Name Will Zens Role Film director | Died 2013 | |
Movies Hot Summer in Barefoot, The Starfighters, To the Shores of Hell, Hell on Wheels, Road to Nashville Similar People Bob Dornan, Doodles Weaver, Marty Robbins, Richard Arlen, Michael David | ||
Frederick Willard "Will" Zens (June 26, 1920 – March 27, 2013) was a low-budget American film producer, director, screenwriter and soundtrack composer, who made films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Biography and filmography
Following service as a test pilot in the U.S. Army Air Force in the European Theatre of Operations, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born Major Zens earned his master's degree in film from the University of Southern California (USC).
He made his first film Capture That Capsule in 1961. Zens did not make another film until The Starfighters filmed at George Air Force Base that chronicled the F-104 aircraft with Bob Dornan in the lead role. Zens and Dornan next collaborated on a Vietnam war film To the Shores of Hell made the following year. In 1967 Zens made The Road to Nashville and Hell on Wheels but made no more films until Hot Summer in Barefoot County (1974) and Trucker's Woman (1975), with his final film, The Fix in 1985.