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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 22, 1936
Died
September 28, 2024
Place of Birth
Brownsville, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- The Highwaymen
- Крис Кристофферсон
- Κρις Κριστόφερσον
- クリス・クリストファーソン
- کریس کریستوفرسون
Kris Kristofferson
1.0 Popularity
Biography
Kristoffer Kristofferson (June 22, 1936 – September 28, 2024) was an American country singer, songwriter, and actor. Among his songwriting credits are "Me and Bobby McGee," "For the Good Times," "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," and "Help Me Make It Through the Night," all of which were hits for other artists. In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in the country music supergroup The Highwaymen, which was a key creative force in the outlaw country music movement that eschewed the traditional Nashville country music machine in favor of independent songwriting and producing. As an actor, Kristofferson was known for his roles in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), Blume in Love (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), A Star Is Born (1976) (which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor), Convoy (1978), Heaven's Gate (1980), Stagecoach (1986), Lone Star (1996), and the Blade film trilogy (1998–2004). In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kris Kristofferson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies
2025
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Kris Kristofferson: Life & Songs
2025
0.0
Self
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
2024
0.0
Self
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023
0.0
Self
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2021
6.8
Self (archive footage)
My Darling Vivian
2020
7.5
Self
Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration
2019
6.3
Edwin Fuller
Blaze
2018
4.0
Gabriel
Best Friend from Heaven
2017
6.4
Old Donkey (voice)
The Star
2017
Credits
Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies
as Self (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Kris Kristofferson: Life & Songs
as Self (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
as Self
2024
0.0
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
as Self
2023
0.0
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
as Self
2021
0.0
My Darling Vivian
as Self (archive footage)
2020
6.8
Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration
as Self
2019
7.5
Blaze
as Edwin Fuller
2018
6.3
Best Friend from Heaven
as Gabriel
2017
4.0
The Star
as Old Donkey (voice)
2017
6.4
Hickok
as George Knox
2017
4.8
The Red Maple Leaf
as President John Francis Marshall
2017
4.3
Wheeler
as Himself
2017
6.8
The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris
as Self
2016
6.0
Traded
as Billy
2016
5.0
Road to Austin
as Himself
2016
8.0
The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End
as Self - Performer
2016
0.0
The Highwaymen - Live American Outlaws
as Self
2016
9.0
We're Still Here: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited
as Self
2015
10.0
Johnny Cash: American Rebel
as Self
2015
8.2
Texas Rising
as Andrew Jackson
2015
6.1
Down Dog
as Jimmy Wood
2015
4.3
7 Minutes
as Mr. B
2014
5.3
Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years
as Self - Performer
2014
0.0
Dolphin Tale 2
as Reed Hasket
2014
7.0
The Winding Stream
as Self
2014
6.5
🎬
Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film
as Self
2014
0.0
The Motel Life
as Earl Hurley
2013
5.7
Angels Sing
as The Colonel
2013
5.6
Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie
as Self
2013
0.0
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
as Self
2013
6.9
Midnight Stallion
as Jack Shephard
2013
4.9
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
as Self
2013
7.0
Deadfall
as Chet
2012
6.0
We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash
as Self
2012
7.1
🎬
The Johnny Cash Music Festival
2012
0.0
Joyful Noise
as Bernard Sparrow
2012
6.4
The Greening of Whitney Brown
as Dusty Brown
2011
6.0
Dolphin Tale
as Reed Haskett
2011
6.9
Underground Entertainment: The Movie
as Kris
2011
7.2
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
as self
2011
0.0
The King of Luck
as Self
2011
0.0
🎬
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011
0.0
Troubadours
as Self
2011
7.5
🎬
Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind
as Self
2010
0.0
OK Buckaroos
2010
0.0
The Making of Fallout: New Vegas
as Self
2010
8.7
The Last Rites of Ransom Pride
as Shepherd Graves
2010
3.7
The Child Wanderers
as Old Yohan
2010
6.8
Bloodworth
as E. F. Bloodworth
2010
6.5
For Sale by Owner
as Ferlin Smith
2009
3.3
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
as Self
2009
7.6
Legends & Lyrics: Vol. 1: Kris Kristofferson, Patty Griffin and Randy Owen
as Singer
2009
0.0
Powder Blue
as Randall
2009
6.1
He's Just Not That Into You
as Ken Murphy
2009
6.6
Havana Jam '79
as Self
2009
0.0
Wisdom
2008
6.0
Snow Buddies
as Talon (voice)
2008
6.1
Jump Out Boys
as Raymond
2008
4.1
Somewhere Near Salinas: A Conversation with Kris Kristofferson
as Self
2007
0.0
I'm Not There
as Narrator (voice)
2007
6.5
The Best of The Johnny Cash TV Show 1969-1971
as Narrator
2007
8.8
Disappearances
as Quebec Bill Bonhomme
2007
4.7
🎬
George Jones & Friends 50th Anniversary Tribute Concert
as Self
2007
4.0
Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing, Live
as Self
2007
8.0
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
as Self
2007
0.0
Johnny Cash - Live In Ireland
as Self
2006
10.0
Fast Food Nation
as Rudy Martin
2006
6.1
Room 10
as Howard Davis
2006
7.0
American Revolutions: The Highwaymen
as Self
2006
10.0
Outlaw Country: Live from Austin, TX
as Self
2006
7.0
Kris Kristofferson: Live from Austin, TX
as Self - Vocals, Guitar
2006
10.0
Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line
as Self
2006
0.0
🎬
Brats: Our Journey Home
as Narrator
2006
0.0
Johnny Cash In Ireland - 1993
as Self
2006
9.0
14 Hours
as Chuck Worthle
2005
4.3
🎬
The World's Greatest Gigs
as Self
2005
0.0
The Colbert Report
2005
6.9
Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
as Pop Crane
2005
7.0
The Wendell Baker Story
as L.R. Nasher
2005
5.0
🎬
Tootsie's Orchid Lounge: Where the Music Began
as self
2005
4.0
Nightstalkers, Daywalkers, and Familiars: Inside the World of 'Blade: Trinity'
as Self
2005
5.7
The Jacket
as Dr. Thomas Becker
2005
6.9
Trudell
as Self - Musician, Friend
2005
5.4
The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico
as Himself
2005
7.0
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
as Self
2005
7.4
Blade: Trinity
as Abraham Whistler
2004
5.9
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
as Self
2004
7.2
Lives of the Saints
as Matthew Bok
2004
4.6
Silver City
as Wes Benteen
2004
6.1
Be Here to Love Me
as Self - Musician
2004
7.1
🎬
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Second Chances
as Self / David
2004
0.0
Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin
2004
0.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2004
7.8
Kris Kristofferson: Breakthrough
as Himself
2004
0.0
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
as Self
2004
7.1
A Tribute To Buddy Holly And The Crickets
as Himself - Narrator
2004
7.0
Johnny Cash: The Last Great American
as Self
2004
10.0
The Highwaymen: On the Road Again
as Self
2003
9.0
Soundstage
as Self
2003
0.0
Where the Red Fern Grows
as Older Billy Coleman
2003
5.9
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as Self
2003
7.1
🎬
This Land Is Your Land - Folk Years
2002
0.0
Blade II
as Whistler
2002
6.6
D-Tox
as Doc
2002
5.6
John Ford Goes to War
as Narrator (voice)
2002
5.3
Chelsea Walls
as Bud
2001
4.3
Planet of the Apes
as Karubi
2001
5.8
Wooly Boys
as Shuck
2001
5.0
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
as Self
2000
7.2
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town
as Lou Smit
2000
0.0
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
as Lou Smit
2000
5.6
🎬
The Making of Comanche
as Self
2000
0.0
Comanche
2000
0.0
Limbo
as Smilin' Jack
1999
6.5
A Tribute to Johnny Cash
as Self - Performer
1999
8.0
The Joyriders
as Eddie
1999
4.5
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
as Rudolph Meyer
1999
6.0
Payback
as Bronson
1999
6.8
NetForce
as Steve Day
1999
4.8
Netforce
as Steve Day
1999
3.5
Outlaw Justice
as Jesse Ray Torrance
1999
6.7
The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock
as Doc (voice)
1998
6.2
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
as Bill Willis
1998
6.1
Blade
as Whistler
1998
6.8
Dance with Me
as John Burnett
1998
6.9
🎬
Girls' Night
as Cody
1998
6.8
Two for Texas
as Hugh Allison
1998
6.0
Fire Down Below
as Orin Hanner Sr.
