Stars fall on Lone Pine
Celebrity guests highlight 25th Anniversary Film Festival
Bruce Boxleitner
Bruce Boxleitner is noted for his television starring roles in “How the West Was Won,” “Scarecrow and Mrs. King,” “and “Babylon 5.” His diverse talents are demonstrated in two sci-fi novels with Western settings that he wrote: “Frontier Earth” and “Searcher.” He worked as a model for Estee Lauder For Men in addition to having several film appearances, including “Gods and Generals,” “Dead Space: Downfall,” “Snakehead Terror,” “The Legion of the Dead,” “Tron” and “Tron Legacy.” Other television appearances for Mr. Boxleitner include “Hawaii Five-O,” “Crossing Jordan,” “Chuck” and “Heroes.” This will be Mr. Boxleitner’s third appearance at the Film Festival.
Cheryl Rogers-Barnett
Cheryl Rogers-Barnett is the adopted daughter of Roy Rogers and his first wife, Arline, who died of complications following childbirth when Cheryl was 6 years old. While on a personal appearance tour in Texas, Roy stopped off in Dallas and visited the babies at Hope Cottage. As Roy told it, all the babies in the nursery would cry whenever he leaned over their cribs and tickled them under the chin. All, that is, except Cheryl, who grasped his finger, smiled and cooed. He said it was love at first sight and he couldn’t wait to take her home to Arline. A year following Arline’s death, Roy married his co-star Dale Evans on New Year’s Eve of 1947 and, as they
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say, the rest is history. Cheryl’s acting career was extremely brief. As a child she was introduced in the film feature “Meet Roy Rogers,” and she had a line in “Trail of Robin Hood” and in the “Outlaws of Paradise Valley” episode of the Roy Rogers TV Show. Cheryl has authored “Cowboy Princess” and “The All American Cowboy Grill.” She is currently on the Advisory Board of the Western Music Association and is included in the History Channel project, “When Cowboys Were King.” Cheryl and her husband, Larry, live in Washington, Utah. They have seven grown children and 14 grandchildren.
Larry Maurice
Larry Maurice is Lone Pine’s favorite Cowboy Poet and Master of Ceremonies. Not only has Maurice been a familiar, friendly face and voice at the Lone Pine Film Festival for many years, but he has spent the last 20 years as a cowboy, horse wrangler and packer in the Eastern Sierra and the high deserts of Nevada. Over the last few years, he has had to juggle his need to be on horseback with his busy entertainment schedule. Maurice is a sought-after entertainer, not only for his cowboy poetry that speaks from the heart of the day-to-day cowboy, but also for his ability to breathe life into the history of the American West. From the Thursday Night Museum Gala, to the closing campfire in the park on Sunday, Maurice will keep things moving along with aplomb and good humor. His participation in the festival is underwritten by the Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
Craig Barron
Craig Barron is an AcademyAward winning visual effects supervisor who is also a filmmaker, entrepreneur and film historian.
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Barron has been an innovator in the cinematic technique of creating illusions for the past two decades and has contributed to the visual effects on more than 100 films. He was co-founder and head of the visual-effects company, Matte World Digital, and is a member of the Academy Board of Governors, representing the visual effects branch.
he received excellent reviews, and more than 60 episodes of shows as varied as “The Loretta Young Show,” “Climax,” “Have Gun, Will Travel” and “Sheriff of Cochise.” It was an episode of the Zane Grey Theater titled “The Sharpshooter” in which he first played the role that would take him to stardom as the son of Lucas McCain, played by Chuck Conners. In 1959, Johnny was nominated for an Emmy for his work in “The Rifleman,” the same year his brother Bobby was nominated for acting in “Playhouse 90.” That same year, their father was nominated for editing the The Bob Cummings Show. While still working on the series, Johnny embarked on a successful recording career that resulted in five Top 40 chart hits over the next few years. Since the series ended Johnny has continued his career as an actor, while performing as a singer and in recent years the leader of a very popular dance band.
Ben Burtt
Sound editor Ben Burtt has played a crucial role in creating the magical ambiance of George Lucas’ classic sci-fi fantasy adventure series Star Wars and Indiana Jones; it was he who created the “voices” for R2D2, Chewbacca and E.T. In addition to his brilliant work with Lucas, Burtt has also worked on numerous other fantasy films during the ’70s and ’80s.
Johnny Crawford
Although remembered today primarily for his role as Mark McCain in the very popular TV series “The Rifleman,” Crawford has had a long and varied career as an actor, singer and popular band leader. He began as one of Walt Disney’s 24 original Mousketeers in 1955. He subsequently appeared in the Lux Video Theatre episode titled “Little Boy Lost,” for which
Sylvia Durando
Sylvia got her start in the business in 1949, when her mother, who worked with Hollywood studios locating horses for various productions, helped land her daughter a part as a male sulky driver in the motion picture “The Great Dan Patch” (1949). The legendary stuntwoman Audrey Scott, who was to become a mentor to Sylvia, performed the main stunt work. Sylvia graduated high school in 1952 and married in 1953, using her surname (Martinez) for the remainder of her film career, which consisted of doing stunt work and doubling in movies for more than 30 years. Hollywood does not allow both to be done today. Some of the feature films that Sylvia worked in were “Jailhouse Rock”(1957) with Elvis Presley, “The Big Circus” (1959) with Victor Mature, “One Eyed Jacks” (1961) with Marlon Brando, “Taras Bulba” (1962) with Tony
Curtis and Yul Brynner and “Kitten with a Whip” (1964) with Ann Margret and John Forsythe, among others. One of her fondest memories was working as the stunt woman and double for leading lady Nancy Gates in Randolph Scott’s “Comanche Station” (1960), directed by Budd Boetticher in Lone Pine. Sylvia has two children, five grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren and lives in Three Rivers.
Diamond Farnsworth
Diamond Farnsworth is an accomplished stuntman, serving as stunt coordinator on the show “NCIS,” and before that working on “JAG” and “Quantum Leap.” He is the son of Academy Award-winning actor/stuntman Richard Farnsworth, who was also a onetime guest of the Festival. Diamond began his stunt career in 1968 and has been serving as a stunt coordinator since 1980. He began with “Paint Your Wagon” and served as a stunt double for Sylvester Stallone in “First Blood,” “Rambo” and “Rhinestone.” He has also doubled Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid and Jeff Bridges. On the big screen, he’s been stunt coordinator for such major motion pictures as “Rambo: First Blood Part II” (1985), “The Big Easy” (1986), “No Way Out” (1987) and “The Dead Pool” (1988). He has loaned a pair of chaps to the museum, which belonged to Ken Maynard and were given to his father Richard by the famous western star.
Ed Faulkner
The very first time Ed Faulkner went on location was to Lone Pine for a “Have Gun, Will Travel” episode called “The Road to Wickenburg.” One of our favorite “bad guys” who is really a good guy, Ed has worked with John Wayne in six films, including “The Green Berets,” “The