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Tex Ritter (1905–1974)


Singing-cowboy star of "B" westerns during the 30's and 40's and later country-music recording star. See full bio »

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Filmography

Hide HideSoundtrack (78 titles)
2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (video documentary) (performer: "Ride, Ride, Ride" - uncredited, "Down the Trail of My Dreams" - uncredited)
 
2007 Opry Video Classics: Pioneers (video) (performer: "High Noon")
 
2007 Neal Cassady (performer: "We'll Rest at the End of the Trail")
 
2003 Ramona (TV mini-series)
 
2000 Ready to Rumble (performer: "Wayward Wind")
 
1999 Varsity Blues (performer: "The Wayward Wind")
 
1998 I'll Be Home for Christmas (performer: "Christmas Carols By The Old Corral")
 
1996 American Strays (performer: " I Got Spurs Jingle Jangle Jingle")
 
1995 Canadian Bacon (performer: "God Bless America Again")
 
1988 The Great Outdoors (performer: "Paul Bunyan Love")
 
1976 Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (performer: "I Ride an Old Paint" - uncredited)
 
1966-1973 The Porter Wagoner Show (TV series)
Tex Ritter (1973) (performer: "Fall Away", "Jealous Heart")
Tex Ritter (1969) (performer: "Texas", "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Miami")
Tex Ritter (1966) (performer: "High Noon", "I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven")
 
1972 The Magic of Walt Disney World (short) (performer: "Blood on the Saddle" - uncredited)
 
1970 The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)
Episode #1.32 (1970) (performer: "The Wayward Wind", "Boll Weevil")
 
1967 What Am I Bid? (performer: "I Never Got to Kiss the Girl")
 
1960 Startime (TV series)
Academy Award Songs (1960) (performer: "High Noon" - uncredited, "The Hanging Tree" - uncredited)
 
1958 Born Reckless (writer: "SONG OF THE RODEO")
 
1957 Trooper Hook (performer: "Trooper Hook")
 
1956 Bus Stop (writer: "Rye Whisky" 1936 - uncredited)
 
1956 The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (TV series)
The Third Rider (1956) (performer: "Gunfighters' Lament")
 
1955 Wichita (performer: "Wichita")
 
1953 The Marshal's Daughter (performer: "The Marshal's Daughter")
 
1953 The 25th Annual Academy Awards (TV special) (performer: "High Noon Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'")
 
1952 High Noon (performer: "High Noon" 1951)
 
1950 Holiday Rhythm (performer: "Old Chisolm Trail")
 
1945 Flaming Bullets (performer: "I Hang My Head and Cry", "Be Honest With Me")
 
1945 Frontier Fugitives (performer: "Too Late To Worry, Too Blue To Cry", "I'll Wait For You, Dear")
 
1945 Three in the Saddle (writer: "I've Done the Best I Could" / performer: "I've Done the Best I Could", "Try Me One More Time")
 
1945 Enemy of the Law (writer: "Teach Me To Forget", "You Will Have To Pay" / performer: "Teach Me To Forget", "You Will Have To Pay")
 
1945 Marked for Murder (writer: "Long Time Gone" / performer: "Long Time Gone", "Tears of Regret", "Froggie Went A-Courtin'")
 
1945 Beyond the Pecos (writer: "High, Wide and Handsome")
 
1944 The Whispering Skull (writer: "In Case You Change Your Mind", "It's Never Too Late" / performer: "In Case You Change Your Mind", "It's Never Too Late")
 
1944 Dead or Alive (writer: "I'm Gonna Leave You Like I Found You", "Don't Care Since You Told Me Goodbye" / performer: "I'm Gonna Leave You Like I Found You", "Don't Care Since You Told Me Goodbye")
 
1944 Gangsters of the Frontier ("Please Remember Me")
 
1944 Oklahoma Raiders (performer: "I'll Be a Cowboy 'Till I Die", "Roll On, Little Dogies, Roll On")
 
1944 Cowboy Canteen (performer: "Goin' To Lasso a Rainbow" - uncredited)
 
1944 Marshal of Gunsmoke (performer: "Git Along Little Dogies" / arranger: "Git Along Little Dogies")
 
1943 Arizona Trail (performer: "Stay Away From My Heart")
 
1943 The Lone Star Trail (performer: "I Gotta See Texas Just Once More")
 
1943 Hers to Hold (writer: "Where the Buffalo Roam")
 
1943 Raiders of San Joaquin (performer: "A Carefree Cowboy")
 
1943 Cheyenne Roundup (performer: "Rose of the Hills")
 
1943 Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (performer: "Riding Home")
 
