Budd Boetticher is best remembered for a series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.
25 Facts About Budd Boetticher
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Budd Boetticher's mother died in childbirth and his father was killed in an accident shortly afterward.
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Budd Boetticher was adopted by a wealthy couple, Oscar Boetticher Sr.
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Budd Boetticher attended Culver Military Academy, where he became friends with Hal Roach Jr.
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Budd Boetticher was a star athlete at Ohio State University, until an injury ended his sports career.
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Budd Boetticher worked as a crew member on Of Mice and Men and A Chump at Oxford.
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Budd Boetticher stayed on in Hollywood working at Hal Roach Studios doing a variety of jobs.
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Budd Boetticher received an offer to work at Columbia Pictures as an assistant director on The More the Merrier.
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Some were Columbia's most prestigious films and Budd Boetticher was offered the chance to join the studio's directing program.
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Budd Boetticher's first credited film as director was a Boston Blackie film One Mysterious Night.
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Budd Boetticher was commissioned as an Ensign in the US Naval Photographic Science Laboratory.
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Budd Boetticher made documentaries and service films including The Fleet That Came to Stay and Well Done.
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Budd Boetticher directed some films for Eagle Lion, Assigned to Danger and Behind Locked Doors.
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Budd Boetticher got his first big break when he was asked to direct Bullfighter and the Lady for John Wayne's production company, Batjac, based loosely on Budd Boetticher's own adventures studying to be a matador in Mexico.
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Budd Boetticher signed a contract to direct for Universal-International where he specialised in Westerns.
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Budd Boetticher started directing The Americano, an independent film with Ford, but quit.
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Budd Boetticher directed episodes of The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Budd Boetticher finally achieved his major breakthrough when he teamed up with actor Randolph Scott and screenwriter Burt Kennedy to make Seven Men from Now.
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Budd Boetticher was reunited with Scott and Kennedy on The Tall T ; they were joined by producer Harry Joe Brown, who would produce the six remaining films.
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Budd Boetticher directed the first three episodes of the TV series Maverick.
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Budd Boetticher went back to working with Scott: Decision at Sundown ; Buchanan Rides Alone ; and Ride Lonesome.
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Budd Boetticher did a feature, The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond.
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Budd Boetticher spent most of the 1960s south of the border pursuing his obsession, the documentary of his friend, the bullfighter Carlos Arruza, turning down profitable Hollywood offers and suffering humiliation and despair to stay with the project, including sickness, bankruptcy and confinement in both jail and asylum.
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Budd Boetticher returned to Hollywood with the rarely seen A Time for Dying, a collaboration with Audie Murphy shot in 1969 and not released widely until 1982.
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Budd Boetticher provided the story for Don Siegel's Two Mules for Sister Sara.