Budd Boetticher

Oscar Budd Boetticher, Jr. was a film director during the classical period in Hollywood most famous for the series of lowbudget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.

Boetticher was born in Chicago, raised in Evansville in southwest Indiana, and was a star athlete at Ohio State University. After college he traveled to Mexico, where he learned the art of bullfighting. A chance encounter with Rouben Mamoulian landed him his first film job, as technical advisor on Blood and Sand . He got his first big break when he was asked to direct The Bullfighter and the Lady for John Waynes production company, Batjac, based loosely on his own adventures studying to be a matador in Mexico. He was proud enough of the film that it was the first he signed as Budd Boetticher, rather than his given name, and it earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Story. But the film was edited drastically without his consent, and his career again seemed on hold.

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