Albert C. Gannaway

Albert C. Gannaway
Born	(1920-04-03)April 3, 1920
Died	August 27, 2008(2008-08-27) (aged 88)
Occupation(s)	Film director, producer and screenwriter

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

Career

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; Man or Gun (1958), [3] and Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959).[4] Buffalo Gun (1961), starring Webb Pierce;[5] He also directed Rebellion in Cuba (1961) starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Jake La Motta.[6]

He produced and directed the pioneer Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956) along Ismael Rodríguez starring Bruce Bennett in the title role along with Lon Chaney Jr., Faron Young, Kem Dibbs, Damian O'Flynn and Jacqueline Evans.[7] The songs were scored by Gannaway and sang by Hal Levy.[8][9]

The script of Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) was optioned by Gannaway in 1958, but he could not get financing to make the picture.[10] 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.[11]

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. "Filmcraft producing It's a Small World". Ross Reports. October 12, 1952. p. 5. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
2. Poggiani, Alessandro (30 September 2016). "Auguri a Angie Dickinson". AgrPress (in Italian). Retrieved 10 July 2019.
3. Martin 2015, p. 80.
4. Martin 2015, p. 147.
5. Diekman, Diane (15 February 2012). Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins. University of Illinois Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780252094200.
6. p.263 Neagle, Michael E. America's Forgotten Colony: Cuba's Isle of Pines Cambridge University Press; 1st edition 6 July 2017
7. "El western "Daniel Boone. El pionero", la noche del miércoles en ATV". Canal Sur (in Spanish). 14 May 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
8. 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.
9. Blum, Daniel (1957). Screen World. Vol. 8. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. ISBN 9780819602633.
10. Dick, Bernard F. (13 January 2015). Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. University Press of Kentucky. p. 202. ISBN 9780813147710.
11. 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.

External links

• Albert C. Gannaway at IMDb