Gordon Kay (6 September 1916 - 8 March 2005) was an American film producer who specialised in Westerns, working mostly at Republic Studios where he produced 26
Allan "Rocky" Lane westerns beginning in 1947 and
Universal International
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Audie Murphy
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'Gordon Kay, 88; Produced Westerns for Republic, Universal', ''Los Angeles Times'', March 23, 2005
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Select credits
*'' Carson City Raiders'' (1948)
*''Code of the Silver Sage
''Code of the Silver Sage'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by Fred C. Brannon and starring Allan Lane.
Plot
Cast
*Allan Lane as Lieutenant Rocky Lane
*Eddy Waller as Nugget Clark
*Roy Barcroft as Hulon Champion
* Kay Christopher a ...
'' (1950)
*'' Gunmen of Abilene'' (1950)
*'' Salt Lake Raiders'' (1950)
*'' Hell Bent for Leather'' (1960)
*'' Seven Ways from Sundown'' (1960)
*''Posse from Hell
''Posse from Hell'' is a 1961 American Western film directed by Herbert Coleman and starring Audie Murphy and John Saxon.
Plot
In 1880 four escapees from death row, Crip, Leo, Chunk, and Hash ride into the town of Paradise and enter the Rosebu ...
'' (1961)
*'' Six Black Horses'' (1962)
*'' Showdown'' (1963)
*''Bullet for a Badman
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'' (1964)
*'' Gunpoint'' (1966)
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Film producers from New York (state)
1916 births
2005 deaths
Film producers from Massachusetts
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