The Lone Pine Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Lone Pine, California , which celebrates the hundreds of films and television episodes that used Lone Pine, the Alabama Hills , and the nearby Sierra Nevada mountain range as film locations. Since the early years of filmmaking, directors and their production units have used the Lone Pine area to represent the iconic American West . Since The Roundup (1920), the first documented film produced in the area, Lone Pine has played host to hundreds of the industry's best known directors and actors, among them directors William Wyler , John Ford , George Stevens , and William Wellman , and actors John Wayne , Gene Autry , Roy Rogers , Bing Crosby , and Barbara Stanwyck . The festival at Lone Pine was held for the first time in 1990, then called the Sierra Film Festival. In 2019, the festival celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Held annually over the Indigenous Peoples' Day weekend, the Lone Pine Film Festival is one of the most important Western film festivals in the United States. The festival is the only film fan gathering in the world which is held on location where the movies were shot.
13-531: The Lone Pine area was first used as a film location in 1920, when a movie production company came to the Alabama Hills to make the silent film The Round-Up . Other companies soon discovered the scenic location, and in the coming decades, over 400 films, 100 television episodes, and countless commercials used Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills as a film location. Some of the notable films shot here in
26-515: A "bad guy," specializing in fight scenes. He appeared in Saturday serials called cliffhangers as well as in feature films and television series. The number of his movie roles has been estimated at between 300 and 400 (actors who did not have major parts were not listed in film credits); he also appeared in about 150 episodes of The Cisco Kid , Wild Bill Hickok , Bat Masterson , The Lone Ranger , and other television series. He worked with
39-519: A Pierce Lyden film festival; in 1997 he received Nebraska's Buffalo Bill Award. In 1996, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California , Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. Lyden died on October 10, 1998, aged 90, and was buried at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California . Lyden had one son, Donald Pierce Lyden, an attorney who had three children with his wife Kathleen. Lyden
52-1004: A plan to celebrate the film industry's heritage of using Lone Pine and the surrounding area as film locations to represent the iconic American West . They invited numerous actors, directors, and producers who made films in the area throughout the years. The first film festival in Lone Pine was held on October 6 and 7 and was called the Sierra Film Festival. Co-sponsored by a number of individuals and businesses, that first festival included numerous Western film celebrities, including Roy Rogers , Richard Farnsworth , Rand Brooks , Pierce Lyden , Loren Janes, William Witney , and former stuntman Joe Yrigoyen. The festival acknowledging its "deep appreciation and great gratitude" to Roy Rogers, who made his first film in Lone Pine in 1938 with Under Western Stars . Rogers dedicated an historical stone marker placed at Whitney Portal and Movie Road during
65-893: The Emerson College of Oratory in Boston. Lyden supported himself in these early years by playing romantic leads in stock company productions in Lincoln and on the road; he appeared in a few Chautauqua presentations. Soon after graduating from the University of Nebraska, he joined the United Chautauqua System, taking the leading role in its production of The Family Upstairs . When talking movies eclipsed live theater presentations in small towns, Pierce Lyden went on to Hollywood in 1932. There he played villains’ roles in B Western films, quickly becoming typecast as
78-666: The 1920s and 1930s include Riders of the Purple Sage (1925) with Tom Mix , The Enchanted Hill (1926) with Jack Holt , Somewhere in Sonora (1927) with Ken Maynard , Blue Steel (1934) with John Wayne , Hop-Along Cassidy (1935) with William Boyd , The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) with Errol Flynn, Oh, Susanna! (1936) with Gene Autry , Rhythm on the Range (1936) with Bing Crosby , The Cowboy and
91-661: The Lady (1938) with Gary Cooper , Under Western Stars (1938) with Roy Rogers , and Gunga Din (1939) with Cary Grant . In the coming decades, Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills continued to be used as the setting for Western films, including West of the Pecos (1945) with Robert Mitchum , Thunder Mountain (1947) with Tim Holt , The Gunfighter (1950) with Gregory Peck , The Nevadan (1950) with Randolph Scott , Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) with Spencer Tracy , Hell Bent for Leather (1960) with Audie Murphy , How
104-860: The West Was Won (1962) with James Stewart , Nevada Smith (1966) with Steve McQueen , Joe Kidd (1972) with Clint Eastwood , Maverick (1994) with Mel Gibson , and The Lone Ranger (2013) with Johnny Depp . Through the years, non-Western films also used the unique landscape of the area, including Alfred Hitchcock 's Saboteur (1942) with Robert Cummings , Samson and Delilah (1949) with Hedy Lamarr , Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) with William Shatner , Tremors (1990) with Kevin Bacon , The Postman (1997) with Kevin Costner , and Gladiator (2000) with Russell Crowe . In 1989, Lone Pine business and community leaders developed
117-494: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 941233632 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:44:18 GMT Pierce Lyden Pierce W. Lyden (January 8, 1908 – October 10, 1998) was an American actor best known for his work in television and film Westerns. Lyden
130-648: The festival. The bronze plaque on the stone reads: "Sierra Film Festival, 70 years of Movie History, October 6 & 7, 1990, Movie Flats – Lone Pine". The Lone Pine Film Festival takes place annually over the Columbus Day weekend, the second weekend of October. The festival opens at the Lone Pine Film History Museum on Thursday night for a gala reception. Over the next three days, a variety of events take place, including: Alabama Hills Too Many Requests If you report this error to
143-530: The film industry magazine Classic Images ; he published five books about his career and the making of films in his era. In his later years he was regularly invited to film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. Honors awarded him included membership in the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Heritage Foundation (1979) and the Golden Boot Award (1992). In 1989 Naponee, Nebraska , named a street for him and held
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#1732779858546156-564: The most famous Western movie actors, including Roy Rogers , Gene Autry , and Hopalong Cassidy . He was Photo Press Fan Poll "Villain of the Year" in 1944. In 1962, as the popularity of Westerns lessened, Lyden retired in Orange, California , where he had lived throughout his acting career. He wrote "Action Shots" about film personalities for the Orange County, California , Register , and
169-627: Was born in a sod house on a ranch near Hildreth, Nebraska on January 8, 1908. The son of a horse buyer for the U.S. Army cavalry, he acquired as a youngster riding skills that later made it possible for him to do his own stunts as an actor in Hollywood westerns. He attended high school in Naponee, Nebraska , and acted in several plays there; he graduated from the University of Nebraska School of Music and Fine Arts in 1927 and later studied at
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