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Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) is an American
United States

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 singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter

File:Joan Baez Bob Dylan crop.jpgSinger-songwriter is a term that refers to performers who Lyricist, composer and singing their own Musical piece including lyrics and melody....
 and actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the #10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales....
 chart, "Cowboy Man". Lovett has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Album. His most recent, It's Not Big It's Large
It's Not Big It's Large

It's Not Big It's Large is an album by Lyle Lovett, released in 2007 . The recording was made live in studio.The title is a play on the name Lovett has given to his touring band since 1988....
 was released in 2007, where it debuted and peaked at #2 on the Top Country Albums chart.

tt was born in the unincorporated
Unincorporated

Unincorporated may refer to:* Unincorporated area, land not governed by a local municipality** Unincorporated area , communities that are governed by incorporated municipalities...
 region of Klein
Klein, Texas

Klein is an unincorporated community in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston, Texas within north Harris County, Texas, Texas, United States, bordering on Houston to the South and Tomball, Texas to the North....
, Harris County
Harris County, Texas

Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. As of 2000 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 3,400,578 , making it the most populous county in Texas and the List of the most populous counties in the United States in the United States....
 (suburban Houston
Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles ....
), Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
, the son of William and Bernell (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Klein) Lovett, a marketing executive and training specialist, respectively.






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Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter

File:Joan Baez Bob Dylan crop.jpgSinger-songwriter is a term that refers to performers who Lyricist, composer and singing their own Musical piece including lyrics and melody....
 and actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the #10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales....
 chart, "Cowboy Man". Lovett has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Album. His most recent, It's Not Big It's Large
It's Not Big It's Large

It's Not Big It's Large is an album by Lyle Lovett, released in 2007 . The recording was made live in studio.The title is a play on the name Lovett has given to his touring band since 1988....
 was released in 2007, where it debuted and peaked at #2 on the Top Country Albums chart.

Biography


Early life

Lovett was born in the unincorporated
Unincorporated

Unincorporated may refer to:* Unincorporated area, land not governed by a local municipality** Unincorporated area , communities that are governed by incorporated municipalities...
 region of Klein
Klein, Texas

Klein is an unincorporated community in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston, Texas within north Harris County, Texas, Texas, United States, bordering on Houston to the South and Tomball, Texas to the North....
, Harris County
Harris County, Texas

Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. As of 2000 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 3,400,578 , making it the most populous county in Texas and the List of the most populous counties in the United States in the United States....
 (suburban Houston
Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles ....
), Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
, the son of William and Bernell (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Klein) Lovett, a marketing executive and training specialist, respectively. He was raised as a Lutheran. Lovett attended Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University, often called A&M or TAMU, is a coeducational public university research university located in College Station, Texas, Texas....
, where he studied German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 and journalism
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
, and lived next door to Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen

Robert Earl Keen, Junior is a United States singer-songwriter. He is popular with traditional country music fans, folk music fans, the college radio crowd and alt-country fans....
.

Career

Lovett's music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 career began as a songwriter
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
, but he soon signed with MCA Records
MCA Records

MCA Records was an United States-based record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part....
 in 1986 and released his eponymous debut album. While typically associated with the country
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 genre, Lovett's compositions often incorporate folk
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
, swing
Swing (genre)

Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States....
, blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
, jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and gospel music
Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
 as well as more traditional country & Western styling. He has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Country Album (1996 for The Road to Ensenada), Best Country Duo/Group with Vocal (1994 for "Blues For Dixie" with the Texas swing group Asleep at the Wheel
Asleep at the Wheel

Asleep at the Wheel, is a multiple Grammy Award-winning Country /Western Swing band formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, but based in Austin, Texas....
), Best Pop Vocal Collaboration (1994 for "Funny How Time Slips Away" with Al Green
Al Green

Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
) and Best Country Male Vocal (1989) for Lyle Lovett and His Large Band).

Lovett has acted in a number of films, including Robert Altman
Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
's film The Player
The Player

The Player is a satire film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel of the same name. It is the story of Griffin Mill , a Hollywood Movie studio executive who gets away with murdering a wannabe screenwriter who Mill believes is sending him death threats....
 (1992), Short Cuts
Short Cuts

Short Cuts is a 1993 in film drama film directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver....
 (1993), Prêt-à-Porter
Prêt-à-Porter (film)

Pr?t-?-Porter is a 1994 in film satirical black comedy written, directed and produced by Robert Altman and shot during the Paris, France, Fashion Week with a host of international stars, models and designers....
 (1994), The Opposite of Sex
The Opposite of Sex

