Tex Williams

Tex Williams

Sollie Paul "Tex" Williams (August 23, 1917 – October 11, 1985) was an American Western swing musician. He is best known for his talking blues style; his biggest hit was the novelty song, "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)", which held the number one position on the Billboard chart for sixteen weeks in 1947. "Smoke" was the No. 5 song on Billboard's Top 100 list for 1947, and was No. 1 on the country chart that year.[2] It can be heard during the opening credits of the 2006 movie, Thank You for Smoking.

  • Title: Tex Williams
  • Popularity: 0.5781
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1917-09-23
  • Place of Birth: Ramsey, Illinois, USA
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Tex Williams Movies

  • 1949
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    Silver Butte

    Silver Butte

    1 1949 HD

    Shipments of silver are going astray after leaving the mine, and Tex and his pals investigate. With 3 songs.

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  • 1949
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    Prairie Pirates

    Prairie Pirates

    1 1949 HD

    In this remake of and using stock-footage from 1941's "Arizona Cyclone," Tex is a daredevil freight-line driver who, with the aid of his pals Smokey and Deuce, wipes out the crooked rival line, and has enough time left over, from this shorts' twenty-six minutes , to toss in four songs.

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  • 1949
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    The Pecos Pistol

    The Pecos Pistol

    1 1949 HD

    A partial remake of and using footage from 1941's "Rawhide Rangers" this Western short is about a ranger who pretends to turn outlaw in order to track down the gang who killed his brother, also a ranger.

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  • 1945
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    My Chickashay Gal

    My Chickashay Gal

    1 1945 HD

    Musical short starring Spade Cooley.

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  • 1950
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    The Fargo Phantom

    The Fargo Phantom

    1 1950 HD

    This entry in Universal's series of "Musical Westerns" shorts has Tex Williams, assisted by Deuce Spriggins and Smokey Rogers, bringing his six guns, fists and singing abilities against a gang of stage-robbing bandits. This film was combined with another Tex Williams short, Coyote Canyon, and reissued as the feature-length "Tales of the West No.2.)

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  • 1949
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    Coyote Canyon

    Coyote Canyon

    1 1949 HD

    This film and the 1950 short "The Fargo Phantom" were edited together and released as a feature called "Tales of the West #2" in 1950.

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    Gold Strike

    Gold Strike

    1 1950 HD

    Musical western short

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  • 1943
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    Devil Riders

    Devil Riders

    4.3 1943 HD

    A crooked lawyer and his gang are trying to steal some government land meant for a stagecoach company. The company hires a cowboy to stop them.

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  • 1944
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    Take Me Back to Tulsa

    Take Me Back to Tulsa

    1 1944 HD

    Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".

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  • 1949
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    Cheyenne Cowboy

    Cheyenne Cowboy

    1 1949 HD

    Cheyenne Jones comes to the Blue River Ranch and asks for a job as a cowpuncher. Actually, Jones's real name is Buck McCloud and he's the new owner of the spread, having inherited it when his uncle died a year earlier. He's roaming the range incognito while trying to identify who's behind the cattle rustling that is afflicting his new business.

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  • 1958
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    Born Reckless

    Born Reckless

    3.4 1958 HD

    Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. One night he rescues trick rider Jackie Adams from the clutches of an amorous rodeo promoter and they form a team and hit the circuit along with sidekick Cool Man.

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