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The Born Losers is a 1967 American outlaw biker film. [3] The film introduced Tom Laughlin as the half- Indigenous American Green Beret Vietnam veteran Billy Jack . Since 1954, Laughlin had been trying to produce his Billy Jack script about discrimination toward Indigenous Americans .
The Born Loser began in 1965 as a strip with no central characters that revolved around the loser theme. Gradually, it developed a stable cast of Brutus Thornapple, his wife Gladys, his mother-in-law Ramona Gargle, his boss Rancid Veeblefester, Brutus and Gladys's dim-witted son Wilberforce, and the mischievous neighbor Hurricane Hattie O'Hara. [3]
Hi I'm Chip Sansom in Lakewood Ohio, and I'm a cartoonist for the comic strip The Born Loser. And I'm very thrilled today, that the Born Loser was celebrated for a 50 years of being in existence and it was a great thrill for the local NCS chapter The Great Lakes chapter the National Cartoonist Society, to throw this little party for me, and for the strip and for my dad.
Billy Jack is a 1971 American action drama independent film, the second of four films centering on a character of the same name which began with the movie The Born Losers (1967), played by Tom Laughlin, who directed and co-wrote the script.
The Born Losers (1967) introduced Tom Laughlin's character Billy Jack. Unable to get his Billy Jack script produced, Laughlin wrote and directed The Born Losers to capitalize on the current biker movie trend (which finally allowed him to make Billy Jack in 1971). The story was inspired by news reports of the Hells Angels terrorizing a ...
Tessier was an accomplished motorcycle rider doing stunts in the circus. These skills helped him secure his first film role in The Born Losers directed by Tom Laughlin.. With his shaven head, size and threatening appearance, Tessier went on to play a series of villainous roles on both TV and in film.
Laughlin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Margaret and Thomas Laughlin. [1] He attended Washington High School, [4] [5] where he was involved in an athletics controversy that made headlines throughout the city, caused by Laughlin being forced to attend another school for a brief period, making him ineligible to play football at his former school on his return.
Together the couple developed the character of "Billy Jack", who first appeared in the 1967 film The Born Losers. They followed that with Billy Jack in 1971, then The Trial of Billy Jack in 1974, and Billy Jack Goes to Washington in 1976. Taylor and Laughlin played the starring roles in the latter three films.