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Gilbert M. Anderson
🎂 Mar 20, 1880 — 🕯️ Jan 20, 1971 (90 years)
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Gilbert M. Anderson, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, is an director. Made their debut in 1903 with The Messenger Boy's Mistake. Best known for The Great Train Robbery, playing Bandit / Shot Passenger / Tenderfoot Dancer (uncredited). Also starred in The Champion. Their filmography spans 341 movies over 123 years, across genres including crime, action.
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Gilbert M. Anderson
1880-03-20 · 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.