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.
Crew
Ride, Ranger, Ride
Director
Rough Riders' Round-up
Director, Producer
Days of Jesse James
Associate Producer, Director
Flame of Barbary Coast
Director
Accused of Murder
Director, Producer
Boots and Saddles
Director
Bad Man of Deadwood
Director, Producer
The Man Who Died Twice
Director
Springtime in the Rockies
Director
The Carson City Kid
Director, Story
Cowboy and the Senorita
Director
Sheriff of Tombstone
Director
Billy The Kid Returns
Director
Hands Across the Border
Director
The Border Legion
Director, Producer
Sharad of Atlantis
Director
King of the Pecos
Director
Thunder Over Arizona
Director
Under Western Stars
Director
Dakota
Director, Associate Producer
In Old Cheyenne
Producer, Director
The Notorious Mr. Monks
Director
The Crooked Circle
Director
The Lawless Nineties
Director
The Arizona Kid
Producer, Director
Red River Valley
Producer, Director
King of the Cowboys
Director
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Director
Southward Ho!
Producer, Director
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Director
The Old Barn Dance
Director
The Road to Denver
Associate Producer, Director
Man from Music Mountain
Director
Git Along Little Dogies
Director
The Maverick Queen
Director
Man from Cheyenne
Director, Producer
South of Santa Fe
Director, Producer
Heart of the Golden West
Producer, Director
The Ranger and the Lady
Director, Producer
Sunset on the Desert
Director, Producer
Shine On Harvest Moon
Director
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Director, Associate Producer
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Director
Duel at Apache Wells
Director
The Cheaters
Director, Associate Producer
The Savage Horde
Director, Producer
The Plunderers
Director, Associate Producer
The Vanishing American
Director
Public Cowboy No. 1
Director
Romance on the Range
Director
The Gallant Legion
Director
The Lawless Eighties
Director
The Fighting Marines
Director
The Sagebrush Troubadour
Director
Heart of the Rockies
Director
Jesse James at Bay
Director
Sons of the Pioneers
Director
Frontier Pony Express
Director
Saga of Death Valley
Director
Last Stagecoach West
Director
Man from Music Mountain
Director
Gold Mine in the Sky
Director
Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
Director
The Plainsman and the Lady
Director
Fair Wind to Java
Director, Associate Producer
Oh! Susanna
Director, Producer
Fighting Coast Guard
Director
Young Buffalo Bill
Director
Wall Street Cowboy
Director
In Enemy Country
Second Unit Director
Spoilers of the Forest
Director, Producer
Rock Island Trail
Director
Ride the Man Down
Director, Associate Producer
California Passage
Director
The Great Train Robbery
Director
Arson Racket Squad
Director
Young Bill Hickok
Director, Associate Producer
In Old Sacramento
Director
Round-Up Time in Texas
Director
Woman of the North Country
Director
Gunfire at Indian Gap
Director
The Search for the Evil One
Director
Sea of Lost Ships
Director, Associate Producer
Smoke In The Wind
Director
Bat Men of Africa
Director
The Boss of Rustler's Roost
Editor
