Albert C. Gannaway
Albert C. Gannaway (April 3, 1920 – August 27, 2008) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
Albert C. Gannaway | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 3, 1920 |
| Died | August 27, 2008 (aged 88) |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer and screenwriter |
Gannaway produced the children's talent program Half-Pint Party on WCBS-TV and was listed as star and co-owner of It's a Small World, an audience-participation TV program that was being filmed in 1952.[1]
He directed western films such as Hidden Guns (1956),[2] Raiders of Old California (1957), starring Faron Young, Marty Robbins; Buffalo Gun (1961), starring Webb Pierce;[3] Man or Gun (1958), [4] and Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959).[5]
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.[6] The song was scored by Gannaway and sang by Hal Levy.[7][8]
The script of Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) was optioned by Gannaway in 1958, but he could not get financing to make the picture.[9] 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.[10]
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
- "Filmcraft producing It's a Small World". Ross Reports. October 12, 1952. p. 5. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
- Poggiani, Alessandro (30 September 2016). "Auguri a Angie Dickinson". AgrPress (in Italian). Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- Diekman, Diane (15 February 2012). Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins. University of Illinois Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780252094200.
- Martin 2015, p. 80.
- Martin 2015, p. 147.
- "El western "Daniel Boone. El pionero", la noche del miércoles en ATV". Canal Sur (in Spanish). 14 May 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- 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.
- Blum, Daniel (1957). Screen World. Vol. 8. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. ISBN 9780819602633.
- Dick, Bernard F. (13 January 2015). Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. University Press of Kentucky. p. 202. ISBN 9780813147710.
- Beck, Simon D. (6 June 2016). The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Companion. McFarland Publishing. p. 149. ISBN 9781476663494.
Bibliography
- Martin, Len D. (13 August 2015). The Republic Pictures Checklist: Features, Serials, Cartoons, Short Subjects and Training Films of Republic Pictures Corporation, 1935-1959. McFarland Publishing. p. 391. ISBN 9781476609607.