Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

September 3, 1922

Died

February 15, 2001 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Muskegon, Michigan, USA

Also Known As

Burton Raphael Kennedy
Burton Kennedy

IMDb Profile

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.

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