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The Fighting Kentuckian is a 1949 American Adventure Western film written and directed by George Waggner and starring John Wayne, who also produced the film. The supporting cast featured Vera Ralston; Philip Dorn; Oliver Hardy (of Laurel & Hardy) portraying Wayne's portly sidekick; Marie Windsor; John Howard; Hugo Haas; Grant Withers and Odette ...
The Kentuckian is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Burt Lancaster, who also stars. This is one of only two films that Lancaster directed (the other was The Midnight Man ), and the only one for which he has sole credit.
American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (1907–1979) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He frequently worked in minor roles with director John Ford and when Raoul Walsh suggested him for the lead in The Big Trail (1930), an epic Western shot in an early widescreen process ...
John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Estelita Rodriguez, Claude Akins: La sceriffa/The Sheriff: Roberto Bianchi Montero: Tina Pica, Ugo Tognazzi, Livio Lorenzon: Italy: Spaghetti Western comedy, credited as the first Spaghetti Western: These Thousand Hills ...
Kentucky's sceneries are not new to the big screen as movies including “Coal Miner's Daughter," "How the West Was Won," "The Kentuckian" and "Stripes" were filmed in the state more than 40 years ...
He began doing stunts in 1949 on The Fighting Kentuckian, doubling for John Wayne. The two became pals and Hayward subsequently stunted and doubled for Wayne on nearly two dozen of the latter's films. [ 2 ]
The Kentuckian may refer to: The Kentuckian, a 1955 Technicolor and CinemaScope adventure film; The Kentuckian, 1954 painting by Thomas Hart Benton based on the film; The Kentuckian, a short silent black and white western film; The Kentuckians 1921 American silent drama film by Charles Maigne.
Teague had been John Wayne's stunt double for many years and was able to show him the ropes. Chuck also resembled John Carrol whom Roberson doubled in his first picture, Wyoming (1947). He played small roles and stunted in other roles in the same film.