Bob Wills
Birthday
1905/03/06
Day of death
1975/05/13 (70 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Limestone County, Texas, USA
Also know as
James Robert Wills, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, The King of Western Swing
Biography
Bob Wills, fiddler and band leader of Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, was an influential developer of the western swing music style in the late 1930s through the 1940s. He appeared on over a dozen Western films.
Acting
(1940) Take Me Back to Oklahoma
as Bob Wills
(1941) Go West, Young Lady
as Bob
(1943) Saddles and Sagebrush
as Bob -Texas Playboys Band Leader
(1943) Riders of the Northwest Mounted
as Mountie Bob Wills
(1945) Blazing the Western Trail
as Bob
(1945) Lawless Empire
as Bob
(1943) Silver City Raiders
as Sheriff Bob Halliday
(1943) The Vigilantes Ride
as Bob
(1942) A Tornado in the Saddle
as Bob Wilson
(1942) The Lone Prairie
as Bob
(1944) Wyoming Hurricane
as Bob
(1944) The Last Horseman
as Bob
(1945) Rhythm Round-Up
as Bob Wills
(1944) Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
as Himself
(1975) Austin City Limits
as Self
(2021) This Is Pop
as Self (archive footage)