Kris Kristofferson
Born: 1936-06-22 in Brownsville, Texas, USA
Died: 2024-09-28
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Kris Kristofferson: Life & Songs as Self (archive footage)
- Willie Nelson Presents: King of the Roadies as Self (archive footage)
2024
2023
2020
- My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration as Self
2018
- Blaze as Edwin Fuller
2017
- The Star as Old Donkey (voice)
- Hickok as George Knox
- The Red Maple Leaf as President John Francis Marshall
- Wheeler as Himself
- Best Friend from Heaven as Gabriel
2016
- Traded as Billy
- The Highwaymen - Live American Outlaws as Self
- The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris as Self
- Road to Austin as Himself
- The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End as Self - Performer
2015
- Texas Rising as Andrew Jackson
- Down Dog as Jimmy Wood
- We're Still Here: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited as Self
- Johnny Cash: American Rebel as Self
2014
- Dolphin Tale 2 as Reed Hasket
- 7 Minutes as Mr. B
- Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years as Self - Performer
- The Winding Stream as Self
- Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film as Self
2013
- The Motel Life as Earl Hurley
- Angels Sing as The Colonel
- Midnight Stallion as Jack Shephard
- Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation as Self
- Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction as Self
- Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie as Self
2012
- Deadfall as Chet
- Joyful Noise as Bernard Sparrow
- The Johnny Cash Music Festival
- We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash as Self
2011
- Dolphin Tale as Reed Haskett
- The Greening of Whitney Brown as Dusty Brown
- Underground Entertainment: The Movie as Kris
- The King of Luck as Self
- Country at the BBC as Self
- On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America as Self
- Troubadours as Self
- Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2010
- The Last Rites of Ransom Pride as Shepherd Graves
- Bloodworth as E. F. Bloodworth
- The Child Wanderers as Old Yohan
- The Making of Fallout: New Vegas as Self
- Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind as Self
- OK Buckaroos
2009
- He's Just Not That Into You as Ken Murphy
- Powder Blue as Randall
- Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 as Self
- For Sale by Owner as Ferlin Smith
- Legends & Lyrics: Vol. 1: Kris Kristofferson, Patty Griffin and Randy Owen as Singer
- Havana Jam '79 as Self
2008
- Snow Buddies as Talon (voice)
- Jump Out Boys as Raymond
- Wisdom
2007
- I'm Not There as Narrator (voice)
- The Hottest State ... (Thanks)
- The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' as Self
- Disappearances as Quebec Bill Bonhomme
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing, Live as Self
- The Best of The Johnny Cash TV Show 1969-1971 as Narrator
- Requiem for Billy the Kid as Billy the Kid (voice)
- George Jones & Friends 50th Anniversary Tribute Concert as Self
- Somewhere Near Salinas: A Conversation with Kris Kristofferson as Self
2006
- Fast Food Nation as Rudy Martin
- American Revolutions: The Highwaymen as Self
- Room 10 as Howard Davis
- Brats: Our Journey Home as Narrator
- Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line as Self
- Johnny Cash In Ireland - 1993 as Self
- Outlaw Country: Live from Austin, TX as Self
- Johnny Cash - Live In Ireland as Self
- Kris Kristofferson: Live from Austin, TX as Self - Vocals, Guitar
2005
- The Colbert Report
- The Jacket as Dr. Thomas Becker
- Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story as Pop Crane
- The Wendell Baker Story as L.R. Nasher
- Trudell as Self - Musician, Friend
- The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico as Himself
- 14 Hours as Chuck Worthle
- Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah as Self
- The World's Greatest Gigs as Self
- I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash as Self
- Tootsie's Orchid Lounge: Where the Music Began as self
2004
- Blade: Trinity as Abraham Whistler
- Lives of the Saints as Matthew Bok
- Silver City as Wes Benteen
- Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession as Self
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate as Self
- Be Here to Love Me as Self - Musician
- Johnny Cash: The Last Great American as Self
- Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin
- Kris Kristofferson: Breakthrough as Himself
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Second Chances as Self / David
- A Tribute To Buddy Holly And The Crickets as Himself - Narrator
2003
- Soundstage as Self
- Where the Red Fern Grows as Older Billy Coleman
- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
- The Highwaymen: On the Road Again as Self
2002
- Blade II as Whistler
- D-Tox as Doc
- This Land Is Your Land - Folk Years
- John Ford Goes to War as Narrator (voice)
2001
- Planet of the Apes as Karubi
- Chelsea Walls as Bud
- Wooly Boys as Shuck
- Austin City Limits: Country
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand as self
2000
- Perfect Murder, Perfect Town as Lou Smit
- Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder as Lou Smit
- The Making of Comanche as Self
- Comanche
- The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack as Self
1999
- Payback as Bronson
- Netforce as Steve Day
- Outlaw Justice as Jesse Ray Torrance
- NetForce as Steve Day
- Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as Rudolph Meyer
- Limbo as Smilin' Jack
- The Joyriders as Eddie
- A Tribute to Johnny Cash as Self - Performer
1998
- Blade as Whistler
- Dance with Me as John Burnett
- The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock as Doc (voice)
- Two for Texas as Hugh Allison
- Girls' Night as Cody
- A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries as Bill Willis
1997
- Fire Down Below as Orin Hanner Sr.
