Tom Laughlin – Billy Jack – was the same on screen and in real life. “We the people have no representative of any kind,” he told me at the time, when George Bush was still president. We ...

Billy Jack was first seen in the 1968 biker movie "Born Losers," but became widely known after "Billy Jack," the second of four films Laughlin made about him (only three made it to theaters).

"Billy Jack" was completed in 1969, but its release was delayed for two years as Laughlin struggled to find studio backing. He eventually successfully sued Warner Bros. to retain rights and - with ...

This Oct. 22. 1991, file photo shows actor Tom "Billy Jack" Laughlin talking with residents at Eastern Depot Restaurant in Berlln, N.H. Laughlin, whose production and marketing of "Billy Jack" set ...