Burt Kennedy

Born: 1922-09-03, Muskegon, Michigan, USA

Died: 2001-02-15

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.

Filmography

• Magnum, P.I. (1980)
• Simon & Simon (1981)
• The Virginian (1962)
• Lawman (1958)
• Combat! (1962)
• The War Wagon (1967)
• The Train Robbers (1973)
• Hannie Caulder (1971)
• The Rounders (1966)
• Return of the Seven (1966)
• The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
• The Rhinemann Exchange (1977)
• Suburban Commando (1991)
• Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
• Young Billy Young (1969)
• Mail Order Bride (1964)
• The Money Trap (1965)
• Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
• Concrete Cowboys (1979)
• La spina dorsale del diavolo (1970)
• Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
• All the Kind Strangers (1974)
• The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987)
• Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)
• The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979)
• More Wild Wild West (1980)
• Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills (1986)
• The Canadians (1961)
• The Trouble with Spies (1987)
• Big Bad John (1990)