Johnny Cash's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Johnny Cash TV Show Himself - H… Boy Meets Girls (UK) Johnny Cash Hootenanny Johnny Cash

Main Movie Roles 2007 - Pete Seeger: The Power of Song 2007 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream 2005 - No Direction Home 2003 - The Hunted 1961 - Five Minutes to Live

BIOGRAPHY:

Johnny Cash was born February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. He made his first single, "Hey Porter", for Sun Records in 1955. In 1958 he moved to Columbia Records. He had long periods of drug abuse during the 1960s, but later that decade he successfully fought his addiction with the help of singer June Carter Cash, whom he married in 1968. In 1971 he appeared in the western A Gunfight (1971) with Kirk Douglas (I). Cash made a few films but quite a few appearances on television, both in series and made-for-TV films, and was especially effective as a rural Southern sheriff in the 1930s determined to bring to justice a wealthy landowner who committed murder because he believed he was above the law, in Murder in Coweta County (1983) (TV), a drama based on a true story. In 1975 Cash wrote his autobiography, "Man In Black", which is now out of print. In the late 1980s he moved from Columbia Records to Mercury, then in the next decade moved again to American Recordings.

Amonst his biggest hit records was "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire" and "A Boy Named Sue".

After several years of ill health, he died of complications from diabetes on 12 September 2003, only a few months after the death of his beloved wife.


TRIVIA:

• Stepfather-in-law of 'Nick Lowe (I)' (qv).
• Is portrayed by 'Joaquin Phoenix' (qv) in _Walk the Line (2005)_ (qv).
• 'Elvis Presley' (qv), 'Hank Williams (I)' (qv) and Johnny are the only three musicians to have been inducted both to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• The band 'Coldplay' (qv) were supposed to record a song titled "Til Kingdom Comes" with him for their album "X&Y", but Cash died before that. They added the song as a hidden track and dedicated it to Cash. In their current "Twisted Logic Tour" they are playing this song in all the venues in addition to playing a cover of Johnny Cash's famous song "Ring of Fire". On the two nights(6 & 7 September 2005) at Madison Square Garden, New York they also dedicated the song "Til Kingdom Comes" to the victims of hurricane Katrina.
• Kingsland, AR (pop. 477), is also the birthplace of Paul "Bear" Bryant, one of the greatest football coaches of all time (University of Alabama).
• Recorded entire albums live in Folsom and San Quentin Prisons, in front of highly receptive audiences of convicts.
• Stated in an interview with 'Larry King (I)' (qv) that his favorite country singer is 'Dwight Yoakam' (qv).
• Cash and "American Recordings" posted a "thank you" to the Nashville country music industry in Billboard Magazine after winning the Grammy for best country record for "Unchained" in the form of the infamous photo of Johnny angrily giving the middle finger to the camera taken back in 1969 during his San Quentin prison performance. Cash did this because he was enraged by Nashville having pretty much left behind him and other aging "country" artists who had defined the genre to make room for the more pop-oriented new country artists, like 'Garth Brooks' (qv).