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Tex knight

Tex Ritter (born January 12, 1905 in Murvaul , Texas as Woodward Maurice Ritter , † January 2, 1974 in Nashville , Tennessee ) was an American country singer and actor .

Life

Beginnings

Tex Ritter grew up as the youngest of six children on a ranch in Beaumont. He was a very good student, took singing lessons and learned several instruments. His professional goal was a lawyer, but he dropped out after a short time to try his hand at acting in New York. In 1931 he got a role in the Broadway musical Green Grow The Lilacs . He played a cowboy and performed some songs. At the same time, he moderated various cowboy programs on the radio. Here, too, he had the opportunity to have his own musical performances.

Career

Sam Hall (1936)

During these years Gene Autry celebrated his first successes as a singing cowboy , and Hollywood was looking for more actors. Tex Ritter was hired in 1936 for the film Song Of The Gringo . The audience was enthusiastic about the new star, and Ritter became the third “singing cowboy” in the film industry after Autry and Roy Rogers . Further B- Westerns were produced using the assembly line process . By 1945 he appeared in over 30 films. Due to its great popularity, its record sales also increased strongly. With I'm Wasting My Tears On You he made a number one hit in the Folk (C&W) charts in 1944 . A year later he repeated the success with You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often .

At the end of the 1940s, the singing cowboy era was over for good. Tex Ritter was still successful as a singer. In 1953, the title song High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) from the western Twelve o'clock sung by Ritter won a Grammy and an Oscar for best song . During the 1950s, Ritter hosted his own television show, Tex Ritter's Ranch Party , which featured well-known figures from the country scene at the time, such as Skeets McDonald , Johnny Cash and Joe Maphis . In 1961 he had his last big hit with I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven . Two years later he became president of the Country Music Association CMA . In 1965 he moved to Nashville and joined the Grand Ole Opry . In 1970 he ran for the Senate .

Tex Ritter received the highest honor in country music in 1964 : he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame .

In 1941 he married the actress Dorothy Fay . Their son, John Ritter , became a well-known film and television actor. Tex Ritter died of heart failure in Nashville on January 2, 1974. His grandsons Jason Ritter and Tyler Ritter are also actors.

Hits

  • 1942: Jingle Jangle
  • 1944: Jelous Heart
  • 1944: I'm Wasting My Tears On You
  • 1944: There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder
  • 1945: You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often
  • 1945: You Will Have To Pay
  • 1945: Green Grow The Lilacs
  • 1948: Rock and Rye
  • 1950: Daddy's Last Letter
  • 1952: High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)
  • 1955: Wichita , theme song for the film of the same name
  • 1956: The Wayward Wind
  • 1961: I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven

Filmography

  • 1936: Song Of The Gringo
  • 1937: Tex Rides With The Boy Scouts
  • 1937: Headin 'For The Rio Grande
  • 1937: Sing, Cowboy, Sing
  • 1937: Trouble in Texas
  • 1937: Arizona Days
  • 1937: Mystery Of The Hooded Horsemen
  • 1937: Hittin 'The Trail
  • 1938: Riders Of The Rockies
  • 1938: Utah Trail
  • 1938: Rollin 'Plains
  • 1938: Where The Buffalo Roam
  • 1938: Frontier Town
  • 1938: Starlight Over Texas
  • 1939: Riders Of The Frontier
  • 1939: Roll, Wagons, Roll
  • 1939: Down The Wyoming Trail
  • 1939: Westbound Stage
  • 1939: The Man From Texas
  • 1940: Take Me Back To Oklahoma
  • 1940: The Cowboy From Sundown
  • 1940: Rainbow Over The Range
  • 1940: The Golden Trail
  • 1940: Rhythm Of The Rio Grande
  • 1941: Riding The Cherokee Trail
  • 1941: Roaring Frontiers
  • 1943: Tenting Tonight On The Old Camp Ground
  • 1943: Cheyenne Roundup
  • 1943: Arizona Trail
  • 1943: The Old Chisholm Trail
  • 1944: Gangsters Of The Frontier
  • 1944: Dead Or Alive
  • 1944: Whispering Skull
  • 1945: Three In The Saddle
  • 1945: Marked For Murder
  • 1945: Frontier Fugitives
  • 1945: Flaming Bullets
  • 1952: High Noon
  • 1953: The Marshal's Daughter
  • 1956: Country Western All-Stars
  • 1972: The Nashville Sound

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personal data
SURNAME Knight, Tex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knight, Woodward Maurice (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American country singer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Murvaul , Texas, United States
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1974
Place of death Nashville , Tennessee, United States