Tex Ritter

Biography

Performing cowboy Tex Ritter stood among the biggest titles in country music through the entire postwar era, because of a diverse job that led him everywhere from your Broadway stage towards the political arena. He was created Maurice Woodward Ritter in Marvaul, TX, on January 12, 1907, and was raised on the ranch in Beaumont. After graduating near the top of his senior high school course, he majored in legislation at the University or college of Tx. During college, nevertheless, he was bitten from the performing bug and relocated to NY in 1928 to become listed on a theatrical troupe. Over time of struggle, he briefly came back to school, and then leave once again to pursue stardom. Ritter was playing cowboy tunes on the air when he came back to NY in 1931 to do something within the Broadway creation Green Grow the Lilacs; during picture adjustments, he also performed on his acoustic guitar. Because of his success around the stage, he started hosting radio applications like Tex Ritter’s Campfire and Cowboy Tom’s Roundup before getting into the studio room with producer Artwork Satherley in 1933, where his deep, lived-in tone of voice graced tracks like “Rye Whiskey.” He captured the eye of Hollywood manufacturer Edward Finney, who was simply looking for a cowboy vocalist within the mold from the extremely effective Gene Autry and was tapped to superstar within the 1936 Traditional western Song from the Gringo. On the next 2 yrs, Ritter starred in twelve movies, including 1937’s Difficulty in Tx (co-starring a Rita Hayworth), before Finney’s studio room, Grand National Images, folded. Ritter after that turned to Monogram Studios, for whom he produced some 20 Westerns, including 1940’s Consider Me Back again to Oklahoma with co-star Bob Wills; just work at Columbia and General implemented, and by enough time of his film swan tune, 1945’s The Tx Rangers, he previously appeared in a complete of 85 movies. As Ritter’s Hollywood profession went into drop, his music profession begun to blossom, and in 1942, he became the very first country artist agreed upon to Capitol Information, where he documented from traditional folk music to patriotic materials to sentimental tracks. In 1944, Tex Ritter & His Texans topped the graphs with the one “I’m Wastin’ My Tears you.” The record’s turn side, “There is a New Moon Over My Make,” peaked at number 2, as do the follow-up “Jealous Heart.” 1945’s “You Two-Timed Me ONETIME ALL TOO OFTEN” became Ritter’s greatest achievement, holding at number 1 for 11 consecutive weeks. Among his various other successes within the 1940s had been 1945’s number 1 “You will need to Pay out,” 1948’s “Rock and roll and Rye,” and 1950’s “Daddy’s Last Notice (Private HIGH GRADE John H. McCormick),” in line with the real correspondence of the soldier slain through the Korean Battle. Ritter documented the theme towards the Fred Zinneman traditional Large Noon in 1953, as well as the producing solitary proved extremely effective with pop viewers, helping earn him the work because the MC of the tv screen program City Hall Party, which he hosted between 1953 and 1960. In 1958, he released his 1st full-length LP, Tunes From the European Screen, followed another 12 months by Psalms. After departing City Hall Party, he released the LP Bloodstream in the Saddle, a dark assortment of cowboy narrative tracks, and in 1961, he came back to the united states graphs after an 11-season absence with the very best Five strike “I Imagined a Hillbilly Heaven.” In 1963 Ritter started a two-year tenure because the leader of the united states Music Association, and in 1965 he shifted to Nashville to become listed on the Grand Ole Opry. After an unsuccessful bet for the U.S. Senate in 1970, Ritter passed away of a coronary attack on January 2, 1974; his boy John Ritter continued the family members name as a favorite actor in Television sitcoms like Three’s Business and Hooperman.

