Albert C. Gannaway

Albert C. Gannaway (April 3, 1920 – August 27, 2008 ) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

Career
Gannaway produced the children's talent program Half-Pint Party on WCBS-TV and was listed as star and co-owner of It's a Small World, an audience-participation TV program that was being filmed in 1952.

He directed western films such as Hidden Guns (1956), Raiders of Old California (1957), starring Faron Young, Marty Robbins; Man or Gun (1958), and Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959). Buffalo Gun (1961), starring Webb Pierce; He also directed Rebellion in Cuba (1961) starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Jake La Motta.

He produced and directed the pioneer Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956) along Ismael Rodríguez starring Bruce Bennett in the title role along with Lon Chaney Jr., Faron Young, Kem Dibbs, Damian O'Flynn and Jacqueline Evans. The songs were scored by Gannaway and sang by Hal Levy.

The script of Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) was optioned by Gannaway in 1958, but he could not get financing to make the picture. He directed the 1958 drama film No Place to Land, about crop-duster pilots in post-war rural California competing with each other for work and starring John Ireland.