Burt Kennedy

Gender: Male
Born: 3rd September 1922
Died: 15th February 2001
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: All the Kind Strangers, Big Bad John, Dirty Dingus Magee, Down the Long Hills, Hannie Caulder, Mail Order Bride, Once Upon a Texas Train, Return of the Seven, Sidekicks, Suburban Commando, Support Your Local Gunfighter!, Support Your Local Sheriff!, The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory, The Canadians, The Concrete Cowboys, The Deserter, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, The Killer Inside Me, The Money Trap, The Rounders, The Train Robbers, The Trouble with Spies, The War Wagon, Welcome to Hard Times, Where the Hell's That Gold?, Wolf Lake, Young Billy Young

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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