1942 The Old Chisholm Trail (performer: "Out On The Lone Star Trail", "The Rovin' Gambler" / arranger: "The Rovin' Gambler")
 
1942 Deep in the Heart of Texas (performer: "Deep In The Heart Of Texas", "Cowboy's Lament" / arranger: "Cowboy's Lament")
 
1942 Vengeance of the West (performer: "Along The Trail Somewhere", "Only Yesterday")
 
1942 Prairie Gunsmoke (writer: "Where The Buffalo Roam" / performer: "Where The Buffalo Roam", "Someone To Call Darling")
 
1942 Home in Wyomin' (arranger: " Oh My Darling Clementine")
 
1942 North of the Rockies (performer: "Jog, Jog, Jogging Along", "Get Your Man, Mountie Boys, Get Your Man", "Ninety-Nine Days in Jail" - uncredited / arranger: "Ninety-Nine Days in Jail" - uncredited)
 
1942 The Lone Star Vigilantes (performer: "Headin' Home to Texas", "When the Moon is Shinging on the Old Corral", "Going to Join the Rangers")
 
1941 Roaring Frontiers (performer: "You've Got To Come And Get Me Boys", "You're A Part Of The West", "Judge Morrow Will Find The Truth")
 
1941 Ridin' the Cherokee Trail (performer: "Dynamite Dan", "Song of the Coyotes", "Old Pete the Bandito")
 
1940 Roll Wagons Roll (lyrics: "Oh! Susanna" / performer: "Roll, Wagons, Roll", "Oh! Susanna")
 
1940 The Golden Trail (performer: "Clementine" / arranger: "Clementine" / "Gold Is Where You Find It")
 
1940 The Cowboy from Sundown (writer: I've Done the Best I Can" / performer: "Symphony of the Prairie", I've Done the Best I Can", The Craw-dad Song")
 
1940 Pals of the Silver Sage (performer: "Prairie Fairyland")
 
1940 Rhythm of the Rio Grande (performer: "Rhythm of the Rio Grande", "Mexicali Moon")
 
1939 Westbound Stage (performer: "It's All Over Now", "Trail To Mexico")
 
1939 Riders of the Frontier (performer: "Rose of My Dreams", "Ten Thousand Cattle", "Ridin' Down to Texas", "The Boll Weevil Song" / arranger: "The Boll Weevil Song")
 
1939 Down the Wyoming Trail (performer: "It Makes No Difference Now" - uncredited, "In Elk Valley" - uncredited, "Goin' Back to Texas" - uncredited)
 
1939 The Man from Texas (performer: "Men Who Wear the Stars", "Prairie Lights")
 
1939 Rollin' Westward (performer: "Out In The Golden West", "Bold Vaquero")
 
1939 Sundown on the Prairie (writer: "Dust On My Saddle" / performer: "Dust On My Saddle", "Cactus Pete", "My Love Is A Rider" / arranger: "My Love Is A Rider")
 
1938 Song of the Buckaroo (writer: "I Promise You" / performer: "Texas Dan", "Little Tenderfoot', "I Promise You")
 
1938 Where the Buffalo Roam (writer: "Where the Buffalo Roam", "Troubador of the Prairie" / performer: "Where the Buffalo Roam", "Troubador of the Prairie", "Longside of the Sana Fe Trail", "Home on the Range", "Shoot the Buffalo")
 
1938 Starlight Over Texas (performer: "Starlight Over Texas", "Ah! Viva Tequila", "A Garden in Granada" / "Starlight Over Texas")
 
1938 The Utah Trail (performer: "Utah Trail", "Give Me Back My Saddle", "A Mighty Good Horse", "A'Roamin' I'll Be")
 
1938 Rollin' Plains (performer: "Me, My Pal and My Pony", "Rollin' Plains")
 
1938 Frontier Town (writer: "Old Cayuse", "Give Me a Horse, a Saddle and You" / performer: "Old Cayuse", "Yip, Yip, Yowie, I'm an Eagle", "Give Me a Horse, a Saddle and You", "The Cowboy's Lament Streets of Laredo", "Old Brass Wagon")
 
1937 Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts (performer: "I'm Headin' For My Texas Home", "The Gal I Left Behind Me")
 
1937 The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen (performer: "Ride, Ride, Ride", "I'm A Texas Cowboy", "Ride Around Little Dogies", "Rosita", "I Ride an Old Paint")
 
1937 Riders of the Rockies (writer: "Song of the Open Range", "Arizona Rangers", "Riders of the Rockies" / performer: "Song of the Open Range", "Arizona Rangers", "Riders of the Rockies", "Home on the Range" - uncredited)
 
1937 Sing, Cowboy, Sing (writer: "I'm A Natural Born Cowboy" - uncredited, "Sing, Cowboy, Sing" - uncredited, "Twilight Reverie" - uncredited / performer: "Goodbye Old Paint, I'm a-Leavin' Cheyenne" - uncredited, "Get A Horse and Saddle" - uncredited, "Sing, Cowboy, Sing" - uncredited, "Twilight Reverie" - uncredited)
 
1937 Hittin' the Trail (performer: "Hittin' the Trail" - uncredited, "Blood on the Saddle" - uncredited, "Headin' For Town" - uncredited, "The Vagabond Song" aka "The Renegade Song" - uncredited, "I'm a Natural Born Cowboy" - uncredited / "Hittin' the Trail" - uncredited)
 
1937 Trouble in Texas (writer: "The Rodeo Song" / performer: "Down the Colorado Trail", "The Rodeo Song", "A Cowboy's Lament")
 
1937 Arizona Days (writer: "High, Wide and Handsome", "Tombstone, Arizona", "Arizona Days" / performer: "High, Wide and Handsome", "Tombstone, Arizona", "Arizona Days")
 
1936 Song of the Gringo (music: "My Sweet Chiquita" 1936 - uncredited, "Rye Whiskey" - uncredited / lyrics: "My Sweet Chiquita" 1936 - uncredited, "Rye Whiskey" - uncredited / performer: "Out on the Lone Prairie" 1936 - uncredited, "My Sweet Chiquita" 1936 - uncredited, "Sam Hall" - uncredited, "Rye Whiskey" - uncredited)
 
1936 Headin' for the Rio Grande (writer: "Headin' For the Rio Grande", "The Night Herding Song", "A Campfire Love Song", "Jailhouse Lament" / performer: "Headin' For the Rio Grande", "The Night Herding Song", "A Campfire Love Song", "Jailhouse Lament")
 
Show ShowActor (72 titles)
1972 The Marshal of Windy Hollow
Windy Hollow Mayor
 
1967 What Am I Bid?
Tex Ritter
 
1966 Girl from Tobacco Row
Reverend E.F. Bolton
 
1961 The Rebel (TV series)
Marshall
The Ballad of Danny Brown (1961) … Marshall
 
1959 Shotgun Slade (TV series)
The Marshal
The Missing Train (1959) … The Marshal
 
1958 Ranch Party (TV series)
Regular (1958)
 
1958 Zane Grey Theater (TV series)
Reydo
Sundown at Bitter Creek (1958) … Reydo
 
1955 The First Bad Man (short)
Narrator (voice)
 
1955 Apache Ambush
Traeger
 
1953 The Marshal's Daughter
Background Singer (singing voice)
 
1944 Oklahoma Raiders
Steve Nolan
 
1944 Cowboy Canteen
Tex Coulter
 
1944 Marshal of Gunsmoke
Marshal Ward Bailey
 
1943 Arizona Trail
Johnnie Trent
 
1943 The Lone Star Trail
Fargo Steele
 
1943 Frontier Badmen
Jerry Kimball - Cattle Buyer (uncredited)
 
1943 Raiders of San Joaquin
Gil Blake
 
1943 Cheyenne Roundup
Steve Rawlins
 
1942 The Old Chisholm Trail
Montana Smith
 
1942 Little Joe, the Wrangler
Sheriff Bob Brewster
 
1942 Deep in the Heart of Texas
Brent Gordon
 
1942 Vengeance of the West
California Ranger Captain Lake
 
1942 Prairie Gunsmoke
Tex Terrell
 
1941 King of Dodge City
Tex Rawlings
 
1941 The Pioneers
Tex Ritter
 
1941 Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
Texas Ranger Lieutenant Tex Ritter
 
