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	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Broncho Billy Anderson (March 21, 1880 – January 20, 1971) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who is best known as the first star of the Western film genre.
		He was cremated and his ashes are kept in a vault at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles.
		Anderson was honored posthumously in 1998 with his image on a U.S. postage stamp.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Broncho_Billy_Anderson (631 words)

	The Making of Broncho Billy - Synopsis - Moviefone
		Anderson had left Chicago in 1908 and, filming along the way, settled in picturesque Niles where he was to produce and star in a lengthy series of 1- and 2-reel Westerns featuring pulp-writer Peter B. Kyne's good-bad man "Bronco Billy." We witness the origins of "Bronco" in this film.
		Anderson is ridiculed by the locals when he enters a saloon.
		Having thus taught himself the way of the West, "Bronco Billy" returns to the saloon and shoots one of his tormentors in the arm.
	movies.aol.com /movie/the-making-of-broncho-billy/1133988/synopsis (314 words)

	Silver Screen Heroes - Movie Changed Course Of Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		G.M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson is generally credited with developing the cowboy persona in silent film, particularly with creating the "good badman" type of character.
		Broncho Billy, the outlaw, discovers and injured child and returns it to its parents; the parents introduce him to the Bible, and Broncho Billy is reformed.
		Anderson was born Max Aronson maybe in Pine Bluff, but according to biographer David Kiehn probably in Little Rock.
	www.jcs-group.com /oldwest/cinema/changed.html (1344 words)

	bronco
		Bronco Layne is appointed marshal of a Texas town and tries to clear the town of the killers who control it.
		Bronco Layne, an ex-Confederate captain, returns to his home town and learns that the residents blame him for the death of his sweetheart's brother while Layne and the brother were held as Union prisoners.
		Bronco is hired by a beautiful girl to guide her to a ghost town in the mountains.
	home.att.net /~dadmug/bronco.html (2906 words)

	Broncho Billy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Broncho Billy is labelled with a "b." "a" is Freeman Owens, a Pine Bluff native who developed a method of recording sound directly onto photographic film.
		Anderson was also sued several times by various people and in one case, also in 1925, Anderson claimed he was broke and couldn't pay after he lost in court, another reasonto keep a low profile."
		Anderson made Broncho Billy's Redemption in 1910 before Kyne wrote any western stories, and the story Anderson claimed he stole it from, Broncho Billy and the Baby, was never written by Kyne, but was produced by Anderson in Niles in 1915.
	www.aristotle.net /~russjohn/art/broncho.html (1687 words)

	Niles Tower
		In October of that year, Gilbert M. Anderson and George K. Spoor unceremoniuosly detrained without forewarning at SP's Niles depot - along with the other 50 members of their Essanay Film Manufacturing Company - and the California film industry was born.
		Anderson both starred and played bit parts in the movie, so not only did he conceive of the narrative film, he also was the first movie star.
		As things turned out, this was the end of Bronco Billy, but he again created a film tradition: that of the has-been.
	wx4.org /to/foam/sp/niles/tower.html (1588 words)

	Gilbert Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In numerous one reel dramas from 1910 to 1916, Gilbert Anderson as Broncho Billy became the first genuine cowboy star as he set the early standards for Western cowboys: shy with the ladies, good with a gun, fearless in the face of evil, and daring on a horse.
		Anderson and Spoor had a serious falling out over the extravagant deal that Gilbert Anderson gave to Chaplin without consulting him, and when he left in 1916, Anderson sold his interest in the studio and retired.
		When Gilbert Anderson showed up at the Oscars in 1958 to accept a special Academy award for his “contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment”, everybody was surprised to discover he was still alive.
	www.cowboy-heros.com /gilbert-anderson.html (1425 words)

	Broncho Billy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Broncho Billy mural is on the east side of Main between 2nd and 3rd Streets.
		Anderson was also sued several times by various people and in one case, also in 1925, Anderson claimed he was broke and couldn't pay after he lost in court, another reasonto keep a low profile."
		Anderson made Broncho Billy's Redemption in 1910 before Kyne wrote any western stories, and the story Anderson claimed he stole it from, Broncho Billy and the Baby, was never written by Kyne, but was produced by Anderson in Niles in 1915.
	users.aristotle.net /~russjohn/art/broncho.html (1687 words)

	Leona Anderson
		Anderson made bad singing a legitimate, if entirely unnecessary, form of entertainment.
		Leona studied singing, unbelievable though it may seem, and the liner notes of Music to Suffer By claim she had landed a spot in a George M. Cohan show by the time she was 15.
		One assumes she worked in radio and vaudeville after that, for by the early 1950s, she had become known for her awful singing, which was apparently an act she created to mock the pompous style of serious opera singers.
	www.spaceagepop.com /andersonl.htm (675 words)

