Smith Ballew

Person · Open Library

Born

1877

Died

1967

Works

196

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Known for

• Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs — (archive footage)2000
• The Red Badge of Courage — Union Captain (uncredited)1951
• I Killed Geronimo — Lt. Furness1950
• Gun Cargo — Singing Sailor1949
• Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains — Blaze Talbot1948
• Drifting Along — Band Singer Smith1946
• The Man Who Walked Alone — Alvin Bailey1945
• Gaucho Serenade — Buck Benson1940
• Rawhide — Larry Kimball1938
• Hawaiian Buckaroo — Jeff Howard1938

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1902-01-21

Active to

1984-05-02

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

976

Total plays

4,078

Smith Ballew (real name Sykes Ballew) (January 21, 1902 – May 2, 1984) was an American actor, singer, and orchestra leader. He was born in Palestine, Texas. He attended high school in Sherman and college at Austin College and the University of Texas. He began his singing career on the radio, and in the 1930s became one of the earliest of the singing cowboys in films. He did a series of musical Westerns for Paramount Pictures and one for 20th Century Fox, continuing in supporting roles until the

via Last.fm · Smith Ballew

Music

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Palestine

Place of death

Longview

Occupation

songwriter

Educated at

Austin College

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Genre

country music

Instrument

voice

Record label

Columbia Records

Image

Smith Ballew.jpg

via Wikidata · CC0