Kris Kristofferson's father was a United States Air Force general who pushed his son to a military career. Kris was a Golden Gloves boxer and went to Pomona College in California. From there, he earned a Rhodes scholarship to study literature at Oxford University. He ultimately joined the United States Army and achieved the rank of captain...See full bio »
2006Brats: Our Journey Home
(documentary)
(writer: "Jesse Jackson", "Sky King", "The Heart", "What About Me", "Eagle and the Bear", "Love of Money", "This Old Road", "Worth Fighting For" / performer: "Jesse Jackson", "Sky King", "The Heart", "What About Me", "Eagle and the Bear", "Love of Money", "This Old Road", "Worth Fighting For")
1993Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
(TV documentary)
(writer: "Slouching Toward The Millennium", "Song for Sam", "Sunday Morning Coming Down" / performer: "Slouching Toward The Millennium", "Song for Sam", "Sunday Morning Coming Down")
1985The Winning Hand
(TV movie)
(writer: "Here Comes That Rainbow Again", "Help Me Make It Through The Night", "The Bandits of Beverly Hills", "The Bigger The Fool, The Harder The Fall", "Me and Bobby McGee", "Casey's Last Ride" / performer: "Here Comes That Rainbow Again", "To Make a Long Story Short, She's Gone", "Help Me Make It Through The Night", "Ping Pong", "The Bandits of Beverly Hills", "Put It Off Until Tomorrow", "The Bigger The Fool, The Harder The Fall", "Me and Bobby McGee", "Born To Love Me", "Casey's Last Ride", "Don't Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand Does")
1985Blue Money
(TV movie)
(writer: "Help Me Make It Through the Night")
1985The 57th Annual Academy Awards
(TV special documentary)
(writer: "How Do You Feel About Foolin' Around" / performer: "How Do You Feel About Foolin' Around", "On the Road Again", "Amazing Grace")
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Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge
(1978)
(writer: "Help Me Make It Through the Night", "Song I Like to Sing" / performer: "Help Me Make It Through the Night", "Song I Like to Sing")
1972Fat City
(writer: "Help Me Make It Through the Night" / performer: "Help Me Make It Through the Night")
1972Cisco Pike
(writer: "Loving Her Was Easier", "I'd Rather Be Sorry", "The Pilgrim: Chapter 33", "Breakdown" / performer: "Loving Her Was Easier", "I'd Rather Be Sorry", "The Pilgrim: Chapter 33", "Breakdown")
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Episode #2.9
(1970)
(writer: "Loving Her Was Easier Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again" / performer: "Loving Her Was Easier Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again")
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Episode #2.5
(1970)
(writer: "For the Good Times")
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Episode #2.3
(1970)
(writer: "The Loving Gift" - uncredited)
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Episode #2.1
(1970)
(writer: "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", "Help Me Make It Through the Night")
I was a slow starter. I mean, I grew up in the fifties, and, jeez, I wasn't even laid in high school. Looking back on it, I didn't know anything, which was kind of unfortunate for my first couple of wives. When I found out that girls like sex as much as guys, I was, for many years, feeling like that was my function. I mean, I wasn't as bad as Clinton, but I was led by the pecker.
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Trivia:
He wrote the song "Me and Bobbie (later Bobby) McGee" which Janis Joplin recorded. The song was a hit for Roger Miller in 1969, who started recording it even before Kristofferson was done writing it.
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