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Albert C. Gannaway
Born(1920-04-03)April 3, 1920
Charlottesville, Virginia
DiedAugust 27, 2008(2008-08-27) (aged 88)
Baltimore, Maryland
Occupation(s)Film director, producer and screenwriter

Albert C. Gannaway (3 April 1920 – 27 August 2008) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

He directed western films such as Hidden Guns (1956),[1] Raiders of Old California (1957), starring Faron Young, Marty Robbins; Buffalo Gun (1961), starring Webb Pierce;[2] Man or Gun (1958), [3] and Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959).[4]

He also directed the pioneer Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956) along Ismael Rodríguez and starring Lon Chaney Jr., Faron Young, Kem Dibbs, Damian O'Flynn, Jacqueline Evans and Bruce Bennett.[5] The song was scored by Gannaway and sang by Hal Levy.[6][7]

The script of Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) was optioned by Gannaway in 1958, but he could not get financing to make the picture.[8] He directed the 1958 drama film No Place to Land, about crop-duster pilots in post-war rural California competing with each other for work and starring John Ireland.[9]

Filmography

Year Title Director Soundtrack Writer
1991 Webb Pierce and Chet Atkins ✓ ✓
1980 Country Diary ✓
1966 Mr. Angel ✓ ✓
1964 Country Music Caravan ✓
1961 Rebellion in Cuba ✓ ✓
Buffalo Gun ✓
1959 Plunderers of Painted Flats ✓ ✓
1958 No Place to Land ✓ ✓
Man or Gun ✓ ✓
1957 Raiders of Old California ✓ ✓
The Badge of Marshal Brennan ✓ ✓
1956 Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer ✓ ✓
Hidden Guns ✓ ✓ ✓
1955 Grand Ole Opry ✓

References

  1. ^ Poggiani, Alessandro (30 September 2016). "Auguri a Angie Dickinson". AgrPress (in Italian). Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  2. ^ Diekman, Diane (15 February 2012). Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins. University of Illinois Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780252094200.
  3. ^ Martin 2015, p. 80.
  4. ^ Martin 2015, p. 147.
  5. ^ "El western "Daniel Boone. El pionero", la noche del miércoles en ATV". Canal Sur (in Spanish). 14 May 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  6. ^ America Film Institute (1997). Gevinson, Alan (ed.). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press. p. 255. ISBN 9780520209640.
  7. ^ Blum, Daniel (1957). Screen World. Vol. 8. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. ISBN 9780819602633.
  8. ^ Dick, Bernard F. (13 January 2015). Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. University Press of Kentucky. p. 202. ISBN 9780813147710.
  9. ^ Beck, Simon D. (6 June 2016). The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Companion. McFarland Publishing. p. 149. ISBN 9781476663494.

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