Bruce Boxleitner

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Bruce Boxleitner as John Sheridan in Babylon 5

Bruce Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American actor.

He is best known for his leading roles in the television series How the West Was Won, Scarecrow and Mrs. King and Babylon 5 (where he played the character Captain John Sheridan, commander of the Babylon 5 station), and his starring roles in the films The Gambler (along side Kenny Rogers) and Tron. He has made appearances in many other TV shows, such as Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again and She Spies. He also reprises his Tron roles in the video game sequel Tron 2.0 and the Disney/Square Enix crossover video game Kingdom Hearts II.

Boxleitner wrote two science fiction novels with a Western setting: Frontier Earth (1999) and Searcher (2001).

On January 1, 1995, Boxleitner married on and off again girlfriend and actress Melissa Gilbert, with whom he has a son, Michael and a stepson, Dakota. He has two more sons from his previous marriage to former actress Kathryn Holcomb, Sam and Lee. His wife, Melissa Gilbert, also plays his on-screen wife Anna Sheridan, in the 1990's television show Babylon 5.

In 2003, Boxleitner was named to the Board of Governors of the National Space Society, a nonprofit, educational space advocacy organization founded by Dr. Wernher von Braun.

Currently (2006) filming Babylon 5:The Lost Tales