
2000
Comanche
The heart warming true story of the only U.S. survivor of The Battle of Little Big Horn... the horse named Comanche.
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Filmmaker
Born
1922-09-03 · 78 yrs
Died
2001-02-15
From
Muskegon, Michigan, USA
Known for
Directing
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.…
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