Bill Dees - Turner Classic Movies

About

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Birth Place

Electra, Texas, USA

Born

January 24, 1939

Died

October 24, 2012

Cause of Death

Brain Cancer

Filmography

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Isn't It Romantic (2019)

A Star is Born (2018)

Warm Bodies (2013)

Girls' Night (1997)

Running on Empty (1988)

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Fastest Guitar Alive, The (1967) -- (Movie Cilp) Whirlwind

Fastest Guitar Alive, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Title Song

Biography

Filmography

Music (Feature Film)

Isn't It Romantic (2019)

A Star is Born (2018)

Warm Bodies (2013)

Girls' Night (1997)

Running on Empty (1988)

Life Events

Videos

Fastest Guitar Alive, The (1967) -- (Movie Cilp) Whirlwind "Whirlwind," composed by Roy Orbison (performing as "Johnny") and partner Bill Dees, with showgirl-girlfriends Flo (Maggie Pierce), Sue (Joan Freeman) and sidekick Steve (Sammy Jackson) listening, far superior to their vehicle The Fastest Guitar Alive, 1967.

Fastest Guitar Alive, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Title Song Opening from producer Sam Katzman’s bid, using a script rejected ten years earlier by Elvis Presley, to make singer Roy Orbison a movie star, with partner Sammy Jackson, and a wagon of showgirls (Joan Freeman, Maggie Pierce et al) in The Fastest Guitar Alive, 1967, which notably does not feature the soundtrack song, “There Won’t Be Many Coming Home,” used in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, 2015.

Fastest Guitar Alive, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Pistolero In his first song since the opening, about 20 minutes back, composed with longtime collaborator Bill Dees, the gulf between Roy Orbison’s qualities as an actor, as Confederate spy Johnny, and as a singer, is especially apparent, wielding his gimmick rifle-guitar, in the musical-Western-comedy from producer Sam Katzman, The Fastest Guitar Alive, 1967.

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