In the 70s i worked at The Breakers in Palm Beach Florida. Robert Fuller was seated at a table with sunglasses on talking to another man. He was a heartthrob for this young girl from Bar Harbor Maine! I couldn't stop look8ng at him. Thank god he didn't noticed me 😅
Not many actors are more associated with westerns than Robert Fuller. He sure had some guts to say no to producers until he got exactly the role he wanted to break away with. Laramie, especially the early seasons with the great Hoagy Carmichael and young Bobby Crawford, is still my favorite series of his. And it fills my heart with joy to hear that his idol was Jock Mahoney, another favorite of mine.
Rob, thank you for this interview. I'm assuming I'm like some others that first remember him as Dr. Brackett, but I have since seen him in earlier shows. A really fine actor and great interview!
Robert might be my favorite all time voices. I grew up with him on "EMERGENCY!" And years later, I find him on all of the old westerns. He is a great guy.
Loved Robert Fuller! Laramie, Wagon Train, & EMERGENCY. He was one of the good ones! I think it was a TV guide interview, Robert Said that he had just bought a brand new pair of Cowboy boots when he got the call from Jack Webb about being a Doctor in EMERGENCY.
Did he leave out Yul Brenner's response to McQueen? For those who haven't heard it: Legend has it that Mr. Brenner's response to McQueen's continuous messing with his hat so the he would draw the viewer's attention was, "If you don't stop that I'm going to take off my hat, and then no one will look at you for the rest of the film."
McQueen was a self centered nuisance to some of the other actors too. Remarking to one of them (Coburn I think) that instead of the entire Seven, the film should be more focused on one guy. With Coburn responding with, "So what guy did you have in mind, Steve?".
Thanks for this stories from Robert Fuller one of my favorite actors in Westerns Laramie was great but unaware of his connection and friendship with Yul Brynner and Jock Mahoney.
Great video ! Great to see Robert Fuller! He really preferred westerns. Jack Webb had to really twist his arm to play Dr. Brackett on Emergency. He said, “Bob, westerns are dead!” And he was right!
I have long been a fan of Robert Fuller. I watched him on "Laramie" and "Wagon Train." I even watched "Emergency." I also liked it when he would guest star on "Walker, Texas Ranger" with Chuck Norris. 👍😊
There’s an excellent Robert Fuller interview included on the Wagon Train Complete Color Season (season 7) dvd set. He tells some funny stories on himself. I knew him first from all of his westerns and they are my favorites. Watched ‘Emergency’ with our kids, but much prefer the cowboys. Always have, always will. Wonderful interview and great to read he is doing well at age 90!
I love Robert Fuller! Great actor! He can play spoons really good too! Met him in Bakersfield, California in 1973 or 1974. He was the nicest person 👩🏻🏫🥰‼️
He gives great interviews. This is a special treat for me, so many years of joy and pleasure watching Robert Fuller, one of my all time favorite performers - one great storyteller too. 90 in '23, what a blessing! I like that he knew what he wanted, what was right for him and went for it. The time must have been right - I also like that he accepted the role of Kelly Brackett, Emergency!. As a person, as an actor, one of the best.
One of heroes! Thank you, you always have the best guests and great interviews. This time you were brilliant in letting him go and tell it all. Another job well done, thank you. You made me feel like a kid again! You're the BEST!
I always liked Robert Fuller as an actor. He was a western movie actor, whom you believed was the part he played. Although Return of the Magnificent Seven was not in the same class as its predecessor, it was a solid western. The stellar supporting cast of the original couldn't be duplicated, but I personally thought Fuller did an adequate job as Vin. Solid interview as always, and I learned stuff I didn't know about the actor and some of the productions he was and wasn't in. I'm sure his independent streak must have driven his agent crazy, but knowing who he was and what he wanted to do in TV and films, made him the unique screen presence that he was.
Yup... Now I know how, and why Bob Fuller was such a dynamic actor in my eyes. He lived the Roles he played, and they came out always totally believable. 👍👍 5⭐
Growing up in the 60s and 70s, I only knew him as Dr. Kelly Brackett in the 1970s medical/action drama Emergency! Thanks to your videos, I know so much more about his career.
What an awesome story and interview. Being a kid in the '50s was so great with all of MY western heroes, and I had a lot of them. Sure wish I could go back.