- Dead Man's Gun as Narrator
- Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self
1996
- Lone Star as Charlie Wade
- Blue Rodeo as Owen Whister
- Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival as Self
1995
- Pharaoh's Army as Preacher
- Tad as Abraham Lincoln
- Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story as Kris Kristofferson
- Inflammable as Capt. Jack Guthrie
- Brothers' Destiny as Davis
1994
- Sodbusters as Destiny
1993
- Late Show with David Letterman as Self - Musical Guest
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Knights as Gabriel
- Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration as Self
- Cheatin' Hearts as Tom
- Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O as Self
- Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work as Self
- Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth as Stan Mather
- Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron as Self
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- The Larry Sanders Show as Kris Kristofferson
- The Panama Deception ... (Thanks)
- Christmas in Connecticut as Jefferson Jones
- No Place to Hide as Joe Garvey
- Original Intent as Jack Saunders
1991
- Night of the Cyclone as Stanley 'Stan'
- Miracle in the Wilderness as Jericho Adams
- Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind as Rip Metcalf
1990
- Sandino as Tom Holte
- Pair of Aces as Capt. "Rip" Metcalf
- The Highwaymen: Live at Nassau Coliseum as Self
1989
- Millennium as Bill Smith
- Welcome Home as Jake
- In the Hank Williams Tradition as Self
1988
- Big Top Pee-wee as Mace Montana
- Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night as Self - Audience Member
- Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz as Kris Kristofferson
- The Tracker as Noble Adams
1987
- Amerika as Devin Milford
- Jerry Lee Lewis: I Am What I Am
1986
- Stagecoach as Ringo Kid
- Blood & Orchids as Curt Maddox
- The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James as Jesse James
1985
- Trouble in Mind as Hawk
1984
- Flashpoint as Bobby Logan
- Songwriter as Blackie Buck
- The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck as Ben Cole
1982
- Wogan as Self
- Late Night with David Letterman
- The Last Horror Film as Kris Kristofferson (uncredited)
- Jerry Lee Lewis 25th anniversary concert as Self
1981
- Rollover as Hubbell Smith
- All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds as Self
1980
- Heaven's Gate as James Averill
- Stepping Out: The Debolts Grow Up as Self - Narrator
1979
- CBS News Sunday Morning as Self
- Freedom Road as Abner Lait
1978
- Convoy as Rubber Duck
- The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1978 as Self
1977
- Semi-Tough as Shake Tiller
1976
- Taxi Driver ... (Thanks)
- The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star
- Donny & Marie as Self
- A Star Is Born as John Norman Howard
- Vigilante Force as Aaron Arnold
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea as Jim Cameron
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Cher as Self - Guest
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as David
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as Biker
- Free to Be… You and Me as Self
1973
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Billy the Kid
- Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus as Vocalist
- Blume in Love as Elmo Cole
- George Carlin: The Real George Carlin as Self
1972
- The Midnight Special as Self
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
- Cisco Pike as Cisco Pike
- The Last Movie as Minstrel Wrangler
1970
- The Flip Wilson Show as Self
1969
- The Johnny Cash Show as Self
1968
- Starparade as Self
1967
- CMA Awards as Self
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter