1940Nominee
Best Performance
Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Bob Wills
Actor
Limestone County, Texas, USA
March 6, 1905
Biography
Bob Wills, fiddler and band leader of Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, was an influential developer of the western swing music style in the late 1930s through the 1940s. He appeared on over a dozen Western films.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1941Nominee
Best Performance
Go West, Young Lady
1945Winner
Best Performance
Lawless Empire
Career Highlights
1944Highlight
Best Performance
The Last Horseman
1942Highlight
Best Performance
A Tornado in the Saddle