Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is an American country singer-songwriter and actor currently living in Austin, Texas.
Life and career
Gilmore is a native of the Texas Panhandle, having been born in Amarillo and raised in Lubbock, Texas.
In 1994, Gilmore teamed up with Willie Nelson to contribute "Crazy" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization.
Gilmore appeared as himself in Peter Bogdanovich's 1993 film The Thing Called Love, a love story about young songwriters in Nashville. He also had a small but memorable acting role in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski. He portrayed a bowler named Smokey, an aging, emotionally "fragile" pacifist threatened with a pistol by Walter Sobchak, "The Dude" Lebowski's best friend and sidekick (John Goodman). He has also been a guest on The Tonight Show, with host Jay Leno, the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with/Conan O'Brien, Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion on NPR, and the Fresh Air radio program with Terry Gross. Gilmore's son, Colin Gilmore, is also a singer–songwriter based in Austin.
Gilmore's song "Braver Newer World" is featured in the 1995 Noah Baumbach film Kicking and Screaming. In 2005, Gilmore released Come on Back,
Discography
Filmography
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| 1993
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| Himself
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| 1998
| The Big Lebowski
| Smokey
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| 2013
| Parkland
| Reverend Saunders
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See also
- Music of Austin
- Outlaw country
References
Further reading
- In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, Nicholas Dawidoff, Vintage Books, 1998. .
- Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music, Chris Oglesby, University of Texas Press, 2007. .
External links
- Jimmie Dale Gilmore's home page
- "This I Believe" Essay by Jimmie Dale Gilmore
- Interview with Jimmie Dale Gilmore, on p.22, Kerrville Kronikle, Issue 4, 1989