1940 Rollin' Home to Texas
Tex Reed
 
1940 Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Tex Lawton
 
1940 Arizona Frontier
Tex
 
1940 Rainbow Over the Range
Tex Reed
 
1940 The Golden Trail
Tex Roberts
 
1940 The Cowboy from Sundown
Sheriff Tex Rockett
 
1940 Pals of the Silver Sage
Tex Wright
 
1940 Rhythm of the Rio Grande
Tex Regan
 
1939 Westbound Stage
Tex Wallace
 
1939 Riders of the Frontier
Tex Lowery posing as Ed Carter
 
1939 Down the Wyoming Trail
Tex Yancey
 
1939 The Man from Texas
Tex Allen
 
1939 Rollin' Westward
Tex Ramsey
 
1938 Song of the Buckaroo
Texas Dan
 
1938 Where the Buffalo Roam
Tex Houston
 
1938 Starlight Over Texas
Tex Newman
 
1938 The Utah Trail
Tex Stewart, posing as the Pecos Kid
 
1938 Rollin' Plains
Tex Lawrence
 
1938 Frontier Town
Tex Lansing, alias Tex Rawlins
 
1937 Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Tex Collins
 
1937 Riders of the Rockies
Tex Rand
 
1937 Sing, Cowboy, Sing
Tex Archer
 
1937 Hittin' the Trail
Tex Randall
 
1937 Arizona Days
Tex Malinson
 
1936 Headin' for the Rio Grande
Tex Saunders
 
1936 Song of the Gringo
Tex
 
Show ShowMusic Department (1 title)
1936 Song of the Gringo (songs by)
 
Show ShowSelf (18 titles)
1974 Hee Haw (TV series)
Himself - Special Guest
Episode #5.16 (1974) … Himself - Special Guest
 
1966-1973 The Porter Wagoner Show (TV series)
Himself - Guest
Tex Ritter (1973) … Himself - Guest
Tex Ritter (1969) … Himself - Guest
Tex Ritter (1966) … Himself - Guest
 
1970-1971 The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)
Herself / Himself - Singer
The History of Country Music: Part 1 (1971) … Herself
Episode #1.32 (1970) … Himself - Singer
 
1970 The Dick Cavett Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 11 August 1970 (1970) … Himself
 
1970 The Nashville Sound (documentary)
Himself
 
1969 The David Frost Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.13 (1969) … Himself
 
1968 The Kraft Music Hall (TV series)
Himself
 
1966 Nashville Rebel
Himself
 
1963-1965 The Jimmy Dean Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 22 October 1965 (1965) … Himself
Episode dated 26 December 1963 (1963) … Himself
 
1961 Five Star Jubilee (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 12 May 1961 (1961) … Himself
 
1960 Academy Award Songs (TV movie)
Himself - Singer
 
1960 Startime (TV series)
Himself
Academy Award Songs (1960) … Himself
 
1958 The Christophers (TV series)
Himself
The Power of Music (1958) … Himself
 
1956 Down Liberty Road (short)
Himself
 
1954 The Cowboy (documentary)
Narrator
 
1953 The 25th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Performer
 
1952 Town Hall Party (TV series)
Himself
 
1949 Hometown Jamboree (TV series)
Himself (1949-1960)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (12 titles)
2007 Opry Video Classics: Pioneers (video)
Himself
 
2003 City Confidential (TV series documentary)
 
2000 Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (TV documentary)
 
1996 America's Music: The Roots of Country (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself (1996)
 
1987 The West That Never Was (TV documentary)
 
1984 Cowboys of the Saturday Matinee (video documentary)
 
1977 All You Need Is Love (TV series documentary)
 
1972 The Magic of Walt Disney World (short)
Big Al - in Country Bear Jamboree (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
 
1956 The Gabby Hayes Show (TV series)
 

Related Videos

The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen -- Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the gang. Almost caught by them, he escapes only to be arrested by the Sheriff who thinks he's one of the gang. Gangsters of the Frontier -- Tex put the Kern gang away once but they have returned with reinforcements and have take over the town of Red Rock capturing the townsmen and forcing them to work for them in the gold mines... Sing, Cowboy, Sing -- Kalmus is after the freight contract held by Summers. When his gang kill Summers, Tex and Duke step in to help Madge keep the freight line going. When they foil the gang's further attempts, Kalmus gets the Judge to jail the two.
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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1952) Had a hit song with "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin')" See more »

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2 Print Biographies  | See more »
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Trivia:

Father of Tom Ritter See more »

Nickname:

America's Most Beloved Cowboy See more »

Star Sign:

Capricorn