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The Sacketts is a 1979 American made-for-television Western miniseries directed by Robert Totten and starring Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage, and Glenn Ford.Based on the novels The Daybreakers (1960) and Sackett (1961) by Louis L'Amour, the film recounts the story of the Sackett brothers in 1869 who leave their Tennessee home and start a new life together in Santa Fe.
The Sacketts is a two-part TV movie broadcast on May 15 and 16, 1979, based on the novels The Daybreakers and Sackett. It starred Sam Elliott as Tell Sackett, Tom Selleck as Orrin, and Jeff Osterhage as Tyrel, but also featured parts for Western movie veterans, including Glenn Ford , Gilbert Roland , Jack Elam , Slim Pickens , Pat Buttram , Ben ...
Johnson's film career began with the Howard Hughes film The Outlaw. [6] [7]Johnson liked to say later that he got to Hollywood in a carload of horses. [8]His work as a stuntman caught the eye of director John Ford, who hired Johnson for stunt work in the 1948 film Fort Apache, and as the riding double for Henry Fonda. [3]
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Osterhage is of German descent, and began his acting career in a television adaptation of True Grit in 1978 and starred in the 1979 TV movie The Legend of the Golden Gun. He is probably most recognizable to western fans in his role as Tyrel Sackett in the 1979 western The Sacketts , followed by the 1982 The Shadow Riders , both being film ...
When Jess returns home, his family is worried sick, as they neglected to listen when he said he was going, then tells him the horrific news: Leslie died after trying to cross the fallen tree over a rain-swollen creek, only to fall in and drown, possibly hitting her head in the fall. Jess grieves for her, and he and his parents visit hers together.
The Daybreakers is a 1960 novel set in the latter half of 19th-century America (1867), written by Louis L'Amour.It is the first novel that he wrote about a Welsh and English family surnamed Sackett.