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Orvon Grover “Gene” Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), nicknamed The Singing Cowboy, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, musician and rodeo performer who gained fame largely by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s.
From 1934 to 1953, Autry appeared in 93 films, and between 1950 and 1956 hosted The Gene Autry Show television series. During the 1930s and 1940s, he personified the straight-shooting hero – honest, brave, and true. Autry was also one of the most important pioneering figures in the history of country music, considered the second major influential artist of the genre’s development after Jimmie Rodgers. His singing cowboy films were the first vehicle to carry country music to a national audience. In addition to his signature song, “Back in the Saddle Again”, and his hit “At Mail Call Today”, Autry is still remembered for his Christmas holiday songs, most especially his biggest hit “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” as well as “Frosty the Snowman”, “Here Comes Santa Claus”, and “Up on the House Top”.
Autry is a member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and is the only person to be awarded stars in all five categories on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for film, television, music, radio, and live performance.
Gene Autry Biography / Wiki
| Name | Gene Autry |
| Also Know | Orvon Grover Autry, The Singing Cowboy, Bob Clayton, Johnny Dodds |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Near Tioga, Texas, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1907-09-29 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 91 |
| Deathday | 1998-10-02 |
Gene Autry Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Ride, Ranger, Ride | Gene Autry | 1936-11-30 | It is the story of Gene’s, a Cavalry scout, who manages to quell an Indian uprising…. |
| Boots and Saddles | Gene Autry | 1937-10-04 | Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene’s gonna turn him into a real westerner instead. When new owner Spud arrives from Engl… |
| Riders of the Whistling Pines | Gene Autry | 1949-03-16 | While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter, who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchell to cut restricted timber, Gene fires at a danger… |
| Round-Up Time in Texas | Gene Autry | 1937-02-28 | Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene’e brother, a diamond prospector whose work has attracted the interest of a bunch of badguys…. |
| Springtime in the Rockies | Gene Autry | 1937-11-13 | Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don’t like it, and ranch forem… |
| Red River Valley | Gene Autry | 1936-03-02 | Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site…. |
| The Big Show | Gene Autry/Tom Ford | 1936-11-16 | At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson get… |
| South of the Border | Gene Autry | 1939-12-15 | A federal agent (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) hang out in Mexico to check a revolution…. |
| The Old Corral | Sheriff Gene Autry | 1936-12-21 | As the sheriff of a small western town, Autry sings his way into a relationship with Eleanor, a singer from a Chicago nightclub who earlier witnessed … |
| Apache Country | Gene Autry | 1952-05-30 | A criminal gang provokes the local Apaches in order to divert the authorities’ attention from their own activities…. |
| Winning of the West | Gene Autry | 1953-01-01 | A singing territorial ranger (Gene Autry) spots his younger brother in an outlaw gang…. |
| Valley of Fire | Gene Autry | 1951-11-20 | An outcast gambler hijacks a wagon train of eligible women taken west by a mayor…. |
| Oh, Susanna | Gene Autry aka Tex Smith | 1936-08-19 | Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by O… |
| Men with Steel Faces | Gene Autry | 1940-05-02 | Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth…. |
| Git Along Little Dogies | Gene Autry | 1937-03-27 | When war breaks out between oilmen and cattle ranchers, Gene sides with the ranchers until he learns that oil will bring a railraod to town…. |
| Heart of the Rio Grande | Gene Autry | 1942-03-11 | As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman … |
| The Big Sombrero | Gene Autry | 1949-04-19 | Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the business affairs of the owner, Estrellita Estrada, who i… |
| Down Mexico Way | Gene Autry | 1941-10-15 | Like 1940’s Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a “special”, to be promoted separately from Autry’s regular B-we… |
