Doye O'Dell

Doye O'Dell

Allen Doye O'Dell was born in Gustine, Texas in 1912 to Joe and Carrie O'Dell. His Dad was a cotton farmer and later moved the family to the far west Texas town of Plainview. Doye's uncle Tom Gregory, a fiddle player, would visit and taught Doye how to play the fiddle, sparking a love of music that would last a lifetime. Doye started playing at radio station WDAG in Amarillo and eventually got his own radio show with NBC. After many years on radio and as a prolific recording artist and even becoming a member of the Sons of the Pioneers, Doye ended up in southern California on KTLA, one of the country's pioneer TV stations. Doye's 'Western Varieties' TV show was a Friday night staple for many years. Doye was also an actor and besides appearing with Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers in some of their late 1940s movies like Under California Stars, Doye appeared in many movies with such names as Ronald Reagan, Jack Lemmon, Ava Gardner and many more. He appeared in many late 50s and early 60s TV series like Maverick, Sugarfoot and Empire. He had parts in two Billy Wilder movies, The Days of Wine and Roses and Irma La Douce. Doye continued playing music and making personal appearances into his 80s until a stroke forced him into retirement. Doye passed away in 2001 at the age of 88. His vast music library is still popular all over the world and his records are collector's items.

Movies for Doye O'Dell...

Days of Wine and Roses
Title: Days of Wine and Roses
Character: Charlie Deans (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1963
Type: Movie
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
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Born Reckless
Title: Born Reckless
Character: Rodeo Official
Released: November 2, 1958
Type: Movie
Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. He rescues trick rider Jackie Adams from the clutches of an amorous sports ...
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Tight Spot
Title: Tight Spot
Character: Mississippi Mac
Released: March 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Master of Ceremonies
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Son of a Badman
Title: Son of a Badman
Character: Tex James
Released: April 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Lash and Fuzzy come to town to unmask the mysterious outlaw kingpin, El Sombre.
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Home in San Antone
Title: Home in San Antone
Character: Radio Singer
Released: April 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Posing as unemployed musicians, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, are being helped by Ted Gibson owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke out of trouble, supports his Ma, and Grandpa. He wants to marry Jean Wallace, and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.
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Whirlwind Raiders
Title: Whirlwind Raiders
Character: Guitar Player
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.
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Under California Stars
Title: Under California Stars
Character: Musical Cowboy
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
On vacation at his ranch, western actor Roy quickly finds himself involved with a horse rustling operation and a boy ward of one of the rustlers, leading to the kidnapping of Roy's trick horse Trigger by the gang with a demand for ransom.
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Last Frontier Uprising
Title: Last Frontier Uprising
Character: Rancher
Released: February 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Singing cowboy Monte Hale plays "himself" in the Republic western Last Frontier Uprising. Actually, he's not really himself, but a federal agent, dispatched to Texas to buy horses on behalf of the government. Hale runs up against a vicious gang of horse thieves, including such veteran western hard cases as Roy Barcroft and Philip van Zandt. The romantic interest is in the dainty hands of Adrian Booth, who used to go by the name of Lorna Gray. Put together with the standard Republic efficiency, The Last Frontier Uprising benefits from the breathless direction of Lesley Selander.
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Man from Rainbow Valley
Title: Man from Rainbow Valley
Character: Ranch Hand Jim
Released: June 15, 1946
Type: Movie
When unscrupulous rodeo promoter Colonel Winthrop gets the idea of capturing "Outlaw" and making him a show horse, his niece Kay North tricks Monte into believing she is a writer assigned to do an article on the real horse.
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Along the Navajo Trail
Title: Along the Navajo Trail
Character: Son of the Pioneers
Released: September 15, 1945
Type: Movie
U.S. Deputy Marshal Roy investigates the disappearance of a government agent who has come to Dale's father's Ladder A Ranch. The bad guys want the land the ranch sits on because they know an oil pipeline is planned through this location.
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Fugitive Valley
Title: Fugitive Valley
Character: Singer
Released: July 30, 1941
Type: Movie
The Range Busters have a plan to get into the outlaw's hideout in Fugitive Valley.
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The Pioneers
Title: The Pioneers
Character: Doye O'Dell
Released: May 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A frontiersman leads a group of pioneers to their destination in the Old West and then helps them settle it.
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The Cowboy from Sundown
Title: The Cowboy from Sundown
Character: Cowhand Musician
Released: September 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then, Sheriff Tex Rockett is forced to quarantine all the cattle on the local ranches because of a hoof-and-mouth disease outbreak. Steve Davis herds his cattle to the railhead anyway, and Tex is forced to arrest him. Urged on by the banker's son, Nick Cuttler, the angry ranchers storm the jail, but Steve's sister Bee persuades them to await the trial. Steve, with Nick's help, breaks jail and is told he must kill Tex to aid the ranchers. Meanwhile, government man Bret Stockton and Tex see Nick and his men treating cattle in an unusual way. Tex finally proves that the Cuttlers have been treating the cattle with acid to give a false impression of the hoof-and-mouth disease.