Kent Osborne
Other namesKen Osborne, Kenneth Osborne
Occupation(s)Film director, actor
Years active1956 - 2000s

Kent Osborne aka Ken Osborne is a film director and occasional actor. The films he has directed have mainly been exploitation types. His films include Wild Wheels in 1969, Cain's Cutthroats in 1971, The Ballad of Billie Blue in 1972, Women Unchained in 1974 and Hollywood Confidential in 2008.

Career (director)

1960s

His earliest directorial work includes Raw Love which was released in 1965. It featured Suzanne Anderson and Mike Perry.[1] Osborne both directed the 1996 biker exploitation flick Wild Wheels as well as co-writing the story. The film starred Don Epperson, Robert Dix, Casey Kasem, Terry Stafford, and Dovie Beams who would later find notoriety for her affair with President Ferdinand Marcos.[2][3] During the filming of Wild Wheels, Osborne was shooting a segment with a foreground and background scene. He told the men in the background that he wanted some fighting but he forgot to tell them it was only supposed to be faked. Some of it got carried away and Osborne was yelling at them to stop it and repeatedly to cut.[4]

1970s to 1980s

He found a good degree of success with Cain's Cutthroats aka The Blood Seekers, a sleazy violent vengeance western that was set in the civil war era, which starred John Carradine, Scott Brady, Robert Dix, Darwin Joston, and Adair Jameson.[5][6] Osborne directed and co-wrote the story for The Ballad of Billie Blue, a Christian-themed film with a warning message which was about a country singer who ends up in jail then finds stardom with gospel music.[7][8] The film premiered in Grand Rapids, Michigan in February, 1972,[9] also opened Thursday April 20, 1972 at the Holland Theatre and was showing for a week. It was nominated for two Image Awards.[10] Women Unchained , which he directed was a story about five women who during a riot, try to escape from a maximum security prison and while on the run will do what it takes to get to the Mexican border.[11][12]

1990s to 2000s

In 2008, Hollywood Confidential was released. It starred Vernon Wells, Joe Estevez, James MacPherson, and Jesse Hlubik.

Career (actor)

His earliest acting roles included Dragnet in 1954, Good Morning, Miss Dove and The View from Pompey's Head.[13] He played the bartender in the 1969 horror film Nightmare in Wax, a Bud Townsend directed film which starred Cameron Mitchell, Scott Brady and Anne Helm.[14] Osborne played the part of Dave Miller in the Al Adamson directed Five Bloody Graves, which was released around 1969, 1970.[15] He played the part of Sergeant Osborne in the Ewing Miles Brown film The Stoneman which was released around 2002. The film starred Christopher Atkins, Pat Morita and Robin Riker.[16][17]

Filmography list

Director and other
Title Role Director Year Notes #
Raw Love Director Kent Osborne 1965
The Sorcerers Sound mixer Michael Reeves 1967
Planet of the Apes Makeup artist Franklin J. Schaffner 1968
Wild Wheels Director, writer Kent Osborne 1969
Blood of Dracula's Castle Special makeup effects Al Adamson 1969 As Kenny Osborne
Five Bloody Graves Makeup artist Al Adamson 1969
The Rebel Rousers Makeup artist Martin B. Cohen 1970
Cain's Cutthroats Director, producer
Writer: additional dialogue		 Kent Osborne 1971
Layout for 5 Models Sound recordist John Gaudioz 1972
The Ballad of Billie Blue Director Kent Osborne 1972
An Eye for an Eye Makeup artist Larry G. Brown 1973
Remember Me This Way Sound recordist Bob Foster
Ron Inkpen		 1974 As Ken Osbourne
Women Unchained Director, writer Kent Osborne 1974
Crime of Crimes Boom operator Alfredo Zacarias 1989
Nude Aerobics Director Kent Osborne 1991
The Stoneman production supervisor Ewing Miles Brown 2002
Dismembered Production coordinator Ewing Miles Brown 2003
Hollywood Confidential Director, producer
writer		 Kent Osborne 2008
Behaving Badly Carpenter Juan Drago 2009

[18]

Actor
Title Role Director Year Notes #
Dragnet Thief Jack Webb 1954
The View from Pompey's Head Brother Philip Dunne 1955
Good Morning, Miss Dove Brother Henry Koster 1955
Nightmare in Wax Bartender Bud Townsend 1969
Blood of Dracula's Castle Telegram Delivery Man Al Adamson 1969 As Ken Osborne
The Ice House Killer Stuart McGowan 1969 As Ken Osborne
Five Bloody Graves Dave Miller Al Adamson 1969
Hell's Bloody Devils Al Adamson 1970
Born on the Fourth of July Paraplegic #2 - Miami Convention Oliver Stone 1989
Crime of Crimes Alfredo Zacarias 1989
The Stoneman Sgt. Osborne Ewing Miles Brown 2002 As J. Kenneth Osborne
Hell Is for Bastards Narrator Alex Justinger
Ben Robertson		 2008

[19]

References

  1. ↑ Turner Classic Movies - Raw Love(1965), Cast & Crew
  2. ↑ Wild Beyond Belief!: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s, by Brian Albright - Page 49
  3. ↑ TV Guide - Wild Wheels, Cast & Crew
  4. ↑ Wild Beyond Belief!: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s, by Brian Albright - Page 55 Robert Dix
  5. ↑ The Sleaze Merchants: Adventures in Exploitation Filmmaking from the ’50s to the 90s, edited by John McCarty - Al Adamson
  6. ↑ American Film Institute - Cain's Way (1970)
  7. ↑ American Film Institute - The Ballad of Billie Blue (1972)
  8. ↑ Celluloid Sermons: The Emergence of the Christian Film Industry, 1930-1986, By Terry Lindvall, Andrew Quicke - Page 162
  9. ↑ Turner Classic Movies - The Ballad of Billie Blue(1972)
  10. ↑ The Holland Evening Sentinel, Friday, April 21, 1972 - Page 15 'Billie Blue' in Holland
  11. ↑ Video Hounds Golden Movie Retrievee 2001 - Page xlix
  12. ↑ Letterboxd - Women Unchained 1974 Directed by Ken Osborne
  13. ↑ Interfilmes.com - •Nome, Ken Osborne, Filmes no Site:
  14. ↑ EOFFTV - Nightmare in Wax (1969), CREDITS
  15. ↑ Rotten Tomatoes - Five Bloody Graves (1970)
  16. ↑ Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television, By Michael Klossner - Page 264
  17. ↑ Filmweb - The Stoneman (2002), pełna obsada i twórcy, przejdź do:obsada (23), obsada
  18. ↑ IMDb - Ken Osborne (I), Filmography - Director, Makeup Department, Writer, Sound department, Producer, Art department, Production manager, Miscellaneous Crew
  19. ↑ IMDb - Ken Osborne (I), Filmography, Actor
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