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Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell (born April 22, 1936) is a Grammy- and Dove Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated American country pop singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television. During his 50 years in show business, Campbell has released more than 70 albums. He has sold 45 million records and racked up 12 RIAA Gold albums, 4 Platinum albums and 1 Double-Platinum album. Of his 74 trips up the country charts, 27 landed in the Top 10. Campbell's hits include John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind", Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston", Larry Weiss's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and Allen Toussaint's "Southern Nights". Campbell made history by winning four Grammys in both country and pop categories in 1967. For "Gentle on My Mind" he received two awards in country & western, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" did the same in pop. He owns trophies for Male Vocalist of the Year from both the Country Music Association (CMA) and the Academy of Country Music (ACM), and took the CMA's top honor as 1968 Entertainer of the Year. In 1969 Campbell was hand picked by actor John Wayne to play alongside him in the film True Grit, which gave Campbell a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. Campbell sang the title song which was nominated for an Academy Award. In 2005, Campbell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glen Campbell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .


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Born:
Apr 22, 1936 In Delight, Arkansas, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
16
First Appeared:
In the movie The T.A.M.I. Show 1964-12-29
Latest Project:
Movie Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me 2014-04-24
Known For
Filmography
Movie Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me Self 2014-04-24
Movie Hava Nagila: The Movie Self 2012-07-19
Movie The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and the Colonel Himself 2002-03-31
Movie The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years Self 2002-03-31
Movie Third World Cop Security guard 1999-09-14
Movie Rock-A-Doodle Chanticleer / The King (voice) 1991-08-02
Movie Uphill All the Way Captain Hazelton 1986-01-01
Series Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters Unknown 1980-11-18
Movie Any Which Way You Can Self 1980-12-17
Movie Joys Self 1976-03-05
Movie Norwood Norwood 1970-11-24
Series The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour 1969-01-22
Movie True Grit "La Boeuf" 1969-06-11
Movie The Cool Ones Patrick 1967-04-12
Movie Baby, the Rain Must Fall Band Member 1965-01-12
Movie The T.A.M.I. Show Self - Guitarist in House Band (uncredited) 1964-12-29
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