Acting

Del Reeves

Born — Died

1932-07-14 — 2007-01-01

Place of birth

Sparta, North Carolina, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

8 titles

Country singer/songwriter Franklin Delano Reeves was born on July 14, 1932 in Sparta, North Carolina. The youngest of eleven children, Reeves learned how to play guitar with his mother's help (he borrowed his brothers' instruments while they were serving in World War II) and was a local radio star at age twelve.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 6 titles

Sam Whiskey poster
5.7

A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.

Sam Whiskey

1969

An Old-Time Country Christmas poster
NR

Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, The Wilburn Brothers, Loretta Lynn, Jim Ed Brown, Del Reeves and more gather for a holiday special from Nashville in 1969.

An Old-Time Country Christmas

1969

Las Vegas Hillbillys poster
4.0

A Hillbilly hits the big time in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas Hillbillys

1966

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers poster
4.3

Darby Clyde Fenster and Jerry Martin are a pair of penniless nincompoop-drifters who hop a freight train on their way to Florida. Our intrepid heroes find themselves facing one comic situation after another in this gloriously loopy Southern fried comedy-with-music.

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers

1967

The Gold Guitar poster
10.0

New York gangsters head South in search of that magical Nashville sound. Unfortunately, they misunderstand the directions given to them by a friendly gas station attendant and wind up in Atlanta instead.

The Gold Guitar

1966

Forty Acre Feud poster
7.0

Overlooked when the Tennessee legislature reapportioned the state, the 40-acre community of Shagbottom is discovered and notified to elect a state representative. The feud between Pa Culpepper and Uncle Foxey Calhoun resurfaces, with several incidents occurring at Postmaster Amos Quint's general store between Simon Crumb and Uncle Foxey, while at the Culpepper farm Ma Culpepper is trying to persuade Pa not to run for office. Lovers Nancy Calhoun and Del Culpepper are separated by the hostilities until the Smokey Mountain Jamboree arrives to televise the election and their country music revue.

Forty Acre Feud

1965