Western Rabbit Hole #1 -Actor Robert Fuller
Today, July 29, is actor Robert Fuller’s 90th birthday.
It seems appropriate to write my first Western Rabbit Hole review in his honor. Well, and after much research I’ve come to the conclusion that the cowboy characters he’s portrayed on TV and in movies absolutely embody my idea of male perfection.
As I may have mentioned in my story, A Love Letter to Old TV Cowboys, I’ve always been attracted to dark-haired men with deep voices and sexy hands. A turned up cuff revealing a chiseled forearm makes me swoon — but never mind all that. Good looks and self assurance will take a man to Hollywood, but it requires actual talent to sustain a career for decades.
According to the IMDb website, he’s acquired 95 acting credits between his appearance as an extra in Come Back, Little Sheba in 1952 and his retirement from acting in 2001.
While I haven’t met the man, I’d say there’s also something special about his personality because his Facebook Fandom boasts close to 6,000 members, and that’s just one of the pages or groups devoted to him or to the popular TV shows he’s starred in.
Many of those fans travel to film and nostalgia festivals to meet him, often more than once, and evidence suggests that he’s as genuinely happy to see and interact with his fans as they are to see him.
