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Jerry Reed (Hubbard) is a Actor, Executive Producer and Sound American born on 20 march 1937 at Atlanta (USA)

Jerry Reed (Hubbard)

Jerry Reed (Hubbard)
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Birth name Jerry Reed Hubbard
Nationality USA
Birth 20 march 1937 at Atlanta (USA)
Death 1 september 2008 (at 71 years) at Nashville (USA)

Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008), known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included “Guitar Man,” “U.S. Male,” “A Thing Called Love,” “Alabama Wild Man,” “Amos Moses,” “When You're Hot, You're Hot” (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance), “Ko-Ko Joe,” “Lord, Mr. Ford,” “East Bound and Down” (the theme song for the 1977 blockbuster Smokey and the Bandit, in which Reed co-starred), “The Bird,” and “She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft).”

Biography

Bien qu'ayant débuté très tôt la guitare il n'a pas eu de succès immédiat. Il est pourtant l'auteur des succès d'Elvis Presley Guitar Man et US Male et a accompagné Elvis dans ces titres à la guitare mais tarde cependant à se produire en tant que tel. Il met des années à forger la personnalité qui transparaît dans ses compositions.

Le moment-clé qui a lancé sa carrière fut la composition et l'interprétation de Amos Moses en 1970 où il versa dans les disques pop et country puis, When You're Hot, You're Hot qui passait sur toutes les radios country et pop américaines.

Guitariste d'exception, Chet Atkins lui décerne, en 1990, le titre de CGP (Certified Guitar Player) pour sa contribution au développement des techniques et du style fingerpicking. Le titre a été décerné à quatre autres personnes dans le monde (John Knowles en 1996, Steve Wariner en 1997, Tommy Emmanuel en 1999 et Paul Yandell en 2011 (décerné par Merle Atkins Russell, fille de Chet Atkins)).

Il fut, avec Chet Atkins, Merle Travis et Doc Watson l'un des mentors du guitariste virtuose français Marcel Dadi, qui lui a dédié une de ses compositions (Song For Jerry).

Jerry Reed a composé une multitude de très belles mélodies comme A Thing Called Love, Blue Finger, Steeplechase Lane, The Claw, Kicky ou La Madrugada, reprises par quantité de grands guitaristes, entre autres Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel, Marcel Dadi, John Standefer, Darrel Toney, Buster B. Jones, Richard Smith, Jean-Félix Lalanne.

Jerry est aussi un passionné de cinéma face à la caméra et tourne dans plusieurs films dont le trucking film "Smokey and the Bandit" de Hal Needham (avec Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Paul Williams, ...). On peut également le voir dans "Ramblin Man" (Tom Selleck en vedette) ou la comédie "The Survivors" (avec Robin Williams et Walter Matthau).

Pour les fans guitaristes, mentionnons les ouvrages suivants contenant des transcriptions de quelques morceaux de Jerry :


John Knowles : Jerry Reed - Heavy Neckin' (Mel Bel Publications, 1980)
Craig Dobbins : The guitar Style of Jerry Reed (Hal Leonard, 1994), The Jerry Reed Collection (Craig Dobbins', 1999)
Buster B. Jones: Guitar Styles and Techniques of Jerry Reed (DVD).
Autre livre qui retrace la carrière de Jerry Reed en tant que Musicien, Acteur, Show man :
Reedology A Jerry Reed Reference Guide:Mr Michael S Stevens (Auteur)

Jerry est décédé à l'âge de 71 ans. Il est enterré au Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Nashville, Davidson Country, Tennessee, USA

Best films

The Waterboy (1998)
(Actor)
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
(Actor)

Usually with

Hal Needham
Hal Needham
(6 films)
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds
(6 films)
Pat McCormick
Pat McCormick
(4 films)
Mike Henry
Mike Henry
(3 films)
Sonny Shroyer
Sonny Shroyer
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jerry Reed (Hubbard) (12 films)

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Actor

The Waterboy, 1h30
Directed by Frank Coraci
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Henry Winkler, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Lawrence Gilliard, Jr., Blake Clark
Roles Red Beaulieu
Rating60% 3.0498153.0498153.0498153.0498153.049815
Bobby Boucher is a socially inept water boy with a stutter and hidden anger issues due to constant teasing and excessive sheltering by his mother, Helen (Kathy Bates). He became the water boy for the (fictional) University of Louisiana Cougars after being told his father died of dehydration in the Sahara while serving in the Peace Corps. However, the players always torment him and the team's head coach, Red Beaulieu (Jerry Reed), eventually fires him for "disrupting" the team's practices (in actuality, the coach had fired Bobby because he's too weak for his team to bully). Bobby then approaches Coach Klein (Henry Winkler) of the South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs and asks to work as the team's water boy. Coach Klein has been coach of SCLSU for years without success. It is revealed later in the movie that he and Beaulieu were assistant coaches at the University of Louisiana, but Beaulieu bullied Klein into letting him take sole credit for a playbook (that Klein actually came up with on his own) to earn the head coach job and then immediately fired Klein. The experience drove Klein to a mental breakdown and rendered him unable to come up with new plays. Furthermore, unlike the Cougars, the Mud Dogs are a struggling team both on and off the field. They have lost 40 consecutive games, their cheerleaders have become alcohol dependent, and players are forced to share equipment. Bobby insists he be the waterboy after seeing a keg of heavily polluted water that coach Klein had been offering his players. Klein, despite being impressed with a sample of Bobby's water, tells him he cannot hire anybody due to the team's financial issues, but Bobby agrees to work for free.
Bat★21
Bat★21 (1988)
, 1h45
Directed by Peter Markle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Clayton Rohner, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), David Marshall Grant, Joe Dorsey
Roles Col. George Walker
Rating64% 3.2476553.2476553.2476553.2476553.247655
During the last days of the Vietnam War, USAF Lieutenant Colonel Iceal E. "Gene" Hambleton (Gene Hackman) call sign BAT-21 Bravo, is flying on board a EB-66C electronic warfare aircraft, engaged in electronic countermeasures preparatory to a major bombing strike. Without warning, a number of SA-2 Guideline surface to air missiles are launched from South Vietnam, targeting their aircraft. A massive SAM explosion tears off the tail and Hambleton, in the navigator's position, ejects as the sole survivor of the six-man crew.
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, 1h25
Directed by Dick Lowry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Colleen Camp, Pat McCormick, Mike Henry, Paul Williams
Roles Cledus Snow/Bandit
Rating35% 1.7589751.7589751.7589751.7589751.758975
As is the case with the two preceding Smokey and the Bandit films, Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 begins with Big Enos (Pat McCormick) and Little Enos (Paul Williams) offering a sizable wager on one's ability to transport a shipment a large distance in a short period of time. Offering a slight twist, however, the offer is this time made to a retiring Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), betting $250,000 against his badge on his ability to transport a large stuffed fish from an eatery in Florida to Texas.
Stroker Ace, 1h36
Directed by Hal Needham
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Loni Anderson, Jim Nabors, Parker Stevenson, John Byner
Roles Self - End Credit Outtakes
Rating49% 2.4535252.4535252.4535252.4535252.453525
Stroker Ace is a popular race car driver from Waycross, Georgia, and (according to dialogue), a three-time champion, on the NASCAR circuit. An all-or-nothing man, he wins if he does not crash. He is arrogant and pompous, with no regard for the business side of his racing team. He also has an on-track, season-long rivalry with ambitious young driver Aubrey James (Parker Stevenson).
The Survivors, 1h42
Directed by Michael Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), John Goodman, Meg Mundy, Annie McEnroe
Roles Jack Locke
Rating57% 2.899292.899292.899292.899292.89929
The story focuses on two beleaguered New Yorkers: Donald Quinelle (Williams), a simple office worker who is fired from his job, and Sonny Paluso (Matthau), a gas station owner whose station is accidentally blown up by Donald. The two men meet in a restaurant which is promptly robbed by a man in a ski mask (Jerry Reed). Donald is shot, but Sonny gets a good look at the man. Donald is interviewed on the news, and inadvertently reveals Sonny's identity. That night the robber visits Sonny's house in order to kill him and his teenage daughter Candice, but Donald saves them. Sonny and Donald take Jack Locke, the robber, to the police at gunpoint.
Smokey and the Bandit II, 1h40
Directed by Hal Needham
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Pat McCormick, Paul Williams
Roles Cledus Snow
Rating53% 2.652582.652582.652582.652582.65258
Big Enos Burdett (Pat McCormick) is running for Governor of Texas against another candidate, John Coen (David Huddleston). After a figurative and literal "mudslinging" between the two, they are both confronted by the outgoing governor and given a thorough tongue-lashing. As Burdett is leaving the office he overhears the governor yelling at an assistant to take responsibility for transporting a crate of unknown content from Miami to the Republican Party convention in Dallas. Burdett then schemes to pick up the crate and deliver it to the convention. He enlists the help of Bandit (Burt Reynolds) and Cledus (Jerry Reed) to carry out the task.
Hot Stuff
Hot Stuff (1979)
, 1h31
Directed by Dom DeLuise
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Dom DeLuise, Suzanne Pleshette, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Ossie Davis, Luis Ávalos, Pat McCormick
Roles Doug von Horne
Rating64% 3.2001153.2001153.2001153.2001153.200115
Miami police detectives Ernie, Louise and Doug (played by DeLuise, Pleshette and Reed), frustrated at their inability to convict the criminals they arrest, decide to set up a sting as a fencing operation to trap criminals in a pawn shop, recording the illegal transactions on the (then) new technology of videotape.
High-Ballin', 1h37
Directed by Peter Carter
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Trucker films, Road movies
Actors Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Michael Ironside, Harvey Atkin, Joe Don Baker, David Ferry
Roles Duke
Rating54% 2.706782.706782.706782.706782.70678
Jerry Reed plays the "Iron Duke", an independent trucker who stands up to the local trucker boss, King Carroll, who tries to drive independent truckers out of business. Duke's friend Rane, played by Peter Fonda, comes to visit his friend and ends up helping him. The main protagonist, trucker Doc Thunder, runs a ring of truck hijackers.
Smokey and the Bandit, 1h32
Directed by Hal Needham
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Musical films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Mike Henry, Mike Henry
Roles Cledus 'Snowman' Snow
Rating69% 3.499843.499843.499843.499843.49984
Wealthy Texan Big Enos Burdette (Pat McCormick) and his son Little Enos (Paul Williams) seek a truck driver willing to bootleg Coors beer to Georgia for their refreshment. At the time, Coors was regarded as one of the finest beers in the United States, but it could not be sold legally east of the Mississippi River. Truck drivers who had taken the bet previously had been caught and arrested by "Smokey" (CB slang for highway patrol officers, referring to the Smokey Bear–type hats worn in some states).
Gator
Gator (1976)
, 1h55
Directed by James Best, Burt Reynolds, Hal Needham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Jack Weston, Lauren Hutton, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Burt Reynolds, Alice Ghostley, Dub Taylor
Roles Bama McCall
Rating57% 2.896562.896562.896562.896562.89656
Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) had been just released from prison following the events of White Lightning and is living in the Okefenokee Swamp with his father and daughter. Federal agents know that he is still making moonshine with his father (John Steadman) and Suzie (Lori Futch) and use this information to coerce him into assisting them to catch a corrupt politician.
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, 1h31
Directed by John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Musical films, Road movies, Children's films, Chase films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Conny Van Dyke, Ned Beatty, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Art Carney, Brad Dourif
Roles Wayne
Rating59% 2.951272.951272.951272.951272.95127
In 1957, W.W. Bright (Burt Reynolds) is an easygoing crook who robs gas stations. He meets the Dixie Dancekings, a country music band, while fleeing from a policeman. Dixie (Conny Van Dyke), their singer, gives him an alibi. He claims to be in the music business, and ends up promoting the group. Wayne (Jerry Reed), the band's leader, does not trust him, but the others all have faith in him.

