Joseph Kane
Directing
Born 1894-03-19
Died 1975-08-25
San Diego, California, USA
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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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Directing
56 credits
Cheyenne
Laramie
Broken Arrow
26 Men
Western von gestern
Sharad of Atlantis
Dakota
Last Stagecoach West
The Maverick Queen
Sea of Lost Ships
Fighting Coast Guard
Fair Wind to Java
The Cheaters
Oh! Susanna
Wall Street Cowboy
Old Los Angeles
The Lawless Nineties
Jubilee Trail
Flame of Barbary Coast
Hell's Outpost
Colorado
The Sons of the Pioneers
Red River Valley
California Passage
Man from Cheyenne
Boots and Saddles
Robin Hood of the Pecos
King of the Cowboys
Rock Island Trail
The Plunderers
Timberjack
The Sea Hornet
The Road to Denver
Silver Spurs
Hands Across the Border
Young Buffalo Bill
Southward Ho!
Jesse James at Bay
Idaho
The Lawless Eighties
Country Boy
Oh, Susanna
Song of Nevada
Hoodlum Empire
Accused of Murder
The Ranger and the Lady
Spoilers of the Forest
The Savage Horde
The Arizona Kid
Days of Jesse James
Sunset on the Desert
King of the Pecos
In Old Caliente
Brimstone
The Great Train Robbery
Track of Thunder
Producing
18 credits
Dakota
Sea of Lost Ships
Fair Wind to Java
The Cheaters
Oh! Susanna
Red River Valley
Man from Cheyenne
Robin Hood of the Pecos
The Plunderers
The Road to Denver
Southward Ho!
Accused of Murder
The Ranger and the Lady
Spoilers of the Forest
The Savage Horde
The Arizona Kid
Days of Jesse James
Sunset on the Desert
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