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Tammy Wynette (1942–1998)

Tammy once said: "I spent 15 minutes writing ["Stand by Your Man"], and a lifetime defending it". She was born Virginia Wynette Pugh on May 5, 1942, on her grandfather's cotton farm in Itawamba County, Mississippi. Tammy picked cotton as a child, and as a young woman worked as a waitress, a doctor's receptionist... See full bio »

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Filmography

Hide HideSoundtrack (63 titles)
2013 Top Gear (TV series)
Episode #19.2 (2013) ("Stand By Your Man" - uncredited)
 
2012 Nashville (TV series)
Pilot (2012) (performer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
2011 Opry Memories (TV movie) (performer: "Stand By Your Man", "We're Gonna Hold On")
 
2011 CMT: 40 Greatest Love Songs (TV movie) (performer: "Golden Ring")
 
2010 Mord mit Aussicht (TV series)
Blutende Herzen (2010) ("Stand by Your Man" - uncredited)
 
2010 Justified (TV series)
Hatless (2010) (writer: "Stand By Your Man" - uncredited / performer: "Stand By Your Man" - uncredited)
 
2010 Country's Greatest Stars Live: Vol. 1 (video) (performer: "You And Me")
 
2009 Bran Nue Dae (writer: "Stand by Your Man" / as Wynette)
 
2009 Crook & Chase (TV series)
Episode dated 11 June 2009 (2009) (performer: "Stand By Your Man", "I Don't Want to Play House", "Til I Can Make It On My Own")
 
2009 White Lightnin' (performer: "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels")
 
2008 Sordid Lives: The Series (TV series)
The Day Tammy Wynette Died - Part 1 (2008) (performer: "I Don't Wanna Play House")
 
2007 Opry Video Classics: The Hall of Fame (video) (performer: "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad")
 
2007 Opry Video Classics: Queens (video) (writer: "Stand By Your Man" / performer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
2007 Opry Video Classics: Love Ballads (video) (performer: "'Til I Get It Right")
 
2007 Opry Video Classics: Legends (video) (performer: "I Don't Wanna Play House")
 
2007 Opry Video Classics: Duets (video) (performer: "We're Gonna Hold On", "Golden Ring", "The Ceremony")
 
2007 The Singing Bee (TV series)
Episode #1.5 (2007) (writer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
2007 In the Valley of Elah (performer: "Till I Get It Right")
 
2007 Hidden Palms (TV series)
Stand by Your Woman (2007) (performer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
2006 Biography (TV series documentary)
Mavericks: Honky Tonk Angels - The Women (2006) (performer: "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels")
 
2006 CMT Greatest Moments: Dolly Parton (TV documentary) (performer: "Silver Threads and Golden Needles")
 
2006 RV (writer: "Stand By Your Man" / performer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
2006 CMT Presents: Karaoke Revolution Country (Video Game) ("Stand By Your Man")
 
2005 Brokeback Mountain (performer: "D-I-V-O-R-C-E")
 
2003 The Wire (TV series)
Hard Cases (2003) (performer: "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad")
 
2002 Boat Trip (writer: "Stand by Your Man")
 
2002 Forsthaus Falkenau (TV series)
Willkommen kleiner Rombach (2002) (performer: "Stand By Your Man" - uncredited)
 
2002 All or Nothing (writer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
2002 Ronnie Milsap: Live (video) (writer: " I'm A Stand By My Woman Man")
 
2001 Double Take (performer: "Apartment No. 9")
 
2000 Sordid Lives (writer: "Stand By Your Man", "Till I Can Make It On My Own" / performer: "Stand By Your Man", "Till I Can Make It On My Own", "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad")
 
2000 Postmark Paradise ("Stand By Your Man")
 
1999 Red Dwarf (TV series)
Krytie TV (1999) (writer: "Stand By Your Man" - uncredited / performer: "Stand By Your Man" - uncredited)
 
1998 Practical Magic (performer: "Near You")
 
1998 My Name Is Joe (writer: "Stand by Your Man" / as T Wynette)
 
1998 Primary Colors (performer: "D-I-V-O-R-C-E")
 
1998 Girls' Night (performer: "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad")
 
1995 GoldenEye (writer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
1995 To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (writer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
1994 Nobody's Fool (performer: "Near You")
 
1994 Maverick (performer: "Amazing Grace")
 
1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral (writer: "STAND BY YOUR MAN" 1968)
 
1993 27th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV special) (performer: "Silver Threads and Golden Needles")
 
1993 So I Married an Axe Murderer (writer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
1993 Poetic Justice (writer: "Stand by Your Man" / performer: "Stand by Your Man")
 
1993 Sleepless in Seattle (writer: "Stand By Your Man" / performer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
1992 The Crying Game (writer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
1992 My Cousin Vinny (writer: "STAND BY YOUR MAN")
 
