What a raconteur! Such a varied life and career, and tremendous roles. I haven't seen many of his films, but always loved The Great Gatsby and Family Plot. His strong presence in both are indelible.
He’s fantastic and he’s got a great daughter Laura I love too. She was fabulousness afterburner! She says, in interviews I have seen with her she adored her father. I’ve looked all over sbd apparent the movie companies didn’t like thst movie afterburn because it was a true story about a problem with the jets that caused them to crash. I loved her in that movie. They don’t admit she even in it in her movie rolls. It wasn’t terribly popular because it told a story of Airforce pilots crashing because of a big problem with the jets being designed wrong and the company I think it was general dynamics made the jets. It only happened at the stage of afterburn. My (rip) husband who was a aero space design engineer at Lockheed Martin. Designs were always very interesting to me. So that documentation of that jet design was very inter to me.
I'm 20 minutes in and this interview is Gold! I've always loved watching Bruce Dern playing characters in movies. I didn't realized watching him as himself would be just as entertaining! 👍 😊 Done watching... An hour and 48 minutes and it was still too short! Damn!
Thank you so much for letting Bruce talk i could listen to his wonderful story telling for hours on end definitely a class act and please please please have him do another interview with more time to talk about his family lineage and University of Pennsylvania days .
what a good interview! thank you Joshua for allowing bruce to talk .. this is the good story stuff ! its so good when the interviewer allows the interviewee the time of day . Thank YOU
Heavens to Murgatroid ! Now THAT was one great interview ! That wonderful host Joshua simply let Bruce talk ! So entertaining and informative ! Mr Dern is truly a national treasure ! THANK YOU so much for sharing this ! CHEERS !! :-)
I would so love to spend hours and hours more listening til his stories! Not only are the stories great, he tells them SO WELL!!! Please, please please make some personal interviews with him!
What a beautiful surprise Mr Dern that you have this wonderful connection to Scotland and especially Glasgow , Scotland ... I'm tickled pink as I'm as huge admirer of your wonderful career . From Glasgow , Scotland ,all the very best to you and your immediate family .
What a great interview!. Thank you for letting him talk. Interviews don't usually work like that . My friends are living with Bruce's late brother's (Jack Dern) widow, Sally. On an island on the Olympic Peninsula. I'm sorry I missed Bruce's appearance at Port Townsend's Film Festival. Maybe you would consider coming again? That would be awesome. You're a wonderful actor.
Bruce is old school, he's the star... he tells you when he's done talking...other wise please let the man share his life through story... as I picture every word he says.
I never realized that Bruce was such a genius of human interaction translated into his acting roles. His early upbringing would never had predicted his success as an acclaimed character actor.
I'm a late comer to the amazing talent of Bruce Dern. I love him in Nebraska.... "Beer ain't drinkin". And The Hateful Eight, he makes it looks so easy and natural.
i was one of those 7-year-olds who saw that cult classic in 1972 and never got over it. Now we're all 50-somethings and that movie did something to all of us. We cannot forget Bruce Dern's epic performance added to Schikelle's beautiful score. i wonder if Mr. Dern is aware of how his performance and the music in that movie affected so many of us so deeply
His talking about what it was like growing up was terrific. He had an interesting childhood and I wish the moderator had let him keep on talking about it. We all know he's a great character actor and enjoy the hell out of his movies but his childhood was fascinating to hear about.
Mr Dern you are such a humble actor and those are hard to find any more. I have loved you in so many movies but your role in The Burbs was outstanding!
Wow, what an entertaining, moving fun experience this was. Thank you. I'm particularly delighted to hear Bruce praise Doug Trumbull, who often does not receive the acclaim he's earned in his career.
Silent Running is the first movie I saw as a kid when I was amazed by the set. I did know it was Dern as the main character until he mentioned it here and looked it up om IMDB. I just remembered him as the crazy villain in westerns.
thanx, Bruce. not only for lots of first rate acting for about 50 years, but for clearing something up for me. I like re-runs of the 'ALFRED HITCHCOCK Hour' I had doubted he was the chief director for every show. because it's TV. I was wrong (just turned my head, and on TV now, is the episode of 'GUNSMOKE' where BD torments a little kid whose father he shot in the back). but I was watching Hitch's TV show one nite, when BD terrorized an actress that I was unfamiliar w/, but fell in love w/ on the spot. a lovely slice of heaven, Teresa Wright .and she was no kid (he was) by this time. when I Googled her, I found that she was indeed, an incomparable young beauty. Hitch had an eye for that.
If you wanna see him at the height of his thespian powers (both in terms of his acting ability and charismatic presence on screen), watch a movie he made with Jack Nicholson called THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS.
