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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 is a newspaper comic strip created by Art Sansom in 1965. His son, Chip Sansom , who started assisting on the strip in 1989, is the current artist. The strip is distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association .
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 first Losers comic was a war comics feature set during World War II. It was created by Robert Kanigher [ 1 ] and became a regular feature in DC's long-running war comic book series Our Fighting Forces beginning with issue #123, dated January/February 1970.
The Born Losers was reissued in 1974 [42] and earned more than twice as much as it had in its original release. [43] The second sequel, The Trial of Billy Jack, released in late 1974, was a huge box-office hit, while not registering as quite as big a critical success. [44]
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.
The Losers is a 2010 American action comedy film and an adaptation by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt of the Vertigo Comic series of the same name by Andy Diggle and Jock.The film is directed by Sylvain White, which features an ensemble cast starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Zoe Saldaña, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Óscar Jaenada and Jason Patric.
Claude Ennis "Jack" Starrett Jr. [1] (November 2, 1936 – March 27, 1989) was an American actor and film director. [2]Starrett is perhaps best known for his role as Gabby Johnson, a parody of George "Gabby" Hayes, in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles and is also known for his role as the brutal policeman Art Galt in the 1982 action film First Blood.