Tex Ritter
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![With Frequent Sidekick, Snub Pollard](/Images/godic/202502/15/Snub_Pollard_Tex_Ritter_signed_photo1052.jpg")
Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting (son John and grandsons Jason and Tyler). He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.