Ray Benson

Ray Benson

Born: March 16, 1951
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Ray Benson is the front man of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel as well as an actor and voice actor.

Movies for Ray Benson...

Title: Euphoria
Character: Guy Teasing Kat
Released: June 16, 2019
Type: TV
A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.
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Title: The Orville
Character: Boy
Released: September 10, 2017
Type: TV
Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.
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Rich Hall's Countrier Than You
Title: Rich Hall's Countrier Than You
Character: Self
Released: March 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Award-winning comedian Rich Hall takes a country music journey from Tennessee to Texas to look at the movements and artists that don't get as much notoriety but have helped shape the genre over the years. With the help of prominent performers and producers including Michael Martin Murphey, Robbie Fulks and Ray Benson, Rich explores the early origins of country music in Nashville and Austin. He visits the rustic studios where this much-loved sound was born and discovers how the genre has reinvented itself with influences from bluegrass, western swing and americana.
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Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove
Title: Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove
Released: March 19, 2015
Type: Movie
The story of Doug Sahm, the wild man musicians' musician and unsung hero of Texas music. A country music child prodigy and teenage rhythm & blues dynamo who caused a riot at his San Antonio high school, Sahm emerged as an international rock star leading the Sir Douglas Quintet. He landed in San Francisco just in time for the Summer of Love in 1967. He returned to Texas as the cowboy hippie rocker who built a burgeoning music scene in Austin in before forming the Tex-Mex supergroup The Texas Tornados. A kinetic, quirky character with a solid sense of place as well as an innate wanderlust, Doug Sahm’s story is the story of Texas music.
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Title: The Texas Music Scene
Released: April 9, 2010
Type: TV
A half-hour series that presents performances by and interviews with some of the best Lone Star State talents. There's no discrimination here, as both up-and-coming artists and veteran acts perform.
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Last of the Breed: Live in Concert
Title: Last of the Breed: Live in Concert
Character: Himself
Released: September 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Traditional Western swing and good ol' fashioned honky-tonk music just doesn't get any better than this. With a short run of 15 performances in 2007, the Last of the Breed tour united Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price to celebrate their elder-statesmen status as Country Music Hall of Famers with over 150 years of shared experience between them.
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Asleep at the Wheel: Live From Austin, TX
Title: Asleep at the Wheel: Live From Austin, TX
Character: Vocals, Guitar
Released: November 14, 2006
Type: Movie
Once upon a time...it all began with Asleep at the Wheel. Willie Nelson may have done the original Austin City Limits pilot show, but "The Wheel" was the first act to perform on the first episode of the very first season in 1976. Over three decades later they still deliver their own special brand of jazz-inspired Western Swing to avid fans of every description coast-to-coast. The other half of the very first show also featured a historic reunion of the original members of Bob Wills Texas Playboys. What makes this particular program, recorded October 14, 1992, so special is that several of those original Playboys return to perform with Asleep at the Wheel. Pioneering electric guitarist Eldon Shamblin, singer Leon Rausch, pedal steel player Herb Remington and virtuoso fiddler Johnny Gimble wail away on such Wills' classics as "Corine, Corina," "Roly Poly," and "Blues for Dixie." Goosebumps are guaranteed.
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Wild Texas Wind
Title: Wild Texas Wind
Character: Ben Rayson
Released: September 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Soon after a country singer moves in with her band's new manager, he's found slain and she's a suspect.
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Alamo Bay
Title: Alamo Bay
Released: April 3, 1985
Type: Movie
A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.
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Title: Austin City Limits
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: TV
Now the longest-running music series in American television history, ACL showcases popular music legends and innovators from every genre.