The late Kris Kristofferson was a renowned figure in entertainment, celebrated for his exceptional songwriting and successful ...

THE trappings of fame never sat comfortably with Kris Kristofferson. The country singer and Hollywood actor, who died at the weekend aged 88, preferred a simple, free-spirited existence. Despite co… ...

Kris Kristofferson led a remarkable life that might sound ... a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying U.S. Army captain who walked away from a West Point faculty gig to briefly become a janitor ...

Kristofferson was born on June 22, 1936, in Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann (née Ashbrook) and Lars Henry Kristofferson — a first-generation Swedish immigrant and U.S. Army Air Corps officer ...

Kris Kristofferson, a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood ... and flew helicopters as a captain in the U.S. Army but turned down an appointment to teach at the U.S. Military ...

Kristofferson recorded a few songs under the name Kris Carson while overseas before leaving Oxford with a predoctoral graduate degree in 1960 to join the U.S. Army, where he served in West Germany ...

Kris Kristofferson, ... and flew helicopters as a captain in the U.S. Army but turned down an appointment to teach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, ...

Kris Kristofferson, ... the legend of Kristofferson was larger than real life. Johnny Cash liked to tell a mostly exaggerated story of how Kristofferson, a former U.S. Army pilot, ...

If Kris Kristofferson's life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible.. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying U.S. Army ...

At times, the legend of Kristofferson was larger than real life. Johnny Cash liked to tell a mostly exaggerated story of how Kristofferson, a former U.S. Army pilot, landed a helicopter on Cash ...

Kris Kristofferson, ... the legend of Kristofferson was larger than real life. Johnny Cash liked to tell a mostly exaggerated story of how Kristofferson, a former U.S. Army pilot, ...