BUDD BOETTICHER

Budd Boetticher was a top Hollywood director from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was born in Chicago, but went to Culver Military Academy and Ohio State University, where he played football and boxed. After graduation, he made the unusual decision to go to Mexico, where he became a top bullfighter! He returned to the U.S. and got work as a second unit director on movies, and, not surprisingly, he made some bullfighting related movies. He formed a great partnership with actor Randolph Scott, making a series of movies with macho men seeking revenge for being wronged! He also made some memorable film noir movies. Some of his movies included The Tall T, Ride Lonesome, Comanche Station, Buchanan Rides Alone, The Killer Is Loose, and Seven Men from Now. He intended to make a series of movies with Audie Murphy, but only one was made before Murphy's passing. He was married five times, including to actress Debra Paget, and during that time, he had a mental breakdown and all kinds of awful things happened to him, but he somehow survived, and he passed away in 2001 at the age of 85.