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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Bruce William Boxleitner is an American actor and science fiction and suspense writer. He is known for his leading roles in the television series How the West Was Won, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and Babylon 5 .
He is also known for his dual role as the characters Alan Bradley and Tron in the 1982 Walt Disney Pictures film Tron, a role which he reprised in the 2003 video game Tron 2.0, the 2006 Square-Enix/Disney crossover game Kingdom Hearts II, the 2010 film sequel, Tron: Legacy and the animated series Tron: Uprising. He co-starred in most of the Gambler films with Kenny Rogers, where his character provided comic relief.
I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.
As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.
Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.
Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.
They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
It's very frustrating not being on the air.
Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.
That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.
The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.
I'm living what I always wanted to do.
So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.
I can't believe we're in the middle of the fifth season, and if this is all there is, my God, it went fast.
In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.
I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.
I started acting professionally at age 19.
I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.
I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results.
Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
I just always had a love for television and movies.
Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.
I don't call myself a writer.
A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.
In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and Ive managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.
My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.
Thats the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.