Don Collier

Outlaws
 from Western Television and Film Annual, 1964

chalk.jpg (55601 bytes)Bruce Yarnell was the popular hero of the TV series "Outlaws," which was set in the days of 1889, when Indian lands were opened to homesteaders.  He played the role of Chalk Breeson, who assisted Marshal Will Foreman.  Their teaming was full of conflict because Foreman was a law officer who was ruled by the book.  Breeson, however, too quite a different attitude towards those who broke the law.  An easy-going individual himself, he took the attitude of "live and let live."  He believed that law should be operated according to circumstance.

More recently Bruce was seen in the full-length feature film Irma La Douce, the most important role of his career outside his successful "Outlaws" series.

"I want to develop my acting abilities to be able to play all sorts of parts," he said.  "After all, I don't want to play cowboy parts all the time."

He is now hoping to do a big musical.  He has a fine singing voice and has appeared in many operatic production.  He's quite unusual for a western hero.

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