Kris Kristofferson
ur. 22.06.1936
(87 lat)
Brownsville, Texas, Stany Zjednoczone
Biografia
Kris Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, where he grew up with horses, Mexican and country music and Western movies. His father was a pilot for the military and the airlines. The family moved to California when Kris was 11 years old.
Kristofferson worked as a laborer on construction jobs on Wake Island, the mountain roads of California and in Alaska where he also worked as a gandy dancer on the railroad and fought forest fires. He lettered in football in high school and college. Fought in the Golden Gloves and was at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where he earned a coveted “Blue” boxing against Cambridge.
After Oxford he got married, became a father and served four-and-a-half years in the army, completing Jump School, Ranger School and Flight School, plus a three-year tour of duty as a helicopter pilot in Germany.
In June of 1965, he returned to the U.S. as an infantry captain, en route to the career school at Fort Benning, Georgia, and a subsequent assignment as a teacher of English Literature at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he made a fateful decision that would change the course of his life and confound his family and friends.
He left the army and went to Nashville, Tennessee, to be a songwriter, supporting his family by working as a janitor at a recording studio, then as a bartender, and finally flying helicopters to off-shore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico before his out-of-nowhere rise to the top of the charts in Nashville and then Hollywood.
Since then he’s been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, become a three-time Grammy® winner, Best Actor Golden Globe® winner for A Star Is Born, received several awards with The Highwaymen (with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings), received the 2001 Diversity Award, and in 2006 was honored with the Veteran of the Year award by the American Veterans Association.
He’s released 18 solo albums, as well as three with Rita Coolidge and three with The Highwaymen, and has appeared in some 50 films, many of them solid Westerns, including three with Sam Peckinpah, The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James with Johnny Cash, and John Sayles’ Lone Star.
Trimark Pictures
Aktor
Seriale | |
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2015 |
Texas Rising |
The Rise of the Republic (E05) |
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Blood for Blood (E03) |
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Fate and Fury (E02) |
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2001 |
American Roots Music |
1997 |
Dead Man's Gun |
1987 |
Amerika |
Teledyski | |
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2006 |
Johnny Cash: God's Gonna Cut You Down |
1985 |
The Highwaymen: Highwayman |
Koncerty | |
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2015 |
Imagine John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert |
2012 |
We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash |
2003 |
Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute |
Krótkometrażowe | |
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2015 |
Down Dog (film telewizyjny) |
2006 |
Room 10 |
2004 |
Forever Is a Long, Long Time |
Kompozytor
Filmy | |
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1971 |
The Last Movie |