Eagle Pennell [SEP] date of death
Eagle Pennell
Eagle Pennell (28 July 1952 – 20 July 2002) was an American independent filmmaker. His film "The Whole Shootin' Match" (1978) is often credited with inspiring Robert Redford to start the Sundance Institute.
Early Life.
Born Glenn Irwin Pinnell in Andrews, Texas, Pennell grew up in Lubbock and College Station, where his father Charles taught engineering at Texas A & M University. He became interested in film as a teenager and would use his father's Super 8 camera to shoot
interviews with family, friends, collaborators and admirers.
The original "King of Texas" was a film Pennell wanted to make: a low-budget western he planned to shoot near Brackettville on the set of John Wayne's version of The Alamo (1960).
External links.
- The King of Texas: The Life and Death of Independent Filmmaker Eagle Pennell (full documentary film)