First I saw and loved Bruce was in an old b&w thriller movie in the 60s. It played on TV on a UHF (very amateur) channel in rural Ohio with shows like Goulardi. Plot : Swamp people were mesmerized with the contents of a glass jar that Bruce owned. Climax : It was discovered that the contents were someone's brains ! Sadly, I can't find that movie listed anywhere today.
Priceless Stories; ❤ Douglas Trumbull, John Wayne, Olivia De Haviland and Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, Lee Strasbourg, Elia Kazan, Alfred Hitchcock and Karen Black . . . Haya Harareet writing (uncredited) The Innocents. Nebraska, the movie directing going into it.
I think Mr. Dern was quite a ways off when he quoted the size of the USS Valley Forge model from Silent Running. it was considerably larger than 18". it was somewhere around 20' long.
I'm going to catch the one they say can't be caught.The cowboy Desperado. DERN played the detective that was after the driver played by Ryan O'Neal. From the film The Driver.
Please please please Mr. Bruce Dern do a remake of the great sc/fi movie silent running, maybe you cant do the countdown at the end of the movie and i am not sure who you can find who would replace you as the main actor in the new version, but i am sure you would be able to find someone that looks like you, like when the movie was made back in 1972. :)
I wish the other guy didn’t interrupt Bruce. Interviewers do that. He should have just let Bruce do his thing. If you’re an actor or a budding actor and if you are not interested in all the minor aspects of a person’s life who is a good actor, then until you gain that fascination for people, you’ll never be a great actor. Not everyone in life is interesting. And hey that’s ok. That’s life isn’t it. But this Bruce Derns guy is an interesting guy.
The interviewer had his questions, but did let Bruce expand on his stories. He didn't interrupt the way so many interviewers do. It's a balancing act he did the best he could.
I didn't like when he did either . but Bruce was playing a character . and it was a movie .. but I get what you're saying .in real life he seems like a nice guy ..I'd never want to meet him lol .
what a good interview! thank you Joshua for allowing bruce to talk .. this is the good story stuff ! its so good when the interviewer allows the interviewee the time of day . Thank YOU
What a raconteur! Such a varied life and career, and tremendous roles. I haven't seen many of his films, but always loved The Great Gatsby and Family Plot. His strong presence in both are indelible.
Have always loved Bruce's acting , and now, to hear his life's story, I've come full circle.
I could listen to this amazing guy for hours! What a gift to us!
Bruce Dern is one of the few actors you can see for the first time and never forget.
Mr Dern is a living legend.An incredible personality.
I agree 100 per cent !
He’s fantastic and he’s got a great daughter Laura I love too.
She was fabulousness afterburner! She says, in interviews I have seen with her she adored her father. I’ve looked all over sbd apparent the movie companies didn’t like thst movie afterburn because it was a true story about a problem with the jets that caused them to crash. I loved her in that movie. They don’t admit she even in it in her movie rolls. It wasn’t terribly popular because it told a story of Airforce pilots crashing because of a big problem with the jets being designed wrong and the company I think it was general dynamics made the jets. It only happened at the stage of afterburn. My (rip) husband who was a aero space design engineer at Lockheed Martin. Designs were always very interesting to me. So that documentation of that jet design was very inter to me.
I'm 20 minutes in and this interview is Gold! I've always loved watching Bruce Dern playing characters in movies. I didn't realized watching him as himself would be just as entertaining! 👍 😊
Done watching... An hour and 48 minutes and it was still too short! Damn!
Thank you so much for letting Bruce talk i could listen to his wonderful story telling for hours on end definitely a class act and please please please have him do another interview with more time to talk about his family lineage and University of Pennsylvania days .
I love Bruce Dern, he is one of the greatest of all time. Thank you for all the great moments in films. You're the best.
what a good interview! thank you Joshua for allowing bruce to talk .. this is the good story stuff ! its so good when the interviewer allows the interviewee the time of day . Thank YOU
Indubitably ! Joshua is a wonderful interviewer !
Joshua? Thank Bruce Dern... (let's get it straight)
Bruce is so great and the interviewer really did a great job. Excellent and fascinating
Thank you. One of my very favorite actors.
Heavens to Murgatroid ! Now THAT was one great interview ! That wonderful host Joshua simply let Bruce talk ! So entertaining and informative ! Mr Dern is truly a national treasure ! THANK YOU so much for sharing this ! CHEERS !! :-)
I almost cried. Very moving interview. I can relate to his childhood very well..He's a very intelligent man.
I would so love to spend hours and hours more listening til his stories! Not only are the stories great, he tells them SO WELL!!! Please, please please make some personal interviews with him!
I love Bruce Dern 😊
Wow! FANTASTIC interview. Glad that Josh kept his mouth shut.
What an amazing life Mr Dern has lived. Thank you for sharing.
I’am amazed at his memory. He can just go on and on and remember he must be 80 years old.
He is a great interview.
I had the honor of meeting Mr. Dern a year ago at a convention. Class act. I only talked to him for a couple minutes, but I'll never forget it.
Wow ! I envy you ! :-)
I've met him too and he is incredibly polite and gentlemanly.
What a beautiful surprise Mr Dern that you have this wonderful connection to Scotland and especially Glasgow , Scotland ... I'm tickled pink as I'm as huge admirer of your wonderful career . From Glasgow , Scotland ,all the very best to you and your immediate family .
Bruce Dern is a Legend
What a great interview!. Thank you for letting him talk. Interviews don't usually work like that . My friends are living with Bruce's late brother's (Jack Dern) widow, Sally. On an island on the Olympic Peninsula. I'm sorry I missed Bruce's appearance at Port Townsend's Film Festival. Maybe you would consider coming again? That would be awesome. You're a wonderful actor.
Bruce is old school, he's the star... he tells you when he's done talking...other wise please let the man share his life through story... as I picture every word he says.
I never realized that Bruce was such a genius of human interaction translated into his acting roles. His early upbringing would never had predicted his success as an acclaimed character actor.
I'm a late comer to the amazing talent of Bruce Dern. I love him in Nebraska.... "Beer ain't drinkin". And The Hateful Eight, he makes it looks so easy and natural.
i was one of those 7-year-olds who saw that cult classic in 1972 and never got over it. Now we're all 50-somethings and that movie did something to all of us. We cannot forget Bruce Dern's epic performance added to Schikelle's beautiful score. i wonder if Mr. Dern is aware of how his performance and the music in that movie affected so many of us so deeply
Listening to Bruce talk makes me feel like the most wonderful thing in life is it’s diversity it’s what makes living interesting, the differences 🤪👍🏻✨
His talking about what it was like growing up was terrific. He had an interesting childhood and I wish the moderator had let him keep on talking about it. We all know he's a great character actor and enjoy the hell out of his movies but his childhood was fascinating to hear about.
Mr Dern you are such a humble actor and those are hard to find any more. I have loved you in so many movies but your role in The Burbs was outstanding!
Ive always like Bruce Dern. He is truly an unsung actor. I wish they would have sent me his movie.
What talent, my favorite actor of all time.
Awesome actor awesome human being such a family lineage!!!!!!!
lol
Wow his memory is good.
ONE OF THE GREATEST, SO MANY ROLES IN SO MANY DIFFERENT MOVIES AND TV SHOWS, COULD DO EVERYTHING WELL
True Blue - One of the Greats !!! Love Bruce Dern.
This is awesome. Dern very versatile
Brilliant in every way!
Wow, what an entertaining, moving fun experience this was. Thank you. I'm particularly delighted to hear Bruce praise Doug Trumbull, who often does not receive the acclaim he's earned in his career.
That was fantastic. Loved it.
why is it that guys who usually play bad guys are the nicest people. Dern is such a class act.
Tommy Petersen it's called acting
So true ! All the great movie nogoodniks (Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Edward G Robinson, etc.) were kind, sweet, cultured, classy gents offscreen !
He has a super great memory, good story teller.
One thing about this extraordinary actor...he can talk...this is the kind of gentleman I would love to share conversation with on my rocking chair.
Silent Running is the first movie I saw as a kid when I was amazed by the set. I did know it was Dern as the main character until he mentioned it here and looked it up om IMDB. I just remembered him as the crazy villain in westerns.
thanks for sharing SAG-AFTRA Foundation
thanks for sharing SAG-AFTRA Foundation
I remember Bruce in the Burbs. He was really good in that. I laughed my head off.😮
Nebraska was amazing -- saw it a dozen times.
Amen to that !!
thanx, Bruce. not only for lots of first rate acting for about 50 years, but for clearing something up for me. I like re-runs of the 'ALFRED HITCHCOCK Hour' I had doubted he was the chief director for every show. because it's TV. I was wrong (just turned my head, and on TV now, is the episode of 'GUNSMOKE' where BD torments a little kid whose father he shot in the back). but I was watching Hitch's TV show one nite, when BD terrorized an actress that I was unfamiliar w/, but fell in love w/ on the spot. a lovely slice of heaven, Teresa Wright .and she was no kid (he was) by this time. when I Googled her, I found that she was indeed, an incomparable young beauty. Hitch had an eye for that.
If you wanna see him at the height of his thespian powers (both in terms of his acting ability and charismatic presence on screen), watch a movie he made with Jack Nicholson called THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS.
I have a notion to second that emotion ! That seldom seen independent production has some really powerful acting !
42 onward Bruce retelling of the cast & crew baseball team is classic!!
WOW WEEE, good one!
Love it.
he should have won an oscar fot the cowboys
Bruce Dern is a bass ass!! Love all of his movies!!
Interesting .... good video
Great actor.
If you want to see a dernsers movie see the laughing policeman he and Walter Matthau work together beautifully
I have a notion to second that emotion !!
I grabbed silent running today. haven't seen it since 1980.
He was great in the old Gunsmoke episodes and other TV series like Alfred Hitchcock, Rawhide, Big Valley, Bonanza, The Fugitive, etc
Great actor and raconteur.
As someone who does sound for bar bands, let me just say, pop screens are our friend. ;)
I think more cushioned chairs and some tables would have made Bruce Dern more comfortable. He deserved nothing less.
What a pleasure listening to Bruce Dern. Tough job for the moderator though--LOL.
First I saw and loved Bruce was in an old b&w thriller movie in the 60s. It played on TV on a UHF (very amateur) channel in rural Ohio with shows like Goulardi.
Plot : Swamp people were mesmerized with the contents of a glass jar that Bruce owned. Climax : It was discovered that the contents were someone's brains ! Sadly, I can't find that movie listed anywhere today.
Priceless Stories; ❤ Douglas Trumbull, John Wayne, Olivia De Haviland and Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, Lee Strasbourg, Elia Kazan, Alfred Hitchcock and Karen Black . . . Haya Harareet writing (uncredited) The Innocents. Nebraska, the movie directing going into it.
Great in Sunset Boulevard 😃🇦🇺
Bruce was not in Sunset Boulevard
Considering his first film appearance was in the 60s, who did he play in that film?
Bruce Dern did a
excellent job in JOHN Wayne 👏 and the Cowboys 🤠 Bad looking dude
The war is over. That’s four words Mr Dern 😊
An amazing memory for an 80 something
I think Mr. Dern was quite a ways off when he quoted the size of the USS Valley Forge model from Silent Running. it was considerably larger than 18". it was somewhere around 20' long.
wow i am standing in a pool of awe .
The man is one of the best bad guys ever! He shot John Wayne. He was great in The Incredible Two Headed Trtill a late night classic.ansplant, 1971
I never would have guessed Dern was from an upper crust family since so many times he’s played losers and screw balls in films. That really funny.
Always liked Brucey mom to us to see the driver when we were kids,if he had been born later would have a main stream star!craig nz
Good lord, he really is like a cowboy O_o
wow
I'm going to catch the one they say can't be caught.The cowboy Desperado. DERN played the detective that was after the driver played by Ryan O'Neal. From the film The Driver.
Please please please Mr. Bruce Dern do a remake of the great sc/fi movie silent running, maybe you cant do the countdown at the end of the movie and i am not sure who you can find who would replace you as the main actor in the new version, but i am sure you would be able to find someone that looks like you, like when the movie was made back in 1972. :)
There is no need for a remake - the original is great.
Bruce On ~Broadway ~
I wish the other guy didn’t interrupt Bruce.
Interviewers do that.
He should have just let Bruce do his thing.
If you’re an actor or a budding actor and if you are not interested in all the minor aspects of a person’s life who is a good actor, then until you gain that fascination for people, you’ll never be a great actor.
Not everyone in life is interesting.
And hey that’s ok. That’s life isn’t it. But this Bruce Derns guy is an interesting guy.
The interviewer had his questions, but did let Bruce expand on his stories. He didn't interrupt the way so many interviewers do. It's a balancing act he did the best he could.
Couldn’t they get a table?
i want to hear him talk about Silent Running. i'm thinking a remake with his unforgettable performance carried off by Matthew McConaughney
It's a perfect movie - there is no need to ever remake it and I hope they don't.
Dern`s grandfather was Secretary of War under Roosevelt.
I hated Bruce for a decade as a lil kid cause he killed John wayne...
Thats a good actor!
He should do a one man show. Great storyteller.
Should I bother watching this? Is "The Burbs" mentioned?
He would make a good Bernie Sanders!
Your right I noticed that too.
I was thinking the same thing !!
dern channel
Never forgave Bruce Dern for the cowardly way he killed John Wayne
frank whaley really though? Smh🙄😂
I didn't like when he did either . but Bruce was playing a character . and it was a movie .. but I get what you're saying .in real life he seems like a nice guy ..I'd never want to meet him lol .
That's okay marshal Dillon got even for the Duke a few years later.
Hitchcock was 5'7"
He still looks pissed off.
Bruce dean killed John wayne in the cowboys movie.
You are supposed to BE...yet you can't figure sound out.
what a good interview! thank you Joshua for allowing bruce to talk .. this is the good story stuff ! its so good when the interviewer allows the interviewee the time of day . Thank YOU