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1	Singing-cowboy star of "B" westerns during the 30's and 40's and later country-music recording star.
2	Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter came from a long line of Texas horsemen. His grandfather Benjamin Franklin Ritter (1834-1902) was a Confederate officer (2nd lieutenant) in Company F the 37th Texas Cavalry (Terrel's) during the War between the States. Benjamin saw action in the saddle in Texas and Louisiana.
3	He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6631 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
4	Buried in Port Neches, Texas.
5	Grandfather of Stella Ritter.
6	Father of Tom Ritter
7	His horse in his earlier movies was called White Flash.
8	Profiled in "Back in the Saddle: Essays on Western Film and Television Actors", Gary Yoggy, ed. (McFarland, 1998).
9	Veteran character actor Morgan Woodward's uncle, Dr. S. A. Woodward, lived in the San Angelo, Texas area. One day, he was called to help in the birth of a male child. The family, not knowing what gender was expected, had not chosen a name, so in honor of the good doctor's service, they named him Woodward Ritter. Later, he would be known more widely as "Tex" Ritter.
10	Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1980.
11	"You Two-Timed Me Once Too Often" was Billboard's No. 1 country hit of the year in 1945.
12	Had a long string of hit singles on Billboard's country charts -- including the No. 1 hits "I'm Wasting My Tears on You" (1944); "You Two-Timed Me Once Too Often" (1945); and "You Will Have to Pay" (1946). Other famous hits included "Deck of Cards" (1948) and "I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven" (1961).
13	Grandfather of Jason Ritter.
14	Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1964.
15	In 1970, he ran unsuccessfully in Tennessee for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.
16	In his later years, he was a disk jockey on Nashville radio.
17	His spouse, Dorothy Fay, was his leading lady in many of his western features.
18	Singer, father of John Ritter.
19	Perhaps best remembered for his haunting vocalization of the theme song in High Noon (1952).



Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Bloodline	2015	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression	2009	Video documentary performer: "Ride, Ride, Ride", "Down the Trail of My Dreams" - uncredited
Opry Video Classics: Pioneers	2007	Video performer: "High Noon"
Neal Cassady	2007	performer: "We'll Rest at the End of the Trail"
Ramona	2003	TV Mini-Series performer: "High Noon"
Ready to Rumble	2000	performer: "Wayward Wind"
Varsity Blues	1999	performer: "The Wayward Wind"
I'll Be Home for Christmas	1998	performer: "Christmas Carols By The Old Corral"
American Strays	1996	performer: " I Got Spurs Jingle Jangle Jingle"
Canadian Bacon	1995	performer: "God Bless America Again"
The Great Outdoors	1988	performer: "Paul Bunyan Love"
Arena	1984	TV Series documentary arranger - 1 episode
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch	1976	performer: "I Ride an Old Paint" - uncredited
The Porter Wagoner Show	1966-1973	TV Series performer - 3 episodes
The Magic of Walt Disney World	1972	Short performer: "Blood on the Saddle" - uncredited
The Johnny Cash Show	1970	TV Series performer - 1 episode
What Am I Bid?	1967	performer: "I Never Got to Kiss the Girl"
Nashville Rebel	1966	performer: "Hillbilly Heaven"
The Drifter	1965	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Startime	1960	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Zane Grey Theater	1958	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Ranch Party	1957-1958	TV Series performer - 8 episodes
Trooper Hook	1957	performer: "Trooper Hook"
Bus Stop	1956	writer: "Rye Whisky" 1936 - uncredited
Down Liberty Road	1956	Short performer: "Freedom Road" - uncredited
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin	1956	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Wichita	1955	performer: "Wichita"
The Marshal's Daughter	1953	performer: "The Marshal's Daughter"
The 25th Annual Academy Awards	1953	TV Special performer: "High Noon Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'"
High Noon	1952	performer: "High Noon" Ballad
Holiday Rhythm	1950	performer: "Old Chisolm Trail"
Flaming Bullets	1945	performer: "I Hang My Head and Cry", "Be Honest With Me"
Frontier Fugitives	1945	performer: "Too Late To Worry, Too Blue To Cry", "I'll Wait For You, Dear"
Three in the Saddle	1945	performer: "I've Done the Best I Could", "Try Me One More Time" / writer: "I've Done the Best I Could"
Enemy of the Law	1945	performer: "Teach Me To Forget", "You Will Have To Pay" / writer: "Teach Me To Forget", "You Will Have To Pay"
Beyond the Pecos	1945	writer: "High, Wide and Handsome"
Marked for Murder	1945	performer: "Long Time Gone", "Tears of Regret", "Froggie Went A-Courtin'" / writer: "Long Time Gone"
The Whispering Skull	1944	performer: "In Case You Change Your Mind", "It's Never Too Late" / writer: "In Case You Change Your Mind", "It's Never Too Late"
Dead or Alive	1944	performer: "I'm Gonna Leave You Like I Found You", "Don't Care Since You Told Me Goodbye" / writer: "I'm Gonna Leave You Like I Found You", "Don't Care Since You Told Me Goodbye"
Gangsters of the Frontier	1944	"Please Remember Me"
Oklahoma Raiders	1944	performer: "I'll Be a Cowboy 'Till I Die", "Roll On, Little Dogies, Roll On"
Cowboy Canteen	1944	performer: "Goin' To Lasso a Rainbow" - uncredited
Marshal of Gunsmoke	1944	arranger: "Git Along Little Dogies" / performer: "Git Along Little Dogies"
Arizona Trail	1943	performer: "Stay Away From My Heart"
The Lone Star Trail	1943	performer: "I Gotta See Texas Just Once More"
Raiders of San Joaquin	1943	performer: "A Carefree Cowboy"
Cheyenne Roundup	1943	performer: "Rose of the Hills"
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground	1943	performer: "Riding Home"
The Old Chisholm Trail	1942	arranger: "The Rovin' Gambler" / performer: "Out On The Lone Star Trail", "The Rovin' Gambler"
Deep in the Heart of Texas	1942	arranger: "Cowboy's Lament" / performer: "Deep In The Heart Of Texas", "Cowboy's Lament"
Vengeance of the West	1942	performer: "Along The Trail Somewhere", "Only Yesterday"
Prairie Gunsmoke	1942	performer: "Where The Buffalo Roam", "Someone To Call Darling" / writer: "Where The Buffalo Roam"
Home in Wyomin'	1942	arranger: " Oh My Darling Clementine"
North of the Rockies	1942	arranger: "Ninety-Nine Days in Jail" - uncredited / performer: "Jog, Jog, Jogging Along", "Get Your Man, Mountie Boys, Get Your Man", "Ninety-Nine Days in Jail" uncredited
The Lone Star Vigilantes	1942	performer: "Headin' Home to Texas", "When the Moon is Shinging on the Old Corral", "Going to Join the Rangers"
Roaring Frontiers	1941	performer: "You've Got To Come And Get Me Boys", "You're A Part Of The West", "Judge Morrow Will Find The Truth"
Ridin' the Cherokee Trail	1941	performer: "Dynamite Dan", "Song of the Coyotes", "Old Pete the Bandito"
Roll Wagons Roll	1940	lyrics: "Oh! Susanna" / performer: "Roll, Wagons, Roll", "Oh! Susanna"
The Golden Trail	1940	"Gold Is Where You Find It" / arranger: "Clementine" / performer: "Clementine"
The Cowboy from Sundown	1940	performer: "Symphony of the Prairie", I've Done the Best I Can", The Craw-dad Song" / writer: I've Done the Best I Can"
Pals of the Silver Sage	1940	performer: "Prairie Fairyland"
Rhythm of the Rio Grande	1940	performer: "Rhythm of the Rio Grande", "Mexicali Moon"
Westbound Stage	1939	performer: "It's All Over Now", "Trail To Mexico"
Riders of the Frontier	1939	arranger: "The Boll Weevil Song" / performer: "Rose of My Dreams", "Ten Thousand Cattle", "Ridin' Down to Texas", "The Boll Weevil Song"
Down the Wyoming Trail	1939	performer: "It Makes No Difference Now", "In Elk Valley", "Goin' Back to Texas" - uncredited
The Man from Texas	1939	performer: "Men Who Wear the Stars", "Prairie Lights"
Rollin' Westward	1939	performer: "Out In The Golden West", "Bold Vaquero"
Sundown on the Prairie	1939	arranger: "My Love Is A Rider" / performer: "Dust On My Saddle", "Cactus Pete", "My Love Is A Rider" / writer: "Dust On My Saddle"
Song of the Buckaroo	1938	performer: "Texas Dan", "Little Tenderfoot', "I Promise You" / writer: "I Promise You"
Where the Buffalo Roam	1938	performer: "Where the Buffalo Roam", "Troubador of the Prairie", "Longside of the Sana Fe Trail", "Home on the Range", "Shoot the Buffalo" / writer: "Where the Buffalo Roam", "Troubador of the Prairie"
Starlight Over Texas	1938	"Starlight Over Texas" / performer: "Starlight Over Texas", "Ah! Viva Tequila", "A Garden in Granada"
Utah Trail	1938	performer: "Utah Trail", "Give Me Back My Saddle", "A Mighty Good Horse", "A'Roamin' I'll Be"
Rollin' Plains	1938	performer: "Me, My Pal and My Pony", "Rollin' Plains"
Frontier Town	1938	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" / writer: "Old Cayuse", "Give Me a Horse, a Saddle and You"
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts	1937	performer: "I'm Headin' For My Texas Home", "The Gal I Left Behind Me"
The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen	1937	performer: "Ride, Ride, Ride", "I'm A Texas Cowboy", "Ride Around Little Dogies", "Rosita", "A' Ridin' Old Paint"
Riders of the Rockies	1937	performer: "Song of the Open Range", "Arizona Rangers", "Riders of the Rockies", "Home on the Range" - uncredited / writer: "Song of the Open Range", "Arizona Rangers", "Riders of the Rockies" - uncredited
Sing, Cowboy, Sing	1937	performer: "Goodbye Old Paint, I'm a-Leavin' Cheyenne", "Get A Horse and Saddle", "Sing, Cowboy, Sing", "Twilight Reverie" - uncredited / writer: "I'm A Natural Born Cowboy", "Sing, Cowboy, Sing", "Twilight Reverie" - uncredited
Hittin' the Trail	1937	"Hittin' the Trail", uncredited / performer: "Hittin' the Trail", "Blood on the Saddle", "Headin' For Town", "The Vagabond Song" aka "The Renegade Song", "I'm a Natural Born Cowboy" - uncredited
Trouble in Texas	1937	performer: "Down the Colorado Trail", "The Rodeo Song", "A Cowboy's Lament" / writer: "The Rodeo Song"
Arizona Days	1937	performer: "High, Wide and Handsome", "Tombstone, Arizona", "Arizona Days" / writer: "High, Wide and Handsome", "Tombstone, Arizona", "Arizona Days"
Headin' for the Rio Grande	1936	performer: "Headin' For the Rio Grande", "The Night Herding Song", "A Campfire Love Song", "Jailhouse Lament" / writer: "Headin' For the Rio Grande", "The Night Herding Song", "A Campfire Love Song", "Jailhouse Lament"
Song of the Gringo	1936	lyrics: "My Sweet Chiquita" 1936, "Rye Whiskey" - uncredited / music: "My Sweet Chiquita" 1936, "Rye Whiskey" - uncredited / performer: "Out on the Lone Prairie" 1936, "My Sweet Chiquita" 1936, "Sam Hall", "Rye Whiskey" - uncredited

