Billy Jack was a huge franchise during the 1970s with strong similarities to Jack Reacher, but why has such a big series been forgotten?

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 ...

The America of 1971 was a place of deep divisions. A war dragged on in a far-off land, conservative values were pitted against the politics of personal freedoms and the youth were restless. It was ...

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 hospital. He was 82. He had been in ...

In the mid-to-late '60s, outlaw biker movies were all the rage, and by every expectation that existed, the debut of Billy Jack in 1967's Born Losers would hit theaters and drive-ins, make a few bucks ...

Welcome to Flopcorn, where Reader writers and contributors pay tribute to our very favorite bad movies. In this installment, social media editor Brianna Wellen tries to find the appeal in her father’s ...

Delores Taylor, who co-starred with her husband Tom Laughlin in his productions of the “Billy Jack” series of films, has died in Southern California, her daughter said Monday. She was 85. Teresa ...

Younger movie buffs may have no idea how popular the Billy Jack movies were in the early ’70s but BILLY JACK and THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK were the cool films to see when I was in middle school. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...