Kris Kristofferson
Highest Rated: 100% Songwriter (1984)
Lowest Rated: 11% Millennium (1989)
Birthday: Jun 22, 1936
Birthplace: Brownsville, Texas, USA
A former U.S. Army captain who turned to songwriting and helped rejuvenate the country-and-western scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s with songs like "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," "Help Me Make It Through the Night" and "Me and Bobby McGee," Kris Kristofferson made the rare successful segue into films. Making his acting debut as a singer in Dennis Hopper's "The Last Movie" (1971), Kristofferson quickly gained stature as an actor with "Cisco Pike" (1972), "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974) and "A Star is Born" (1976). Though years of alcoholism and later triple-bypass heart surgery slowed down the momentum throughout his career, Kristofferson routinely bounced back better than before, establishing himself as a grizzled veteran performer and bona fide music legend.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration | Unknown (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Best Friend From Heaven | Gabriel (Voice) | - | 2018 |
| 95% | 67% | Blaze | Edwin Fuller (Character) | $698.6K | 2018 |
| 43% | 70% | The Star | Old Donkey (Voice) | $40.4M | 2017 |
| 57% | 19% | Hickok | George Knox (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 56% | 56% | Wheeler | Self | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | The Red Maple Leaf | John Francis Marshall (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 40% | 31% | Traded | Billy (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | We're Still Here: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 24% | 18% | 7 Minutes | Mr. B (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 66% | 72% | Dolphin Tale 2 | Reed Haskett (Character) | $42.0M | 2014 |
| 29% | 51% | Angels Sing | The Colonel (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Midnight Rider | Jack Shepard (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 70% | 43% | The Motel Life | Earl Hurley (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 89% | 77% | Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 34% | 37% | Deadfall | Chet Mills (Character) | $64.4K | 2012 |
| 32% | 65% | Joyful Noise | Bernard Sparrow (Character) | $30.9M | 2012 |
| 13% | 38% | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Dusty Brown (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 82% | 80% | Dolphin Tale | Reed Haskett (Character) | $72.3M | 2011 |
| 50% | 40% | Provinces of Night | E.F. Bloodworth (Character) | $9.6K | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 34% | The Last Rites of Ransom Pride | Shepherd Graves (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 25% | 40% | Powder Blue | Randall (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 41% | 59% | He's Just Not That Into You | Ken (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 4% | Jump Out Boys | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Snow Buddies | Talon (Voice) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Requiem for Billy the Kid | Billy the Kid (Voice) | - | 2006 |
| 52% | 44% | Disappearances | Quebec Bill (Character) | $6.5K | 2006 |
| 49% | 42% | Fast Food Nation | Rudy (Character) | $1.0M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sacred Tibet: The Path to Mount Kailash | Narrator | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brats: Our Journey Home | Narrator | - | 2006 |
| 42% | 22% | Lives of the Saints | Matthew Bok (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 40% | 40% | The Wendell Baker Story | Nasher (Character) | $127.1K | 2005 |
| 33% | 75% | Trudell | Unknown (Character) | $21.8K | 2005 |
| 64% | 78% | Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story | Pop Crane (Character) | $32.7M | 2005 |
| 44% | 73% | The Jacket | Dr. Becker (Character) | $6.3M | 2005 |
| 67% | 72% | The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico | Self | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | 14 Hours | Chuck Whortle (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 94% | 91% | Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt | Self | $129.4K | 2004 |
| 48% | 32% | Silver City | Wes Benteen (Character) | $1.0M | 2004 |
| 25% | 58% | Blade: Trinity | Abraham Whistler (Character) | $52.4M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 94% | Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 18% | 28% | Eye See You | Doc (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 57% | 68% | Blade II | Whistler (Character) | $81.6M | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Wooly Boys | Shuck (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 26% | 40% | Chelsea Walls | Bud (Character) | $59.7K | 2001 |
| 44% | 27% | Planet of the Apes | Karubi (Character) | $180.0M | 2001 |
| 94% | 77% | The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack | Self | $221.9K | 2000 |
| 63% | 76% | Molokai | Rudolph Meyer (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Joyriders | Eddie (Character) | $64.6K | 1999 |
| 72% | 69% | Limbo | 'Smilin' Jack Johannson (Character) | $2.0M | 1999 |
| 55% | 69% | Payback | Bronson (Character) | $81.5M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Netforce | Steve Day (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Two for Texas | Hugh Allison (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock | Doc (Voice) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | Outlaw Justice | Jesse Ray Torrance (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 51% | 67% | Dance With Me | John Burnett (Character) | $15.9M | 1998 |
| 57% | 78% | Blade | Abraham Whistler (Character) | $70.0M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Girls' Night | Cody (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 77% | 72% | A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries | Bill Willis (Character) | $1.8M | 1998 |
| 14% | 36% | Fire Down Below | Orin Hanner Sr. (Character) | $16.1M | 1997 |
| 94% | 83% | Lone Star | Sheriff Charlie Wade (Character) | $13.1M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | The Road Home | Davis (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blue Rodeo | Owen Whister (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Pharaoh's Army | Preacher (Character) | $2.7K | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inflammable | Capt. Jack Guthrie (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story | Self | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tad | Abraham Lincoln (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sodbusters | Destiny (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | No Place to Hide | Joe Garvey (Character) | $92.5K | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paper Hearts | Tom (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Knights | Gabriel (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth | Stan Mather (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | Christmas in Connecticut | Jefferson Jones (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Original Intent | Jack Saunders (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Miracle in the Wilderness | Jericho Adams (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind | Rip Metcalf (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night of the Cyclone | Stanley 'Stan' (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Pair of Aces | Rip Metcalf (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sandino | Tom Holte (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Perfume of the Cyclone | Stanley `'Stan'` (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Welcome Home | Jake (Character) | $830.7K | 1989 |
| 11% | 30% | Millennium | Bill Smith (Character) | $5.7M | 1989 |
| 38% | 30% | Big Top Pee-wee | Mace Montana (Character) | $14.9M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | The Tracker | Noble Adams (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James | Jesse James (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Stagecoach |
Ringo/ |
- | 1986 |
| 79% | 64% | Trouble in Mind | Hawk (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 50% | 42% | Flashpoint | Bobby Logan (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 100% | 46% | Songwriter | Blackie Buck (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck | Ben Cole (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hawk | Unknown (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 78% | 33% | Rollover | Hubbell Smith (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 59% | 54% | Heaven's Gate | James Averill (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Freedom Road | Abner Lait (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 43% | 72% | Convoy | Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 82% | 31% | Semi-Tough | Marvin `Shake' Tiller (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 75% | 48% | The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea | Jim Cameron (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 20% | 14% | Vigilante Force | Aaron Arnold (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 35% | 63% | A Star Is Born | John Norman Howard (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 78% | 85% | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Biker (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 88% | 82% | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | David (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 72% | 53% | Blume in Love | Elmo Cole (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 86% | 83% | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | Billy the Kid (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Cisco Pike | Cisco Pike (Character) | - | 1971 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Great Performances | Music Performer | 2016 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Classic Gospel | Music Performer | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Troubadour, TX | Host | 2013-2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Crook and Chase Show | Guest | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Austin City Limits | Music Performer | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Handy Manny | Pops (Guest Voice) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perfect Murder, Perfect Town | Unknown (Character) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dead Man's Gun | Narrator | 1997-1999 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Johnny Cash Show | Music Performer | 1970 |