While still in his teens, Bruce Abbott discovered the thrill and fulfillment of acting, and followed his dreams to Hollywood.
Insomnia can be incredibly frustrating, but my semi-regular bouts of sleepless nights have had led to my discovering more than a few of the actors I've featured. Usually when I can't sleep, I turn on a sitcom, preferably an episode I've seen before. Usually, by the time the 22 minutes have finished, so have I.
A few weeks ago I awoke around 3 in the morning, turned on the television and started scanning so high up the channel list, I ended up on channels I didn't really know I had. I ended up on an adult channel, not sadly, adult as in erotic, but adult as in senior citizen. I'm sure the channel isn't marketed that way, but it's line up included shows like Matlock and Highway to Heaven, shows my mother used to sit in her lazy boy and watch.
Murder, She Wrote (1991)
The show I caught a few minutes of was Murder, She Wrote, a show I'm not sure I've ever seen an entire episode of. It was on in my house growing up, and I love me some Angela Lansbury, but wasn't ever really a show I was especially drawn to. I discovered though that I liked reruns of the 70's show Columbo in the 2000's, decades after it went off the air, so who knows, maybe 2019 will be the year I get into Murder, She Wrote...
The Blue and the Gray (1982)
At 3a.m in the morning however, the show was a welcome discovery, especially tuning in to see the incredibly sexy face of actor Bruce Abbott. Now, I didn't know who Bruce Abbott was at the time, but an IMBD search of the 1991 episode, Thicker Than Water, provided a little info on an actor I'm surprised I hadn't heard about previously. I didn't make it to the end of the episode, but I did press record on my DVR so I find out 'who done it', when I awoke the next morning.
Out of Time (with Bill Maher, 1988)
Although incredibly hot, there was something so 90's, or maybe so 80's about Abbott's look. The hair, the face, the entire package looked like it belonged in an episode of an eighties drama, or better yet, and eighties or nineties soft-core or straight to VHS erotic romance.
Summer Heat (1987)
Abbott began his career in theatre, as a dancer and actor in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, it was television and film that provided Abbott his biggest opportunities starting in the early eighties. He maybe best known for for his role as Dr. Dan Cain in the cult sci-fi horror films Re-Animator (1985) and it's sequel, Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
As for my 'soft core' comment, Abbott made one of them, sort of. Although there are a few darkly lit love scenes, there wasn't much nudity in his turn in the 1987 flick Summer Heat. Bruce played Jack, the farm hand who draws the eye of Roxy (Lori Singer) a wife who feels neglected by her over worked husband Aaron. (Anthony Edwards). You don't see much (anything...) but I've included a clip below.
Abbott was married to actress Linda Hamilton in 1982 and they have one son Dalton who appeared in Terminator 2: Judgment Day as John Connor as a baby.. Abbott and Hamilton divorced in 1989. and he later met and married actress Kathleen Quinlan.in 1994. Abbott is semi-retired from acting with his last IMDB credit from 2010. He is also works as an architect and artist and works in the custom-design industry
Abbott with Lori Singer and Anthony Edwards
Although the quality is poor (old VHS copy on Youtube) Abbott's 90's hair, and his undies, steal this outtake from the 1991 series Dark Justice
Re-Animator (1985)
Although Abbott wasn't naked in Re-Animator, the zombies attacking him certainly were...
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