Burt Kennedy
Highest Rated: 100% The Tall T (1957)
Lowest Rated: 13% Return of the Seven (1966)
Birthday: Sep 3, 1922
Birthplace: Muskegon, Michigan, USA
Coming to film from radio Westerns, Kennedy penned "Seven Men from Now" (1956), the first of four collaborations with director Budd Boetticher and the first of three with producer-director Andrew V. McLaglen. Moving from the typewriter to the director's chair by the early 1960s, Kennedy continued for a time creating lean, leathery B's and TV Westerns. He also received acclaim for his gritty WWII action drama, "Combat" (ABC, 1962-67).
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
15% | 33% | Suburban Commando | Director | $6.6M | 1991 |
83% | 62% | White Hunter, Black Heart | Screenwriter | $1.7M | 1990 |
No Score Yet | 85% | Big Bad John | Director | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | 44% | Once Upon a Texas Train |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Texas Guns | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Where the Hell's That Gold? | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dynamite and Gold | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The Trouble With Spies | Director | $57.0K | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 64% | The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory | Director | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Down the Long Hills | Director | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | More Wild Wild West | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wild Wild West Revisited | Director | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | 36% | The Concrete Cowboys | Director | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wolf Lake |
Director, Writer |
- | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honor Guard | Director | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid | Director | - | 1978 |
40% | 25% | The Killer Inside Me | Director | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sidekicks |
Director, Producer |
- | 1974 |
No Score Yet | 23% | All the Kind Strangers | Director | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shootout in a One-Dog Town | Director | - | 1974 |
33% | 58% | The Train Robbers |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 54% | Hannie Caulder |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1971 |
62% | 61% | Support Your Local Gunfighter |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deserter | Director | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | 58% | Dirty Dingus Magee |
Director, Producer |
- | 1970 |
No Score Yet | 33% | Young Billy Young |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1969 |
17% | 28% | The Good Guys and the Bad Guys | Director | - | 1969 |
76% | 82% | Support Your Local Sheriff! | Director | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Welcome to Hard Times |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1967 |
82% | 78% | The War Wagon | Director | - | 1967 |
13% | 34% | Return of the Seven | Director | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | 36% | The Money Trap | Director | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | 55% | The Rounders |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mail Order Bride | Director | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Six Black Horses | Writer | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Canadians | Director | - | 1961 |
100% | 70% | Comanche Station | Screenwriter | - | 1960 |
100% | 83% | The Tall T | Screenwriter | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 30% | Gun the Man Down | Screenwriter | - | 1956 |
100% | 82% | Seven Men From Now | Writer | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 0% | Man in the Vault | Writer | - | 1956 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simon & Simon | Director | 1982-1987 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | Director | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Combat! | Director | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Director | 1962 |