Budd Boetticher's life story is one of Hollywood's more unusual. A privileged Midwestern rich kid who found himself a bullfighter in Mexico and then, serendipitously, a film director more admired than ...

One of America’s great movie directors last week died at age 85: Budd Boetticher, an ex-Chicagoan and ex-matador, whose rough, combative, sometimes obsessive personality belied his genial manner and ...

Budd Boetticher, subject of an essential new retrospective at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago that begins Monday, was one of the great Chicago-born filmmakers ...

Budd Boetticher, a maverick Hollywood director whose Westerns starring Randolph Scott in the 1950s are considered classics of the genre, has died. He was 85. The Chicago-born Boetticher, a onetime ...

Every two years, the archive known for impeccable restorations shows some eye-opening work — a free event that serious film ...

The New Mexican reporter Robert Nott has a second life. He is a dogged cinephile with a passion for film noir and old Westerns. Having previously written books on pistol-packing stars Randolph Scott ...

Budd Boetticher, director of a series of celebrated ’50s Westerns starring Randolph Scott, died Nov. 29 at his home in Ramona, Calif., after a battle with cancer. He was 85. An expansive, ebullient ...

Budd Boetticher may be the greatest director you’ve never heard of. But the French adore him. And filmmakers such as Clint Eastwood, Taylor Hackford and Quentin Tarantino are among his most ardent ...

Budd Boetticher, a maverick Hollywood director whose Westerns starring Randolph Scott in the 1950s are considered classics of the genre, has died at age 85. The Chicago-born Mr. Boetticher, a onetime ...

Budd Boetticher, 85, a maverick Hollywood director whose Westerns starring Randolph Scott in the 1950s are considered classics of the genre, died of multiple organ failure Nov. 29 at his home near ...