Variety Now I live on this farm where I was raised. And when I die I’ll never be able to get all this dirt in that casket with me. Induced into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2006. FS: What is the craziest thing you had to do?
| Originally aired February 28, 2014, on NPR’s Morning Edition. Copyright © 2003-2020 StoryCorps, Inc. All rights reserved. Publicity Listings Throwback: Olympic Medalists With Significant Acting Careers, Michael Jordan Makes Multimillion-Dollar Investment In Friends Of The Children, Concert Review: U2 Light Up the Forum on Experience + Innocence Tour. Smith and Cleavinger divorced in 1973. Athlete, Cowboy, Stuntman/Actor.
He played with the Los Angeles Rams during exhibition season and was traded to the Pittsburg Steelers at which time he decided to enter the movie business. Dean was born in 1932 at Breckenridge, raised in Eliasville. | Now that’s what I’d like. But eventually he realized … I lived pretty dangerously for 35 or 40 years there. I’d like to do it again! It’s not the biggest ranch in Texas but it’s a piece of dirt that I’m sure proud of. I got the clothes and I got this big red wig. DS: Probably getting the job. Today he’s retired and lives with his wife, Debby (center), and son Finis (left) in Breckenridge, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he competed in track and football. Look to the Stars Mr. Smith continued working in Hollywood through the ’70s and early ’80s, and even landed a few small speaking parts. 1932
Dean Smith married Ann Cleavinger in 1954, shortly before his deployment overseas with the United States Air Force.
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( divorced) ( 1 child). Dean Smith was raised in Eliasville, Texas, and currently lives between Graham and Breckenridge, Texas, where he raises horses and longhorn cattle. | The three of them came to StoryCorps so that he could share memories from his storied career. When I got back on the set they laughed at me and they said my legs didn’t look too much like Maureen’s. I’d either have to go out and fall off a horse or do a stunt fight. In 2002, he put together the Dean Smith Celebrity Rodeo benefiting the Cowboy Cancer Crusade tribute to Ben Johnson, the Dean Smith Celebrity Rodeo benefiting the John Wayne Cancer Institute honoring John Wayne and in 2006, Dean Smith Celebrity Rodeo benefiting the John Wayne Cancer Institute honoring The Singing Cowboys in Abilene, Texas, the third weekend in October. I even made a couple of girls look good too! Inducted into the Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013. On April 8, 2006, the John Wayne Cancer Institute honored him with the "Duke" award for his contributions to cancer research. He has been awarded the American Culture Award for Western Movies and Television (2000), the Golden Boot Award in 1998, the Ben Johnson Award in 1993, the All American Cowboy Award in 1997 and the Head of the Class Alvin Davis Award in 2002. But at his core, it is the man Dean Smith who got my attention. He has also won amateur rodeo championships for bareback bronco riding and calf roping. Dean Smith (shown with James Garner and John Wayne) has made a lot of friends in his nearly 40 years as a stuntman.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Mark Engebretson, Other Works Using StoryCorps Connect, she created a collection of interviews about life during COVID in the small town of Leverett, MA. From Kiki's Delivery Service and ParaNorman to Coraline check out some of our favorite family-friendly movie picks to watch this Halloween. Now everything can’t be all autographs and sunglasses. DebS: How would you like to be remembered? He won an Olympic gold medal for the 400-meter relay in the 1952 Helsinki games and finished fourth in the 100-dash in the closest race in Olympic history. He was the lead-off man on the University of Texas world record relay team, 1954-55, and AAU national champion in the 100-meter dash. Originally aired February 28, 2014, on NPR’s Morning Edition. Feeling isolated during the pandemic, Jinny Savolainen sought to connect with her neighbors. Guys like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry and John Wayne, all these guys, well, they were like my relatives! Finis Dean Smith In another photo, Smith poses in drag next to Maureen O’Hara on the set of the 1963 Western McLintock! The three of them came to StoryCorps so that he could share memories from his storied career.
Brian McConnell, who’s been an airline worker for close to four decades, told his wife, Nora, about how he found his calling — providing support to fallen service members with the Delta Honor Guard. Ulzana’s Raid, 07 November 2018 Dean Smith was raised in Eliasville, Texas, and currently lives between Graham and Breckenridge, Texas, where he raises horses and longhorn cattle. She sat down with her granddaughter to remember her mother, Blanche, who rose from her sick bed to vote during the 1918 flu pandemic. Stuntman Dean Smith’s journey includes Olympic gold medals, John Wayne friendships and the love of a beautiful woman.
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DS: I didn’t want to be an actor just to be a dramatic actor. StoryCorps is an independently funded nonprofit organization. I am staying put here on the ranch. "I'd like to be remembered as the cowboy that could ride, run, and jump with anybody in the world.". He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he competed in track and football. Official Sites. ”True Grit: Rooster and Runaway” by Elmer Bernstein from the album Great Composers: Elmer Bernstein, Dean Smith (DS), Finis Smith (FS) and Debbie Smith (DebS). Now that I’m 81 and a half years old, all of my friends are mostly gone.