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An American singer and actor, born in Murvaul, Texas, USA, on January 12, 1905, as Woodward Maurice Ritter. Tex Ritter received the Pioneer Award at the 1971 Academy of Country Music Awards, the Commemorative Medallion from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 1964, and the In Memoriam Award at the 1986 Golden Boot Awards. Ritter married actress Dorothy Fay (1941-1974), with whom he had two children, and she remained with him until his death.
Tex Ritter was a singing cowboy star of B Westerns during the 1930s and 1940s and a country music recording star. His notable credits include Song of the Gringo (1936), High Noon (1952), and Varsity Blues (1999). He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 1964 and the Hall of Great Western Performers. Tex was the patriarch of the Ritter acting family. He studied at South Park High School in Beaumont, Texas, then attended the University of Texas at Austin in 1922, majoring in economics and political science, after which he joined the Northwestern University School of Law.
He began working on the radio in 1928 as a singer and musician. He also worked with a men's chorus on Broadway. He performed in many radio dramas as an actor and singer. In 1936, he began his cinematic career as an actor and singer in Western films and worked on the soundtracks of many films. He became a founding member of the Country Music Association in Nashville, Tennessee, and led the effort to build the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
He entered Tennessee's Republican primary election for the US Senate but failed to be nominated. Tex Ritter retired in 1973, and in his later years, he was a disc jockey on Nashville radio. He died at the age of 68 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, on January 2, 1974, of a heart attack.
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