Biography
Bruce Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950) is an American actor and science fiction writer, best known for his roles in the television series *Scarecrow and Mrs. King* (1983–1987) and the *Tron* film series. He has had a long and varied career in television, film, and literature. Bruce Boxleitner was born in Elgin, Illinois. He developed an interest in acting at an early age and pursued it professionally after studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. After honing his craft ...
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Christmas Under the Northern Lights
2024
as Doug
Erin joins her dad Doug for a Christmas in the family’s former hometown of Aurora on a mission that is part business – selling the family home – and m...

Space Command Redemption
2024
as General Joe Haldeman
When a rogue android commandeers a spaceship, it's up to a renegade captain and his crew to prevent the robot from accomplishing a mysterious mission.

A Gettysburg Christmas
2023
as Ron
When Hope gives up on relationships and Christmas, it takes a Christmas miracle in the form of Charley to help mend her heart, trust again, realize th...

Babylon 5: The Road Home
2023
as John Sheridan (voice)
Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest...

The Warrant: Breaker's Law
2023
as Judge Thaddeus Breaker
A warrant brings Marshal John Breaker and Deputy Bugle Bearclaw, cross-country to deliver a dangerous criminal. But, when they make a stand on behalf ...

MatchMaker Mysteries: The Art of the Kill
2021
as Nick Columba
Angie Dove gets Det. Carter's attention by stumbling on a murder at an art museum. Angie's father Nick is on his own case, trying to solve a series of...

Gourmet Detective: Roux the Day
2020
as Jim Ross
Henry is hired to authenticate and purchase a long lost and very valuable recipe book. Soon Henry and Maggie find themselves in a murder mystery where...

Holiday Date
2019
as Walter
When Brooke’s boyfriend, Ethan, breaks up with her just before the holidays, she agrees to go home with Joel, an actor who will pose as her boyfriend.

MatchMaker Mysteries: A Killer Engagement
2019
as Nick Columba
When a woman is murdered, and her fiancé is the prime suspect, successful matchmaker Angie works to prove her client's innocence, much to the dismay o...

The Christmas Contract
2018
as Tim Guidry
It’s Jolie’s first time going back home to Louisiana since her devastating break-up with Foster Burke. Seeing him is inevitable as their parents run t...

Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried
2017
as Jim Ross
Henry and Maggie attend the birthday party of a local publisher, where his son and stepson reenact a historical 18th century dual. Someone, however, h...

Double Mommy
2016
as Scott
After taking a break for the summer before their senior year, Ryan and Jess rekindle their relationship, and find out that Jess is pregnant with twins...

Wedding Bells
2016
as Charlie Turner
Nick and Molly, commitment-phobic and busy professionals with little in common, are asked to be the best man and maid of honor at the wedding of their...

So You Said Yes
2015
as Nick Blanche
A woman who avoids relationships opens a vintage bridal shop, and goes head-to-head with the snobbish owner of the town’s classical bridal shop—only...

Downstairs
2014
Thanks
An inquisitive night security guard is tormented by evil spirits.

The Thanksgiving House
2013
as Parker Mather
Boston lawyer Mary Ross inherits a house in Plymouth, Mass., from her great-aunt and plans to sell it. But soon has a change of heart, which is compl...

Silver Bells
2013
as Bruce Dalt
An overly win-driven sportscaster goes too far and must perform community service during December as a bell-ringer for the Salvation Army.

Blackout sur Los Angeles
2012
as Nathan Bell
After being charged with hacking into the Pentagon security system, computer-whiz Josh Martin is kidnapped during house arrest and delivered to a shad...

AniMen: The Galactic Battle
2012
as General Moss
Directed by Xu Kerr. Centuries of unchecked industrialization have left Earth unsuitable for supporting human life. Rather than trying to restore the ...

Installing the Cast
2011
as Self
A pat-on-the-back featurette that looks at the work of the actors on TRON: Legacy.

TRON: The Next Day
2011
as Alan Bradley
TRON: The Next Day is a 10-minute short film, released on the Blu-ray edition of TRON: Legacy in April 2011, that fills in the backstory between TRON ...

51
2011
as Col. Martin
Due to political pressure from the American public, the Air Force has decided to allow two well-known reporters limited access to the most secretive b...

Love's Everlasting Courage
2011
as Lloyd
Clark Davis struggles to maintain his land and support his family during a long drought. With a bank loan to repay, his wife, Ellen, takes a job in to...

TRON: Legacy
2010
as Alan Bradley / Tron
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a myste...

Shadows in Paradise
2010
as Cpt. Dyer
During a rescue operation in Iraq, Special Forces member Max Forrester is devastated when Sasha, his squad mate and fiancée goes missing. Two years la...

