massive heart attack, brought on by Flynn's severe alcoholism.
- Dolores Del Río introduced him to David O. Selznick while he was manager of the Embassy Roof Club.
- Tested for the role of the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach (1939).
- Interred at Carlsbad Cemetery, Carlsbad, New Mexico, Division A, Block 48, Space 5.
- Held several jobs including being a sailor, insurance salesman, prizefighter, surveyor and doing a stint in a knacker's yard before winding up in Hollywood in 1931.
- A source (Book "Star Stats: Who's Whose in Hollywood" by Kenneth S. Marx. Price, Stern, Sloan Publishers, Inc., Los Angeles, 1979, ISBN 0-8431-0498-8) says that he was first married to Grace Mary Mather Smith, an actress, and they had a daughter born in 1929, Jennifer De Bujac. They were divorced some time in or before 1933. It is possible that Grace Mary Mather Smith is Grace Smith, an actress who did a few films in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
- Enrolled at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, but dropped out without graduating.
- He lived in Europe for a long time in the 1950s.
- He is an inductee of the Mexico Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2012.
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