The Opposite of Sex is a 1998 in film film written and directed by Don Roos. It stars Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan and Lisa Kudrow. The film marked departures for both Ricci and Kudrow, cast against type for the roles they were known for at the time ....
 (1998), Cookie's Fortune
Cookie's Fortune

Cookie's Fortune is a 1999 in film comedy film film directed by Robert Altman and starring an ensemble cast, including Patricia Neal, Charles S....
 (1999), and composed for Dr. T & the Women
Dr. T & the Women

Dr. T & the Women is a 2000 in film romantic comedy film directed by Robert Altman. It stars Richard Gere as wealthy Gynaecology Dr. Sullivan Travis and Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Tara Reid, Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler as "the women"....
 (2000). More recently, he has acted in The New Guy
The New Guy

The New Guy is a 2002 in film United States teen comedy directed by Ed Decter. The film tells the story of a high school loser Dizzy Gillespie Harrison....
 (2002) and Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story (2007). His television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 acting forays include Mad About You
Mad About You

Mad About You is an United States sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 23, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City....
, Brothers & Sisters and Dharma & Greg
Dharma & Greg

Dharma & Greg is an United States television situation comedy co-produced by Chuck Lorre Productions, More-Medavoy Productions and 4 to 6 Foot Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television for American Broadcasting Company....
.

Lovett was given an Esky for Surest Thing in Esquire's
Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is a men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition. Founded in 1933, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich....
 2006 Esky Music Awards in the April issue. The magazine said of Lovett: "The secret of Lyle Lovett's endurance comes down to the three C's: class, charisma
Charisma

The word charisma refers to a rare trait found in certain human personalities usually including extreme charm and a 'magnetic' quality of personality and/or appearance along with innate and powerfully sophisticated personal communicability and persuasiveness....
 and consistency... In the studio and on stage with his giant orchestra, he's spent two decades gracefully matching genuine songcraft with A-list musicianship".

Lovett primarily plays Collings acoustic guitars.

Personal life

Lovett's personal life was brought to the fore in 1993 when he married actress Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress and former fashion model. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere, which grossed $463 million worldwide....
. The couple had met on the set of The Player in 1992. After a three-week romance, they eloped and married in June 1993 in Marion, Indiana
Marion, Indiana

Marion is a city in Grant County, Indiana, Indiana, United States. The population was 30,830 at the 2006 census. The city is the county seat of Grant County, Indiana....
. The couple divorced less than two years later, in March 1995. The marriage breakup was said to be caused by their career demands causing the two to often be away from each other. They would, though, remain friends, and Roberts would even sing one of Townes Van Zandt's songs (recorded by Lovett on Step Inside This House) in her 1998 movie Stepmom. To discover more about the relationship, devoted fans have spent long hours poring over the lyrics of Lovett's 1996 album, The Road To Ensenada. Lovett has been dating April Kimble since 1999.

His small-town life was again brought to the public's attention on March 28, 2002 when Lovett was caught by a bull and rammed into a fence on his uncle's farm in Klein, Texas
Klein, Texas

Klein is an unincorporated community in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston, Texas within north Harris County, Texas, Texas, United States, bordering on Houston to the South and Tomball, Texas to the North....
, before being pulled to safety. Lovett fully recovered after six months and began touring again in the summer of 2003.

Discography


Albums

Year Album Chart Positions Certifications Label
US Country US
Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling Albums and extended play in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine....
CAN Country CAN
Canadian Albums Chart

The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canadian Online Explorer, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems Airplay...
RIAA CRIA
1986 Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett (album)

Lyle Lovett is Lyle Lovett's 1986 eponymous debut album. By the mid-1980s Lovett had already distinguished himself in the burgeoning Texas singer-songwriter scene....
14 Curb
1988 Pontiac
Pontiac (album)

Pontiac is the title of Lyle Lovett's second album, released in 1987....
12 117 Gold
1989 Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band is Lyle Lovett's third album, released in 1989.Lovett's gender-bending cover of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" was later included in the soundtrack of the 1993 movie The Crying Game....
10 62 Gold Gold
1992 Joshua Judges Ruth
Joshua Judges Ruth

Joshua Judges Ruth is the title of Lyle Lovett's fourth album, released in 1992.While the album does not have one theme that binds all the songs, several tracks deal with "high concepts" such as religion and death ....
57 49 Gold
1994 I Love Everybody
I Love Everybody

I Love Everybody is an album recorded by Lyle Lovett and released in 1994. The album consists of songs written by Lovett prior to the recording of his first album....
26 40 Gold
1996 The Road to Ensenada
The Road to Ensenada