| Rootin’ Tootin’ Rhythm | Gene Autry | 1937-05-12 | Gene and Frog, out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to be dead bandits, which soon gets them in big trou… |
| The Last Round-up | Gene Autry | 1947-11-05 | A rancher tries to convince an Indian tribe to relocate so their land can be used to provide water for Kansas City…. |
| The Old Barn Dance | Gene Autry | 1938-01-29 | Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which claims horses are out of date…. |
| Blue Canadian Rockies | Gene Autry | 1952-11-30 | Montana ranch owner Cyrus Bigbee sends his foreman, Gene Autry, and Rawhide Buttram to his Canadian timber land to stop the marriage of his daughter S… |
| Last of the Pony Riders | Gene Autry | 1953-11-03 | Ex-Pony Express rider Autry ties to protect his US mail franchise as the Pony Express gives way to stage coach mail and the telegraph. Gene’s last fil… |
| Night Stage to Galveston | Gene Autry | 1952-03-18 | A former Texas Ranger teams up with some of his old colleagues to rid the state of corruption in their new police force…. |
| Man from Music Mountain | Gene Autry | 1938-08-15 | Scanlon is pulling off a land swindle by selling lots in a ghost town claiming the power company is bringing in a line. As a bonus he throws in shares… |
| Guns and Guitars | Gene Autry | 1936-06-22 | A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff…. |
| Call of the Canyon | Gene Autry | 1942-08-17 | A radio saleswoman (Ruth Terry) helps a singing cattleman (Gene Autry) trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast…. |
| The Singing Cowboy | Gene Autry | 1936-05-11 | A rodeo singer (Gene Autry) funds a little girl’s operation with a show, on television…. |
| Barbed Wire | Gene Autry | 1952-07-25 | A cattle buyer (Gene Autry), a federal agent (Pat Buttram) and a newswoman (Anne James) snip a railroad plot…. |
| Whirlwind | Gene Autry aka The Whirlwind | 1951-04-16 | A singing postal inspector (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) save a woman’s (Gail Davis) estate from fraud…. |
| Hills of Utah | Dr. Gene Autry | 1951-09-30 | A singing doctor (Gene Autry) on horseback heals a feud between cattlemen and copper miners…. |
| Goldtown Ghost Riders | Gene Autry | 1953-05-20 | A singing frontier judge (Gene Autry) dismisses a case of double jeopardy…. |
| Stardust on the Sage | Gene Autry | 1942-05-25 | A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine…. |
| Back in the Saddle | Gene Autry | 1941-03-14 | Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone’s cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is pois… |
| Sunset in Wyoming | Gene Autry | 1941-07-15 | By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won’t let that happen…. |
| On Top of Old Smoky | Gene Autry | 1953-03-25 | Poachers are harassing toll road owner Jen Larrabee. They want her land because it holds valuable minerals. Autry and the Cass County Boys, mistaken f… |
| The Singing Vagabond | Captain Tex Autry | 1935-12-16 | Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie…. |
| Rim of the Canyon | Gene Autry / Steve Autry | 1949-07-01 | 20 years ago, 3 men robbed a stage and hid $30,000. They were caught and sent to prison by Marshal Steve Autry. 20 years later, the men bust out of pr… |
| The Phantom Empire | Gene Autry | 1935-02-22 | When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles… |
| Rancho Grande | Gene Autry | 1940-03-22 | A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure…. |
| Public Cowboy No. 1 | Helen Morgan | 1937-06-11 | Deputies Gene Autry and Frog go up against modern cattle rustlers. These rustlers use technology such as, airplanes, radios and refrigerated trucks to… |
| Tumbling Tumbleweeds | Gene Autry | 1935-09-05 | Traveling with Doc Parker’s medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene als… |
| The Sagebrush Troubadour | Gene Autry | 1935-12-02 | Before he was murdered Grandpa Martin found a gold mine. He failed to record it and now everyone is looking for Martin’s old horse that can lead them … |
| Sioux City Sue | Gene Autry | 1946-11-21 | A Hollywood scout (Lynne Roberts) averts disaster for a singing cowboy (Gene Autry) she has misled…. |
| Melody Ranch | Cornelius J. Courtney | 1940-09-15 | His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration…. |
| Melody Trail | Gene Autry | 1935-10-21 | Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting…. |
| Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain | Gene Autry | 1936-04-13 | His horse Champion steals the show from Gene when what’s at stake is a horse race and a bull fight…. |
| Ridin’ on a Rainbow | Gene Autry | 1941-01-24 | When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves … |
| Riders in the Sky | Gene Autry | 1949-11-29 | When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and … |
| Beyond the Purple Hills | Gene Autry | 1950-07-25 | In a typical western (movie) town (possibly described as ‘hick’ by someone who possibly hasn’t seen the film) Gene Autry and his friend Jack Beaumont … |
| In Old Monterey | Gene | 1939-08-14 | The (pre-WWII) Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there…. |
| Yodelin’ Kid from Pine Ridge | Gene Autry | 1937-06-14 | The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero…. |
| Prairie Moon | Gene Autry | 1938-10-07 | Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustle… |
| Gold Mine in the Sky | Gene Autry | 1938-07-04 | As executor of the owner’s will, singing ranch foreman Gene must see that the daughter/heiress doesn’t marry without his approval…. |
| Rhythm of the Saddle | Gene Autry | 1938-11-06 | Gene is the foreman at the ranch owned by wealthy rodeo owner Maureen. She will lose her rodeo contract unless sales improve…. |
| Western Jamboree | Gene Autry | 1938-12-02 | Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch which Gene straw-bosses. When that fails, they lay … |
| The Cowboy and the Indians | Gene Autry | 1949-09-15 | Finding Indians stealing from his ranch, Gene learns they are suffering from malnutrition. Store owner Martin is cheating them and now he is after the… |
| The Blazing Sun | Gene Autry | 1950-11-20 | Gene Autry hunts bank robbers Al Bartlett and Trot Lucas with his old friend Mike. Bartlett, to throw off his pursuers, kills Trot and his own brother… |
| Saddle Pals | Gene Autry | 1947-06-05 | Saddle Pals hits a new low for Gene Autry’s postwar Republic westerns, containing literally no action at all. Autry is drawn into the plot when he’s g… |
| Home in Wyomin’ | Gene Autry | 1942-04-29 | Radio star Gene Autry returns to his home town of Gold Ridge at the request of his old friend Pop Harrison, who wants Gene to straighten out his waywa… |
| Twilight on the Rio Grande | Gene Autry | 1947-03-31 | Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off…. |
| Mountain Rhythm | Gene Autry | 1939-06-08 | Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be put up for auction, the ranchers pool their money o… |
| Carolina Moon | Gene Autry | 1940-07-14 | A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a man and daughter from con men…. |
| The Strawberry Roan | Gene Autry | 1948-08-01 | Young Joe is paralyzed as he is bucked by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. Angered, his father, Walt, tries to shoot the horse but is stopped by his f… |
| Mule Train | U.S. Marshal Gene Autry | 1950-02-22 | A prospector discovers natural cement and suggests it should be used for a new dam. But this is the last thing the badmen of Trail End want, as they h… |
| The Singing Hill | Gene Autry | 1941-04-25 | If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land…. |
| Saginaw Trail | Gene Autry | 1953-09-20 | Hamilton’s Rangers, led by our hero Gene, must keep the Indians in the northern Michigan territory from attacking the settlers…. |
| Wagon Team | Gene Autry | 1952-09-29 | Gene Autry is back in the saddle again as an undercover detective in this action-packed Western complete with a showdown. Gene poses as a jailbird to … |
| Robin Hood Of Texas | Gene Autry | 1947-07-15 | When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them… |
| Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride | Gene Autry | 1940-09-05 | Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in…. |
| Mexicali Rose | Gene Autry | 1939-03-26 | Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage…. |
| Home on the Prairie | Gene Autry | 1939-02-03 | When shifty cattlemen Belknap (Walter Miller) and H.R. Shelby (Gordon Hart) are caught shipping infected animals to Mexico, they frame inspector Gene … |
| Sons of New Mexico | Gene Autry | 1949-12-20 | Not quite as memorable as his previous Riders in the Sky, Gene Autry’s Sons of New Mexico is still well up to the star’s standard. This time, Gene tri… |
| Rovin’ Tumbleweeds | Gene Autry | 1939-11-16 | Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroyed by raging floods. Blaming crooked politicians, h… |
| The Old West | Gene Autry | 1952-09-29 | Doc Lockwood and his gang are trying to take away Autry’s contract for supplying horses to the stagecoach line. Parson Brooks joins Autry in an effort… |
| Sierra Sue | Gene Autry | 1941-11-12 | To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he recommends spraying. The spraying goes well until … |
| Texans Never Cry | Gene Autry | 1951-03-15 | A Texas Ranger tries to bring down counterfeiters selling fake lottery tickets…. |
| Blue Montana Skies | Gene Autry | 1939-05-03 | Gene Autry follows a clue written on a rock by his murdered partner and discovers a fur smuggling operation near the Canadian border…. |
| Cow Town | Gene Autry | 1950-05-19 | Gene responds to cattle rustling by stringing barbed wire all around his range…. |
| Gene Autry and the Mounties | Gene Autry | 1951-01-30 | Montana Marshals Gene and Scat are tracking some bank robbers. When the baddies cross into Canada, the Mounties are called upon to help…. |
| Under Fiesta Stars | Gene Autry | 1941-08-25 | Rodeo champ Gene Autry inherits half interest in both a ranch and a mine that provides steady employment for the surrounding rancheros. Unfortunately,… |
| Gaucho Serenade | Gene Autry | 1940-05-09 | Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene’s hor… |
| Pack Train | Gene Autry | 1953-07-04 | Gene Autry is assigned to safely transport supplies to a band of settlers. The villains, headed by Ross McLain (Kenne Duncan), intend to bushwhack Aut… |
| Bells of Capistrano | Gene Autry | 1942-09-15 | America’s favorite singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this vintage tale as an up-and-coming rodeo singer caught in the middle of two rival companies, … |
| Indian Territory | Gene Autry | 1950-09-29 | Columbia’s final release for 1950 was the Gene Autry western Indian Territory. Set during the Reconstruction Era, the story finds Autry working as an … |
| Silver Canyon | Gene Autry | 1951-06-19 | At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Au… |
| Cowboy Serenade | Gene Autry | 1942-01-30 | Gene Autry heads a cattlemen’s association and calls on the inexperienced Jim Agnew to negotiate the sale of five hundred heads of cattle. Jim ends up… |
| Trail to San Antone | Gene Autry | 1947-01-25 | Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the jockey can ride in the Big Race if the lad can rega… |
| Loaded Pistols | Gene Autry | 1948-12-15 | A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer…. |
| Colorado Sunset | Gene Autry | 1939-07-30 | When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy b… |
| Shooting High | Will Carson | 1940-04-25 | A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead…. |
| Rodeo Dough | Gene Autry | 1940-11-09 | After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star filled rodeo…. |
| Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | (archive footage) | 1976-05-01 | A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features…. |
| Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs | (archive footage) | 2000-01-01 | This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it’s silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number… |
| Manhattan Merry-Go-Round | Gene Autry | 1937-11-26 | In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the g… |
| Hoedown | Gene Autry (voice) (uncredited) | 1950-06-01 | A movie cowboy scrambles to salvage his career after his latest movie turns out to be a flop…. |
| In Old Santa Fe | Gene Autry | 1934-11-15 | Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and ha… |
| Christmas from Hollywood | 2003-11-13 | Dozens of stars–including Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Bob Hope, and more–demonstrate how the yuletide season is celebrated in the perpetually warm and su… | |
| My Music: A Classic Christmas | Self (archive footage) | 2019-11-16 | Gavin MacLeod and Marion Ross host a Christmas celebration that features classic performances of popular holiday standards and traditional carols perf… |
| Mystery Mountain | Teamster Thomas (ch’s 6-8) (uncredited) | 1934-12-02 | Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railroads and transportation companies like that owned b… |
| It’s Showtime | Self (archive footage) | 1976-03-31 | A collection of film clips profiling animal actors…. |
Gene Autry Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Riders in the Sky | Executive Producer | 1949-11-29 | When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and … |
| Producer | The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, origin… | ||
| Producer | The Range Rider is an American Western television series that aired in syndication from 1951 to 1953. A single lost episode surfaced and was broadcast… | ||
| Producer | Buffalo Bill, Jr. is an American Western television series starring Dickie Jones that aired in syndication from March 1, 1955, until September 21, 195… | ||
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