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Also Known As: | Bronco Billy, Broncho Billy, Max Aronson, Max Aronson, Gilbert M. Anderson, Broncho Billy Anderson | Died: | January 20, 1971 |
Born: | March 21, 1882 | Cause of Death: | |
Birth Place: | Little Rock, Arkansas, USA | Profession: | actor, screenwriter, director, producer, model, traveling salesman |
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A film pioneer and one of the first recognizable film stars. Anderson appeared in Edwin S. Porter's ground-breaking 1903 thirteen-minute short, "The Great Train Robbery." He later co-founded Essanay, where he starred in, wrote and directed over 375 Westerns in the enormously popular "Broncho Billy" series. After selling his interest in the company and taking an unsuccessful stab at producing for and investing in the legitimate theater, Anderson attempted a comeback only to find he had been supplanted in popularity by new cowboy actor William S. Hart.
A film pioneer and one of the first recognizable film stars. Anderson appeared in Edwin S. Porter's ground-breaking 1903 thirteen-minute short, "The Great Train Robbery." He later co-founded Essanay, where he starred in, wrote and directed over 375 Westerns in the enormously popular "Broncho Billy" series. After selling his interest in the company and taking an unsuccessful stab at producing for and investing in the legitimate theater, Anderson attempted a comeback only to find he had been supplanted in popularity by new cowboy actor William S. Hart.
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Although the name of his popular Western hero was at first spelled 'Broncho' Billy, it was later changed to 'Bronco'.
Anderson called movies, "the maximum amount of entertainment for the minimum amount of price."
Anderson did not know how to ride a horse or shoot a pistol until after his film debut.
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