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Robert Fuller

Robert Fuller
Robert Fuller
Born: Jul 29, 1934 in Troy, New York
Occupation: Actor
Active: '50s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Western
Career Highlights: Return of the Magnificent Seven, Disaster on the Coastliner, Mustang Country
First Major Screen Credit: The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
5 Videos for Robert Fuller
Maverick (1994) All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) Return of the Magnificent Seven (1966)
Repossessed (1990) Bonanza: The Next Generation (1988)
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Biography:

Robert Fuller spent his first decade in show business trying his best to avoid performing. After his film debut in 1952's Above and Beyond, Fuller studied acting with Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse but never exhibited any real dedication. He tried to become a dancer but gave that up as well, determining that dancing was sissified.

Fuller rose to nominal stardom fairly rapidly in the role of Jess Harper on the popular TV western Laramie (1959-63). Once he found his niche in cowboy attire, he stuck at it in another series, Wagon Train, turning down virtually all offers for contemporary roles. When westerns began dying out on television in the late 1960s, Fuller worked as a voiceover actor in commercials, earning some $65,000 per year (a tidy sum in 1969).

On the strength of his performance in the Burt Topper-directed motorcycle flick The Hard Ride, Fuller was cast by producer Jack Webb as chief paramedic Kelly Brackett on the weekly TVer Emergency, which ran from 1972 through 1977. In 1994, Robert Fuller was one of several former TV western stars who showed up in cameo roles in the Mel Gibson movie vehicle Maverick.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.