Albert C. Gannaway

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

Albert C. Gannaway
Born(1920-04-03)April 3, 1920
Charlottesville, Virginia
DiedAugust 27, 2008(2008-08-27) (aged 88)
Baltimore, Maryland
OccupationFilm 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. 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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