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Burt Kennedy
Biography:
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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
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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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 |