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Born Maurice Woodward Ritter on January 12, 1905, in Murvaul, TX; died on January 2, 1974, in Nashville, TN; wife: Dorothy Fay Southworth (an actress); children: John, Tom.

Country Music Hall of Fame member Tex Ritter bridged the history of recorded country music from the singing cowboy era of the 1930s to his days as one of the genre's elder statesmen in the 1960s and 1970s, when he was a regularly featured performer on the Grand Ole Opry.

Ritter was able to parlay a rich baritone voice and his love of traditional cowboy songs into a nearly 50-year career as a recording and performing artist, acting and singing in more than 80 films, his own television series, and several radio programs.

His film career as a singing cowboy is rivaled only by the likes of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.

Maurice Woodward Ritter was born on January 12, 1905, the youngest of six children born to James Everett and Elizabeth Matthews Ritter, ranchers in Murvaul, Texas.

His family later moved to Nederlan