Del Reeves

Del Reeves

Born: July 14, 1932
Died: January 1, 2007
in Sparta, North Carolina, USA
Country singer/songwriter Franklin Delano Reeves was born on July 14, 1932 in Sparta, North Carolina. The youngest of eleven children, Reeves learned how to play guitar with his mother's help (he borrowed his brothers' instruments while they were serving in World War II) and was a local radio star at age twelve.

Movies for Del Reeves...

Opry Video Classics: Songs That Topped the Charts
Title: Opry Video Classics: Songs That Topped the Charts
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Long, long ago, a record didn't just reach the No. 1 spot - it resided there, sometimes for months. Songs That Topped the Charts captures the biggest country hits, many of which also became significant pop singles. Check out Leroy Van Dyke's Walk On By (19 weeks at No. 1); Stonewall Jackson's Waterloo; and the Browns' The Three Bells, a country and pop chart-topper. They don't cut 'em like that anymore.
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Sam Whiskey
Title: Sam Whiskey
Character: The Fisherman
Released: April 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.
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Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
Title: Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
Character: Darby Clyde Fenster
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Darby Clyde Fenster and Jerry Martin are a pair of penniless nincompoop-drifters who hop a freight train on their way to Florida. Our intrepid heroes find themselves facing one comic situation after another in this gloriously loopy Southern fried comedy-with-music.
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Las Vegas Hillbillys
Title: Las Vegas Hillbillys
Released: May 11, 1966
Type: Movie
A Hillbilly hits the big time in Las Vegas.
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Forty Acre Feud
Title: Forty Acre Feud
Character: Del Culpepper
Released: August 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Overlooked when the Tennessee legislature reapportioned the state, the 40-acre community of Shagbottom is discovered and notified to elect a state representative. The feud between Pa Culpepper and Uncle Foxey Calhoun resurfaces, with several incidents occurring at Postmaster Amos Quint's general store between Simon Crumb and Uncle Foxey, while at the Culpepper farm Ma Culpepper is trying to persuade Pa not to run for office. Lovers Nancy Calhoun and Del Culpepper are separated by the hostilities until the Smokey Mountain Jamboree arrives to televise the election and their country music revue.