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Kris Kristofferson (1936-) is an American actor and Oscar®-nominated songwriter and singer. Kristofferson is known for his roles in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (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) and Blade (1998). His IMDb page shows over 115 acting credits since 1971. This page will rank Kris Kristofferson movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, cameos, and movies not released in North America were not included in the rankings.
Kris Kristofferson Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Kris Kristofferson Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Possibly Interesting Facts About Kris Kristofferson
1. Kristoffer Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas in 1936.
2. Kris Kristofferson earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. While at Oxford, he boxed, played rugby, and began writing songs.
3. Kris Kristofferson was a captain in the U.S. Army that flew helicopters. He became a commercial helicopter pilot after leaving the military. He got his start in the music business by landing a helicopter in Johnny Cash’s backyard and presenting him with a song he had written. Cash went on to record the song
4. Johnny Cash recorded Kris Kristofferson’s song Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down in 1969. The song became a hit and won Kristofferson a Songwriter of the Year honor at the Country Music Awards.
5. Kris Kristofferson got the leading male role of A Star Is Born (1976) after Elvis Presley couldn’t do it. Kristofferson would win a Best Actor Golden Globe® award for the role. Elvis has also recorded a song written by Kristofferson.
6. Cameron Crowe posed as a student at Clairemont High School to get material for the screenplay for Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). The principal of Clairemont was not thrilled with the idea, but when he asked Crowe about musicians that he had met, he mentioned Kris Kristofferson. The principal was a big fan of Kristofferson and agreed to let Crowe on campus.
7. Kris Kristofferson became good friends with the late James Coburn. They worked together on Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), Convoy (1978) and Payback (1999). Coburn also sang some backup vocals on Kristofferson’s album “Who’s to Bless and Who’s to Blame”.
8. Kris Kristofferson was elected into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985.
9. Kris Kristofferson was one of the Four Horsemen of the Country Music Apocalypse along with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson.
10. Kris Kristofferson never had an acting lesson.
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With certain of the films that Bruce has highlighted in his lead-in above Kris seemed to be building a nice career for himself in the 1970s. However it stalled with the massive flop of Heaven’s Gate and never seemed to me to regain potential top-star momentum.
Bruce’s stats tend to bear out my impressions because his tables show 7 other films that Kris made in the 1980s immediately following Heaven’s Gate and the combined adjusted domestic gross of the 7 is approx $98 million [average $14 million] and Bruce’s sources award them an average review rating of just 57% – ie less that good by Cogerson yardsticks.
Kris has survived though in a string of lesser films and/or supporting roles and possibly the reason for that is that he has such a strong personality [in my perception at least- regardless of Joel making one of his regular sweeping statements] that he Kris hard to ignore when he is on the screen. I especially liked his brutal and menacing villain in Mel Gibson’s Payback.
Not long ago is saw Kris in a 1992 TV remake of Barbara Stanwyck’s Christmas in Connecticut. It was not up to much [47% rated by IMDB] but Kris was in good company – Dyan Cannon [the ex -Mrs Leach] in Stanwyck’s old role; Tony Curtis in a delicious “3rd wheel” supporting part; and the film was directed by The Terminator himself taking a break from his then-tough-guy heyday as an actor.
I’ve seen 13 of 67 films on the chart, less than I thought. Favorites are – Convoy, Millennium, Payback, Planet of the Apes and Blade 1-2-3.
I’ve also seen – Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, Semi-Tough, Fire Down Below, D-Tox, Heaven’s Gate and He’s Just Not That Into You.
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!
Great UMR Page
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When Kris Kristofferson is clean-shaven, he’s bland – but a beard miraculously transforms him into an exciting romantic star. His low-key affable acting style can be colorless until he has a vivid leading lady to play against.
Rating the Movie Stars 4 Stat Kris Kristofferson Performance
1973’s Blume In Love
1975’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Another Joel subject off the board…for those keeping track…380 down…30 to go.
I have seen 27 of his movies….favorites would be Payback, his performance in A Star Is Born, Blade 1 and 2 and Flashpoint (though it has been a long time since seeing that one).