Producer

Bat★21
Bat★21 (1988)
, 1h45
Directed by Peter Markle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Clayton Rohner, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), David Marshall Grant, Joe Dorsey
Roles Executive Producer
Rating64% 3.2476553.2476553.2476553.2476553.247655
During the last days of the Vietnam War, USAF Lieutenant Colonel Iceal E. "Gene" Hambleton (Gene Hackman) call sign BAT-21 Bravo, is flying on board a EB-66C electronic warfare aircraft, engaged in electronic countermeasures preparatory to a major bombing strike. Without warning, a number of SA-2 Guideline surface to air missiles are launched from South Vietnam, targeting their aircraft. A massive SAM explosion tears off the tail and Hambleton, in the navigator's position, ejects as the sole survivor of the six-man crew.

Sound

Smokey and the Bandit, 1h32
Directed by Hal Needham
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Musical films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Mike Henry, Mike Henry
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating69% 3.499843.499843.499843.499843.49984
Wealthy Texan Big Enos Burdette (Pat McCormick) and his son Little Enos (Paul Williams) seek a truck driver willing to bootleg Coors beer to Georgia for their refreshment. At the time, Coors was regarded as one of the finest beers in the United States, but it could not be sold legally east of the Mississippi River. Truck drivers who had taken the bet previously had been caught and arrested by "Smokey" (CB slang for highway patrol officers, referring to the Smokey Bear–type hats worn in some states).
Gator
Gator (1976)
, 1h55
Directed by James Best, Burt Reynolds, Hal Needham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Jack Weston, Lauren Hutton, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Burt Reynolds, Alice Ghostley, Dub Taylor
Rating57% 2.896562.896562.896562.896562.89656
Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) had been just released from prison following the events of White Lightning and is living in the Okefenokee Swamp with his father and daughter. Federal agents know that he is still making moonshine with his father (John Steadman) and Suzie (Lori Futch) and use this information to coerce him into assisting them to catch a corrupt politician.