LEGO® Atlantis: The Movie
2010
as Captain Ace Speedman
A group of underwater explorers go on an epic adventure to discover hidden underwater treasure and the lost keys to the Portal of Atlantis.

Transmorphers: Fall of Man
2009
as Officer Hadley Ryan
In this prequel to Transmorphers -- a sci-fi thriller that borrows heavily from the plot of Transformers -- planet Earth is in peril thanks to a rogue...

Dead Space: Downfall
2008
as Colin Barrow (voice)
On a deep space mining mission to a remote planet, an ancient religious relic - thought to be proof of the existence of God - is unearthed and brought...

Aces 'N' Eights
2008
as D.C. Cracker
Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being...

The Bone Eater
2008
as Sheriff Steve Evans
Ancient Native American legend of the Bone Eater rises up and begins terrorizing the local townspeople

Sharpshooter
2007
as Sheriff Garner
An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.

Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark
2007
as President John Sheridan
This latest installment of Babylon 5 is in two parts: the first, is about an entity that has possessed a worker. It wants to be exorcised but Col. Loc...

The Pixar Story
2007
as Tron (archive footage)
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of it...

07 Spaceys
2007
Canada's only sci-fi and fantasy television awards show. SPACE's annual celebration of genre entertainment. In a sea of boring television award shows,...

Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery
2006
as Clint Lawson
When former TV star Clint Taylor brings his Wild West show into town, murder becomes the featured attraction for bookstore owner Samantha Kinsey. Sama...

Double Cross
2006
as James
Two women jokingly agree to kill each others' husbands. Then one really does and blackmails the other into killing her own.

Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door
2006
as Frank Lucas
Mark Lucas and Theresa Connolly fall in love but their overbearing mothers ruin their wedding plans and possibly their future together.

King of the Lost World
2005
as Lt. Challenger
In this modern retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fantasy action-adventure classic, a commercial airliner crashes deep in the heart of the Amazon. ...

Legion of the Dead
2005
as Sheriff Jones
When the mummified remains of an evil Egyptian queen are brought back to life, she resurrects an army of living dead to help fulfill the prophecy that...

A Killer Upstairs
2005
as Detective Bruning
A woman investigates when her teenage son is arrested for his married lover's murder.

Arthur Hailey's Detective
2005
as Ketledge
Detective Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a Catholic priest turned distinguished investigator for the police, has agreed to hear the confession of a convict...

Special Report: Zombie Invasion
2004
as The President
A selection of news reports chronicling the outbreak of the zombie epidemic experienced in Dawn of the Dead (2004).

Saving Emily
2004
as Gregory
After learning that their young daughter, Emily, is suffering from leukemia, Cheryl and Greg have no choice but to seek out Cheryl's violent ex-husban...

They Are Among Us
2004
as Hugh
The film concerns a sleepy town that is populated mostly by aliens who have suspicious been pretending to be humans for a lengthy period of time in or...

Brilliant
2004
as Dr.Dietrich
What happens when you don't remember being on vacation? Neurological medicine resident Elizabeth develops a drug and, unknowingly, ends up going from ...

Snakehead Terror
2004
as Sheriff Patrick James
A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical p...

The Only Witness
2003
as Nicholas Preston
After witnessing a brutal murder, a little girl is quickly surrounded by a group of law-enforcement professionals and a psychologist.

Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke
2003
as Mr. Walker
When the dam in the town of Rutland starts to show signs of wear. David Powell, the architect who originally worked on the dam but was removed and who...

Gods and Generals
2003
as Lt. Gen. James Longstreet
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from th...

Hope Ranch
2002
as J.T. Hope
J.T. Hope, a former police officer and marine, owner of a ranch called "Circle Hope Ranch" decides to start a program for troubled teens on his ranch ...

Contagion
2002
as President Howard
In the 21st Century, terrorists have developed a new way to strike: disease. Not only have they created a deadly Level Four Ebola virus, their first v...

The Making of TRON
2002
as Himself
This made-for-video documentary treats science fiction fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Tron, Disney's classic live-action film about...

Life in the Balance
2001
A lawyer battling addiction gets a chance to redeem her life when she is assigned to save a death-row inmate from execution.

The Perfect Nanny
2000
as Dr. Robert Lewis
Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a han...

Perilous
2000
as Judd
A lawyer is on a business trip to St. Petersburg. When a beautiful woman on the run runs into him and asks for help, he is thrown into a dangerous wor...

Babylon 5: A Call to Arms
1999
as John J. Sheridan
Allies of the Shadows seek revenge against humanity. This movie sets up the series, "Crusade," the sequel to "Babylon 5."

Free Fall
1999
as Mark Ettinger
An NTSB investigator and her boyfriend, who works for the FAA, investigate a series of similar and suspicious plane crashes that seem to be affecting ...

Babylon 5: Thirdspace
1998
as Capt. John J. Sheridan
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telep...

Babylon 5: In the Beginning
1998
as John J. Sheridan
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent wa...

Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997
as Clayton Andrews
A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
Me And My Hormones
1996
as Mr. Mahar
Three women of various generations deal with the many changes taking place in their lives.

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
1994
as Sam, Sheriff of Cochise County
Combining colorized footage from the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) with new scenes shot in Tombstone, Arizona, this film ...

Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice
1994
as Davis Healy
Retired marshal Dillon goes after a 15 year old boy who is determined to kill the men responsible for the murder of his mother during a stagecoach rob...

House of Secrets
1993
as Dr. Frank Ravinel
Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns...

Flight from Justice
1993
as Michael Shafer
An ex-fighter pilot encounters turbulence when he finds the company he works for is actually a front for art smuggling.

Double Jeopardy
1992
as Jack Hart
Jack Hart lives with his lawyer wife and yound daughter and enjoys a wonderful life. Jack's old girlfriend, Lisa, comes into town and they have an aff...

Perfect Family
1992
as Allan Bodine
Maggie, a recent widower, hires a housekeeper, Janice, to help her with chores taking care of her two young daughters. With Janice comes her brother A...

The Secret
1992
as Patrick Dunmore
Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to l...

The Babe
1992
as Jumpin' Joe Dugan
A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom an...

Kuffs
1992
as Brad Kuffs
George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's brother Brad is killed ...

Diplomatic Immunity
1991
as Cole Hickel
Cole Hickel, a Marine, pursues his daughter's killer when he is allowed to go back to Paraguay because of "diplomatic immunity."

Murderous Vision
1991
as Detective Kyle Robeshaw
Detective Kyle Robeshaw is a headstrong detective who finds himself stuck in a dead end job in missing person's as a result. One of his cases leads hi...

Breakaway
1990
as Joey
When Joey, a prisoner on the run, takes Reginald, an accountant, as his hostage, he gets more than he bargained for.
Love with a Twist
1990
as Host
Bruce Boxleitner hosts "Love with a Twist," in which actors recreate true love stories with surprise endings.

The Road Raiders
1989
as Charlie
Filled with anachronisms and rip offs from "The 'A' Team" and "The Dirty Dozen" - It's 1942 in Manila and an American saloon owner organizes a misfit ...

From the Dead of Night
1989
as Peter Langford
After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe that certain forces are trying to bring her back ...

The Town Bully
1988
When one man terrorizes a town and its citizens, they join together to take 'care' of him. A special prosecutor is brought in to find the guilty perso...

Red River
1988
as Matthew Garth
Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.

The Gambler: The Legend Continues
1987
as Billy Montana
Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their goal is to help the Sioux fight the government and...

Angel in Green
1987
as Captain William Wicker
While a group of Special Forces train a village to defend itself against Terrorists, the Captain of the group locks horns with the resident America Nu...

Passion Flower
1987
as Larry Janson
The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Wil...

Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
1986
as Scott Collins
Two young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion through Utah.

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1986
as Himself
After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.

The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
1983
as Billy Montana
Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious kill...

I Married Wyatt Earp
1983
as Wyatt Earp
Based on the memoirs of Josephine Marcus Earp, a young opera singer from San Francisco, this docudrama tells the story of how she became the wife of l...

Tron
1982
as Alan Bradley / Tron
When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world...And becomes part of t...

Fly Away Home
1981
as Carl Danton
Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 196...

The Gambler
1980
as Billy Montana
This Western adventure, inspired by Kenny Rogers' hit song, tells how fictional gambler Brady Hawkes, going in search of a young son he never knew he ...

The Baltimore Bullet
1980
as Billie Joe Robbins
A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.
Happily Ever After
1978
as Jack Gregory
Suzanne Somers appears in her first TV starring role in this romantic comedy about an aspiring singer torn between making the most of her one chance a...

Murder at the World Series
1977
as Cisco
A disturbed young man threatens violence at the World Series after failing to make the Houston Astros.

Kiss Me, Kill Me
1976
as Douglas Lane
A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher.

The Macahans
1976
as Seth Macahan
Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, helps move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the C...

Sixpack Annie
1975
as Bobby Joe
A buxom, beer-guzzling and naive country gal travels from her small town to Miami to find a 'sugar daddy' to save the family restaurant.

A Cry for Help
1975
as Richie Danko
A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit su...

The Chadwick Family
1974
as Danny
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest dau...