Burt Kennedy
Directing
Born September 3, 1922 · Muskegon, Michigan, USA
Died February 15, 2001
Also known as Burton Raphael Kennedy · Burton Kennedy
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Burt Kennedy (September 3, 1922 - February 15, 2001) was an American screenwriter and director known for mainly directing film Westerns. After World War II service in the 1st Cavalry Division, Muskegon, Michigan-born Kennedy found work writing for radio, then used his training as a cavalry officer to secure a job as a fencing trainer and fencing stunt doubles in films. That led to Kennedy being hired to write for a television program with a fencing theme for John Wayne's Batjac productions. Although the TV program was never produced it led the young writer to write screenplays for a number of Batjac films starting with the 1956 film Seven Men from Now. In the 1960s, after also becoming a film director, Kennedy moved on to write for western television programs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Burt Kennedy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Silver Star
Filmography35 titles
Combat!
Magnum, P.I.
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Mail Order Bride
The Tall T
The Littlest Horse Thieves
The War Wagon
Fort Dobbs
7 Men from Now
The Three Musketeers
Simon & Simon
Comanche Station
Ride Lonesome
Support Your Local Gunfighter
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
The Deserter
The Virginian
Gun the Man Down
White Hunter Black Heart
The Train Robbers
Hannie Caulder
Return of the Gunfighter
Return of the Seven
Yellowstone Kelly
All the Kind Strangers
Young Billy Young
Six Black Horses
Man in the Vault
The Rounders
Welcome to Hard Times
Once Upon a Texas Train
Concrete Cowboys
Suburban Commando
The Trouble with Spies
Dirty Dingus Magee