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Joseph Kane
San Diego, California, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jasper Joseph Inman Kane (19 March 1894, San Diego – 25 August 1975, Santa Monica, California) was a prolific American film director, film p…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jasper Joseph Inman Kane (19 March 1894, San Diego – 25 August 1975, Santa Monica, California) was a prolific American film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter. He is best known for his extensive directorship and focus on western films. Kane began his career as a professional cellist. In 1934 he took an interest in film directing and, starting in 1935, he co-directed serials for Mascot Pictures and Republic Pictures. He soon became Republic's top Western film director. Kane's first directorial credit was for The Fighting Marines (1935). When Mascot Pictures and several other small film companies amalgamated into Republic Pictures in 1935, Kane became staff director, remaining at the studio until it ceased production in 1958. He piloted many Gene Autry and Roy Rogers movies and directed John Wayne in films such as The Lawless Nineties (1936) and Flame of Barbary Coast (1944), and Joseph Schildkraut on The Cheaters (1945). Between 1935 and his death in 1975 he directed 119 films and numerous television series episodes. Unlike most Republic house directors, Kane was also credited as associate producer on many of his films. Between 1939-57 he was a major film producer, producing over 60 films. Kane was also a film editor and screenwriter responsible for the editing process of over 20 of his films, and he had a brief stint as an actor. During the 1950s Kane worked steadily in television, with emphasis on Westerns and action series. He spent the last decade of his life as a second-unit director on such productions as Universal Studios Beau Geste (1966) and In Enemy Country (1968). Kane died on August 25, 1975, in Santa Monica, California.
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1978
Western von gestern
TV show Director
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1975
Smoke In The Wind
Movie Director
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1968
In Enemy Country
Movie Second Unit Director
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1968
Track of Thunder
Movie Director
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1967
The Search for the Evil One
Movie Director
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1966
Bat Men of Africa
Movie Director
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1966
Country Boy
Movie Director
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1959
Laramie
TV show Director
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1958
The Man Who Died Twice
Movie Director
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1958
The Notorious Mr. Monks
Movie Director
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1957
Gunfire at Indian Gap
Movie Director
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1957
The Crooked Circle
Movie Director
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1957
26 Men
TV show Director
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1957
Last Stagecoach West
Movie Director
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1957
The Lawless Eighties
Movie Director
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1957
Spoilers of the Forest
Movie Director
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1957
Duel at Apache Wells
Movie Director
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1956
Accused of Murder
Movie Director
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1956
Broken Arrow
TV show Director
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1956
Thunder Over Arizona
Movie Director
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1956
The Maverick Queen
Movie Director
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1955
The Vanishing American
Movie Director
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1955
Cheyenne
TV show Director
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1955
The Road to Denver
Movie Associate Producer
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1955
Timberjack
Movie Director
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1954
Hell's Outpost
Movie Director
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1954
Jubilee Trail
Movie Director
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1953
Sea of Lost Ships
Movie Associate Producer
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1953
San Antone
Movie Director
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1953
Fair Wind to Java
Movie Director
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1952
Ride the Man Down
Movie Director
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1952
Woman of the North Country
Movie Director
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1952
Hoodlum Empire
Movie Director
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1951
The Sea Hornet
Movie Director
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1951
Fighting Coast Guard
Movie Director
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1951
Oh! Susanna
Movie Director
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1950
California Passage
Movie Director
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1950
The Savage Horde
Movie Director
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1950
Rock Island Trail
Movie Director
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1949
Brimstone
Movie Director
