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Burt Kennedy

Burt Kennedy
  • Name: Burt Kennedy
  • Birthday: 1922-09-03
  • Place of birth: Muskegon, Michigan, USA
  • Popularity: 2.458
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... Read More

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Title Release date
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western   as  Self 1997-07-27
John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende   as  Self 1991-01-31
Wayne Train   as  Self 1973-02-07
The Three Musketeers 1948-10-20