The Road To Ensenada is an album of songs recorded by Lyle Lovett and released in 1996.At the Grammy Awards of 1997, The Road to Ensenada won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album....
4 24 Gold
1998 Step Inside This House
Step Inside This House

Step Inside This House is an album of songs recorded by Lyle Lovett and released in 1998. In contrast with his earlier albums, populated mostly by songs penned by Lovett, House is a double-length album of cover version written by fellow Texas....
9 55 Gold MCA Nashville
1999 Live in Texas
Live in Texas (Lyle Lovett album)

Live in Texas is a live album by United States country music artist Lyle Lovett recorded from July 1995 to September 1995 and released on June 29, 1999....
7 94 14
2000 Dr. T & the Women
Dr. T & The Women (album)

Dr. T & the Women is the soundtrack to Robert Altman's film, Dr. T & the Women. All tracks are instrumentals except, "Ain't It Somethin'," "You've Been So Good Up Till Now" and "She's Already Made Up Her Mind."...
2001 Anthology, Vol. 1: Cowboy Man
Anthology, Vol. 1: Cowboy Man

Anthology, Vol. 1: Cowboy Man is a compilation album of songs by Lyle Lovett, released in 2001....
26 195
2003 Smile
Smile (Lyle Lovett album)

'Smile' is a 2003 compilation of songs performed by Lyle Lovett for various movie soundtracks between 1992 and 2002. Smile was the fifth project by Lovett that did not introduce a new collection of his own songs during the expanse of time between his 1996 Grammy Awards winning The Road to Ensenada and My Baby Don't Tolerate'...
106 MCA/Curb
My Baby Don't Tolerate
My Baby Don't Tolerate

My Baby Don't Tolerate is the name of an album recorded by Lyle Lovett and released in 2003.On Tolerate, Lovett favors his country side a bit more than his many other facets....
7 63 Lost Highway
2007 It's Not Big It's Large
It's Not Big It's Large

It's Not Big It's Large is an album by Lyle Lovett, released in 2007 . The recording was made live in studio.The title is a play on the name Lovett has given to his touring band since 1988....
2 18
"—" denotes the album failed to chart, not released, or not certified


Singles

Year Single Chart Positions Album
US Country
Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales....
US Main Rock CAN Country CAN CAN AC
1986 "Farther Down the Line" 21 Lyle Lovett
"Cowboy Man" 10 23
1987 "God Will" 18 23
"Why I Don't Know" 15 24
"Give Back My Heart" 13 18 Pontiac
1988 "She's No Lady" 17 8
"I Loved You Yesterday" 24 40
"If I Had a Boat" 66 76
"I Married Her Because She Looked Like You" 45 Lyle Lovett & His Large Band
1989 "Stand by Your Man
Stand By Your Man

"Stand by Your Man" is a song cowritten by Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill and originally recorded by Tammy Wynette, released as a single in September 1968 in the USA....
"
82
"Nobody Knows Me" 84
"If I Were the Man You Wanted" 49 50 single only
1991 "You Can't Resist It" 77 33
1992 "You've Been So Good Up to Now" 33 Joshua Judges Ruth
1996 "Don't Touch My Hat" 68 The Road to Ensenada
1997 "Private Conversation" 72
2000 "San Antonio Girl" Anthology Volume 1
2003 "My Baby Don't Tolerate" My Baby Don't Tolerate
2004 "In My Own Mind"
2007 "South Texas Girl" It's Not Big It's Large
2008 "No Big Deal"
"—" denotes the single failed to chart or wasn't released


Guest singles

Year Single Artist Chart Positions Album
CAN AC
1996 "You've Got a Friend in Me
You've Got a Friend in Me

"You've Got a Friend in Me" is a song written and performed by Randy Newman and Lyle Lovett for the 1995 animated film Toy Story. The song received nominations for "Best Original Song" — both the 1995 Academy Award for Best Original Song nomination and the 1996 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song nomination although the song...
"
Randy Newman
Randy Newman

Randall Stuart ?Randy? Newman is an Academy Award?winning United States singer/songwriter, arrangement, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his wiktionary:mordant pop songs and for his many film scores....
40 Toy Story (soundtrack)
Toy Story (soundtrack)

Toy Story: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the original soundtrack album, to the 1995 in film Academy Award-winning animated feature Toy Story, produced by Walt Disney Records....


