Kent Osborne (director)

===1970s to 1980s===

===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]].<ref>''The Sleaze Merchants: Adventures in Exploitation Filmmaking from the ’50s to the 90s'', edited by John McCarty - [https://books.google.com/books?id=qFxzCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Cain%27s+Cutthroats%22Kent+Osborne%22&pg=PT76 Al Adamson]</ref><ref>[[American Film Institute]] - [https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/19509 Cain's Way (1970)]</ref> 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.<ref>American Film Institute - [https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/54437 The Ballad of Billie Blue (1972)]</ref><ref>''Celluloid Sermons: The Emergence of the Christian Film Industry, 1930-1986'', By Terry Lindvall, Andrew Quicke - [https://books.google.com/books?id=LJ0UCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22The+Ballad+of+Billie+Blue%22Osborne&pg=PA162 Page 162]</ref> The film premiered in [[Grand Rapids, MI|Grand Rapids]], [[Michigan]] in February, 1972,<ref>Turner Classic Movies - [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/739624/the-ballad-of-billie-blue The Ballad of Billie Blue(1972)]</ref> also opened Thursday April 20, 1972 at the Holland Theatre and was showing for a week. It was nominated for two Image Awards.<ref>''[[The Holland Evening Sentinel]]'', Friday, April 21, 1972 - [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/15934078/ Page 15 'Billie Blue' in Holland]</ref> ''[[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.<ref>''Video Hounds Golden Movie Retrievee'' 2001 - [https://books.google.com/books?id=zhN80fMAmo0C&q=%22Women+Unchained%22Osborne Page xlix]</ref><ref>[[Letterboxd]] - [https://letterboxd.com/film/women-unchained/ Women Unchained 1974 Directed by Ken Osborne]</ref>

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 (actor)|Scott Brady]], Robert Dix, [[Darwin Joston]], and [[Adair Jameson]].<ref>''The Sleaze Merchants: Adventures in Exploitation Filmmaking from the ’50s to the 90s'', edited by John McCarty - [https://books.google.com/books?id=qFxzCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Cain%27s+Cutthroats%22Kent+Osborne%22&pg=PT76 Al Adamson]</ref><ref>[[American Film Institute]] - [https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/19509 Cain's Way (1970)]</ref> 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.<ref>American Film Institute - [https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/54437 The Ballad of Billie Blue (1972)]</ref><ref>''Celluloid Sermons: The Emergence of the Christian Film Industry, 1930-1986'', By Terry Lindvall, Andrew Quicke - [https://books.google.com/books?id=LJ0UCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22The+Ballad+of+Billie+Blue%22Osborne&pg=PA162 Page 162]</ref> The film premiered in [[Grand Rapids, MI|Grand Rapids]], [[Michigan]] in February, 1972,<ref>Turner Classic Movies - [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/739624/the-ballad-of-billie-blue The Ballad of Billie Blue(1972)]</ref> also opened Thursday April 20, 1972 at the Holland Theatre and was showing for a week. It was nominated for two Image Awards.<ref>''[[The Holland Evening Sentinel]]'', Friday, April 21, 1972 - [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/15934078/ Page 15 'Billie Blue' in Holland]</ref> ''[[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.<ref>''Video Hounds Golden Movie Retrievee'' 2001 - [https://books.google.com/books?id=zhN80fMAmo0C&q=%22Women+Unchained%22Osborne Page xlix]</ref><ref>[[Letterboxd]] - [https://letterboxd.com/film/women-unchained/ Women Unchained 1974 Directed by Ken Osborne]</ref>

===1990s to 2000s===

===1990s to 2000s===

==Career (actor)==

==Career (actor)==

His earliest acting roles included ''[[Dragnet (1951 TV series)|Dragnet]]'' in 1954, ''[[Good Morning, Miss Dove]]'' and ''[[The View from Pompey's Head]]''.<ref>Interfilmes.com - [http://www.interfilmes.com/person_1839725_Ken.Osborne.html •Nome, Ken Osborne, Filmes no Site:]</ref>

His earliest acting roles included ''[[Dragnet (1951 TV series)|Dragnet]]'' in 1954, ''[[Good Morning, Miss Dove]]'' and ''[[The View from Pompey's Head]]''.<ref>Interfilmes.com - [http://www.interfilmes.com/person_1839725_Ken.Osborne.html •Nome, Ken Osborne, Filmes no Site:]</ref>

He played the bartender in the 1969 horror film ''[[Nightmare in Wax]]'', a Bud Townsend directed film which starred [[Cameron Mitchell (actor)|Cameron Mitchell]], [[Scott Brady]] and [[Anne Helm]].<ref>EOFFTV - [https://www.eofftv.com/index.php?title=Nightmare_in_Wax_(1969) Nightmare in Wax (1969), CREDITS]</ref> Osborne played the part of Dave Miller in the [[Al Adamson]] directed ''[[Five Bloody Graves]]'', which was released around 1969, 1970.<ref>[[Rotten Tomatoes]] - [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/five_bloody_graves/ Five Bloody Graves (1970)]</ref> 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]].<ref>''Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television'', By Michael Klossner - [https://books.google.com/books?id=hPsJBgAAQBAJ&dq=The+Stoneman+Ewing+Miles+Brown&pg=PA264 Page 264]</ref><ref>Filmweb - [http://www.filmweb.pl/film/The+Stoneman-2002-36876/cast/actors The Stoneman (2002), pełna obsada i twórcy, przejdź do:obsada (23), obsada]</ref>

He played the bartender in the 1969 horror film ''[[Nightmare in Wax]]'', a Bud Townsend directed film which starred [[Cameron Mitchell (actor)|Cameron Mitchell]], [[Scott Brady (actor)|Scott Brady]] and [[Anne Helm]].<ref>EOFFTV - [https://www.eofftv.com/index.php?title=Nightmare_in_Wax_(1969) Nightmare in Wax (1969), CREDITS]</ref> Osborne played the part of Dave Miller in the [[Al Adamson]] directed ''[[Five Bloody Graves]]'', which was released around 1969, 1970.<ref>[[Rotten Tomatoes]] - [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/five_bloody_graves/ Five Bloody Graves (1970)]</ref> 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]].<ref>''Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television'', By Michael Klossner - [https://books.google.com/books?id=hPsJBgAAQBAJ&dq=The+Stoneman+Ewing+Miles+Brown&pg=PA264 Page 264]</ref><ref>Filmweb - [http://www.filmweb.pl/film/The+Stoneman-2002-36876/cast/actors The Stoneman (2002), pełna obsada i twórcy, przejdź do:obsada (23), obsada]</ref>

He passed away at his West Hollywood, California home on February 20, 2024 at age 97 of natural causes.

He passed away at his West Hollywood, California home on February 20, 2024 at age 97 of natural causes.