Willie Mitchell
Willie Mitchell was born on March 1, 1928 in Ashland, Mississippi, USA. He was a composer, known for Hellboy (2004), Munich (2005) and Pulp Fiction (1994). He was married to Anna Margaret Buckley. He died on January 5, 2010 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Willie Mullins
Willie Mullins is known for Night Train (2023), Ignorant Creatures (2021) and In the Event of My Death (2021).
Willie Nelson
This versatile, eclectic, rather wanderlust country crossover star known for his classic ballads ("Always On My Mind"), autobiographical road songs ("On the Road Again") and catchy rhythms ("Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys") started out life as Willie Hugh Nelson on April 30, 1933, in Depression-era Abbot, Texas. He is the son of Myrle Marie (Greenhaw) and Ira Doyle Nelson, a mechanic. After his mother abandoned the family and his father died, he and sister Bobbie Lee were raised by their gospel-singing grandparents. Working in the cotton fields, Willie was handed his first guitar at age six and within a short time was writing woeful country songs and playing in polka bands. During his teenage years he played at high school dances and honky-tonks. He also worked for a local radio station and by graduation time he had become a DJ with his own radio show. Briefly serving a stint with the Air Force (discharged because of a bad back, which would plague him throughout his life), he sold his first song called "No Place For Me" while getting by with menial jobs as a janitor and door-to-door Bible salesman. Married in 1952 to a full-blooded Cherokee, he and first wife Martha had two children. Willie initially came to be known in Nashville for selling his songs to well-established country artists such as Patsy Cline ("Crazy"), Faron Young ("Hello Walls") and Ray Price ("Night Life"). In 1962 he recorded a successful duet with singer Shirley Collie, whom he would later take as his second wife, but his career didn't progress despite joining the Grand 'Ol Opry. In the early 1970s, after extensive touring with his band (which included sister Bobbie on the piano) and experiencing a number of career downswings, he started performing and recording his own songs instead of selling them to others. Two of his albums, "Shotgun Willie" and "Phases and Stages", helped him gain some stature. In 1975 it all came together with the album "Red-Headed Stranger", which would become the top-selling country music album in history and propel him into the country music stratosphere. His offbeat phrasing, distinctive nasal tones and leathery, bewhiskered hippie-styled looks set a new standard for "outlaw" country music. Around 1978 Willie showed himself to be a loose and natural presence in front of the camera, thus launching a film career. He had roles in several movies, his first opposite Robert Redford and Jane Fonda in The Electric Horseman (1979). His took to leading roles as a country music star in Honeysuckle Rose (1980), which would include a number of his songs on the soundtrack. He played opposite James Caan and Tuesday Weld in Thief (1981) and a legendary outlaw in the western Barbarosa (1982). In the movie Red Headed Stranger (1986), which was adapted from his hit 1975 album, he played a preacher, and he teamed up with pal Kris Kristofferson as a pair of country singers in Songwriter (1984). Willie and pal Kristofferson went on to form The Highwaymen with the late Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings and he successfully recorded and toured with the group for a number of years. They also teamed up to remake the classic western Stagecoach (1939) as a TV movie (Stagecoach (1986)). As a unique song stylist, the bearded, braided-haired, bandanna-wearing non-conformist took a number of non-country standards and made them his own, including Elvis Presley's "You Were Always on My Mind" and Ray Charles' "Georgia on My Mind." Broaching the millennium, Willie continued to be active with film credits that would include roles in the westerns Dust to Dust (1994) and The Journeyman (2001), in addition to roles in such non-westerns as the sci-fi drama Starlight (1996); the comedy capers Gone Fishin' (1997), The Big Bounce (2004) and The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) (an updated screen version of the popular TV show); the action thriller Fighting with Anger (2007); the comedy Surfer, Dude (2008); the family dramedy Angels Sing (2012); the music fantasy Paradox (2018) which starred Neil Young and his sons Lukas Nelson and Micah Nelson; the dramatic fantasy Waiting for the Miracle to Come (2018); and Willie and Me, a comedy chronicling the misadventures of a young German girl coming to America to see her idol Willie. Willie happily married fourth wife Ann-Marie in 1991 and has survived more hard times in recent years, including a $16.7-million debt to the IRS and the suicide of one of his sons, Billy. Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993, Nelson received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998.
Willie Raysor
Born March 23 in Long Island New York, and moved to Raleigh north Carolina as a child where he was raised. Willie took to acting very young, taking roles as a child in school, and church plays and winning awards for his acting talents at film festivals. He has studied many techniques of acting including the highly renowned Meisner technique.
Willie Reddish Jr.
Willie Reddish Jr. was born on December 12, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston (2019). He died on October 11, 2018 in Philadelphia.
Willie Repoley
Willie Repoley is an actor, known for First Man (2018), Quiet River (2014) and Josephine (2016).
Willie Richter
Willie Richter is an actress, known for Die Heinzels - Rückkehr der Heinzelmännchen (2019).
Willie Robbins
Willie Robbins is an award-winning filmmaker and actor from Nashville, Tennessee. He has written and directed over 10 narrative short films, collecting multiple laurels and awards including Best Hometowner Narrative Short for MINORITY (Indie Memphis, 2018) and Top 10 for Memphis Film Prize (2016-2019) for Driven, Minority and Mea Culpa. His projects join a chorus of others who describe his work as heavy, beautiful and authentic. Willie continues to grow in his craft, now residing in Los Angeles, California.
Willie Roberson
Willie Roberson is a producer and actor, known for Mediator (2021), Pierre Jackson (2018) and Redd Letters.
Willie Robertson
Willie Robertson is a producer and actor, known for God's Not Dead (2014), Duck Dynasty (2012) and Duck Commander (2009). He has been married to Korie Robertson since January 11, 1992. They have five children.