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Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter was an American country music singer and actor popular from the mid 1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Birth Name
Woodward Maurice Ritter
Born
Thursday, 12 January 1905
Died
Wednesday, 02 January 1974
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| My Darling Vivian | Self (archive footage) / Self | 2020 |
| ReMastered: Tricky Dick and the Man in Black | Self | 2018 |
| Forgotten Movie Music, 1929-1985 | Self | 2018 |
| Behind Closed Doors | Self | 2016 |
| City Confidential | Self | 1999 |
| The West That Never Was | (archive footage) | 1987 |
| All You Need Is Love | Self | 1977 |
| Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | (archive footage) / Tex | 1976 |
| Sing a Country Song | 1973 | |
| The Marshal of Windy Hollow | Windy Hollow Mayor | 1972 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| My Darling Vivian | Self (archive footage) / Self | 2020 |
| ReMastered: Tricky Dick and the Man in Black | Self | 2018 |
| Forgotten Movie Music, 1929-1985 | Self | 2018 |
| Behind Closed Doors | Self | 2016 |
| City Confidential | Self | 1999 |
| The West That Never Was | (archive footage) | 1987 |
| All You Need Is Love | Self | 1977 |
| Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | (archive footage) / Tex | 1976 |
| Sing a Country Song | 1973 | |
| The Marshal of Windy Hollow | Windy Hollow Mayor | 1972 |
| The Nashville Sound | Self | 1970 |
| The David Frost Show | Self | 1969 |
| Hee Haw | Self - Special Guest | 1969 |
| The Johnny Cash Show | Self - Singer | 1969 |
| What Am I Bid? | Tex Ritter | 1967 |
| Girl from Tobacco Row | Reverend E.F. Bolton | 1966 |
| Nashville Rebel | Himself / Tex Ritter | 1966 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| The Jimmy Dean Show | Self | 1963 |
| The Mike Douglas Show | Himself | 1961 |
| The Porter Wagoner Show | Self - Guest | 1961 |
| Five Star Jubilee | Himself | 1961 |
| Shotgun Slade | The Marshal | 1959 |
| Startime | Self | 1959 |
| The Rebel | Marshall | 1959 |
| The Kraft Music Hall | Self | 1958 |
| Ranch Party | Singer / Self - Host / Performer | 1957 |
| Trooper Hook | Title Song Singer | 1957 |
| Zane Grey Theatre | Balladeer | 1956 |
| The First Bad Man | Narrator (voice) / Narrator / Dinosaur Dan | 1955 |
| Apache Ambush | Traeger | 1955 |
| Studio 57 | Singer | 1954 |
| The Cowboy | Narrator | 1954 |
| The Marshal's Daughter | Background Singer (singing voice) / Background Singer | 1953 |
| Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory | Stock Footage from a Monogram Western | 1952 |
| Holiday Rhythm | Tex Ritter | 1950 |
| Flaming Bullets | Tex Haines | 1945 |
| Frontier Fugitives | Tex Haines | 1945 |
| Three in the Saddle | Tex Haines | 1945 |
| Enemy of the Law | Tex Haines | 1945 |
| Marked for Murder | Tex Haines | 1945 |
| The Whispering Skull | Tex Haines | 1944 |
| Dead or Alive | Tex Haines aka Idaho Kid | 1944 |
| Gangsters of the Frontier | Tex Haines | 1944 |
| Oklahoma Raiders | Steve Nolan | 1944 |
| Cowboy Canteen | Tex Coulter | 1944 |
| Marshal of Gunsmoke | Marshal Ward Bailey | 1944 |
| Arizona Trail | Johnny Trent | 1943 |
| Frontier Badmen | Jerry Kimball - Cattle Buyer | 1943 |
| The Lone Star Trail | Fargo Steele | 1943 |
| Raiders of San Joaquin | Gil Blake | 1943 |
| Cheyenne Roundup | Steve Rawlins | 1943 |
| Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground | Bob Courtney | 1943 |
| The Old Chisholm Trail | Montana Smith | 1942 |
| Little Joe, the Wrangler | Sheriff Bob Brewster | 1942 |
| Deep in the Heart of Texas | Brent Gordon | 1942 |
| Vengeance of the West | Capt. Tex Lake / Marshal Captain Lake | 1942 |
| Prairie Gunsmoke | Tex Terrell | 1942 |
| The Devil's Trail | Marshal Tex Martin | 1942 |
| North of the Rockies | Tex Martin | 1942 |
| Bullets for Bandits | Sheriff Tex Martin | 1942 |
| The Lone Star Vigilantes | Tex Martin | 1942 |
| Roaring Frontiers | Tex Martin (Tex Rawlings in credits) | 1941 |
| The Pioneers | Tex Ritter | 1941 |
| Ridin' the Cherokee Trail | Texas Ranger Lt. Tex Ritter / Tex Ritter | 1941 |
| Rollin' Home to Texas | Tex Reed | 1940 |
| Take Me Back to Oklahoma | Tex Lawton | 1940 |
| Arizona Frontier | Tex / Tex Whitedeer | 1940 |
| Roll Wagons Roll | Tex Masters | 1940 |
| Rainbow Over the Range | Marshal Tex Reed | 1940 |
| The Golden Trail | Tex Roberts | 1940 |
| The Cowboy from Sundown | Sheriff Tex Rockett | 1940 |
| Pals of the Silver Sage | Tex Wright | 1940 |
| Rhythm of the Rio Grande | Tex Regan | 1940 |
| Westbound Stage | Tex Wallace | 1939 |
| Riders of the Frontier | Tex Lowry posing as Ed Carter | 1939 |
| Down the Wyoming Trail | Tex Yancey | 1939 |
| Man from Texas | Tex Allen | 1939 |
| Rollin' Westward | Tex Ramsey | 1939 |
| Sundown on the Prairie | Tex | 1939 |
| Song of the Buckaroo | Texas Dan | 1939 |
| Where the Buffalo Roam | Tex Houston | 1938 |
| Starlight Over Texas | Tex Newman | 1938 |
| Utah Trail | Tex Stewart, posing as the Pecos Kid / Tex Stewart - posing as the Pecos Kid | 1938 |
| Rollin' Plains | Tex Lawrence | 1938 |
| Frontier Town | Tex Lansing, alias Tex Rawlins | 1938 |
| Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts | Tex Collins | 1937 |
| The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen | Tex Martin | 1937 |
| Riders of the Rockies | Tex Rand | 1937 |
| Sing Cowboy Sing | Tex Archer | 1937 |
| Hittin' the Trail | Tex Randall | 1937 |
| Trouble in Texas | Tex Masters | 1937 |
| Arizona Days | Tex Malinson | 1937 |
| Headin' for the Rio Grande | Tex Saunders | 1936 |
| Song of the Gringo | Tex | 1936 |