ROBERT FULLER outlasted a good many of his fellow western actors who came from television... Always down-to-earth and full of good stories, he knew he wasn't going to become a big star like Steve McQueen or James Garner, but he had fun in just being a part of that group. United Artists were desperate for money by the mid-1960's so they insisted that producer Walter Mirisch make sequels to THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, which were always going to be inferior without good writers and actors, still they entertained and made money on low Spanish budgets. UA bought out the Mirisch Corporation that gaves us and them so many iconic hits, and they also became the model that overtook the old studio system. At least because of their frugality, UA had the sense to keep the ELMER BERNSTEIN musical magic to make Fuller, George Kennedy and alike, ride tall in the saddle as Yul Brnyner and Steve McQueen!
Brilliant,the great Robert fuller,what an enjoyable interview, not many of the 50's/60's/70's tv western legends remaining,we need to cherish these guys😊
This is a great story told by mr fuller i know he had to be nerveous meeting mr bryner .as he could look serious i loved mr fuller in larimie as jess harper i could not really see him playing the part of slim he was jess harper its really great to see mr fuller still looking so young and healthy we are so blessed to still have him here with us as we have lost so many of our cowboy stars i am wishing you all a very happy and blessed new year stay healthy and well 😊
I grew up watching Laramie. Loved every minute of it. I also remember The Ranger Rider. I was given a book for Christmas about TV westerns and there was a photograph of Jock Mahoney and Dick west on the set of The Ranger Rider.
Thank you Rob! Robert Fuller was one of my favorites and I remember meeting him as a kid. I think it was at Frontier City USA in OKC. I met a few there like James Drury, Clu Gallagher and Doug McClure. It used to be a great place with phenomenal gunfights and shows. I remember Fuller, like all I met, being the nicest guy and incredibly patient with the inane questions coming from a snot nosed nine year old.
Robert Fuller is one of my favorites . Great acter and great story teller.. it's sad there's not many of our TV western heroes left anymore. I grew up on westerns in the 60.tys . and i like yul Brynner i think that he made at least 7 or 8 westerns and they all were good
Robert Fuller-at three minutes in on this excellent show-could have easily been Wyatt Earp instead of Hugh O'Brien. Although once you're used to seeing someone as a certain character-like Fess Parker as Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone; you don't want that changed. On Steve McQueen. One could easily see that he was going to be a star. I watched him in The Blob and he was just really learning the ropes. Then came along Hell IS For Heroes and Wanted Dead or Alive. The way he used props-like what Mr. Fuller said when he'd take his hat off-he was a mega star waiting to be acknowledged as one.
Not only does this channel provide me with wonderful interviews about westerns and western actors, but even more exciting to me, it almost always gives me a new book about movies or actors to read. Today's book, already ordered before the video ended, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch
It's a terrific book, Les. You're gonna like it. I've just written and recorded the Walter Mirisch portion of my 2023 Memorial tribute to Walter and more of those we lost last year who contributed to westerns. Should be ready to post on AWOW in a couple of weeks.
I remember Robert Fuller as a doctor on the show Emergency but I have seen him in Western reruns and he was pretty good. He was a really good looking guy, I was once too before Father Time beat me up.
Robert Fuller, "Western" actor...but i only know him from playing an MD. Easy job, really. He would come in one day a week, shoot the hospital scenes with Julie London and Bobby Troup.
I saw that same interview about 10 years ago with four cowboys sitting around a table but never get tired of seeing it again from a different camera angle. Thanks for bringing it back.
The very first time my mother let me stay up late was to watch an episode of “Emergency”. I was probably around 7? In was in the mid seventies. A great memory.
Wonderful story about Yul Bryner. Robert had a great chemistry with John Smith in Laramie really made the show .
I agree their relationship was magic
Fuller has seen it all in early tv westerns. Great stories!
Robert Fuller is unmistakable in every role he played
Even the smallest of parts
Robert Fuller gave us his "full" talent in several movies and westerns! Remembering the good ole days is what I love! A+ Rob for this video!
In the 70s i worked at The Breakers in Palm Beach Florida. Robert Fuller was seated at a table with sunglasses on talking to another man. He was a heartthrob for this young girl from Bar Harbor Maine! I couldn't stop look8ng at him. Thank god he didn't noticed me 😅
That story about Laramie is great. Getting the role you wanted was not easy in those days, and Robert Fuller got it.
Thanks for the interview, Rob.
Always liked Robert Fuller. Thanks for the great times.
Me, too! Our pleasure, James. Thanks.
Wow
He could have blown it in Hollywood or became a hero with that attitude
Thank God he trusted his instincts and became the latter
Great guy
Not many actors are more associated with westerns than Robert Fuller. He sure had some guts to say no to producers until he got exactly the role he wanted to break away with. Laramie, especially the early seasons with the great Hoagy Carmichael and young Bobby Crawford, is still my favorite series of his. And it fills my heart with joy to hear that his idol was Jock Mahoney, another favorite of mine.
I still watch Robert Fuller nearly every afternoon, in Laramie, and Wagon Train.
I really loved this episode. Robert Fuller was one of my western heroes as a child.
Loved him in Laramie. Very talented and still a very handsome man. Love his interview here.
Laramie was one of my favorite western tv shows.
Always loved Robert Fuller! Great actor!
Good for Robert for having such confidence in his choices.
He has aged very well, still a nice looking man.
Rob, thank you for this interview. I'm assuming I'm like some others that first remember him as Dr. Brackett, but I have since seen him in earlier shows. A really fine actor and great interview!
Robert is the best storyteller, and a dream interview or event guest: literally introduce him and get out of the way! 😄
Robert might be my favorite all time voices. I grew up with him on "EMERGENCY!" And years later, I find him on all of the old westerns. He is a great guy.
Loved Robert Fuller! Laramie, Wagon Train, & EMERGENCY. He was one of the good ones! I think it was a TV guide interview, Robert Said that he had just bought a brand new pair of Cowboy boots when he got the call from Jack Webb about being a Doctor in EMERGENCY.
I remember Robert Fuller the most from "Emergency" in the 70s.😉
Thinking about you today, Bob Fuller. Happy Birthday! Wishing you all the best. Thank you for all you've done. Good times.
Unfortunately I only remember Robert Fuller from Emergency! And I was delighted to see his cameo on Maverick with Mel Gibson
Did he leave out Yul Brenner's response to McQueen? For those who haven't heard it: Legend has it that Mr. Brenner's response to McQueen's continuous messing with his hat so the he would draw the viewer's attention was, "If you don't stop that I'm going to take off my hat, and then no one will look at you for the rest of the film."
McQueen was a self centered nuisance to some of the other actors too. Remarking to one of them (Coburn I think) that instead of the entire Seven, the film should be more focused on one guy.
With Coburn responding with, "So what guy did you have in mind, Steve?".
McQueen was a rising star and Yul had already begun the downward spin. People would have kept looking at Steve. Girls anyway.
I love Robert Fuller❤❤❤❤! Loved Laramie!
Thanks for this stories from Robert Fuller one of my favorite actors in Westerns Laramie was great but unaware of his connection and friendship with Yul Brynner and Jock Mahoney.
Rob, That was and excellent interview with Robert Fuller, especially the last part about the barn door. That had me cracking up.
Great video ! Great to see Robert Fuller!
He really preferred westerns. Jack Webb had to really twist his arm to play Dr. Brackett on Emergency. He said, “Bob, westerns are dead!” And he was right!
Robert is a great story teller. Loved him in everything that he did.
I'm glad they gave him the Jess Harper role . Love the show as a kid and Jess
I have long been a fan of Robert Fuller. I watched him on "Laramie" and "Wagon Train." I even watched "Emergency." I also liked it when he would guest star on "Walker, Texas Ranger" with Chuck Norris. 👍😊
Spot on comments and what’s Really cool is: they’re running Laramie on the western channel-We all loved Robert. Thanks Pard. SF🇺🇸
There’s an excellent Robert Fuller interview included on the Wagon Train Complete Color Season (season 7) dvd set. He tells some funny stories on himself. I knew him first from all of his westerns and they are my favorites. Watched ‘Emergency’ with our kids, but much prefer the cowboys. Always have, always will. Wonderful interview and great to read he is doing well at age 90!
Thanks, chars
I love Robert Fuller! Great actor! He can play spoons really good too! Met him in Bakersfield, California in 1973 or 1974. He was the nicest person 👩🏻🏫🥰‼️
Cool!
@@AWordonWesterns … Thanks 😊!
Great stories from one of my favorite stars.
Mine too! Thanks.
Robert Fuller is a favorite of mine so I was very glad to see this. Thanx Word on Westerns🎸👍
Oh I really like Robert Fuller, a great actor, I enjoyed this so very much, thank you Rob Word loved it....
Exciting times back then!
