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March 20, 1880
January 20, 1971
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Born in 1880, ‘Broncho Billy’ Anderson is considered the first western film star. He played three film roles in “The Great Train Robbery” and then began to write, direct and act in his own films. After co-founding the Essanay Studios in 1907 with George Kirk Spoor, Anderson appeared in some 300 short films. But it was his 148 western shorts playing cowboy Bronco Billy that made him a star. He retired for the first time in 1916 but made a few comebacks, including producing movies into the 1950s for his company, Progressive Pictures. He received an honorary Oscar in 1958 as a “motion picture pioneer.” Anderson came out of retirement one more time for a cameo in 1965’s “The Bounty Hunter.” He died at age of 90 1971.

Self (archive footage)
2017

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2000

The Man in the Cantina
1965

Self (archive footage)
1961

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1958

Business Man (uncredited)
1941

Self - from 'The Great Train Robbery' (archive footage)
1939

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1933

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1931
Bill Hinchley
1922

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as Bart Darrow
as Jim Andrews - Foreman of the Ranch

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as Walter Johnson
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as Bob Farco
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as Bill Simpson

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as Steve

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as Broncho Bill
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as Jim Logan
as Jim Reed - an Outlaw
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as Spike Shannon

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as Jack Manley
as Jack Harvey
as Jack Mason
as Walker - the Backwoodsman

as Gerald Todds
as Gilbert Randall
as Gray Wolf
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as George Maxwell
as Harvey Barton
as Frank Mills
as Revered Warren Addington
as Bad Man Dan Quigley

as The Cowboy
as Sheriff Will Phelps
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as Sherwin Wells
as Frank Carpenter

as Dan Warrington
as Harry Perkins
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as Jesse Farson
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