Gil Gerard Quotes

• Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn’t do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

  Gil Gerard

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Television

• I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Artist, Working

• Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn’t at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Cartoon, Character

• I made the character as much of myself as I could.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Myself

• I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Self, Superstition

• I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

  Gil Gerard

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Channels

• Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Actor, Film, Features

• I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Self, Personality

• I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Film, Stars

• The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Things, Quiet

• I’m currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Punishment

• No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later.

  Gil Gerard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Universalist

• Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they’d put the effects on after.

  Gil Gerard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Models, Extremely, Expensive

• I wouldn’t trade the experiences I’ve had over the past 36 years for anything.

  Gil Gerard

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Self

• It’s more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

  Gil Gerard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Dealing, Alien

• I’ve just got into the convention circuit in the last couple of years and it’s great to see all these people who are still interested in the show. It’s so gratifying to hear that so many people enjoyed the work that Erin and I have done.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in People, Convention

• It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Myself, Amazing

• I’d always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Science Fiction

• I’ve now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.

  Gil Gerard

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Creative, Process

• Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we’ll see what happens there. I’m somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I’m working on; I’ve a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I’m looking at producing.

  Gil Gerard

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  Tags in Filmmakers

Gil Gerard (24)

Birth:	23rd January, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Gilbert C. "Gil" Gerard was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He is an American actor, most notable for his role as Captain William "Buck" Rogers in the 1979–1981 television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. His role in several films include: Some of My Best Friends Are..., Man on a Swing, and Airport '77. His role in television include: Killing Stone(TV Movie), Sidekicks(TV series), and E.A.R.T.H. Force(TV series).

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