BRUCE BOXLEITNER

'Bruce Boxleitner' (born May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American actor.
He is best known for his leading roles in the television series ''How the West Was Won'', ''Scarecrow and Mrs. King'' and ''Babylon 5'' (where he played the character Captain John Sheridan, commander of the Babylon 5 station), and his starring roles in the films ''The Gambler'' (alongside Kenny Rogers) and ''Tron'' (in which he played the title role). He has made appearances in many other TV shows, such as ''Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again'' and ''She Spies''. He also reprises his ''Tron'' roles in the video game sequel ''Tron 2.0'' and the Disney/Square Enix crossover video game ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
Boxleitner wrote two science fiction novels with a Western setting: ''Frontier Earth'' (1999) and ''Searcher'' (2001).
On January 1 1995, Boxleitner married on-and-off girlfriend, actress Melissa Gilbert, with whom he has a son, Michael and a stepson, Dakota Brinkman, son of actor Bo Brinkman. He has two more sons, Sam and Lee. from his previous marriage to former actress Kathryn Holcomb (now married to British actor Ian Ogilvy). His wife, Melissa Gilbert, also plays his on-screen wife Anna Sheridan, in the 1990s television show ''Babylon 5''.
In 2003, Boxleitner was appointed to the Board of Governors of the National Space Society, a nonprofit, educational space advocacy organization founded by Dr. Wernher von Braun.
In (2007) he began filming ''.

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