One of my Favorite Actor
He gives great interviews. This is a special treat for me, so many years of joy and pleasure watching Robert Fuller, one of my all time favorite performers - one great storyteller too. 90 in '23, what a blessing! I like that he knew what he wanted, what was right for him and went for it. The time must have been right - I also like that he accepted the role of Kelly Brackett, Emergency!. As a person, as an actor, one of the best.
Couldn't agree more! Thanks, elizabeth.
Thanks Rob for sharing Robert Fuller’s advice on how not to impress your heroes….😂!
Hope you have a wonderful 2024!
One of heroes! Thank you, you always have the best guests and great interviews. This time you were brilliant in letting him go and tell it all. Another job well done, thank you. You made me feel like a kid again! You're the BEST!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks.
I always liked Robert Fuller as an actor. He was a western movie actor, whom you believed was the part he played. Although Return of the Magnificent Seven was not in the same class as its predecessor, it was a solid western. The stellar supporting cast of the original couldn't be duplicated, but I personally thought Fuller did an adequate job as Vin. Solid interview as always, and I learned stuff I didn't know about the actor and some of the productions he was and wasn't in. I'm sure his independent streak must have driven his agent crazy, but knowing who he was and what he wanted to do in TV and films, made him the unique screen presence that he was.
I love to see Robert Fuller in Gentlemen Prefer Blonds and I Love Melvin. What a hunk!
I miss all the actors/story tellers of the westerns. If God lets me go to heaven I'll be sitting and listening to them again.
I LOVE this man !! 💜🌹💜🌹💜🌹💜🌹💜🌹💜🌹💜🌹💜🌹💜
You ain't alone, janis. Thanks!
Yup... Now I know how, and why Bob Fuller was such a dynamic actor in my eyes. He lived the Roles he played, and they came out always totally believable.
👍👍 5⭐
Growing up in the 60s and 70s, I only knew him as Dr. Kelly Brackett in the 1970s medical/action drama Emergency!
Thanks to your videos, I know so much more about his career.
90 and what a memory . Great stories too ! Thanks Rob
big fan dude, you look great, differently but great love those days
Legend!
What an awesome story and interview. Being a kid in the '50s was so great with all of MY western heroes, and I had a lot of them. Sure wish I could go back.
Very cool interview rob I love the return of the magnificent 7 movie .👍
Great interview, I wish this was 3 hrs long.
ROBERT FULLER outlasted a good many of his fellow western actors who came from television...
Always down-to-earth and full of good stories, he knew he wasn't going to become a big star like Steve McQueen or James Garner, but he had fun in just being a part of that group.
United Artists were desperate for money by the mid-1960's so they insisted that producer Walter Mirisch make sequels to THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, which were always going to be inferior without good writers and actors, still they entertained and made money on low Spanish budgets.
UA bought out the Mirisch Corporation that gaves us and them so many iconic hits, and they also became the model that overtook the old studio system.
At least because of their frugality, UA had the sense to keep the ELMER BERNSTEIN musical magic to make Fuller, George Kennedy and alike, ride tall in the saddle as Yul Brnyner and Steve McQueen!
Wonderful interview and stories!!
❤ it, ❤ it, ❤ it, Thanks to everyone involved in putting this together.
Steve McQueen was Vin but Robert Fuller did a great job in the part,Kudos to him.
Loved this story 😁
Glad you enjoyed it, Mark. Thanks.
Brilliant,the great Robert fuller,what an enjoyable interview, not many of the 50's/60's/70's tv western legends remaining,we need to cherish these guys😊
Thank you! Wonderful stories!😎
Love this guy on Wagon Train.
It was such a wonderful interview. He had me laughing out loud with the story about the barn door.
omg, what great stories from Robert Fuller. I could listen to him all day long. What a great interview and story teller!
This is a great story told by mr fuller i know he had to be nerveous meeting mr bryner .as he could look serious i loved mr fuller in larimie as jess harper i could not really see him playing the part of slim he was jess harper its really great to see mr fuller still looking so young and healthy we are so blessed to still have him here with us as we have lost so many of our cowboy stars i am wishing you all a very happy and blessed new year stay healthy and well 😊
Thank you, Bessie. Happy and healthy new year to you.
I met Mr. Fuller at the July 2010 Hollywood show in L.A., a very nice gentleman. He was sitting between Peter Brown and Morgan Woodward.
Nice, jim. Thanks.
Thats one cool hombre !
