Burt Kennedy
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 3, 1922, Muskegon, Michigan, USA
- Died
- February 15, 2001
- Movies
- 47
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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 Now. In the 1960s, after also becoming a film director, Kennedy moved on to write for western television programs.
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2000 | The Making of Comanche | Self |
| 1997 | Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Self |
| 1991 | John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende | Self |
| 1973 | Wayne Train | Self |
| 1948 | The Three Musketeers |
Directing, Writing & Producing
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