	Showbiz Cowboys
		Bronco Billy was the first silent screen cowboy star and appeared in "The Great Train Robbery".
		He then founded a film company along with a partner and they were one of the first to set up shop in California.
		From 1910-1915, he starred as "Bronco Billy" in a series of westerns, making over 400 of these short films.
	www.thewildwest.org /interface/index.php?action=381 (121 words)

	Metroactive Features \| Charlie Chaplin in Niles
		As Bronco Billy, Anderson starred in nearly 157 films, almost all shot in Niles.
		This year it's on June 6, with a dress-up contest, town tour and screenings of Chaplin and Bronco Billy films.
		There is a new bronze plaque that tells a brief history of the studio, and the actors like Chaplin, Anderson and Ben Turpin who worked in Niles.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.04.98/slices-9822.html (794 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - The Great Train Robbery
		This picture, directed and scripted by Edwin S. Porter, introduced the first cinematic cowboy star, Bronco Billy Anderson.
		Anderson plays several roles in this action-packed depiction of outlaws ambushing a steam train.
		A breakthrough achievement in motion picture history, remarkable for being the first film narrative and the first of a genre (the first film Western), as well as its technical advancements, including its use of close-ups and Porter's camera movements (what we now refer to as "panning").
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=1355-1-PST (78 words)

	Bronco Billy
		Clint Eastwood`s BRONCO BILLY is a funny and poignant depiction of one man`s quixotic devotion to the code of the Old West and traditional American values.
		Billy (Eastwood) leads his ragtag crew of performers as they travel the countryside, putting on their bare bones Wild West show for sparse crowds.
		Billy`s not an easy man to work for, and he and his bunch barely make a living, but they are pursuing their dreams.
	www.sitnema.com /bronco_billy.html (671 words)

	Hollywood Came to Santa Cruz
		In April 1910, "Bronco Billy" Anderson came to town with his studio in a boxcar.
		Anderson felt the East Coast depiction of pasty-faced stage cowboys against painted outdoor backdrops cheated the film medium, which was capable of filming real cowboys against authentic western scenery.
		Anderson, a ranch-hand from Colorado, formed Essanay Studios in Chicago and Los Angeles.
	www.santacruzpl.org /history/films/hollywd.shtml (807 words)

	Ryan's Rhetoric of Indians Page
		As the 19-teens rolled around, a new prototypical cowboy hero emerged in the form of Gilbert M, aka 'Bronco Billy' Anderson.
		In the 1914 film Bronco Billy and the Greaser, the protagonist faces "the combined villainy of Mexican and Native American cultures bent on the unprovoked eradication of white settlers."
		Like Anderson, the films of D.W. Griffith were more than adamant in their vilification of Indians.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~schacht/rhe309k/RyanParker/badindian.htm (464 words)

	Happy Trails
		Morrison got the director's attention through his expert horsemanship, daring maneuvers, as well as his control over the animals, and was used as a double for the lead actor in some of the more dangerous scenes.
		During his mid-teens Pete, as he came to be nicknamed, worked in the mining industry, with his older brothers driving in sections of the Argo Tunnel where Pete was a motorman, hoist operator, topside helper, teamster hauler, assisting several of the larger miners in the Idaho Springs area.
		In the summer of 1910 Pete Morrison was an engine fireman for the Colorado Southern Railroad when he too was lured away by the luster of the Bronco Billy movies.
	www.goldenlandmarks.com /collections/morrison (835 words)

	Lloyd Bacon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lloyd Bacon (December 4, 1889 in San Jose, California - November 15, 1955 in Burbank, California) was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director.
		He started in films with Charlie Chaplin and Bronco Billy Anderson and appeared in more than 40 total.
		As an actor he is best known for supporting Chaplin in such films as 1915's The Tramp, The Champion and 1917's Easy Street.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lloyd_Bacon (175 words)

	Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Broncho Billy and the Settler's Daughter (1914) (unconfirmed)
		Broncho Billy and the Settler's Daughter (1914) (producer)
		Broncho Billy and the Squatter's Daughter (1913) (producer)
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001908 (619 words)

	Untitled Document
		Then in 1922 Bronco Billy Anderson hired him and together they made five comedies that were parodies of popular films.
		the audiences loved teh movie and Stan was a "hot property" and Bronco Billy had a new caree as a producer.
		His first film was Outwitting Dad that came out in 1914 and Norvell became billied as Oliver Hardy in honor of his father.
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	Famous Arkansas
		She also appeared in several movies, including "Bright Victory," "Bend in the River" and "The Creature from the Black Lagoon," "The Dalton Gang," "Red Hot and Blue." Member of the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame.
		Gilbert Maxwell "Bronco Billy" Anderson (1880 - 1971) - Born in Little Rock, Max Aronson grew up in Pine Bluff before moving to New York to appear in the first western movie production, "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903.
		Later, Anderson directed and produced movies in studios in Chicago and California.
	www.arkansaskids.com /famous/arts-entertainment.asp (5256 words)

