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Undefeated,” “Chisum” and “Rio Lobo,” and to participate in the John Wayne tours. He has numerous television credits, including several Western series, some of which brought him to Lone Pine on location, including “Rawhide,” “Gunsmoke,” “Laramie,” “Iron Horse” and “The Virginian.” We are very happy to have him back in Lone Pine for our 25th Anniversary.
Loren Janes
Loren Janes again joins us to share his experiences and insights concerning stunt work as well as his experiences filming “How the West Was Won” in the Alabama Hills. Loren worked with Steve McQueen as his stunt double on “Nevada Smith,” also filmed locally. Janes has attended every Festival and serves an active role as a board member for the Lone Pine Film History Museum. He ranks alongside Dar Robinson, Hal Needham and Yakima Canutt for his contributions to movie stunt work. Janes has lent his athletic skills to many amazing stunt sequences in more than 130 feature films, and has doubled for some of Hollywood’s biggest stars including Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson and even Debbie Reynolds in a career spanning nearly half a century. He has contributed his talents to such spectacular films as “The Ten Commandments” (1956), “Spartacus” (1960), “The Magnificent Seven” (1960), “Planet of the Apes” (1968), “The Towering Inferno” (1974) and “Beverly Hills Cop” (1984). Ruggedly handsome, Janes has also had minor acting roles in more than a dozen Hollywood feature films. In 2001, well known Western actor and fellow 2013 Festival guest L.Q. Jones presented Janes with the Golden Boot Award for his lifetime
Wyatt McCrea
Wyatt McCrea was born in Los Angeles as part of the fifth generation of a California family. His grandfather was Joel McCrea, famous as a cowboy star from the second half of the handsome actor’s career when he made many classic Westerns. Joel made “Cattle Empire” in Lone Pine and “Cattle Drive” in Death Valley. Wyatt’s grandmother was Frances Dee, a striking leading lady who made more than 40 films before deciding to focus on family and raising her and Joel’s three sons. Wyatt McCrea spent the bulk of his professional career in real estate and financial services, in addition to preserving the history of his filmmaking family. McCrea is an associate board member for the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and a member of both the Rodeo Historical Society and American Quarter Horse Association, among many other professional and Western responsibilities.
Donna Martell
Donna Martell, initially using a screen name of Donna De Mario, began her Hollywood career around 1947, with her first major role as the ingenue in “Apache Rose” (1947) starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Other Western film credits include “Hills of Utah” and “Twilight on the Rio Grande” with Gene Autry, “Ten Wanted Men” with Randolph Scott, “Last of the Desperadoes” with James Craig and “Robin Hood of Monterey” with Gilbert Roland (as the Cisco Kid). During the late 1940s to early 1950s, she appeared in a variety of female leads, supporting roles and bits – she was at Monogram with
Johnny Sheffield in “Bomba,” the Jungle Boy flick; with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in a couple of their later comedies; with Western singer/musician Tex Williams at Universal; at 20th Century Fox as the sister to Jennifer Jones in the big budget “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” (1955); and as the female lead in the low budget sci-fi “Project Moonbase” (1953), which shot scenes in Death Valley. Donna had small roles in Kim, The Golden Hawk and The Egyptian, which shot scenes in Death Valley. Some television credits include “Bonanza,” “Tales of Wells Fargo,” “Cheyenne,” “Bat Masterson,” “The Range Rider” and “77 Sunset Strip.” Donna was married to baseball player Gene Corso. In later years, she has done a variety of TV commercials.
Dawn Moore
Dawn Moore’s personal and public personae have followed a path less traveled. Successfully navigating 35-plus years in luxury retail honed her eye for intriguing design whether found in the sparkle of a diamond drop, the curve of an 18th century rococo console or a 1940s hand-tooled leather Bohlin gun belt. Moore began her career in the highfashion arena of luxury retail and enjoyed stints as Regional U.S. Sales Director at the legendary Harry Winston and Mikimoto before launching into interior design, marketing and e-commerce. As an expert in her field, she has appeared on E!, “Entertainment Tonight,” CBS News, “EXTRA” and Access Hollywood and has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Business Journal, WWD, Angeleno, L.A. Confidential, National Jeweler and GIA’s “The Loupe.” She has also written articles on interior design, lifestyle and jewelry trends for The Huffington Post, C, Distinction, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs Life, Beverly Hills Courier and GIA on-line. Her No. 1 job as Torch Bearer for her father Clayton Moore’s legacy as the iconic western hero The Lone Ranger takes pride of place.
David Rothel
Author David Rothel’s lifelong fascination with show business began with frequent visits to the three movie theatres in Elyria, Ohio, where he was intrigued and inspired by what he saw on the silver screen. He has since gone from youthful observer to published authority on various aspects of popular entertainment, all of which is reflected in his 13 books on show business history, including “Opened Time Capsules: My Vintage Conversations with Show Business Personalities,” “The Singing Cowboys,” “The Great Show Business Animals” and his latest, “The Case Files of the Oriental Sleuths: Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto, and Mr. Wong,” Rothel’s fascination with the Western film genre led him to research and write books on many of the leading stars of those films. He had the opportunity to personally interview Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and other leading and supporting players for his books. His book on Western film locations, “An Ambush of Ghosts: a Personal Guide to Favorite Western Film Locations,” was twice featured in Leonard Maltin segments on “Entertainment Tonight.” In March of 2012 David Rothel received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Williamsburg Film Festival “for His Dedication and Outstanding Contributions in Honoring the Golden Age of Hollywood.” Rothel and his wife Nancy live in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Dahlonega, Ga.
Dean Smith
To the general public, Dean Smith’s name remains little-known because he spent most of his life serving as a stunt double for actors (and occasionally actresses) to maintain the illusion that they were the ones falling from horses and leaping off buildings. Smith jokes, “I began my career and I ended my career working in Lone Pine. I began with my first job away from Hollywood on location in Lone Pine as a stunt man on ‘The Law and Jake Wade’ in 1958, and ended it working as a stunt man on ‘Maverick,’ in 1994.” In
between the two films, Smith worked on “How the West Was Won” (1962), “The Birds” (1963), “McClintock!” (1963), “El Dorado” (1966), “True Grit” (1969), “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid” (1969), “Big Jake” (1971), “The Sting” (1973), “Sugarland Express” (1974), “The Towering Inferno” (1974), “Christine” (1983) and “Raw Deal” (1986). At the height of the TV Western boom, his credits included “Maverick,” “Gunsmoke,” “Iron Horse,” “Virginian,” “Bat Masterson,” “Outcasts,” “The F.B.I.,” “Tall Man,” “Have Gun Will Travel,” “Riverboat,” “Ironside,” “Zorro,” “Texas John Slaughter,” “Cimarron City,” “Wagon Train,” “Laramie,” “Lawman” and dozens of others. Now, at 81, Smith may finally be getting his turn as the star attraction with the publication of his memoir “Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen,” written with Mike Cox of Austin, Texas.
Peggy Stewart
One of the major leading ladies from the heyday of the B-Western and serials, Peggy Stewart has been one of the staunchest supporters of both the Film Festival and the Lone Pine Film History Museum, where she serves as a member of the Board of Directors. Having worked with almost all of the B-Western stars of the 1940s and 1950s, it is two films she made in Lone Pine with two of the leading singing cowboys that cement her place in Lone Pine film history. One is “Trail to San Antone,” a Gene Autry film featured in one of the prominent exhibits in the museum. The other is “Utah,” a Roy Rogers film where she is featured along with Dale Evans.
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