Actor Bruce Boxleitner is best known for his 1983-1897 CBS series The Scarecrow and Mrs. King, but he also appeared in TV shows including How the West Was Won, Bring ‘Em Back Alive and Babylon 5.
He writes below of Kenny Rogers, who died Friday. We did five Gambler TV movies together — pretty much throughout the 1980s.
We had one of those relationships where we didn’t have to see each other a lot but as soon as we were back together again you knew it was going to be fun.
He loved the character he played in those movies. He played this professional gambler — it was based on his hit song "The Gambler" — and I played this big lug of a farm kid who falls in with him.
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