Later Years
Kazanjian has authored books with Chris Enss. In 2004, they collaborated on The Cowboy and the Senorita : A Biography of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ISBN 0-7627-3053-6 and Happy Trails : A Pictorial Celebration of the Lives of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ISBN 0-7627-3089-7; In 2006, The Young Duke: The Early Life of John Wayne ISBN 0-7627-3898-7; in 2009, Thunder over the Prairie: The True Story of a Murder and a Manhunt by the Greatest Posse of All Time ISBN 0-7627-4493-6.
Kazanjian has been an instructor at "Act One", a group designed to train Christians entering into film and television, and was named by Beliefnet as one of the twelve most powerful Christians in Hollywood.
On June 8, 2009, Howard Kazanjian was deputized as an Honorary Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas.
Of Armenian descent, Kazanjian is an active member of the Armenian charity and cultural community, and a USC alumnus.
Since 1998 Kazanjian has been Co-Chairman and 50% shareholder of Tricor Entertainment, Inc, an independent production company, which owns and operates a 19,000+ seat theater chain in Southeast Asia and a film distribution company.
Kazanjian lives and works in the community of San Marino, California with his wife Carol, and three children, Peter, Noah, and Andrew. Fellow filmmaker BWL Norton, with whom he worked on More American Graffiti, jokingly described Kazanjian as being "like, from Mars" in a 1980 interview.
As of 2009, Kazanjian and George Lucas remain close friends.
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