Budd BoetticherAKA:
Oscar Boetticher
Oscar Boetticher
Nationality:
American Birthdate:
07/29/1916 Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois Death Date:
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biography
The career of Budd Boetticher is one of the most interesting ever confined to B pictures. A collegiate athlete at Ohio State University, he traveled to Mexico in the mid-1930s, becoming so enamored with bullfighting that he eventually wielded the cape as a professional matador. Boetticher's experience in the bull ring led to his entrance in the film industry as a technical advisor on Rouben Mamoulian's "Blood and Sand" (1941), and he spent the next couple years as an assistant director, apprenticing to the likes of Charles Vidor and George Stevens. His first directing credit (as Oscar
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milestones
Year
Milestone
Raised in Evansville, Indiana
In the mid-1930s, suffered a football injury; traveled to Mexico to recuperate; studied and became a professional matador
1941
Hired as technical advisor for "Blood and Sand"
1941
Worked as a messenger at Hal Roach studios
1943
First association with actor Randolph Scott, as assistant director on Charles Vidor's "The Desperadoes"
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