Main Street, Dodge City, was built inside the soundstage! There’s the Long Branch! I was pinching myself.” He had reason to: CBS casting director Paula Palifoni then cast him in the final episode of Gunsmoke. At lunch I asked somebody where Gunsmoke shot, and I went in to peek. “My first job was four lines on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. It was perhaps prophetic that while his first paying work was on a sitcom, it was shot at the lot that had once been Republic Studios.
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I came out here with a suitcase, twenty-two hundred bucks in cash and a pocket full of friends’ phone numbers, and I slept on couches and living room floors.” His first Broadway play, “lasted a little more than a week.” He reluctantly agreed to a tour of that play, “with the stipulation that I have a one-way ticket to Los Angeles. I wanted to do something, and I walked in on an audition for the play, Agatha Christie’s 10 Little Indians.” He was hooked.Īfter graduating, he joined a repertory company in Chicago.
“In high school, I wasn’t the greatest student. King, and has a huge following for his sci-fi career, with the Tron films and the Babylon 5 series, Boxleitner keeps coming back to Westerns.īorn in Elgin, Illinois, Bruce spent summers at his grandparents’ farm, where he played cowboy. I probably would never have gotten to do anything, had he not made that one decision.” Although he achieved stardom in the romantic spy series The Scarecrow and Mrs.
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Publicity photo taken in 2011 during production of 2012 TV movie “Smokewood.”Ĭontemplating his career, Boxleitner says, “I attribute anything I did to Mr. In 2011, Boxleitner was still making Westerns, starring in the made-for-television movie Smokewood. I want that third guy, Bruce Boxleitner.’ Bruce turned out to be a great choice for it he was just right.”īruce Boxleitner’s career acting in Westerns began when he was cast in an episode of CBS’s Gunsmoke in 1975. “I knew that it was live or die at that moment, so I just said, ‘Well, I’m sorry, but I disagree with you. Hands down, there was just one guy that right for it.” When the lights went up, ABC President Michael Eisner said he liked the second one. As he told the Television Academy Archives, “We watched four guys in scenes from other shows. In 1976, Gunsmoke’s James Arness was about to take on the lead role in the series How the West Was Won.
James Arness made all the difference in his storied film and television career.
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