Filmography


Musician

  • Walk Hard (2007) - Song Performer "Walk Hard"
  • The Exonerated
    The Exonerated

    The Exonerated is a film that dramatizes the stories of six people who had been wrongfully convicted of murder, but were later exonerated and freed after varying years of imprisonment, where many were subjected to further brutality and degradation....
     (2005 TV movie) - Song Performer "Amazing Grace
    Amazing Grace

    "Amazing Grace" is a well-known Christian hymn by Englishman John Newton and first appeared in print in Newton's Olney Hymns ....
    "
  • The Interpreter
    The Interpreter

    The Interpreter is a 2005 in film thriller film starring Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, and Catherine Keener. It was the final film to be directed by Sydney Pollack....
     (2005) - Song Performer "If I Had a Boat"
  • 61*
    61*

    61* is an American baseball movie, made for HBO, directed by Billy Crystal and written by Hank Steinberg. The film was first released on April 28, 2001....
     (2001 TV movie) - Song Performer "Nobody Knows Me"
  • All Over the Guy
    All Over the Guy

    All Over the Guy is an American gay-themed romantic comedy film directed by Julie Davis in 2001 in film....
     (2001) - Song Performer and composer "She Makes Me Feel Good" and "The Blues Walk"
  • Dr. T & the Women
    Dr. T & the Women

    Dr. T & the Women is a 2000 in film romantic comedy film directed by Robert Altman. It stars Richard Gere as wealthy Gynaecology Dr. Sullivan Travis and Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Tara Reid, Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler as "the women"....
     (2000) - Song Performer and composer
    and also used recording "You've Been So Good Up to Now" (1992), "She's Already Made Up Her Mind" (1992), "Ain't It Something" (1994)
  • Stuart Little
    Stuart Little

    Published in 1945, Stuart Little was E. B. White's first children's story. It is the tale of a young New Yorker named Stuart Little who had the "shy, pleasant manner of a mouse" and in Garth Williams's illustrations does look like a mouse....
     (1999) - Song Performer "Walking Tall"
  • Mumford
    Mumford (film)

    Mumford is a 1999 in film comedic feature film written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. It is set in a small town where a new psychologist gives offbeat advice to the neurotic residents....
     (1999) - Song Performer "Ballad of the Snow Leopard and The Tanqueray Cowboy", "Till It Shines"
  • Clay Pigeons
    Clay Pigeons

    Clay Pigeons is a 1998 in film written by Matt Healy and directed by David Dobkin . It stars Joaquin Phoenix as Clay Bidwell, Vince Vaughn as the Lester Long, and Janeane Garofalo as Agent Shelby....
     (1998) - Song Performer "Teach Me About Love"
  • Hope Floats
    Hope Floats

    Hope Floats is an 1998 in film Cinema of the United States romance film drama film directed by Forest Whitaker, and starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick, Jr....
     (1998) - Song Performer "Smile"
  • The Apostle
    The Apostle

    The Apostle is a 1997 in film film, written and directed by Robert Duvall, who stars in the title role. John Beasley , Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, June Carter Cash, and Miranda Richardson also appear....
     (1997) - Song Performer "(I'm a) Soldier in the Army of the Lord"
  • Toy Story
    Toy Story

    Toy Story is a 1995 in film Cinema of the United States computer animation family film, directed by John Lasseter and starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen....
     (1995) - Song Performer "You've Got a Friend in Me" with Randy Newman
    Randy Newman

    Randall Stuart ?Randy? Newman is an Academy Award?winning United States singer/songwriter, arrangement, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his wiktionary:mordant pop songs and for his many film scores....
     as the lead vocals.
  • Quiz Show (1994) - Song Performer "Moritat
    Mack the Knife

    Mack the Knife or The Ballad of Mack the Knife, originally Die Moritat von Mackie Messer, is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English language, The Threepenny Opera....
    " by Kurt Weill
    Kurt Weill

    Kurt Julian Weill , was a Germany, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the theatre....
  • With Honors
    With Honors

    With Honors is a 1994 in film comedy-drama film starring Joe Pesci and Brendan Fraser. The film was directed by Alek Keshishian who has more famously directed music videos for Madonna and Bobby Brown....
     (1994) - Song Performer "Blue Skies"
  • Major League II
    Major League II

    Major League II is a sequel to the 1989 in film film Major League . Major league II stars most of the same cast from the original, including Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Corbin Bernsen....
     (1994) - Song Performer and composer "All My Love Is Gone"
  • The Firm (1993) - Song Performer "M-O-N-E-Y"
  • Leap of Faith
    Leap of faith

    A leap of faith, in its most commonly used meaning, is the act of believing in something without, or in spite of, available empirical evidence. It is an act commonly associated with religious belief as many religions consider faith to be an essential element of piety....
     (1992) - Song Performer "Pass Me Not"
  • The Crying Game
    The Crying Game

