Bruce Boxleitner Biography

Fast Facts

• Starred as Horace Elgin in a 1972 production of Status Quo Vadis that ran in Chicago and D
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• ; he transferred with the show to Broadway in 1973, where it only played a single performance before it closed
• Appeared on the final episode of Gunsmoke, which aired March 31, 1975
• Modeled for Estée Lauder's Lauder for Men campaign from 1986 to '89
• Won the 1996 Universe Reader's Choice Award for Best Actor in a TV Series for Babylon 5
• Author of several science fiction novels, including Frontier Earth (1999) and Searcher (2001)
• Appointed to the Board of Governors of the National Space Society in 2003
• Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 2012
• Reprised his title role from Tron (1982) in voice-over work for the video games Tron 2
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