Robert Fuller
Cowboy
"King of Cool"

    Clark Gable grinning while blasting plunderers out of their saddles in The Tall Men, Kirk Douglas finishing off his antagonist with a swift kick to the rump in Man Without a Star, and John Wayne walking with confidence to face down four snarling hulks in Angel and the Badman, were all fashion statements for "cool".

    While numerous Western actors have exhibited their cool cowboy ways in assorted scenes such as these, Robert Fuller made his natural, built-in cool his trademark, beginning with his first starring television series, Laramie, in 1959.  Sporting rustic gunfighter duds and equipped with a fast gun, deep voice, and vogue hairstyle, this slick, idyllic cowboy became one of Hollywood's finest and coolest action heroes.

    Fuller has played countless cowboy roles in Western films and television shows, yet today's youngsters deprived of these classics better recognize him as Emergency's A-1 physician who diagnoses and patches up patients everyday on syndicated television.

    After portraying so many charismatic, robust cowboys and riding all over the range and in and out of corrals, who'd imagine that this actor could also play such a sullen, solemn character as Doctor Kelly Brackett?  Even more ironic, who'd expect the agile, athletic Korean War Veteran and former stuntman (who doubled for many stars including Steve McQueen in West Point Story and Jerry Lewis in The Delicate Delinquent), to begin his Hollywood career in musicals?  "Believe it or not," Fuller laughs, "I started as a chorus dancer.  I was under contract as such at MGM in 1952, and I danced with Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor in I Love Melvin, and with Cyd Charisse in...................................