    The Crying Game is a 1992 in film Cinema of Ireland/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film written and film director by Neil Jordan. The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Irish The Troubles....
     (1992) - Song Performer "Stand By Your Man
    Stand By Your Man

    "Stand by Your Man" is a song cowritten by Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill and originally recorded by Tammy Wynette, released as a single in September 1968 in the USA....
    "
  • Major League
    Major League (film)

    Major League is a 1989 in film United States comedy film written and directed by David S. Ward starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, James Gammon, and Corbin Bernsen....
     (1989) - Song Performer "Cryin' Shame"
  • Always
    Always (film)

    Always is a 1989 in film romantic drama directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman and Brad Johnson ....
     (1989) - Song Performer "Cowboy Man"


Actor

  • The Open Road
    The Open Road

    The Open Road is a 2009 in film comedy/drama film written and directed by Michael Meredith. It stars Justin Timberlake, Kate Mara, Jeff Bridges and Mary Steenburgen....
     (2008) - TBA
  • Brothers and Sisters
    Brothers and Sisters

    Brothers and Sisters may refer to:* Brothers & Sisters , an American television series* Brothers and Sisters , an American sitcom* Brothers & Sisters , a single by Coldplay...
     (TV Series) (2007) - Something New - Himself
  • The New Guy
    The New Guy

    The New Guy is a 2002 in film United States teen comedy directed by Ed Decter. The film tells the story of a high school loser Dizzy Gillespie Harrison....
     (2002) - Bear Harrison
  • Three Days of Rain
    Three Days of Rain

    Three Days of Rain is a play by Richard Greenberg.The play centers on Walker, his sister Nan, and their childhood friend Pip, who all meet in an unoccupied loft in lower Manhattan in 1995 to divide the legacy of their late fathers, who were partners in a renowned architecture firm....
     (2002) - Disc Jockey
  • Dharma and Greg (TV series) - The Trouble With Troubadours (2000) - Himself
  • Mad About You
    Mad About You

    Mad About You is an United States sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 23, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City....
     (TV series) - The Final Frontier (1999) - Lenny
  • Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular
    Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular

    Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular was a weekly United States television program variety show hosted by Penn and Teller that appeared on the FX Networks from August 10, 1998 - June 30, 1999....
     (TV series) - Episode #1.23 (1999)
  • Cookie's Fortune
    Cookie's Fortune

    Cookie's Fortune is a 1999 in film comedy film film directed by Robert Altman and starring an ensemble cast, including Patricia Neal, Charles S....
     (1999) - Manny Hood
  • The Opposite of Sex
    The Opposite of Sex

    The Opposite of Sex is a 1998 in film film written and directed by Don Roos. It stars Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan and Lisa Kudrow. The film marked departures for both Ricci and Kudrow, cast against type for the roles they were known for at the time ....
     (1998) - Sheriff Carl Tippett
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - Road Person
  • Breast Men
    Breast Men

    Breast Men is a 1997 in film United States semibiographical, dark comedy comedy film written by John Stockwell and directed by Lawrence O'Neil for HBO which tells the tale of the doctors who pioneered the usage of silicone breast implants....
     (1997) - Research Scientist
  • Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) - Wade
  • Mad About You
    Mad About You

    Mad About You is an United States sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 23, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City....
     (TV series) - Mad About You: Part 1 (1995) - Lenny
  • Mad About You
    Mad About You

    Mad About You is an United States sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 23, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City....
     (TV series) - Mad About You: Part 2 (1995) - Lenny
  • Prêt-à-Porter
    Prêt-à-Porter (film)

    Pr?t-?-Porter is a 1994 in film satirical black comedy written, directed and produced by Robert Altman and shot during the Paris, France, Fashion Week with a host of international stars, models and designers....
     (1994) - Clint Lammeraux
  • Short Cuts
    Short Cuts

    Short Cuts is a 1993 in film drama film directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver....
     (1993) - Andy Bitkower
  • The Player
    The Player

    The Player is a satire film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel of the same name. It is the story of Griffin Mill , a Hollywood Movie studio executive who gets away with murdering a wannabe screenwriter who Mill believes is sending him death threats....
     (1992) - Detective DeLongpre
  • Bill: On His Own (1983 TV movie) - Singer at Beach


External links

  • , by Matt Dellinger, New Yorker, February 23, 2004.
  • , by Alec Wilkinson, New Yorker, February 1, 2004.
  • - USA Today, May 10, 2002.
  • - FOX News, March 29, 2002.