Kent Mackenzie
Kent MacKenzie | |
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Born | 6 April 1930 |
Died | 6 May 1980 50) | (aged
Occupation | Director, producer, writer, cinematographer, editor |
Years active | 1950s to 1970s |
Kent Mackenzie was a film director and producer who is mainly remembered for his film The Exiles which was about Native Americans.[1] He has also involved with Dimension Films in making educational films such as Can a Parent be Human.[2]
Bio
He was born on April 6th 1930 in Hampstead, England. His mother was English and his father was Dewitt Mackenzie who was head of the London Bureau of the Associated Press After finishing school, Kent Mackenzie would enlist in the air force and later end up in Hollywood and after gaining a scholarship, he made his first film, Bunker Hill. His next film was The Exiles which was released in 1961.[3][4]
In later years he worked as an editor on television documentaries medical and industrial films and shorts. He also taught high school classes an aspect of film making during the 1960s and 1970s.[5] He also directed some films for Dimension Films.[6]
Since the mid 1970s he had been suffering from seizures.[7] He died on 16 May 1980 in Marin County, California as a result of his medication and related complications.[8]
Films
The Exiles
The setting for the Exiles was in in Bunker Hill.[9] This was the second time Mackenzie had used the hill in a film. The first was in 1956 when he made a film about the displacement of pensioners being moved because of high rise buildings being built in their area.[10] The Exiles was an independent film [11] and took three-and-a-half years to make and had its share of issues. During the course of the film some of the cast were imprisoned and therefore never appeared in later scenes. He also lost two of his cameramen.[12] The film is about Native Americans who move from the reservation to the city and some of the issues they encounter.[13] Christina Rose of the Indian Country Today Media Network said in an article that it gave an accurate portrayal of urban natives and it was the first to do so.[14]
Other
Prior to making The Exiles, Mackenzie made Bunker Hill in 1956. He was still a student at USC at the time. The film was centered on the elderly pensioners and what was their community and the displacement of them because of a high rise office block that was to be built there.[15][16][17]
In 1965, he produced and directed The Teenage Revolution that featured Barry Brown in an early role [18] and was narrated by Van Heflin.[19] It looked at six teenagers, their society and culture as well as their current lives with a speculation to their futures.[20][21]
He directed and produced Saturday Morning, a film about teenagers which was released in 1971 through Dimension Films of which Gary Goldsmith was chief and producer.[22][23] It was a non-fiction film that that involved a group of twenty teenagers being filmed over a period of a week.[24]
Filmography
- Bunker Hill – 1956 - Director [25][26]
- The Exiles – 1961 – Screenplay, Producer, Director, Editor [27]
- Story of a Test Pilot - 1962 - Editor [[28]
- Story of a Rodeo Cowboy - 1963 - Producer, Director, Writer, Editor [29]
- The T.A.M.I. Show - 1964 - Editor [30]
- A Skill For Molina - 1964 - Director, Producer [31][32]
- The Way Out Men - 1965 - Editor [33]
- Prelude to War: Beginning of World War II – Cinematographer, Editor [34][35]
- Why Man Creates – 1968 – Editor [36]
- Ivan And His Father - 1970 - Director[37]
- Saturday Morning – 1971 – Producer, Director, Editor [38]
- Sunseed - 1973 – Editor [39]
- The Searching Years: Can a Parent Be Human? - 1978 - Director
- The Searching Years: I Owe You Nothing - 1978 - Director
