Bruce Dern, John Wayne, and The Cowboys

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 653.1: Bruce Dern biographers Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about Dern’s famous appearance in The Cowboys (in which he played the man who kills Wayne’s character halfway through the picture) and the actor had to navigate a schedule conflict over production of another movie, Silent Running, so that he could film that pivotal scene. Other topics this segment include Beyond Where the Buses Run, the anthology of short story anthologies to which Bob and Chris both contributed; how Bob came to collaborate with Dave Thomas on SCTV: Behind the Scenes; and how actors have a furnace of emotions that they can bring to their faces whenever they need it. Jack Nicholson: The Early Years and Bruce Dern: Things I’ve Said, But Probably Shouldn’t Have: An Unrepentant Memoir are available from University Press of Kentucky.

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