Earl Poole Ball
Biography
Earl Poole Ball is a singer, songwriter, pianist and record producer from the United States who has also acted, raised in Foxworth, Mississippi, where he started piano lessons at eight with his aunt. At 16 he was hired as a piano player for the Jimmy Swan Television Show in Hattiesburg. He later worked as a session player and associate producer at Capitol Records under Ken Nelson, and he produced My Hang-Up Is You, an album by Freddie Hart. Glen Campbell and Waylon Jennings both recorded songs he wrote. In Nashville he produced Johnny Cash's 1980 album Rockabilly Blues and spent 20 years touring and recording with Cash until Cash retired in 1997. He acted in The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1981), Murder in Coweta County (1983), Texasville (1990) and The Thing Called Love (1993). He moved to Austin, Texas, in 1999 and has performed with several bands there.
85years old
Turns 86 on March 12in 150 days
- Born Hattiesburg
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as Earl Ball
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 12 years1981 to 1993
Every film, newest first
- 1993The Thing Called LoveIMDb rating 6.4
- 1986The Last Days of Frank and Jesse JamesIMDb rating 6.2
- 1983Murder in Coweta CountyIMDb rating 7.4
- 1981The Pride of Jesse HallamIMDb rating 6.4
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Behind the camera
Ball's songs were recorded by Glen Campbell and Waylon Jennings, and both reached the top of Billboard's chart. Campbell recorded "Try A Little Kindness" and Jennings recorded "The Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line."
First role
At 16, Earl Poole Ball got hired to play piano on The Jimmy Swan Television Show, which was in Hattiesburg.
Behind the camera
Earl Poole Ball and Jo-El Sonnier wrote I Don't Think I Could Take You Back Again, which director Peter Bogdanovich included in his 1981 film They All Laughed. Ball played piano in the film and started acting lessons.
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Worked with
Earl Poole Ball shares three films with Johnny Cash, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Johnny Cash's page
June Carter Cash's page
Dermot Mulroney's page
Kris Kristofferson's page
Eli Wallach's page
Sandra Bullock's page
All films by Gary Nelson
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.