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Burt Kennedy

Burt Kennedy

Director · 1922–2001 · Muskegon, Michigan, USA

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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.

Directed 43

2000s

  1. 2000

    Comanche

    Director

1990s

  1. 1991
  2. 1990

    Big Bad John

    Director

1980s

  1. 1989
  2. 1988

    Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

    Director

  3. 1987

    The Trouble with Spies

    Director

  4. 1986

    Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills

    Director

  5. 1983

    The Yellow Rose

    Director

  6. 1982

    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

    Director

  7. 1981
  8. 1980
  9. More Wild Wild West

    Director

  10. Wolf Lake

    Director

1970s

  1. 1979
  2. The Wild Wild West Revisited

    Director

  3. 1978

    Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

    Director

  4. 1977

    Big Hawaii

    Director

  5. The Rhinemann Exchange

    Director

  6. 1976

    The Killer Inside Me

    Director

  7. 1974
  8. Sidekicks

    Director

  9. Shootout in a One-Dog Town

    Director

  10. 1973
  11. 1971
  12. 1970
  13. Dirty Dingus Magee

    Director

1950s

  1. 1958

Wrote 25

2000s

  1. 2000

    Comanche

    Screenplay

1990s

  1. 1990
  2. Big Bad John

    Screenplay

1980s

  1. 1988

    Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

    Writer

  2. 1987

    The Trouble with Spies

    Writer

  3. 1980

    Wolf Lake

    Writer

1970s

  1. 1976

    The Littlest Horse Thieves

    Story

  2. 1973
  3. 1971

1960s

  1. 1969
  2. 1967

    Welcome to Hard Times

    Writer

  3. 1965

    The Rounders

    Screenplay

  4. 1964
  5. 1962

    Six Black Horses

    Writer

  6. 1961
  7. 1960

1950s

  1. 1959

    Yellowstone Kelly

    Screenplay

  2. 1958
  3. 1957
  4. 1956

    Man in the Vault

    Screenplay

Produced 5

1980s

  1. 1988
  2. 1987

    The Trouble with Spies

    Producer

1970s

  1. 1974

    Sidekicks

    Producer

  2. 1971
  3. 1970

    Dirty Dingus Magee

    Producer

Acted in 1

Appearances3

1990s

  1. 1997

    Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

    Self

  2. 1991

    John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende

    Self

1970s

  1. 1973

    Wayne Train

    Self