Actor

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Sing a Country Song	1973
The Marshal of Windy Hollow	1972		Windy Hollow Mayor
What Am I Bid?	1967		Tex Ritter
Girl from Tobacco Row	1966		Reverend E.F. Bolton
The Drifter	1965	TV Series	Tex
The Rebel	1961	TV Series	Marshall
Shotgun Slade	1959	TV Series	The Marshal
Zane Grey Theater	1958	TV Series	Reydo - Balladeer
Trooper Hook	1957		Title Song Singer (voice)
Studio 57	1956	TV Series	Singer
The First Bad Man	1955	Short	Narrator (voice)
Apache Ambush	1955		Traeger
The Marshal's Daughter	1953		Background Singer (singing voice)
Holiday Rhythm	1950		Tex Ritter
Flaming Bullets	1945		Tex Haines
Frontier Fugitives	1945		Tex Haines
Three in the Saddle	1945		Tex Haines
Enemy of the Law	1945		Tex Haines
Marked for Murder	1945		Tex Haines
The Whispering Skull	1944		Tex Haines
Dead or Alive	1944		Tex Haines aka Idaho Kid
Gangsters of the Frontier	1944		Tex Haines
Oklahoma Raiders	1944		Steve Nolan
Cowboy Canteen	1944		Tex Coulter
Marshal of Gunsmoke	1944		Marshal Ward Bailey
Arizona Trail	1943		Johnny Trent
Frontier Badmen	1943		Jerry Kimball - Cattle Buyer (uncredited)
The Lone Star Trail	1943		Fargo Steele
Raiders of San Joaquin	1943		Gil Blake
Cheyenne Roundup	1943		Steve Rawlins
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground	1943		Bob Courtney
The Old Chisholm Trail	1942		Montana Smith
Little Joe, the Wrangler	1942		Sheriff Bob Brewster
Deep in the Heart of Texas	1942		Brent Gordon
Vengeance of the West	1942		Marshal Captain Lake
Prairie Gunsmoke	1942		Tex Terrell
The Devil's Trail	1942		Marshal Tex Martin
North of the Rockies	1942		Tex Martin
Bullets for Bandits	1942		Sheriff Tex Martin
The Lone Star Vigilantes	1942		Tex Martin
Roaring Frontiers	1941		Tex Martin (Tex Rawlings in credits)
King of Dodge City	1941		Tex Rawlings
The Pioneers	1941		Tex Ritter
Ridin' the Cherokee Trail	1941		Texas Ranger Lieutenant Tex Ritter
Rollin' Home to Texas	1940		Tex Reed
Take Me Back to Oklahoma	1940		Tex Lawton
Arizona Frontier	1940		Tex
Roll Wagons Roll	1940		Tex Masters
Rainbow Over the Range	1940		Marshal Tex Reed
The Golden Trail	1940		Tex Roberts
The Cowboy from Sundown	1940		Sheriff Tex Rockett
Pals of the Silver Sage	1940		Tex Wright
Rhythm of the Rio Grande	1940		Tex Regan
Westbound Stage	1939		Tex Wallace
Riders of the Frontier	1939		Tex Lowry posing as Ed Carter
Down the Wyoming Trail	1939		Tex Yancey
The Man from Texas	1939		Tex Allen
Rollin' Westward	1939		Tex Ramsey
Sundown on the Prairie	1939		Tex
Song of the Buckaroo	1938		Texas Dan
Where the Buffalo Roam	1938		Tex Houston
Starlight Over Texas	1938		Tex Newman
Utah Trail	1938		Tex Stewart, posing as the Pecos Kid
Rollin' Plains	1938		Tex Lawrence
Frontier Town	1938		Tex Lansing, alias Tex Rawlins
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts	1937		Tex Collins
The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen	1937		Tex Martin
Riders of the Rockies	1937		Tex Rand
Sing, Cowboy, Sing	1937		Tex Archer
Hittin' the Trail	1937		Tex Randall
Trouble in Texas	1937		Tex Masters
Arizona Days	1937		Tex Malinson
Headin' for the Rio Grande	1936		Tex Saunders
Song of the Gringo	1936		Tex

