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Kris Kristofferson

Songwriter/actor/singer

Born - 22 June 1936, Brownsville, Texas, USA
Died - 28 September 2024

Hirsutely handsome, well-built American country singer/songwriter who drifted into films in his mid thirties, then quit them briefly a few years later to concentrate on music. On his return to the cinema, he searched in vain for the kind of material that had shot him to charismatic stardom: The Last Movie (1971), Cisco Pike (1972), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), Vigilante Force (1975), A Star is Born (1976), Semi-Tough (1977), Freedom Road (1979), Heaven's Gate (1980), Roll-Over (1981), Flashpoint (1984), Trouble in Mind (1985), Songwriter (1985), Millennium (1988), Welcome Home, Ryder (1989), Knights (1992), Big Dreams and Broken Hearts (1993), Lone Star (1996), Fire Down Below (1997), Payback (1998), Limbo (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Where the Red Fern Grows (2003), Blade: Trinity (2004), Dreamer (2005), Fast Food Nation (2006), He's Just Not That into You (2009), Dolphin Tale (2011), Midnight Stallion (2013), Hickok (2017), Lawless Range (2018) and Blaze (2019), his last. Singer Rita Coolidge was the second of his three wives; he had eight children.