1991 Thelma & Louise (performer: "I Don't Wanna Play House")
 
1990 Enid Is Sleeping (writer: "STAND BY YOUR MAN" / performer: "STAND BY YOUR MAN")
 
1988 Dolly (TV series)
Episode #1.11 (1988) (performer: "Stand By Your Man/Apartment #9/D.I.V.O.R.C.E./I Don't Wanna Play House/Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad Medley", "Hallelujah I'm Ready to Go")
 
1986 The American Way (writer: "Stand By Your Man" / as Wynette)
 
1981 The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia ("Imaginary Arms")
 
1979 Love and Bullets (writer: "Stand By Your Man" / performer: "Stand By Your Man")
 
1978 The Deer Hunter (performer: "Tattletale Eyes" 1976 - uncredited)
 
1978 Hooper (performer: "A Player, A Pawn, A Hero, A King")
 
1976 Drive-In (performer: "God's Gonna Get'cha For That")
 
1973 Teenage Cowgirls (performer: "Longing To Hold You Again" - uncredited, "Bring Him Safely Home To Me" - uncredited, "The Joy of Being a Woman" - uncredited, "The Only Thing" - uncredited)
 
1970-1971 The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)
History of Country Music: Part 2 (1971) (writer: "Stand By Your Man" / performer: "Stand By Your Man")
Episode #1.19 (1970) (performer: "I'll See Him Through")
 
1970 Five Easy Pieces ("Stand by your Man", "D-I-V-O-R-C-E")
 
1970 Cousin Jed Rises Again (performer: "We Sure Can Love Each Other" - uncredited)
 
1969 From Nashville with Music (music: "Stand by Your Man" / lyrics: "Stand by Your Man" / performer: "Stand by Your Man", "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad")
 
1969 Run, Angel, Run! (performer: "Run, Angel, Run")
 
Show ShowActress (4 titles)
1997-1998 King of the Hill (TV series)
Tilly Hill
Peggy's Turtle Song (1998) … Tilly Hill (voice)
 
1994 Evening Shade (TV series)
Jolene
The Fabulous Frazier Girls (1994) … Jolene
 
1986-1987 Capitol (TV series)
Darlene Stankowski
 
1969 From Nashville with Music
Tmmy Wynette
 
Show ShowComposer (1 title)
2008 Gary & Mildred (short) (music by)
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
1981 Stand by Your Man (TV movie) (book)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2000 Sordid Lives (dedicatee)
 
Show ShowSelf (58 titles)
1998 Naked Nashville (TV series documentary)
Herself
I Won't Die for Any Man (1998) … Herself
 
1998 Prime Time Country (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 16 March 1998 (1998) … Herself
 
1997 A Conversation with Burt Reynolds (TV movie)
Herself
 
1997 Biography (TV series documentary)
Herself
Tanya Tucker: Country Rebel (1997) … Herself
 
1996 America's Music: The Roots of Country (TV mini-series documentary)
Herself (1996)
 
1996 Married with Children (TV series)
Herself
The Juggs Have Left the Building (1996) … Herself
 
1996 Way Out West (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1996 The Beach Boys: Nashville Sounds (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1993-1995 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)
Herself
Episode #3.379 (1995) … Herself
Episode #2.29 (1993) … Herself
 
1994 Opryland's Country Christmas (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1994 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 24 October 1994 (1994) … Herself
 
1994 Wheel of Fortune (TV series)
Herself - Celebrity Contestant
Music Stars Week: Game 2 (1994) … Herself - Celebrity Contestant
 
1994 George Jones: Golden Hits (video)
Herself
 
1993 Good Morning... with Anne and Nick (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 29 October 1993 (1993) … Herself
 
1993 27th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV special)
Performer/Presenter
 
1993 Michael Ball (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.3 (1993) … Herself
 
1993 The Women of Country (TV movie)
Herself
 
1993 The Arsenio Hall Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 26 March 1993 (1993) … Herself
 
1993 The Academy of Country Music's Greatest Hits (TV special)
Herself
 
1992 One on One with John Tesh (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.108 (1992) … Herself
 
1975-1991 Top of the Pops (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 5 December 1991 (1991) … Herself
Episode dated 25 December 1975 (1975) … Herself
Episode dated 12 June 1975 (1975) … Herself
 
1991 A Festival at Ford's (TV special)
Herself
 
1990 An All Star Salute to Country Music (TV movie)
Herself
 
1990 24th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV movie)
Herself - Performer
 
1979-1989 Good Morning America (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 1 May 1989 (1989) … Herself
Episode dated 30 October 1979 (1979) … Herself
 