1997
5.8
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
as Self
1997
5.0
Dead Man's Gun
1997
4.3
Blue Rodeo
as Owen Whister
1996
3.8
Lone Star
as Charlie Wade
1996
7.0
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
as Self
1996
6.6
Inflammable
as Capt. Jack Guthrie
1995
5.0
Pharaoh's Army
as Preacher
1995
6.8
Tad
as Abraham Lincoln
1995
6.8
Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story
as Kris Kristofferson
1995
3.0
Brothers' Destiny
as Davis
1995
6.0
Sodbusters
as Destiny
1994
3.0
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
as Self
1993
0.0
Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth
as Stan Mather
1993
1.0
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Cheatin' Hearts
as Tom
1993
3.1
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as Self
1993
6.9
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
as Self
1993
0.0
Knights
as Gabriel
1993
5.0
Christmas in Connecticut
as Jefferson Jones
1992
4.7
No Place to Hide
as Joe Garvey
1992
5.3
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
Original Intent
as Jack Saunders
1992
3.5
Miracle in the Wilderness
as Jericho Adams
1991
5.5
Night of the Cyclone
as Stanley 'Stan'
1991
3.0
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
as Rip Metcalf
1991
3.7
The Highwaymen: Live at Nassau Coliseum
as Self
1990
8.5
Pair of Aces
as Capt. "Rip" Metcalf
1990
5.0
Sandino
as Tom Holte
1990
6.0
Welcome Home
as Jake
1989
5.6
Millennium
as Bill Smith
1989
5.4
🎬
In the Hank Williams Tradition
as Self
1989
0.0
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
as Kris Kristofferson
1988
0.0
Big Top Pee-wee
as Mace Montana
1988
4.9
The Tracker
as Noble Adams
1988
5.7
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Audience Member
1988
7.5
Amerika
as Devin Milford
1987
5.4
Jerry Lee Lewis: I Am What I Am
1987
0.0
Stagecoach
as Ringo Kid
1986
5.3
Blood & Orchids
as Capt. Curtis 'Curt' Maddox
1986
6.5
Blood & Orchids
as Curt Maddox
1986
6.5
The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James
as Jesse James
1986
5.2
Trouble in Mind
as Hawk
1985
5.7
Songwriter
as Blackie Buck
1984
5.1
Flashpoint
as Bobby Logan
1984
6.2
The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck
as Ben Cole
1984
4.0
The Last Horror Film
as Kris Kristofferson (uncredited)
1982
5.2
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Jerry Lee Lewis 25th anniversary concert
1982
0.0
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
5.9
🎬
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
as Self
1981
6.0
Rollover
as Hubbell Smith
1981
5.1
Heaven's Gate
as James Averill
1980
6.7
Stepping Out: The Debolts Grow Up
as Self - Narrator
1980
5.0
Freedom Road
as Abner Lait
1979
4.8
CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self
1979
6.9
The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1978
as Self
1978
0.0
Convoy
as Rubber Duck
1978
6.3
Semi-Tough
as Shake Tiller
1977
5.5
A Star Is Born
as John Norman Howard
1976
6.0
Vigilante Force
as Aaron Arnold
1976
4.7
The Muppet Show
as Self - Special Guest Star
1976
8.0
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
as Jim Cameron
1976
6.5
Donny & Marie
as Self
1976
6.7
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Cher
as Self - Guest
1975
6.2
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
as David
1974
6.9
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
as Biker
1974
7.1
Free to Be… You and Me
as Self
1974
6.7
George Carlin: The Real George Carlin
as Self
1973
0.0
Blume in Love
as Elmo Cole
1973
5.7
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Billy the Kid
1973
7.2
Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus
as Vocalist
1973
6.0
Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
as Self
1972
7.5
The Midnight Special
as Self
1972
7.8
Cisco Pike
as Cisco Pike
1971
5.6
The Last Movie
as Minstrel Wrangler
1971
5.8
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971
6.5
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
The Flip Wilson Show
as Self
1970
4.6
The Johnny Cash Show
as Self
1969
6.5
Starparade
as Self
1968
0.0
CMA Awards
as Self
1967
9.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
8 Husbands
as Caesar Tranquil
N/A
0.0
🎬
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid: One Foot in the Groove
as Himself
N/A
0.0