At left: Comparisons to Raiders have been tagged on the new CBS adventure
series, Bring 'Em Back Alive, set in the Pacific in the late 30s. And this
hero is played by brown-eyed, brown-haired, 6'2', 175-pound Bruce Boxieltner.
He was Tron, the lone free warrior in an electronic fantasy world. Now
he's Frank Buck, legendary big-game hunter, fighting Nazis, agents and
smugglers in Singapore and Malaya.
Born in 1951, Boxleitner grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and began his acting career in the theatre there. He moved to Los Angeles in 1972, and a five-line part on The Mary Tyler Moore Show earned him a SAG card. Boxleitner went on to play Jim Arness' nephew in How the West Was Won, and Luke in the series The Macahans. He's been in such TV movies as East of Eden, The Gambler (with Kenny Rogers), Kiss Me, Kill Me, The Last Convertible, Fly Away Home, and the romantic mini-series Bare Essence. He also appeared in the movie The Baltimore Bullet, with James Coburn and Omar Sharif.
Insiders in the biz have placed their bets that the series is sure to be a smash hit this season. Boxleitner is delighted with his role. 'I've waited a long time for the decade of the short Italian anti-hero to end and the romantic leading man to return,' he told the Daily News. 'I've always loved the derring-do, swashbuckling roles and hoped I'd be playing them some day. I even get to swing on a rope in the jungle. I love it:'
Thanks, Jim!
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