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July 17, 2003. The archetype of the brave cowboy who acts alone to fight evil, defend virtue and establish order in a chaotic world is deeply impressed on the American psyche. Few Americans,...
Sep 16, 2021 · How an Arkansan became a silent movie star. Gilbert M. Anderson's Broncho Billy, was a hard shootin’, hard fightin’, cowboy with a heart of gold. Moreover, Broncho Billy had a personality that audiences could admire.
Sep 28, 2023 · “Broncho Billy” Anderson was the stage name of Gilbert Maxwell Aronson, America’s first cowboy movie star. Anderson pioneered the genre that eventually produced stars such as John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Roy Rogers, Buck Jones, and Tom Mix.
Apr 24, 2015 · Max Aronson couldn’t ride a horse before he became the first real Westerns star. He got a start in “The Great Train Robbery,” and by 1904, he’d taken on the screen and real life persona of Broncho Billy Anderson. Between 1907 and 1915, he cranked out an estimated 375 oaters, most 10-15 minutes long.
Oct 3, 2017 · Broncho Billy quit making westerns in 1915 spent more time writing. In the early 1920s he planned to make a comeback but by then a new, more dashing breed of silver screen cowboys had become popular. The next star of the silver screen was a former Shakespearian actor named William S. Hart. Born in 1864, he was 49 when he made his first film in ...
Sep 9, 2014 · Within a few years, he became the first Westerns movie star, often playing his trademark role of Broncho Billy Anderson. Aronson, a cotton broker in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, got the acting bug around 1898.
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Mar 17, 2003 · The 11,000,000 who daily watch Broncho Billy in his stirring cowboy feats are really looking at Gilbert M. Anderson, who created the character and who first gave the picturesque life of the vanishing West a place in kinetoscope drama.
