Burt Kennedy
- Directing
- September 3, 1922 · Muskegon, Michigan, USA
- February 15, 2001
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Making of Comanche · Self
- Comanche · Director, Screenplay
- Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western · Self
- Suburban Commando · Director
- John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende · Self
- White Hunter, Black Heart · Screenplay
- Big Bad John · Director, Screenplay
- Snoops · Director
- Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? · Director, Writer
- Once Upon a Texas Train · Producer, Director
- The Trouble with Spies · Director, Writer
- The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory · Director
- Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills · Director
- The Yellow Rose · Director
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers · Director
- Simon & Simon · Director
- Magnum, P.I. · Director
- More Wild Wild West · Director
- Wolf Lake · Director, Writer
- Concrete Cowboys · Director
- The Wild Wild West Revisited · Director
- Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid · Director
- Big Hawaii · Director
- The Rhinemann Exchange · Director
- The Killer Inside Me · Director
- The Littlest Horse Thieves · Story
- All the Kind Strangers · Director
- Sidekicks · Director, Producer
- Shootout in a One-Dog Town · Director
- Wayne Train · Self
- The Train Robbers · Director, Writer
- Hannie Caulder · Director, Screenplay
- Support Your Local Gunfighter · Director, Executive producer
- The Deserter · Director
- Dirty Dingus Magee · Director, Producer
- Young Billy Young · Director, Screenplay
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys · Director
- Support Your Local Sheriff! · Director
- The War Wagon · Director
- Welcome to Hard Times · Director, Writer
- Return of the Gunfighter · Story
- Return of the Seven · Director
- The Rounders · Director
- The Money Trap · Director
- The Rounders · Director, Screenplay
- Mail Order Bride · Director, Writer
- Combat! · Director
- The Virginian · Director
- Six Black Horses · Writer
- The Canadians · Director, Writer
- Comanche Station · Screenplay
- Yellowstone Kelly · Screenplay
- Ride Lonesome · Writer
- Lawman · Director
- Fort Dobbs · Screenplay
- The Tall T · Screenplay
- Man in the Vault · Screenplay
- Gun the Man Down · Screenplay
- 7 Men from Now · Story, Screenplay
- The Three Musketeers