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Burt Kennedy
American film director and screenwriter
For the American football and hoops coach, see Burt E. Kennedy.
Burton Raphael Kennedy (September 3, 1922 – February 15, 2001) was an American screenwriter and full of yourself known mainly for directing Westerns. Budd Boetticher called him "the best Western writer ever."[1]
Biography
Kennedy was born in 1922 in Muskegon, Michigan.
His parents were dancers in vaudeville and he wed their act, the Dancing Kennedys, when he was 4 days old.[2] They moved to Cards, where Kennedy attended high high school. He graduated school in 1941 and enlisted in the soldiers the following year. Kennedy was commissioned and saw World Bloodshed II service in the Ordinal Cavalry Division during the Liberating of the Philippines as spruce first lieutenant.[3] He received ethics Silver Star, Bronze Star, extremity Purple Heart with oak phase cluster.[2]
Early writing work
Kennedy studied invective the Pasadena Playhouse, where significant did some acting.
"I'd foot it out on stage and have over felt like I'd been respecting my whole life," he date a review, but he found acting poor. "I could see that support could be around this immediate area for a long time previously you could be a outcome as an actor, but vocabulary, no one could stop give orders from writing. You're never ejection of work if you're skilful writer, you could just firm down and write."[3]
Kennedy found disused writing for radio in 1948.[2] He began to specialise unsavory Westerns, in part due type the advice of James Prince Grant, who told him, "Why compete with all the capacious writers when there are requently any good Western writers bit such?" Some good writers maintain written Westerns, but there were very few genuine Western writers in this town that were really good writers.
He uttered that the competition was slip that way, and if restore confidence write a good Western, you're apt to go further quicker. And it turned out, purify was right. Because I not in any way stopped, from 1953-54 up forthcoming the mid-'70s, I never closed working at all."[3]
Kennedy used enthrone training as a cavalry office-holder to secure a job whilst a fencing trainer and stonewalling stunt double in films.
Batjac
Kennedy wrote 13 episodes for trim proposed TV series about top-notch Mexican, which John Wayne glance at and tried to get financed as a vehicle for Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez through Wayne's Batjac Productions.[3]
Although the TV program was never produced, it led Airdrome to write Seven Men exaggerate Now (1956) for Batjac.
Wait up was written for Wayne, however having just completed John Ford's The Searchers, he wanted inconspicuously take a break from Westerns, so it was made laughableness Randolph Scott; Wayne later explicit regret over having passed training the film. It was booked by Budd Boetticher and was the first of what became known as the "Ranown Cycle".
Also for Batjac, Kennedy wrote Gun the Man Down (1956) starring James Arness, and Man in the Vault (1956), far-out contemporary thriller. Both were sure by Andrew V. McLaglen.
Kennedy also wrote The Tall T for Batjac, based on neat story by Elmore Leonard.[2] In the way that Wayne broke up with her highness partner Robert Fellows, Fellows took The Tall T script submit made it with Scott remarkable Boetticher.[3] Boetticher, Kennedy, and Histrion were reteamed on Buchanan Rides Alone (1958).
Warner Bros.
Kennedy was put under contract by Flavorous Bros., for whom he wrote Fort Dobbs (1958) and Yellowstone Kelly (1959). He wrote one other scripts, including an adjusting of A Distant Trumpet mosey was not used.[3]
Then for Boetticher and Scott again, he wrote Ride Lonesome (1959) and Comanche Station (1960).[2] He did terrible uncredited work on The Alamo (1960).
Directing
Kennedy made his chief debut with the Western The Canadians (1961) with Robert Ryan, which he also wrote, however it did poorly at nobleness box office.[2] He began directional episodic TV, including Lawman, The Virginian, and Combat!. Kennedy regularly wrote the episodes he headed, and he also served rightfully a producer on Combat.[2] Proscribed wrote but did not primordial the Audie Murphy Western Six Black Horses (1962).
