Albert C. Gannaway
{{short description|American film director}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Albert C. Gannaway
| birth_date = {{birth date|1920|04|03}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|2008|08|27|1920|04|03}}
| death_place = Baltimore, Maryland
| occupation = Film director, producer and screenwriter
}}
Albert C. Gannaway (April 3, 1920 – August 27, 2008) 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.{{cite news |title=Filmcraft producing It's a Small World |url=https://archive.org/details/rossreportstele25ross/page/n36/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=February 14, 2022 |work=Ross Reports |date=October 12, 1952 |page=5}}
He directed western films such as Hidden Guns (1956),{{cite news |url=https://www.agrpress.it/cinema/auguri-a-angie-dickinson-5486 |title=Auguri a Angie Dickinson |first=Alessandro |last=Poggiani |date=30 September 2016 |access-date=10 July 2019 |work=AgrPress |language=it}} Raiders of Old California (1957), starring Faron Young, Marty Robbins; Man or Gun (1958), {{sfn|Martin|2015|p=80}} and Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959).{{sfn|Martin|2015|p=147}}
Buffalo Gun (1961), starring Webb Pierce;{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jGbogMkLPLYC&pg=PA246 |title=Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins |first=Diane |last=Diekman |publisher=University of Illinois Press |date=15 February 2012 |page=246 |isbn=9780252094200}} He also directed Rebellion in Cuba (1961) starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Jake La Motta.p.263 Neagle, Michael E. America's Forgotten Colony: Cuba's Isle of Pines Cambridge University Press; 1st edition 6 July 2017
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.{{cite news |url=http://www.canalsur.es/rtva/el-western-daniel-boone-el-pionero-la-noche-del-miercoles-en-atv/1432233.html |title=El western "Daniel Boone. El pionero", la noche del miércoles en ATV |date=14 May 2019 |access-date=10 July 2019 |work=Canal Sur |language=es}} The songs were scored by Gannaway and sang by Hal Levy.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC&pg=PA255 |title=Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960 |author=America Film Institute |author-link=America Film Institute |editor-first=Alan |editor-last=Gevinson |publisher=University of California Press |year=1997 |page=255 |isbn=9780520209640}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xjKh88s28boC&pg=PA175 |title=Screen World |volume=8 |year=1957 |last=Blum |first=Daniel |publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers |isbn=9780819602633}}
The script of Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) was optioned by Gannaway in 1958, but he could not get financing to make the picture.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mKAeBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA202 |first=Bernard F. |last=Dick |title=Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten |page=202 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |date=13 January 2015 |isbn=9780813147710}} 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.{{cite book |last=Beck |first=Simon D. |title=The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Companion |publisher=McFarland Publishing |date=6 June 2016 |page=149 |isbn=9781476663494 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nh6TDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA149}}
He died on 27 August 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 88.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/albert-gannaway-obituary?id=23533738 |title=Albert Gannaway Obituary |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=1 September 2008 |access-date=17 March 2025 |via=Legacy.com}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 90%; background: #F9F9F9;"
! Year ! Title ! Director ! Soundtrack ! Writer |
| 1991
| Webb Pierce and Chet Atkins | align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | |
| 1980
| Country Diary | | align="center"| ✓ | |
| 1966
| Mr. Angel | align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | |
| 1964
| Country Music Caravan | | align="center"| ✓ | |
| rowspan=2| 1961
| align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | |
| Buffalo Gun
| align="center"| ✓ | | |
| 1959
| align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | |
| rowspan=2| 1958
| align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | |
| Man or Gun
| align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | |
| rowspan=2| 1957
| align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | |
| The Badge of Marshal Brennan
| align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | |
| rowspan=2| 1956
| align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | |
| Hidden Guns
| align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ | align="center"| ✓ |
| 1955
| Grand Ole Opry | | align="center"| ✓ | |
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5HKNAwAAQBAJ |title=The Republic Pictures Checklist: Features, Serials, Cartoons, Short Subjects and Training Films of Republic Pictures Corporation, 1935-1959 |first=Len D. |last=Martin |publisher=McFarland Publishing |date=13 August 2015 |pages=391 |isbn=9781476609607 }}
External links
- {{IMDb name|0304431}}
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Category:American male screenwriters
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