Ken Osborne

History

Kent Osborne has been in show business since early youth, beginning as a song and dance kid in theatre stage circuits. In his early teens he entered "The American Academy of Theatre Arts" as an actor/director in New York City. At sixteen, he was signed to a 7-year actor contract with "Twentieth Century Fox Studios." While under contract he owned and operated his own Playhouse Theatre, directing, acting and producing plays. At nineteen he wrote, directed and produced his first film - "It Could Happen to You." He wrote and directed the television shows "Meet Milie" and "Tales of Turf and Live by a Star." Osborne was also instrumental in starting the Board of N.A.B.I.T. and the Independent Screen Producers Association, in which he was voted the First official President. In his fifty-four theatrical years, Mr. Osborne has written several novels, many plays and more than 90 screenplays - 40 were sold to other Producers and companies. He has produced and directed more than 26 of his own screenplays into major motion pictures. He has written and directed over 200 commercials, documentaries, industrial and armed forces training films throughout the world. Mr. Osborne was head of production for such production companies as Lee Lacey and Associates, Skylark Productions, Ubang Productions and his own.

Movies

Born on the Fourth of July
Paraplegic #2 - Miami Convention
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Crime of Crimes
Tom Hernandez
A Latino family new to Los Angeles find itself in trouble when the husband is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. His pregnant wife winds up in the hospital, and his little daughter is kidnapped by a child molester.
Women Unchained
Screenplay
They will do anything to get to Mexico... and freedom. From the moment the riot started and the guard is killed, there's no going back for the women of Cell Block 3. The eruption of violence following their escape leaves a trail of death and destruction for those who try to stand in their way!
Women Unchained
Director
They will do anything to get to Mexico... and freedom. From the moment the riot started and the guard is killed, there's no going back for the women of Cell Block 3. The eruption of violence following their escape leaves a trail of death and destruction for those who try to stand in their way!
An Eye for an Eye
Makeup Artist
The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get from their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them.
The Ballad of Billie Blue
Producer
An emotionally touching story of a man who's life was in seeming disrepair, yet God turned it into one of redemption and atonement.
The Ballad of Billie Blue
Writer
An emotionally touching story of a man who's life was in seeming disrepair, yet God turned it into one of redemption and atonement.
The Ballad of Billie Blue
Director
An emotionally touching story of a man who's life was in seeming disrepair, yet God turned it into one of redemption and atonement.
Rebel Rousers
Makeup Artist
In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town to try to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend, Karen, is businessman Paul Collier. Paul and a leader of the cyclists, J.J., knew each other years before, so when the gang comes upon the couple and, led by the menacing Bunny, beats up Paul and begins a sexual assault of Karen, J.J. tries to intervene: he suggests they hold cycle-riding contests, with the winner claiming Karen (he promises, sotto voce, to set her free if he wins). After the contests commence, Paul crawls away to look for help. He meets with a shrug from a cowardly sheriff's deputy; where can he turn?
Cain's Cutthroats
Director
Following the Civil War, Confederate Captain Justice Cain has retired to a quiet life with his young son and black wife. However, the men of his old outfit, known as Cain's Cutthroats, have turned to lives of murder, torture and robbery. They attempt to convince Cain to ride with them once more. He refuses, and the Cutthroats murder his family. Swearing vengeance, Cain teams up with a colorful preacher/bounty hunter, and hunts down his family's killers one at a time.
Hell's Bloody Devils
Bloody Devil (as Kent Osborne)
Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American neo-Nazis sympathetic to the new German cause, led by fugitive war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor); the count has in turn recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work.
Hell's Bloody Devils
Makeup Artist
Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American neo-Nazis sympathetic to the new German cause, led by fugitive war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor); the count has in turn recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work.
Five Bloody Graves
Makeup Artist
A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach, the gunman rides to the rescue of the trapped passengers and helps them in their last stand against the deadly Indians.
Five Bloody Graves
Dave Miller
A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach, the gunman rides to the rescue of the trapped passengers and helps them in their last stand against the deadly Indians.
Blood Of Dracula's Castle
Makeup Effects
Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.
Blood Of Dracula's Castle
Telegram Delivery Man
Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.
Wild Wheels
Writer
A group of surfers use dune buggies to protect their beach from a gang of invading bikers.
Wild Wheels
Director
A group of surfers use dune buggies to protect their beach from a gang of invading bikers.
Nightmare in Wax
Bartender (as Kent Osborne)
The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
The Ice House
Killer
A serial killer who works in an ice house murders women, then brings their bodies back to the ice house and stores them there. He also murders his brother, who is a cop, and takes his place in the investigation.
The Sorcerers
Sound Mixer
The great hypnotist Professor Montserrat has developed a technique for controlling the minds, and sharing the sensations, of his subjects. He and his wife Estelle test the technique on Mike Roscoe, and enjoy 'being' the younger man. But Estelle soon grows to love the power of controlling Roscoe, and the vicarious pleasures that provides. How far will she go, and can the Professor restrain her in time?
Raw Love
Producer
Skeeter lives, loves, and makes moonshine in the backwoods of the United States.
Raw Love
Writer
Skeeter lives, loves, and makes moonshine in the backwoods of the United States.
Raw Love
Director
Skeeter lives, loves, and makes moonshine in the backwoods of the United States.