Music Department

Music Department

Title	Year	Status	Character
Riders of the Rockies	1937	songs by
Song of the Gringo	1936	songs by

Self

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Hee Haw	1974	TV Series	Himself - Special Guest
The Porter Wagoner Show	1966-1973	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Johnny Cash Show	1970-1971	TV Series	Herself - Singer / Himself - Singer
The Nashville Sound	1970	Documentary	Himself
The Dick Cavett Show	1970	TV Series	Himself
The David Frost Show	1969	TV Series	Himself
The Kraft Music Hall	1968	TV Series	Himself
Nashville Rebel	1966		Himself
The Jimmy Dean Show	1963-1965	TV Series	Himself
Five Star Jubilee	1961	TV Series	Himself
Academy Award Songs	1960	TV Movie	Himself - Singer
Startime	1960	TV Series	Himself
The Christophers	1958	TV Series	Himself
Ranch Party	1957-1958	TV Series	Himself - Host / Singer / Performer
Down Liberty Road	1956	Short	Himself
The Cowboy	1954	Documentary	Narrator
The 25th Annual Academy Awards	1953	TV Special	Himself - Performer
Town Hall Party	1952	TV Series	Himself
Hometown Jamboree	1949	TV Series	Himself (1949-1960)

Archive Footage

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Cowboys of the Saturday Matinee	1984	Video documentary
All You Need Is Love	1977	TV Series documentary	Himself
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch	1976		Tex
The Magic of Walt Disney World	1972	Short	Big Al - Country Bear Jamboree (uncredited)
Hollywood and the Stars	1963	TV Series	Himself
The Gabby Hayes Show	1956	TV Series	Tex
The Best of the Porter Wagoner Show! Classic Shows: Vol. 1	2008	Video	Himself
Opry Video Classics: Pioneers	2007	Video	Himself
City Confidential	2003	TV Series documentary	Himself
A Life of Laughter: Remembering John Ritter	2003	TV Movie documentary
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs	2000	TV Movie documentary
America's Music: The Roots of Country	1996	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself (1996)
The West That Never Was	1987	TV Movie documentary

Won awards

Won awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1986	In Memoriam Award	Golden Boot Awards



Title	Salary
Hittin' the Trail (1937)	$2,400
Trouble in Texas (1937)	$2,400
Song of the Gringo (1936)	$2,400



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