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Kris Kristofferson died peacefully at his home on September 28, 2024.\u00a0 Mr. Kristofferson was 88.\u00a0 No cause of death was given.<\/p>\n
After graduating high school Kris Kristofferson enrolled in Pomona College in California.\u00a0 He hoped to become a writer.\u00a0 Mr. Kristofferson excelled in football, rugby, as well as track and field while at Pomona.\u00a0 Because of his athletic prowess, Kris Kristofferson was featured in the March 31, 1958 edition of Sports Illustrated.\u00a0 Mr. Kristofferson graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature.<\/p>\n
Kris Kristofferson was then awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford.\u00a0 While there he achieved honors in rugby and boxing.\u00a0 It was at this point that Mr. Kristofferson began writing and recording songs with Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson.\u00a0 Due to the lack of success with this venture, Mr. Kristofferson enlisted in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n
While in the service Mr. Kristofferson completed Ranger school, became a helicopter pilot and earned the rank of Captain.\u00a0 He also continued performing with a band when possible.\u00a0 When his enlistment was coming to an end, Mr. Kristofferson was given the opportunity to teach at West Point.\u00a0 He instead opted to leave the service and move to Nashville.<\/p>\n
Kris Krisofferson continued to work at odd jobs and later as a helicopter pilot while he pursued a music career.\u00a0 Within a few years singers such as Ray Stevens, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roger Miller began recording Mr. Kristofferson’s songs.\u00a0 Mr. Kristofferson also got his own recording contract.\u00a0 In 1971, Kris Kristofferson’s album Me & Bobby McGee became a hit.\u00a0 It was also the same year that Mr. Kristofferson made his feature film debut.\u00a0 For the remainder of his career, Kris Kristofferson performed as a singer, song writer, as well as an actor in feature films and television.<\/p>\n
Kris Kristofferson’s awards and honors include…<\/p>\n
Television projects that feature Kris Kristofferson include: Freedom Road; The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck; The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James; Stagecoach; Amerika<\/em> (7 episodes); The Tracker; The Larry Sanders Show; Dead Man’s Gun; Two for Texas; Dead Man’s Gun<\/em> (narrator; 44 episodes); Where the Red Fern Grows; The Break; Lives of the Saints<\/em> and Texas Rising<\/em> (5 episodes).<\/p>\n Feature films that Kris Kristofferson appeared in include: The Last Movie; Cisco Pike; Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid; Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia; Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore; The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea; Vigilante Force; A Star is Born; Semi-Tough; Convoy; Heaven’s Gate; Songwriter; Trouble in Mind; Big Top Pee-Wee; Mellennium; Lone Star; Fire Down Below; Blade; Payback; Planet of the Apes; Eye See You; Blade II; Blade Trinity <\/i>and The Jacket; Dreamer.<\/i><\/p>\n I probably first saw Kris Kristofferson in A Star is Born<\/em>. My favorite Kris Kristofferson role was in Lone Star<\/em>, followed closely by his appearances in Payback; Eye See You<\/em> and the Blade<\/em> movies.\u00a0 Two movies that Mr. Kristofferson starred in are The Tracker and Trouble in Mind.\u00a0 I remember liking them both, but haven’t see them in years.\u00a0 I going to try to rectify that.<\/p>\n What a life Kris Kristofferson led.\u00a0 If you were creating a hero for a story and you said he was an ex-Ranger, three sport college athlete with the heart of a poet, your editor would say, “C’mon.\u00a0 That guy is too good to be true.”\u00a0 And he’d be wrong.\u00a0 Kris Kristofferson was THAT guy.<\/p>\n Out thoughts and prayers go out to Kris Kristofferson’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kris Kristofferson died peacefully at his home on September 28, 2024.\u00a0 Mr. Kristofferson was 88.\u00a0 No cause of death was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,17,54,64,57,49,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-movies","category-music","category-rip","category-sports","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37123,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37122\/revisions\/37123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}