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(',725¶6127( Hallmark Channel has Breaking News, go to www.crownmediapress.com for more images and more information. TWITTER: @HallmarkMovie, @KSorbs, @GailOGrady, @MeredithBax, @GregEvigan FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 31, 2013 Contact: Sheri Helmers, 818-755-2490 [email protected] FOR A LONE RIDER TO FIND HIS HOME ON THE RANGE, +(¶//+$9(72)$&(7+( FIGHT OF HIS LIFE THREE-TIME EMMY® NOMINEE MEREDITH BAXTER, KEVIN SORBO AND THREE-TIME EMMY® 120,1((*$,/2¶*5$'<-2,1:(6%52:1$1'*5(*(9,*$1 ON THE RUGGED TRAILS OF THE WILD WEST IN µ6+$'2:217+(0(6$¶ A HALLMARK MOVIE CHANNEL ORIGINAL WORLD PREMIERE MARCH 23 A hidden family history leads a lone gunfighter to meet his long-lost father in the midst RI D YLROHQW UDQJH ZDU LQ ³6KDGRZ RQ WKH 0HVD´ D +DOOPDUN 0RYLH &KDQQHO 2ULJLQDO :RUOG
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Storyline: Executive Producer: Co-Executive Producers: Producer: Production credit: Directed by: Written by: Director of Photography: Production Designer: Edited by: Casting by: Cast: CREDITS µ6+$'2:217+(0(6$¶ Hallmark Movie Channel In the rugged American West, a lonesome bounty hunter KRSHVWRWUDFNGRZQKLVPRWKHU¶VPXUGHUHUE\Fonfronting the father he never knew. When a dangerous range war breaks out, he jumps in to defend his newfound family and their land, and finds long-kept secrets and hidden alliances KROGWKHFOXHVWRKLVPRWKHU¶VGHDWK Larry Levinson Matthew Fitzsimons Amanda Phillips Atkins Randy Pope Lincoln Lageson A Mediapool production in association with Larry Levinson Productions David S. Cass, Sr. Lee Martin Maximo Munzi Scott H. Campbell David Urbina Penny Perry Amy Reece Wes Brown (Wes Rawlins) Kevin Sorbo (Ray Eastman) Meredith Baxter (Emily Rawlins) *DLO2¶*UDG\0RQD(DVWPDQ (more) +$//0$5.029,(&+$11(/µ6+$'2:217+(0(6$¶± Credits ± Page 2 Greg Evigan (Pete Dowdy) Shannon Lucio (Rosalie Eastman) Barry Corbin (Jake Rawlins) © 2012 Mediapool, LLC -- HALLMARK MOVIE CHANNEL-- µ6+$'2:217+(0(6$¶ CAST BIOS KEVIN SORBO (Ray Eastman) ± For seven years, Kevin Sorbo played the hulking, heroic leDGLQ86$1HWZRUN¶V³+HUFXOHV 7KH/HJHQGDU\-RXUQH\V´DUROHWKDWPDGHKLPDVWDU But the self-described jock from Minnetonka, Minnesota (the home of Tonka Toys), the fourth of five kids, got the acting bug at age 11 seeing something quite different ± the musical Oklahoma DQG6KDNHVSHDUH¶VThe Merchant of Venice DW0LQQHDSROLV¶VIDPHG*XWKULH7KHDWHU Though he made his first commercial - for Target - while attending the University of Minnesota, Sorbo graduated from Moorehead State University in Fargo, North Dakota, with a dual degree in advertising and marketing. In 1982, after college, Sorbo moved to Texas, where he began studying acting in earnest. A model friend there convinced him to travel to Europe, where he stayed for three years, building a tremendous commercial reel, with spots shot in cities from Milan and Munich to Paris and London. Within days of his return to the States in 1985, he shipped off to Australia for new commercial assignments, returning to L.A. six months later. Sorbo remained in demand through the early 90s, for both television and commercial work ± he estimates appearing in 57 spots in the three years prior to being cast as Hercules. $IWHUDSSHDULQJLQVXFKVHULHVDV³0XUGHU6KH:URWH´³&KHHUV´DQG³7KH&RPPLVK´DQGDIWHU
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