Ken Osborne

Artwork for Born on the Fourth of July

Biography

Kent Osborne has been in show business since early youth, beginning as a song and dance kid in theatre stage circuits. In his early teens he entered "The American Academy of Theatre Arts" as an actor/director in New York City. At sixteen, he was signed to a 7-year actor contract with "Twentieth Century Fox Studios."

While under contract he owned and operated his own Playhouse Theatre, directing, acting and producing plays. At nineteen he wrote, directed and produced his first film - "It Could Happen to You." He wrote and directed the television shows "Meet Milie" and "Tales of Turf and Live by a Star." Osborne was also instrumental in starting the Board of N.A.B.I.T. and the Independent Screen Producers Association, in which he was voted the First official President.

In his fifty-four theatrical years, Mr. Osborne has written several novels, many plays and more than 90 screenplays - 40 were sold to other Producers and companies. He has produced and directed more than 26 of his own screenplays into major motion pictures. He has written and directed over 200 commercials, documentaries, industrial and armed forces training films throughout the world. Mr. Osborne was head of production for such production companies as Lee Lacey and Associates, Skylark Productions, Ubang Productions and his own.

Timeline

2009

  • Poster for Behaving Badly

    Carpenter

2008

  • Poster for Hollywood Confidential

    Producer

1989

  • Poster for Crime of Crimes

    Tom Hernandez

  • Poster for Born on the Fourth of July

    Paraplegic #2 - Miami Convention

1983

  • Poster for Nude Aerobics

    Director

1974

  • Poster for Women Unchained

    Screenplay

1973

  • Poster for An Eye for an Eye

    Makeup Artist

1972

  • Poster for The Ballad of Billie Blue

    Producer

1970

  • Poster for Hell's Bloody Devils

    Bloody Devil (as Kent Osborne)

  • Poster for Cain's Cutthroats

    Director

  • Poster for Rebel Rousers

    Makeup Artist

1969

  • Poster for The Ice House

    Killer

  • Poster for Nightmare in Wax

    Bartender (as Kent Osborne)

  • Poster for Blood of Dracula's Castle

    Telegram Delivery Man

  • Poster for Five Bloody Graves

    Dave Miller

  • Poster for Wild Wheels

    Writer

1967

  • Poster for The Sorcerers

    Sound Mixer

1965

  • Poster for Raw Love

    Producer