I grew up watching Laramie. Loved every minute of it. I also remember The Ranger Rider. I was given a book for Christmas about TV westerns and there was a photograph of Jock Mahoney and Dick west on the set of The Ranger Rider.
Thank you Rob! Robert Fuller was one of my favorites and I remember meeting him as a kid. I think it was at Frontier City USA in OKC. I met a few there like James Drury, Clu Gallagher and Doug McClure. It used to be a great place with phenomenal gunfights and shows. I remember Fuller, like all I met, being the nicest guy and incredibly patient with the inane questions coming from a snot nosed nine year old.
Another epic talent! We're lucky he is still around and clear minded! Hope to meet him some day!
Great video.
Thanks!
A lesson from a "old" hand sticking to his guns, bravo!
I mean, YEEHAW!
Great stories, thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome interview..thanks rob
GREAT interview . Loved it.
Great video Rob love those western.
Very enjoyable episode Rob - Thank you & have a great week! 👍🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎
Great story ! Absolutely brilliant..
A great actor and a great raconteur. I've been a fan since he was Jess Harper.
Eager to see the rest of the interview, Rob! Gotta love Bob Fuller!
This was produced/filmed in 2017 if you read the info. What a great guy!
High school would've been alot more fun if I looked like Robert Fuller
Robert Fuller is one of my favorites . Great acter and great story teller.. it's sad there's not many of our TV western heroes left anymore. I grew up on westerns in the 60.tys . and i like yul Brynner i think that he made at least 7 or 8 westerns and they all were good
My first crush when I was a little girl in fifth grade. Never missed Laramie on Tuesday nights at 7:30. But my homework had to be done first.
I came of age watching Emergency reruns - Waylon Jennings named his daughter after Julie London - is who I crushed on
Robert Fuller-at three minutes in on this excellent show-could have easily been Wyatt Earp instead of Hugh O'Brien. Although once you're used to seeing someone as a certain character-like Fess Parker as Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone; you don't want that changed. On Steve McQueen. One could easily see that he was going to be a star. I watched him in The Blob and he was just really learning the ropes. Then came along Hell IS For Heroes and Wanted Dead or Alive. The way he used props-like what Mr. Fuller said when he'd take his hat off-he was a mega star waiting to be acknowledged as one.
What a nice guy, down to earth, I have a cousin named John Smith, to be fair I think most people have 😂
He was great in Laramie. I still watch it.
A great interview 👍
Not only does this channel provide me with wonderful interviews about westerns and western actors, but even more exciting to me, it almost always gives me a new book about movies or actors to read.
Today's book, already ordered before the video ended,
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch
It's a terrific book, Les. You're gonna like it. I've just written and recorded the Walter Mirisch portion of my 2023 Memorial tribute to Walter and more of those we lost last year who contributed to westerns. Should be ready to post on AWOW in a couple of weeks.
@@AWordonWesterns Downloaded and I'll start it tonight.
Thank you, again.
@@AWordonWesterns Interesting read.
Dustin Hoffman doesn't come off well in this one.
Some great stories. Loved it.
I loved this, thank you !
I remember Robert Fuller as a doctor on the show Emergency but I have seen him in Western reruns and he was pretty good. He was a really good looking guy, I was once too before Father Time beat me up.
Ha, ha..😂
😊 thanks for the great video 😊😊😊😊
Liked him as Mark Bracket on Jack Webb’s emergency.
thanks rob!
Great one, I always loved his movies. Thanks, 🙏🙏
I met Robert Fuller at the Memphis Film Festival, and he was the kindest man.
He sure it, MT. Makes sure that all of his fans get a chance to chat with him. Thanks.
Robert Fuller, "Western" actor...but i only know him from playing an MD. Easy job, really. He would come in one day a week, shoot the hospital scenes with Julie London and Bobby Troup.
I saw that same interview about 10 years ago with four cowboys sitting around a table but never get tired of seeing it again from a different camera angle. Thanks for bringing it back.
The first thing I saw Robert Fuller in was Emergency. So it was kind of weird when I saw him in his younger days doing westerns.
The very first time my mother let me stay up late was to watch an episode of “Emergency”. I was probably around 7? In was in the mid seventies.
A great memory.
Of course, great as always. Where are you?
As it says in the Description, I shot it in my hotel room in Williamsburg, VA. I'd love to do it all again and make it even longer!
Sorry Rob, I guess I should start reading the descriptions. Anyway, Thanks for another great video@@AWordonWesterns