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Made for $360,000 Billy Jack went on to gross over $98,000,000. How does a tiny independent film made on a shoestring, bounced through three studios (AIP, Fox, and Warner Bros.), tied up in two lawsuits, written, directed, and starring an unknown husband and wife team accomplish such a feat?
Dec 17, 2013 · Tom Laughlin, the actor, writer, director and producer who created the “Billy Jack” movie series of the 1970s, a low-budget fusion of counterculture piety and martial-arts violence that struck ...
Dec 16, 2013 · A year later, in 1974, Laughlin and his wife, Delores Taylor who was his co-producer and co-star, opened “The Trial of Billy Jack” in 1,100
Dec 16, 2013 · Tom Laughlin, who invented and played the movie character "Billy Jack" — a half-white, half Native American Vietnam veteran who used martial arts skills to battle racists — died last week.
Dec 15, 2013 · Tom Laughlin, the actor who wrote and starred in the “Billy Jack” films of the 1970s, died Thursday, his family confirmed Sunday. He was 82.
Dec 16, 2013 · This Oct. 22. 1991, file photo shows actor Tom "Billy Jack" Laughlin talking with residents at Eastern Depot Restaurant in Berlln, N.H. Laughlin, whose production and marketing of "Billy Jack" set ...
Photos Tom Laughlin TEA AND SYMPATHY, from left: John Kerr, Tom Laughlin, 1956 BILLY JACK, Tom Laughlin, 1971 THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, 1974 THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK ...