The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James
2:51 pm - 3:01 pm, Friday, February 20 on Great! Action (42)
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About this Broadcast
Western following the final years of the infamous outlaws as they try to settle down after 15 years of thieving. Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash star as the brothers, with Willie Nelson, Marcia Cross, June Carter Cash and Gail Youngs
1986
continued
Movie/Drama
Western
Cast & Crew
Kris Kristofferson
(Actor)
.. Jesse James
Johnny Cash
(Actor)
.. Frank James
Marcia Cross
(Actor)
.. Sarah Hite
Gail Youngs
(Actor)
.. Anna
David Allan Coe
(Actor)
.. Whiskeyhead Ryan
Andy Stahl
(Actor)
.. Dick Liddil
June Carter Cash
(Actor)
.. Mother James
Ed Bruce
(Actor)
.. Major Edwards
William A Graham
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Kris Kristofferson
(Actor)
.. Jesse James
Born:
June 22, 1936
in
Brownsville, Texas
Best Known For:
More than 30 years of chart hits and film roles
Early-life:
Born in Brownsville, Texas, on June 22, 1936. His father was in the Air Force, and the family lived on several military bases before settling in California. Kris studied literature at Pomona College before winning a scholarship to Oxford. While in England, he was given a record deal, but couldn't release any recordings as he had already signed a contract with an LA manager. He later became a captain in the US Army, but quit to pursue a career in music, getting his big break when Johnny Cash recorded his song Sunday Morning Coming Down.
Career:
Janis Joplin and Sammi Smith had number ones with his songs Me and Bobby McGee and Help Me Make It Through the Night. In 1972, Kris scored a hit in his own right thanks to Why Me, and went on to make several successful albums. His acting debut came in The Last Movie in 1971, followed by Cisco Pike, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and A Star is Born. He later formed country supergroup the Highway Men with Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. More recently, he's starred in Dolphin Tale, Deadfall and When Angels Sing.
Quote:
On songwriting: "I've come to know when I've got a good one, although sometimes it takes the world a while to catch up with me."
Trivia:
In 2004, Kris was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Johnny Cash
(Actor)
.. Frank James
Born:
February 26, 1932
in
Kingland, Arkansas
Quote:
"My biggest selling albums have always been the prison albums. I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us."
Trivia:
He recorded 60 songs in the last four months of his life.
Best Known For:
Being a Country music legend.
Early-life:
Born on February 26, 1932 in Kingland, Arkansas. His family were poor Southern Baptists and as a child he would often pick cotton for 12 hours a day. At the age of 10, Cash was devastated when his beloved older brother Jack died by falling onto a chainsaw. Two years later, Johnny began playing the guitar and writing songs, often performing on a local radio station. Moved to Detroit in his late teens before joining the Air Force, which led to him being stationed in Germany as a radio operator. In 1954, he left the military and moved to Memphis.
Career:
In 1955, he began recording for the Sun record label, and the following year released the million-selling single I Walk the Line. In 1958, he moved to Columbia Records, and although he continued to score hits, he would be dogged by drug and alcohol abuse for the next decade. In the late 1960s, he released two hugely successful live albums recorded in jails - Folsom Prison and San Quentin - and was given his own TV show. He branched into acting, but his music career appeared to be on the wane in the 1980s, until he teamed up with producer Rick Rubin for the acclaimed album American Recordings in 1994. He died on September 12, 2003.
Marcia Cross
(Actor)
.. Sarah Hite
Born:
March 25, 1962
in
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Best Known For:
Desperate Housewives.
Early-life:
Marcia Anne Cross was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, on March 25, 1962 to Janet and Mark. She has two sisters, Susan and Ellen. From an early age she knew she wanted to act, and made her stage debut in a school production of The Witch of Blackboard Pond. After graduating, she studied drama at the prestigious Julliard University in New York. Marcia made her professional debut in La Ronde at the Williamstown Festival, following it with Twelfth Night in Connecticut, and Two Gentlemen of Verona in San Diego.
Career:
Cross's TV debut was in soap opera The Edge of the Night in 1984. She then made guest appearances in Cheers, Who's the Boss? and Quantum Leap. Several TV movies followed before she began starring in a string of long-running serials. She spent two years in One Life to Live, one in Another World, two in Knots Landing, and five in Melrose Place. In her biggest role to date, she played Bree Van de Kamp in Desperate Housewives between 2004 and 2012.
Quote:
"I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really has to have some soul to it."
Trivia:
She enjoys yoga.
Gail Youngs
(Actor)
.. Anna
David Allan Coe
(Actor)
.. Whiskeyhead Ryan
Andy Stahl
(Actor)
.. Dick Liddil
June Carter Cash
(Actor)
.. Mother James
Ed Bruce
(Actor)
.. Major Edwards
William A Graham
(Director)
