Joseph Kane
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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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Movies (132)
Smoke In The Wind
1975 · Director
In Enemy Country
1968 · Second Unit Director
Track of Thunder
1968 · Director
The Search for the Evil One
1967 · Director
Country Boy
1966 · Director
Bat Men of Africa
1966 · Director
The Man Who Died Twice
1958 · Director
The Notorious Mr. Monks
1958 · Director
Gunfire at Indian Gap
1957 · Director
The Crooked Circle
1957 · Director
Last Stagecoach West
1957 · Director
The Lawless Eighties
1957 · Director
Spoilers of the Forest
1957 · Director, Producer
Duel at Apache Wells
1957 · Director
Accused of Murder
1956 · Director, Producer
Thunder Over Arizona
1956 · Director
The Maverick Queen
1956 · Director
The Vanishing American
1955 · Director
The Road to Denver
1955 · Associate Producer, Director
Timberjack
1955 · Director
Hell's Outpost
1954 · Director
Jubilee Trail
1954 · Director
Sea of Lost Ships
1953 · Associate Producer, Director
San Antone
1953 · Director
Fair Wind to Java
1953 · Director, Associate Producer
Ride the Man Down
1952 · Director, Associate Producer
Woman of the North Country
1952 · Director
Hoodlum Empire
1952 · Director
The Sea Hornet
1951 · Director
Fighting Coast Guard
1951 · Director
Oh! Susanna
1951 · Director, Producer
California Passage
1950 · Director
The Savage Horde
1950 · Director, Producer
Rock Island Trail
1950 · Director
Brimstone
1949 · Director
The Last Bandit
1949 · Director
The Plunderers
1948 · Director, Associate Producer
The Gallant Legion
1948 · Director
Old Los Angeles
1948 · Director
Wyoming
1947 · Director
The Plainsman and the Lady
1946 · Director
In Old Sacramento
1946 · Director
Dakota
1945 · Director, Associate Producer
The Cheaters
1945 · Director, Associate Producer
Flame of Barbary Coast
1945 · Director
Song of Nevada
1944 · Director
The Yellow Rose of Texas
1944 · Director
Cowboy and the Senorita
1944 · Director
Hands Across the Border
1944 · Director
Man from Music Mountain
1943 · Director
Silver Spurs
1943 · Director
Song of Texas
1943 · Director
King of the Cowboys
1943 · Director
Idaho
1943 · Director
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942 · Director
Heart of the Golden West
1942 · Producer, Director
Sunset Serenade
1942 · Director
The Sons of the Pioneers
1942 · Director
Romance on the Range
1942 · Director
Sunset on the Desert
1942 · Director, Producer
South of Santa Fe
1942 · Director, Producer
Man from Cheyenne
1942 · Director, Producer
Red River Valley
1941 · Producer, Director
Jesse James at Bay
1941 · Director
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941 · Director, Producer
Rags to Riches
1941 · Director
Nevada City
1941 · Director
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941 · Director
In Old Cheyenne
1941 · Director, Producer
The Great Train Robbery
1941 · Director, Associate Producer
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941 · Director, Associate Producer
The Border Legion
1940 · Director, Producer
Young Bill Hickok
1940 · Director, Associate Producer
Colorado
1940 · Director
The Ranger and the Lady
1940 · Director, Producer
The Carson City Kid
1940 · Director, Story
Young Buffalo Bill
1940 · Director
Days of Jesse James
1939 · Associate Producer, Director
Saga of Death Valley
1939 · Director
The Arizona Kid
1939 · Producer, Director
In Old Monterey
1939 · Director
Wall Street Cowboy
1939 · Director
In Old Caliente
1939 · Director
Frontier Pony Express
1939 · Director
Southward Ho!
1939 · Director, Producer
Rough Riders' Round-up
1939 · Producer, Director
Shine On Harvest Moon
1938 · Director
Come On, Rangers
1938 · Director
Billy The Kid Returns
1938 · Director
Man from Music Mountain
1938 · Director
Gold Mine in the Sky
1938 · Director
Under Western Stars
1938 · Director
Arson Racket Squad
1938 · Director
Born to Be Wild
1938 · Director
The Old Barn Dance
1938 · Director
Springtime in the Rockies
1937 · Director
Boots and Saddles
1937 · Director
Heart of the Rockies
1937 · Director
Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
1937 · Director
Public Cowboy No. 1
1937 · Director
Come on, Cowboys
1937 · Director
Gunsmoke Ranch
1937 · Director
Git Along Little Dogies
1937 · Director
Round-Up Time in Texas
1937 · Director
Paradise Express
1937 · Director
The Old Corral
1936 · Director
Ride, Ranger, Ride
1936 · Director
Ghost Town Gold
1936 · Director
Oh, Susanna
1936 · Director
Guns and Guitars
1936 · Director
Sharad of Atlantis
1936 · Director
The Lonely Trail
1936 · Director
King of the Pecos
1936 · Director
The Lawless Nineties
1936 · Director
Darkest Africa
1936 · Director
The Sagebrush Troubadour
1935 · Director
The Fighting Marines
1935 · Director
Melody Trail
1935 · Director
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1935 · Director
I Love That Man
1933 · Editor
Strictly Personal
1933 · Editor
70,000 Witnesses
1932 · Editor
Young Bride
1932 · Editor
Suicide Fleet
1931 · Editor
The Big Gamble
1931 · Editor
Lonely Wives
1931 · Editor
Her Man
1930 · Editor
The Pride of Pawnee
1929 · Writer
The Bronc Stomper
1928 · Editor
The Boss of Rustler's Roost
1928 · Editor
The Cherokee Kid
1927 · Story
Riding for Life
1925 · Story
