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 Willie Nelson mini-bio: Willie Hugh Nelson is an American entertainer and songwriter, born in Fort Worth, Texas and raised in Abbott, Texas. He reached his greatest fame during the so-called "outlaw country" movement of the 1970s.
Nelson began acting, appearing in The Electric Horseman (1979), starring in Honeysuckle Rose (1980), Barbarosa (1982), Red-Headed Stranger (1986, with Morgan Fairchild), Wag the Dog (1997), Gone Fishin (1997) as Billy 'Catch' Pooler, and the 1986 TV movie Stagecoach (with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson, all of whom would form a band with Nelson called The Highwaymen). He has continued acting since his early successes, but usually in smaller roles and cameos, such as Half Baked as an elderly "Historian Smoker" who, while smoking marijuana, would reminisce about how things used to be in his younger years; Nelson also appeared as himself in the 2006 movie Beerfest, looking for team-mates to join him in a mythical world-championship marijuana-smoking contest held in Amsterdam. Nelson has made guest appearances on Miami Vice, Delta, Nash Bridges, The Simpsons, Monk and King of the Hill. He played Uncle Jesse in The Dukes of Hazzard, the 2005 cinematic remake of the television series, and will reprise the role in the upcoming sequel The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007).
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