Burt Kennedy

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.

Directed

1. Magnum, P.I. (1980) — Director
2. Return of the Seven (1966) — Director
3. The War Wagon (1967) — Director
4. Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) — Director
5. Suburban Commando (1991) — Director
6. The Train Robbers (1973) — Director
7. Hannie Caulder (1971) — Director
8. Combat! (1962) — Director
9. Simon & Simon (1981) — Director
10. Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) — Director
11. Young Billy Young (1969) — Director
12. The Virginian (1962) — Director
13. The Rounders (1965) — Director
14. The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) — Director
15. Welcome to Hard Times (1967) — Director
16. All the Kind Strangers (1974) — Director
17. The Money Trap (1965) — Director
18. The Trouble with Spies (1987) — Director
19. Wolf Lake (1980) — Director
20. The Killer Inside Me (1976) — Director
21. The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979) — Director
22. Once Upon a Texas Train (1988) — Director
23. Dirty Dingus Magee (1970) — Director
24. The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987) — Director
25. Concrete Cowboys (1979) — Director
26. Lawman (1958) — Director
27. Mail Order Bride (1964) — Director
28. The Deserter (1970) — Director
29. More Wild Wild West (1980) — Director
30. Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? (1988) — Director
31. The Yellow Rose (1983) — Director
32. The Rhinemann Exchange (1977) — Director
33. Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills (1986) — Director
34. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982) — Director
35. Big Bad John (1990) — Director
36. The Canadians (1961) — Director
37. Snoops (1989) — Director
38. The Rounders (1966) — Director
39. Sidekicks (1974) — Director
40. Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Three Musketeers (1948)
2. Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western (1997) — Self
3. John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende (1991) — Self
4. Wayne Train (1973) — Self
5. The Making of Comanche (2000) — Self