Kenny Rogers

Acting

Kenny Rogers

Born August 21, 1938 · Houston, Texas, USA

Died March 20, 2020 · aged 81

Kenny Rogers (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American country music singer and actor.

Known For

The Dream MakersThe Dream Makers · 1975
The Dream Makers
7.01975
MovieMusicDrama
A college president becomes the president of a record company, and finds himself enmeshed in a payola scandal.
The Gambler: The Legend ContinuesThe Gambler: The Legend Continues · 1987
The Gambler: The Legend Continues
6.01987
MovieWesternTV Movie
Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their goal is to help the Sioux fight the government and get the supplies they need. They also uncover corruption within a government outpost and find themselves in a dangerous position.
Coward of the CountyCoward of the County · 1981
Coward of the County
6.51981
MovieDramaTV Movie
A lifelong yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody revenge on the men who gang-raped his wife.
LongshotLongshot · 2001
Longshot
5.72001
MovieActionComedy
A powerful businessman blackmails a fitness instructor in order to gain inside information on the stock market.
The Gambler: The Adventure ContinuesThe Gambler: The Adventure Continues · 1983
The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
7.01983
MovieWesternTV Movie
Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on a quest to rescue him and form a small gang of their own along the way.
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the DrawThe Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw · 1991
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
4.81991
MovieWesternTV Movie
Hawkes, Jones and Cassidy are on their way to the biggest poker game in history. But a few folks want to see them fold before they even get there.
Six PackSix Pack · 1982
Six Pack
6.51982
MovieDramaComedy
Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income...
The GamblerThe Gambler · 1980
The Gambler
5.91980
MovieWesternTV Movie
This Western adventure, inspired by Kenny Rogers' hit song, tells how fictional gambler Brady Hawkes, going in search of a young son he never knew he had, teams up with an impetuous young admirer and a shady lady on his journey, which also involves him with an arrogant railroad owner and a gang of villains.

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Six PackSix Pack · 1982
Six Pack
6.51982
MovieDramaComedy
Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income...

Brewster Baker

MacShayne: Winner Takes AllMacShayne: Winner Takes All · 1994
MacShayne: Winner Takes All
5.01994
MovieDramaThriller
MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there, his ex-wife is no longer where she use to live and work and left no forwarding address. Leggett, a recently retired cop, approaches him and tells him that he will help him find his son, if he does something for him. It seems that he is planning to rob a hotel casino and he needs three guys to pull it off. Now two of the guys he recruited has agreed to it but the third is uncertain, so he sets up a poker game wherein MacShayne is suppose to clean him out thus giving Leggett some leverage on him. After doing that he discovers that Leggett is duplicitous and is going stab everybody in the back. So he decides to turn the tables on him.

John J. 'Jack' MacShayne

Rollin' On The RiverRollin' On The River · 1971
Rollin' On The River
10.01971
Series
Rollin' On The River 1971-72 - (Rollin 1972-73) was a Canadian Music Variety Series hosted by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. They were the first pop-rock group to host their own prime-time TV series. - 53 episodes x 60 min - Featured guests included: Tina Turner, Merle Haggard, Bo Diddley, April Wine, Bill Withers, The Raiders, Cheech & Chong, The Stampeders, Bruce Cockburn, The Grass Roots, The Five Man Electrical Band, Lighthouse, Climax, Billy Preston, Jim Croce, Kris Kristofferson, Jose Feliciano, Mac Davis, Ronnie Hawkins, John Kay, Chilliwack, Looking Glass, The James Gang, The Poppy Family, Ian & Sylvia, Pat Paulsen, Helen Reddy, Andy Kim, John Stewart and many others. *Note: The series was an hour long in Canada. In the U.S. it was only half an hour, and Canadian talents were excised from the show for prime-time viewing.

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