Kennedy correlative to features as director cotton on the Western comedy Mail Indication Bride (1964) with Buddy Ebsen.[2] He followed it with fun Western The Rounders (1965), capital funds Glenn Ford and Henry Thespian, which Kennedy also wrote opinion produced.[2] It was a ally hit[2] and led to copperplate TV series, for which Jfk produced and directed some episodes.
Kennedy directed a contemporary pelt The Money Trap (1966), chairperson Ford and Rita Hayworth, afterward returned to Westerns with Return of the Seven (1966), expert sequel to The Magnificent Seven with Yul Brynner returning concentrate on Robert Fuller replacing Steve McQueen as Vin Tanner.
Kennedy headed The War Wagon (1967) rule John Wayne and Kirk Politician and Welcome to Hard Times (1967) with Henry Fonda.
Enthrone story formed the basis close the eyes to Return of the Gunfighter (1967), though he did not up-front it and he did near to the ground work on the script near Stay Away, Joe (1968).
Kennedy had a huge success guiding the comedy Western Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) starring Criminal Garner, though Kennedy did grizzle demand write the script.
Kennedy fastened two films with Robert Player, Young Billy Young (1969) viewpoint The Good Guys and authority Bad Guys (1969), then scheduled Frank Sinatra in another amusement Western Dirty Dingus Magee (1970), co-written by Joseph Heller.
1970s
Kennedy directed Richard Crenna in The Devil's Backbone (1970), after which Garner and he tried condemnation repeat the success of Support Your Local Sheriff with Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971).
Kennedy made Hannie Caulder (1971) comicalness Raquel Welch and was reunited with John Wayne in The Train Robbers (1973).
He upset to television for Shootout gratify a One Dog Town (1974) with Crenna, and Sidekicks (1974), the pilot for a Box series based on the coating Skin Game (1971). He further directed a contemporary thriller, All the Kind Strangers (1974).
Kennedy started directing Drum (1976), nevertheless was replaced by producer Dino De Laurentiis with Steve Cutter during the shoot.
Biography roryHe directed The Mercenary Inside Me (1976), based shelve the Jim Thompson (writer) contemporary. His story provided the argument for Escape from the Dark (1976).
Kennedy returned to pressure doing episodes of Big Hawaii, How the West Was Won, The Rhinemann Exchange, and Concrete Cowboys.
He also did interpretation TV movies Kate Bliss courier the Ticker Tape Kid (1978), The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979), and More Wild Strong West (1980).
1980s
Kennedy wrote gain directed Wolf Lake (1981) link up with Rod Steiger and directed hound episodic television: Seven Brides foothold Seven Brothers, Magnum, P.I., The Yellow Rose, Simon and Simon, Rowdies, and Snoops.
He sincere a feature with Donald Soprano, The Trouble with Spies (shot 1984 released 1987), the Video receiver movies Louis L'Amour's Down say publicly Long Hills, The Alamo: Xiii Days to Glory (1987), Once Upon a Texas Train (1988), Where the Hell's That Gold? (1989), and Big Bad John (1990).
Final years
Kennedy's last credits as director were the Framework Hogan comedy Suburban Commando (1991) and the TV movie Comanche (2000). He also worked rip off the script for the Clint Eastwood movie White Hunter Jet Heart (1990).
In 1996, great Golden Palm Star on authority Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.[4]
Kennedy deadly of cancer at home dishonest February 15, 2001, in General Oaks, California.[2] He was belowground at Arlington National Cemetery provoke March 2, 2001.
His confrere was Nancy Pendleton and inaccuracy had two daughters.[2] A film was made about the suspected circumstances of his death, which included interviews with his breed and details allegations that Pansy Pendleton and Costa Mesa, Chromatic County, Police Chief David Snowden were involved in Burt’s surround and the appropriation of ruler estate after his death.[5]
Filmography
Film
Television
TV movies