	MTV Movies \| Gilbert M. Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Gilbert Anderson is best remembered as the first western movie hero, "Bronco Billy" (originally spelled Broncho Billy).
		He directed and starred in almost 400 Bronco Billy films over a seven year period, but Anderson was also a key figure in the development of American films as entertainment.
		Before begining his illustrious career in the cinema, Anderson worked as a traveling salesman.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/70003/personmain.jhtml (103 words)

	Green Mill Cocktail Lounge
		By 1910, new owners had converted the roadhouse into the Green Mill Gardens, complete with lantern-lit outdoor dancing and drinking areas, and boasting such headliners as Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor and Sophie Tucker.
		Actors Wallace Beery and Bronco Billy Anderson also visited the Gardens, hitching their horses to the outdoor post and settling down for a drink after a days work filming westerns at nearby Spoor and Anderson Studios.
		As the twenties roared, The Green Mill became mobster territory when Al Capone's henchman, "Machinegun" Jack McGurn, gained a 25% ownership of the club.
	www.greenmilljazz.com /history.html (327 words)

	Historic Niles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Now famous for the silent films of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company studios, between 1912 and 1916 Niles provided a backdrop for the early films of stars like Charlie Chaplin and "Bronco Billy" Anderson.
		The town's fame as an early railroad terminal is perhaps less known, but it was just a few miles east of Niles, in September of 1869, that the transcontinental railroad was actually completed, joining the East and West coasts by rail for the first time.
		Note that there is no 70' open shed extension on freight depot whichshows in later photos.
	centervilledepot.railfan.net /histroicniles.html (574 words)

	santa cruz county - film commission - production credits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Santa Cruz County's towering redwoods served as the backdrop for many of Hollywood's earliest westerns.
		Filmmaking in Santa Cruz County began in 1910, when "Bronco Billy" Anderson arrived with his studio in a boxcar.
		He came in search of redwood forests and filmed as many as 31 westerns in one year.
	www.santacruzca.org /filmsite/credits.shtml (178 words)

	Gilbert M Anderson Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		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.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/186163 (362 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		Selig may have been the first U.S. company to shoot a two-reel film, Damon and Pythias (1908), and later made the first true serial, The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913-1914).
		The company was also well known for animal pictures, having at hand the resources of the Selig Jungle Zoo; the Selig Westerns gave G. "Bronco Billy" Anderson and Tom Mix their starts.
		The Selig Polyscope Company stopped making films in 1918, but Colonel Selig continued producing into the 1930s; The Drag-Net (1936) and Convicts at Large (1938) were the last films credited to him.
	www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/selig_162.html (751 words)

	Arkansas history - Arkansas heritage
		Fascinating Facts - Here are intriguing facts about The Natural State's geography, natural resources, industry, agriculture, tourism, climate, population, early Arkansas history, and how Arkansas got its name.
		Famous Arkansans - From Gilbert Maxwell "Bronco Billy" Anderson to Sam Walton, listed are several well-known people with their roots in Arkansas.
		Arkansas History Commission - Link to the Arkansas History Commission, whose mission is to keep and care for the official archives of this state, collect material bearing on the history of Arkansas from the earliest times, copy and edit official records and other historical material, and encourage historical work and research.
	www.arkansas.com /things-to-do/history-heritage (675 words)

	G.M. Anderson as Bronco Billy Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Three early silents: "The Making of Bronco Billy" (1914), "Bronco Billy's Sentence" (1916) and "Naked Hands" (1918).
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		Certain G.M. Anderson as Bronco Billy Anderson article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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	Handbook of Texas Online:
		In fact, according to other sources, the Selig Company went to Oklahoma and initially hired Mix to scout locations and supply cowboy extras.
		He eventually moved before the cameras as a replacement for Selig's first star, Bronco Billy Anderson, who had left to start his own production company.
		Mix's first film for Selig was The Range Rider (1910); during his tenure with the company, from 1910 to 1918, he also appeared in a jungle serial with Kathlyn Williams.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/MM/fmi70.html (975 words)

	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Charlie Chaplin classic collection
		Cast includes: Billy Armstrong, Margie Reiger, Edna Purviance, Bud Jamison, Carl Stockdale, and Billy Armstrong, Margie Reiger, Edna Purviance, Bud Jamison, and Carl Stockdale.
		Of course, he becomes the boxer and the tale goes on hilariously from there.
		Cast includes: Bud Jamison, Lloyd Bacon, Edna Purviance, Leo White, Carl Stockdale, Billy Armstrong, paddy McGuire, Ben Turin, and 'Bronco' Billy Anderson.
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=6178 (279 words)

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