1969-1989 Hee Haw (TV series)
Herself - Guest / Herself / Herself - Special Guest / …
Episode #20.21 (1989) … Herself
Episode #11.25 (1980) … Herself
Episode #11.11 (1979) … Herself
Episode #8.1 (1976) … Herself
Episode #6.22 (1975) … Herself
 
1988 After Ten with Tarbuck (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.2 (1988) … Herself
 
1988 Dolly (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.11 (1988) … Herself
 
1987 Live from Her Majesty's (TV series)
Herself
Episode #5.6 (1987) … Herself
 
1985-1987 Wogan (TV series)
 
1987 Arena (TV series documentary)
Herself
 
1986 The Wildest West Show of the Stars (TV movie)
Herself/Singer
 
1986 Academy of Country Music's 20th Anniversary Reunion (TV special)
Herself - Host
 
1983-1985 Solid Gold (TV series)
Herself
Episode #5.37 (1985) … Herself
Episode dated 7 May 1983 (1983) … Herself
 
1983 17th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV special)
Herself
 
1981 The Nashville Palace (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.4 (1981) … Herself
 
1980 The Dukes of Hazzard (TV series)
Herself
The Hazzardville Horror (1980) … Herself
 
1975-1980 The Hollywood Squares (TV series)
Guest Appearance / Herself
Episode dated 24 March 1980 (1980) … Herself
Episode dated 1 May 1978 (1978) … Guest Appearance
Episode dated 14 April 1975 (1975) … Guest Appearance
 
1978 50 Years of Country Music (TV movie)
Herself
 
1978 Jamboree in the Hills (TV movie)
Herself
 
1977 Pop! Goes the Country (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 12 November 1977 (1977) … Herself
 
1977 The Mike Douglas Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 20 July 1977 (1977) … Herself
 
1977 Nashville 99 (TV series)
Herself
Joldy (1977) … Herself
 
1977 The 4th Annual American Music Awards (TV special)
Herself
 
1976 Dinah! (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 4 November 1976 (1976) … Herself
 
1975 The Musical Time Machine (TV series)
Episode #1.4 (1975)
 
1975 Numéro 1 (TV series)
Herself
Eddy Mitchell (1975) … Herself
 
1975 The Merv Griffin Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 8 April 1975 (1975) … Herself
 
1975 Tony Orlando and Dawn (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.15 (1975) … Herself
 
1973 Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London (TV series)
Herself
Music Country (1973) … Herself
 
1972 The 14th Annual Grammy Awards (TV special)
Herself
 
1970-1971 The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)
Herself / Herself - Singer
History of Country Music: Part 2 (1971) … Herself
The History of Country Music: Part 1 (1971) … Herself
Episode #1.19 (1970) … Herself - Singer
 
1970 That Good Ole Nashville Music (TV series)
Herself - Guest Performer
 
1968-1969 The Kraft Music Hall (TV series)
Herself
 
1969 The Joey Bishop Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #3.242 (1969) … Herself
Episode #3.190 (1969) … Herself
 
1969 Allen Ludden's Gallery (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.8 (1969) … Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (27 titles)
2011 The Joy of Country (TV movie)
Herself
 
2011 Country at the BBC (TV movie)
Herself
 
2011 Dolly Parton Tour TV (TV series documentary)
 
2011 Opry Memories (TV movie)
Herself
 
2011 CMT: 40 Greatest Love Songs (TV movie)
Herself
 
2010 Country's Greatest Stars Live: Vol. 1 (video)
Herself
 
2009 Crook & Chase (TV series)
 
2007 Opry Video Classics: The Hall of Fame (video)
Herself
 
2007 Opry Video Classics: Queens (video)
Herself
 
2007 Opry Video Classics: Love Ballads (video)
Herself
 
2007 Opry Video Classics: Legends (video)
Herself
 
2007 Opry Video Classics: Duets (video)
Herself
 
2006 My Music: Country Pop Legends (TV movie)
Herself
 
1995-2006 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
2006 CMT: The Greatest - 40 Greatest Albums (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2006 CMT Greatest Moments: Dolly Parton (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2005 Tammy Wynette: 'Til I Can Make It on My Own (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2005 CMT: 100 Greatest Duets Concert (TV special)
Herself
 
2005 CMT: Class of 1975 (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2005 Grand Ole Opry's Vintage Classics (TV movie)
Herself
 
2003 Inside Fame (TV series documentary)
 
2002 CMT: 40 Greatest Women of Country Music (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2001 Larry King Live (TV series)
 
1999 The Life and Times of the Women of Country (TV movie)
Herself
 
1998 Cold War (TV mini-series documentary)
 

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CD: "Biggest Hits" (Columbia) See more »

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1 Biographical Movie  | 3 Print Biographies  | 2 Interviews  | 2 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

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Trivia:

Elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1998. See more »

Nickname:

The First Lady of Country Music See more »

Star Sign:

Taurus