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Composer (Music Score), Actor, Singer, Songwriter Born: February 26, 1932 in Kingsland, AR Death: September 12, 2003 in Nashville, TN Biography:Emerging into the public's consciousness in 1958, country & western performer Johnny Cash hit his first popularity peak in the mid-'60s with his hard-driving prison, train, and "underdog" ballads. Changing tastes, coupled with his own volatile temperament, resulted in as many lows as highs in the late 20th century, but Cash is a survivor, and was still very much on hand for the country & western upsurge of the late '80s. His first film appearances were in shapeless semi-concert pictures like "Hootenanny Hoot" (1963), but he went on to excel as a naturalistic actor in such Westerns as "A Gunfight" (1971) and "The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James" (1986). Johnny Cash is shown to best cinematic advantage as "himself" in the 1970 documentary "Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music", which features Cash's wife, June Carter. Cash was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Lincoln Center in... Full Biography
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