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| Birth name | Bruce William Boxleitner |
| Born | May 12 1950 Elgin, Illinois, USA |
| Spouse(s) | Kathryn Holcomb (May 1977 - 1987) Melissa Gilbert (January 1, 1995 - present) |
| Official site | GilbertBoxleitner.com |
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, Babylon 5 (where he played the character Captain John Sheridan, commander of the Babylon 5 station), 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 actress Melissa Gilbert by whom he has a son, Michael and a stepson, Dakota Brinkman, son of actor Bo Brinkman. He has two older sons, Sam and Lee by his previous marriage to former actress Kathryn Holcomb who is now married to English actor Ian Ogilvy. Melissa Gilbert played 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 Babylon 5: The Lost Tales.
