Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
Caption: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
Director, Actor, Producer
Born: March 21, 1880
Star sign: Aries
Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Known for: Broncho Billy's Sentence (1915), Broncho Billy and the Greaser (1914), The Son-of-a-Gun (1919), Alkali Ike's Auto (1911)
Source: IMDB
American actor-director-writer-producer Gilbert M. Anderson, father of the movie cowboy and the first Western star, was born Maxwell Henry Aronson in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. His parents, Esther (Ash) and Henry Aronson, were from New York. His father was from a German Jewish family, and his mother was the daughter of Russian Jewish parents. He had ...