Del Reeves
Actor · 1932 – 2007 · 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.
Movies7
Movie5.8ComedyWesternA 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.
Sam Whiskey
1969 · 34 votes
Movie4.0MusicComedyA Hillbilly hits the big time in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas Hillbillys
1966 · 4 votes
Movie10.0MusicLong, 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.
Opry Video Classics: Songs That Topped the Charts
2007 · 1 votes
Movie10.0New York gangsters head South in search of that magical Nashville sound. Unfortunately, they misunderstand the directions given to them by a friendly gas station attendant and wind up in Atlanta instead.
The Gold Guitar
1966 · 1 votes
Movie7.0MusicComedyOverlooked 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.
Forty Acre Feud
1965 · 2 votes
Movie4.3ComedyMusicDarby 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.
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
1967 · 11 votes
MoviePorter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, The Wilburn Brothers, Loretta Lynn, Jim Ed Brown, Del Reeves and more gather for a holiday special from Nashville in 1969.