Broncho Billy Anderson

Born: March 21, 1880, Little Rock, Arkansas
Died: January 20, 1971 (aged 90), Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California

Broncho Billy Anderson (Max Aronson) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who is best known as the first star of the Western film genre.

1. What was his first Western?

• The Great Train Robbery
• The Little Train Robbery
• A Daring Daylight Burglary

2. Using the stage name Gilbert M. Anderson, he began to write, direct, and act in his own Westerns. He became the first cowboy star of movies through a large collection of silent shorts in which he was known as "Broncho Billy".

• Fact or Myth?

3. In 1907, Anderson and George Kirke Spoor founded one of the predominant early movie studios. Anderson acted in over 300 short films for the studio. What was the studio?

• Essanay Studios
• Fox
• MGM

4. Writing, acting and, directing most of these movies, Anderson also found time to direct a series of “Alkali Ike” comedy Westerns. Who was “Alkali Ike”?

• Augustus Carney
• Andy Clude
• Al “Fuzzy” St. John

5. He was a producer with a series of shorts with Stan Laurel, including his first work with Oliver Hardy. What was their first together?

• A Lucky Dog
• The Come Back
• Home Again

6. At age 85, Anderson came out of retirement for a cameo role in The Bounty Killer (1965).

• Fact or Myth?

7. What was the first film that Anderson used the character Broncho Billy?

• Broncho Billy's Redemption
• Broncho Billy's Adventure
• The Infant at Snakeville

8. In 1918, Shootin' Mad was Gilbert Anderson’s last Broncho Billy film. Who played Broncho Billy in the 1970 Oscar wining Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects film The Resurrection of Broncho Billy?

• Steve Crumm
• Henry S. Schley
• Johnny Crawford

9. When was he inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum?

• 2002
• 1982
• 1962

10. He died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.

• Fact or Myth?

11. Where is Broncho Billy Anderson buried?

• Cremated, ashes are kept in a vault at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles, California
• Forest Lawn Cemetery (Hollywood Hills) Los Angeles, California
• Woodland Hills Cemetery, Woodland Hills, California

Answers

1. The Great Train Robbery
2. Fact
3. Essanay Studios
4. Augustus Carney
5. A Lucky Dog
6. Fact
7. Broncho Billy's Redemption
8. Johnny Crawford
9. 2002
10. Fact
11.  Cremated, ashes are kept in a vault at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles, California