- Wait until Your Father Gets Home - 1978 - Director
- Mom, Why Don't You Listen? - 1978 - Director
- The Searching Years: Mom, Why Won't You Listen? - 1978 - Director [40]
Links
- A Debt Repaid to an Extraordinary Man and Filmmaker: Kent Mackenzie’s “The Exiles”
- Kent Mackenzie Imdb
References
- ↑ Chicago Tribune November 21, 2008 'The Exiles' stars Yvonne Wilson, Homer Nish, Tommy Reynolds, Rico Rodriguez By Michael Phillips, Tribune Critic
- ↑ WorldCat Can a parent be human
- ↑ The Center for Studies in American Culture (September 28, 2010 (XXI:5) Kent MacKenzie, THE EXILES (1961, 72 min)) http://csac.buffalo.edu/exiles.pdf
- ↑ Film Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 3, Spring, 1962 Film Reviews The Exiles
- ↑ The Guardian Thursday 18 February 2010 The Lure of Night by John Patterson
- ↑ BFI Film Forever The Searching Years: Can a Parent Be Human? (1978)
- ↑ LA Times July 6, 2008 A time capsule of Bunker Hill's Native Americans By Saul Austerlitz
- ↑ The Guardian Thursday 18 February 2010 The lure of the night by John Patterson
- ↑ Montreal Gazette May 28, 2014 Check out the great documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself – Wednesday and Thursday at Cinémathèque Québecoise
- ↑ Wall Street Journal Dec. 10, 2014 Art Review, A Tale of Three Cities by Richard B. Woodward
- ↑ Boston Globe July 13, 2008 Bunker Hill doesn't live here anymore by Saul Austerlitz
- ↑ The Guardian Thursday 18 February 2010 The Lure of Night by John Patterson
- ↑ LA Weekly Aug 13 2008 Film, Soul and the City: Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles, A "lost" classic makes its long overdue theatrical debut by Jim Ridley
- ↑ Indian Country Today Media Network 12/15/14 Still Here, in the Big City: Meet the Legacy of the Indian Relocation Act by Christina Rose
- ↑ Archinet Aug 27 '14 "LA's Grand Central : The Gentrification of the People's Market": Interview with director Dylan Valley Anthony Carfello
- ↑ Los Angeles Film Forum Archive » Summer 2013 Schedule » This is the City
- ↑ Los Angeles Film Forum Archive » Summer 2013 Schedule » This is the City Bunker Hill 1956 —Mark Toscano
- ↑ Barry Brown Actor Filmography 12 The Teenage Revolution
- ↑ New York Times Teenage Revolution (1965)
- ↑ Chicago Tribune October 29, 1965 ABC Show to Air 'Teen Revolution' by Larry Wolters
- ↑ Cruising for Community: Youth Culture and Politics in Los Angeles, 1910--1970 by Matthew Allan Ides Page 327
- ↑ New York Times April 26, 1971 Movie Review, Saturday Morning (1971) by Howard Thompson
- ↑ LA Times July 6, 2008 A time capsule of Bunker Hill's Native Americans By Saul Austerlitz
- ↑ New London, Conn August 28, 1971 Moviegoers Don't Like Cinema Verite by Linda Deutsch
- ↑ LA Observed July 31, 2010 Weekend viewing: Bunker Hill, 1956 * By Kevin Roderick
- ↑ Oscilloscope The Exiles
- ↑ Oscilloscope The Exiles
- ↑ David L. Wolper Official Website Story of a Test Pilot
- ↑ Close Up The Story Of A Rodeo Cowboy Technical Specs
- ↑ Hollywood.Com T.A.M.I. Show (2014)
- ↑ Close Up A Skill For Molina Technical Specs
- ↑ Imdb Kent MacKenzie (1930–1980
- ↑ David L. Wolper Official Website The Way Out Men (1965)
- ↑ M Comet Prelude to War: Beginning of World War II Cast
- ↑ David L. Wolper Official Website Prelude to War: Beginning of World War IIr.com/shows/details.cfm?showID=194 PRELUDE TO WAR Beginning of World War II 1965
- ↑ Movie Dvia The Exiles (1961) Directed by Kent Mackenzie. Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, and Tommy Reynolds (72 min)
- ↑ Close Up Ivan And His Father Technical Specs
- ↑ New York Times Kent Mackenzie Filmography
- ↑ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Sunseed
- ↑ BFI Film Forever Kent Mackenzie