Before his extraordinary career as director of more than 500 hours of television, including 62 episodes of Dallas and 70 of Walker, Texas Ranger, Michael Preece cut his teeth as script supervisor for some of the toughest directors in the business: Anthony Mann, John Ford, Sam Peckinpah and Henry Hathaway. Preece earned Hathaway’s trust on 1962’s How the West Was Won and continued with him on 1968’s Five Card Stud and 1969’s True Grit. Preece has fond memories of the ace director who i


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