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Johnny Cash is a Actor, Book and Sound American born on 26 february 1932 at Kingsland (USA)

Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash
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Birth name J. R. Cash
Nationality USA
Birth 26 february 1932 at Kingsland (USA)
Death 12 september 2003 (at 71 years) at Nashville (USA)
Awards Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, National Medal of Arts

Johnny "J.R." Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor and author who was widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of multiple inductions in the Country Music, Rock and Roll and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.

Cash was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice, the distinctive sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor, free prison concerts, and a trademark look, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally began his concerts with the simple "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash", followed by his signature "Folsom Prison Blues".

Much of Cash's music echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation and redemption, especially in the later stages of his career. His best-known songs included "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "Get Rhythm" and "Man in Black". He also recorded humorous numbers like "One Piece at a Time" and "A Boy Named Sue"; a duet with his future wife, June Carter, called "Jackson" (followed by many further duets after their marriage); and railroad songs including "Hey, Porter" and "Rock Island Line". During the last stage of his career, Cash covered songs by several late 20th century rock artists, most notably "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails.

Biography

Early life
Cash was born on February 26, 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas, one of seven children born to Ray Cash (May 13, 1897, Kingsland, Arkansas – December 23, 1985, Hendersonville, Tennessee) and Carrie Cloveree (née Rivers; March 13, 1904, Rison, Arkansas – March 11, 1991, Hendersonville, Tennessee). At birth, he was named J. R. Cash. When Cash enlisted in the United States Air Force, he was not permitted to use initials as a first name, so he changed his name to John R. Cash. In 1955, when signing with Sun Records, he took Johnny Cash as his stage name.

The Cash children were: Roy, Margaret Louise, Jack, J. R., Reba, Joanne, and Tommy. His younger brother, Tommy Cash, also became a successful country artist.

In March 1935, when Cash was three years old, the family settled in Dyess, Arkansas. He started working in cotton fields at age five, singing along with his family while working. The family farm was flooded on at least two occasions, which later inspired him to write the song "Five Feet High and Rising". His family's economic and personal struggles during the Great Depression inspired many of his songs, especially those about other people facing similar difficulties.

Cash was very close to his older brother, Jack. In May 1944, Jack was pulled into a whirling head saw in the mill where he worked and was almost cut in two. He suffered for over a week before he died on May 20, 1944, at age 15. Cash often spoke of the horrible guilt he felt over this incident. According to Cash: The Autobiography, his father was away that morning, but he and his mother, and Jack himself, all had premonitions or a sense of foreboding about that day, causing his mother to urge Jack to skip work and go fishing with his brother. Jack insisted on working, as the family needed the money. On his deathbed, Jack said he had visions of Heaven and angels. Decades later, Cash spoke of looking forward to meeting his brother in Heaven.

Cash's early memories were dominated by gospel music and radio. Taught guitar by his mother and a childhood friend, Cash began playing and writing songs at the age of twelve. When Cash was young, he had a high tenor voice, before becoming a bass-baritone. In high school he sang on a local radio station; decades later he released an album of traditional gospel songs, called My Mother's Hymn Book. He was also significantly influenced by traditional Irish music that he heard performed weekly by Dennis Day on the Jack Benny radio program.

Cash enlisted in the United States Air Force on July 7, 1950. After basic training at Lackland Air Force Base and technical training at Brooks Air Force Base, both in San Antonio, Texas, Cash was assigned to the 12th Radio Squadron Mobile of the U.S. Air Force Security Service at Landsberg, Germany as a Morse Code Intercept Operator for Soviet Army transmissions. It was there he created his first band, named "The Landsberg Barbarians". He was the first radio operator to pick up the news of the death of Joseph Stalin. He was honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant on July 3, 1954, and returned to Texas.


Marriages and family
On July 18, 1951, while in Air Force training, Cash met 17-year-old Vivian Liberto at a roller skating rink in her native San Antonio. They dated for three weeks, until Cash was deployed to Germany for a three-year tour. During that time, the couple exchanged hundreds of pages of love letters. On August 7, 1954, one month after his discharge, they were married at St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church in San Antonio. The ceremony was performed by her uncle, Father Vincent Liberto. They had four daughters: Rosanne, Kathy, Cindy, and Tara. Liberto stated that Cash's drug and alcohol abuse as well as constant touring, affairs with other women, and his close relationship with June Carter led her to file for divorce in 1966.

Cash's career was handled by Saul Holiff, a London, Ontario, promoter and this relationship was the subject of Saul's son's biopic My Father and the Man in Black.

In 1968, 13 years after they first met backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, Cash proposed to June Carter, of the famed Carter Family, during a live performance in London, Ontario. The couple married on March 1, 1968, in Franklin, Kentucky. They had one child together, John Carter Cash, born March 3, 1970. Cash and Carter continued to work together and tour for 35 years until June's death in May 2003. Cash died four months later the same year.


Heritage
Cash researched his heritage and found a mix of mostly Scottish and English ancestry. After meeting with the then-laird of Falkland, Fife, Major Michael Crichton-Stuart, Cash traced his family tree to 11th-century Fife. Cash Loch and other locations in Fife bear the name of his family.

Best films

Walk the Line (2005)
(Book)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Johnny Cash (18 films)

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream, 3h58
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Jeff Lynne, Dave Grohl, George Harrison, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Rick Rubin
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating85% 4.2860254.2860254.2860254.2860254.286025
Ce film explore l'histoire de Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, y compris les collaborations célèbres de Petty et les affrontements notoires avec l'industrie du disque. Des entretiens avec des personnalités musicales telles que Jackson Browne, George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Roger McGuinn, Jeff Lynne, Dave Stewart et Petty lui-même ont apporté une vision révélatrice.
Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival - The Other Side of the Mirror
Directed by Murray Lerner
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash
Roles Self
Rating80% 4.0174354.0174354.0174354.0174354.017435
L'histoire du "Newport Folk Festival" remonte à 1959. Depuis 1959, la carrière de Joan Baez a commencé là-dessus. Elle a en fait attiré ce garçon bouclé à la lumière du jour, alors connu de tous sous le nom de Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan). Trente ans plus tard, seul Bob Dylan devient le personnage principal. Ici, vous pourrez observer la formation, la maturation et l'acquisition du protagoniste.
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, 3h28
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Martin Scorsese, D. A. Pennebaker, Mickey Jones
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating85% 4.2851054.2851054.2851054.2851054.285105
Bob Dylan raconté par Martin Scorsese, ou la naissance d'un mythe, de son enfance à l'année 1966, date de sa rupture avec le public folk et de l'accident de moto qui interrompit sa carrière. Une biographie musicale en forme de chef-d'oeuvre.
The Hunted
The Hunted (2003)
, 1h34
Directed by William Friedkin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Political films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Leslie Stefanson, John Finn, Ron Canada
Roles Narrator (voice)
Rating61% 3.0507053.0507053.0507053.0507053.050705
U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Aaron Hallam (Benicio del Toro), a former United States clandestine operator, is introduced initially as the focus of the story. He is shown to have performed extraordinarily courageous and savage tasks in the course of government service. These actions leave the sensitive and intelligent Hallam conflicted and it is portrayed that he was either set up, or that the government was at some point later dissatisfied with the results of his further assignments.
Stagecoach
Stagecoach (1986)
, 1h40
Directed by Ted Post
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Merritt Butrick, Kris Kristofferson, Elizabeth Ashley, Mary Crosby
Roles Marshal Curly Wilcox
Rating58% 2.900622.900622.900622.900622.90062
Un remake de la chevauchée fantastique, sans guère d'intérêt... Un nouveau venu dans l'histoire : Doc Holliday, dont on se demande bien ce qu'il fait là ; il va même aider Ringo, à la fin. Cela permet au réalisateur de faire une jolie image déjà vue 163 fois où 4 hommes marchent de front, dans la rue et dans le plus pur style OK Corral. Le premier coup de feu intervient à la 70ème minute, à peu près, dans un film très ennuyeux. Seul intérêt, l'excellente interprétation des acteurs et la musique, qui bien que n'étant pas mon genre, m'a quand même procuré un certain plaisir... La VHS (VF) est assez mauvaise, mais, à mon avis, le film ne vaut guère mieux.
North and South (TV miniseries), 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Jean Simmons, James Read, Patrick Swayze, Lesley-Anne Down, Kirstie Alley, Georg Stanford Brown
Rating79% 3.9970453.9970453.9970453.9970453.997045
Episode 1 (summer 1842 - summer 1844) - Young Southerner Orry Main, the son of a wealthy South Carolina plantation owner, goes to West Point. During the journey, he meets and falls in love with beautiful New Orleans French-Creole Madeline Fabray. In New York City, Orry meets Northerner George Hazard, the second son of a wealthy Pennsylvania steel-factory owner, who is also on his way to West Point. They soon become close friends. At the Academy, they meet the amoral egomaniac Elkanah Bent, a fellow cadet from Georgia. They also meet classmates George Pickett, George McClellan, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and a senior student named Ulysses Grant. Bent is a handsome, smooth-talking man who hides his evil, twisted nature beneath his charm and good looks. He takes an instant dislike to Orry and George and uses his status as their drillmaster to constantly harass them. Orry keeps writing letters to Madeline, although it seems that she has not been responding. After a two-year absence, the men return home for a summer leave. George's abolitionist sister, Virgilia, immediately takes a dislike to Orry as he keeps slaves. While at home, Orry is devastated to learn that Madeline is getting married to his cruel neighbor, plantation owner Justin LaMotte. Orry has an argument with his father over the hiring of the brutal and sadistic Salem Jones as the plantation overseer. Orry stops Jones from using a bullwhip to "punish" a slave. After Orry sees Madeline get married, they find out that Madeline's father has been hiding Orry's letters so that she would marry Justin.
The Pride of Jesse Hallam
Directed by Gary Nelson
Genres Drama
Actors Johnny Cash, Brenda Vaccaro, Eli Wallach, Guy Boyd
Roles Jesse Hallam
Rating63% 3.1935853.1935853.1935853.1935853.193585
Jesse Hallam, un fermier veuf, âgé de 45 ans emmène ses enfants à la ville parce que sa fille Jenny a besoin d'une opération délicate. Jesse y trouve un bon emploi et il inscrit son fils Ted à l'école. Il se rend vite compte cependant, que son analphabétisme est un grand handicap. Trop fier pour avouer son problème, il suit des cours du soir en secret. Il est aidé par l'adjointe au directeur de l'école, qui éprouve beaucoup de sympathie pour Jesse et son fils. Quand le père découvre que son fils à un problème d'apprentissage scolaire, il suggère que tous les deux aillent à l'école ensemble. Ted est réticent et Jesse, par sa persévérance et son courage doit regagner le respect de son fils. Voici une histoire touchante de fierté et d'amour familial.
Eat the Document, 52minutes
Directed by Bob Dylan
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Robbie Robertson, Johnny Cash, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Mickey Jones
Roles Self
Rating68% 3.4370153.4370153.4370153.4370153.437015
Eat the Document includes footage from the infamous Manchester Free Trade Hall concert, wherein an audience member shouted "Judas!" during the electric half of Dylan's set. Dylan's band during these shows were The Hawks (later to become The Band). Songs from various shows throughout the tour featured in the film include "Tell Me, Momma", "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)", "Ballad of a Thin Man", and "One Too Many Mornings."
A Gunfight
A Gunfight (1971)
, 1h29
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander, Karen Black, Dana Elcar, Robert J. Wilke
Roles Abe Cross
Rating62% 3.1448053.1448053.1448053.1448053.144805
Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money.
Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan
Roles Self
Rating69% 3.48023.48023.48023.48023.4802
Dans ce documentaire classique de 1969, l'homme en noir est capturé à son apogée, le premier d'une longue carrière dans les montagnes russes. Tout juste après son album Folsom Prison, Cash révèle la sombre intensité et le talent brut qui ont fait de lui une star de la musique country et une icône de la culture. Le réalisateur Robert Elfstrom s’est rapproché plus que tout autre cinéaste de Cash, qui joue notamment avec sa nouvelle épouse, June Carter Cash, dans un duo rare avec Bob Dylan, et dans les coulisses avec des amis, la famille et de jeunes musiciens en herbe.
Five Minutes to Live, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Mob film, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Pamela Mason, Vic Tayback, Ron Howard, Norma Varden
Roles Johnny Cabot
Rating55% 2.7561052.7561052.7561052.7561052.756105
The film opens on Fred (Vic Tayback), sitting in a dark room, detailing his most recent bank robbery. He talks about how he has always had a plan for a small town bank robbery. He had teamed-up with hardened criminal, Johnny Cabot (Johnny Cash) to execute his plan. Cabot is to take the wife of the bank's vice president hostage. He is to hold her until he gets a call from Fred informing him that they have the ransom money. Cabot watches the Wilson house as the husband leaves for work and their son heads off to school. At first, posing as a door-to-door guitar instructor, Cabot works his way into the house and takes Nancy Wilson (Cay Forrester) hostage. At the bank, Fred talks his way into Ken Wilson's (Donald Woods) office, and hands him a check for $70,000, informing Wilson that he will withdraw the funds to cover the ransom or his wife will die. He tells Wilson to call home in order to prove that Nancy is being held hostage, and then informs him that if he does not call Cabot back in five minutes that Mrs. Wilson will die. Wilson tells Fred that he's been planning to leave his wife anyway and run off to Las Vegas with his mistress, Ellen (Pamela Mason). He tells Fred that he will be doing him a favor by killing his wife. Fred, however, does not believe that Ken will let his wife die. He is proven correct, as time ticks by, Wilson finally cracks and agrees to pay the ransom. Fred calls Cabot and starts the clock over again. As time ticks away, Fred works on Ken to collect the money so he can leave the bank safely. Meanwhile, at the Wilson house, Cabot is enjoying terrorizing his hostage. Forcing her to listen to him play songs about her impending demise, shooting at her and making sexual advances toward her (which she tries to use to aid her escape to no avail). Back at the bank, Fred has been taken down by the police who arrived after someone tripped the silent alarm. As a result, Cabot is getting nervous having not received his expected call from Fred. Suddenly, in walks Little Bobby (Ron Howard), home for lunch. Around this time the police finally arrive outside the Wilson house. In a panic, Cabot grabs Bobby and runs for it. He runs right into the yard and waiting police gunfire. Bobby pretends as though he's been shot in the fight in order to get Cabot to put him down. After apparently being very upset by the accidental shooting of the young boy, Cabot runs back into the fight and is killed by police. Nancy runs outside to find her son alive and well. The film ends with Mr. Wilson driving to Las Vegas, but with his wife instead of his, now former, mistress.