Actor-writer-director Tom Laughlin, whose production and marketing of "Billy Jack" set a standard for breaking the rules on and off screen, has died. Laughlin's daughter said he died Thursday at Los ...

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Billy Jack actor Tom Laughlin has died, aged 82. Laughlin's family announced his death in a message posted on his personal website this weekend. Everett Collection A statement on the website indicated ...

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. Late Sunday ...

Tom Laughlin, who died of complications from pneumonia Dec. 12 in Thousand Oaks at age 82, was one of those only-in-Hollywood stories. After acting in small parts on films and TV shows in the 1950s ...

Actor-writer-director Tom Laughlin, whose production and marketing of “Billy Jack” set a standard for breaking the rules on and off screen, has died. Laughlin’s daughter told The Associated Press that ...

On Dec. 12, 2013, Tom Laughlin died. Years back this would have been much bigger news than it was, but time does affect the stature of cultural archetypes. Laughlin had played Billy Jack in four ...

UPDATE: The actor also wrote, directed, produced and distributed films in the series, centering on a former Green Beret vigilante with martial-arts skills. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor In the four ...

LOS ANGELES — Tom Laughlin, a filmmaker who drew a huge following for his movies about the ill-tempered, karate-chopping pacifist Billy Jack, died Thursday at a Thousand Oaks, Calif., hospital. He was ...

His character was an "ill-tempered, karate-chopping pacifist" who battled racists through four movies. The first film, released in 1971, also... 'Billy Jack' Creator Tom Laughlin Dies Tom Laughlin, ...

NEW YORK — Actor-writer-director Tom Laughlin, whose production and marketing of “Billy Jack” set a standard for breaking the rules on and off screen, has died. Laughlin's daughter said he died ...