The musician’s lean good looks and laid-back persona made him a natural for pictures. He made his first mark on screen in Bill L. Norton’s 1972 feature “Cisco Pike,” in which he played the titular character, an L.A. musician and drug dealer under the thumb of a corrupt narcotics cop (Gene Hackman); the feature also employed several Kristofferson songs on its soundtrack.
Through the ‘70s, he enjoyed a rising movie profile, playing the romantic lead opposite Susan Anspach in Paul Mazursky’s “Blume in Love” (1973) and Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn in Martin Scorsese’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (1974). In 1977, co-billed with Barbra Streisand, he won a Golden Globe Award as a dissolute rock star in the third version of “A Star is Born.”
However, he hit hard bumps in Hollywood in a couple of legendarily troubled productions. He co-starred with James Coburn in Sam Peckinpah’s ambitious 1973 Western “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,” appearing as the notorious outlaw; the film became a notorious cause célebre after it was taken out of the director’s hands and recut by MGM. (Kristofferson went on to star in Peckinpah’s “Convoy” (1978), based on C.W. McCall’s CB radio-themed hit; while the film made money, the actor’s notices were dismal.)
Kristofferson’s acting career never completely recovered after he starred in Michael Cimino’s 1980 Western epic “Heaven’s Gate.” Dogged by pre-release chatter about cost overruns and Cimino’s on-set perfectionism, the film received devastating reviews, and was almost immediately withdrawn from release and drastically re-edited; United Artists – which was sold to MGM by Transamerica in the wake of the debacle — wrote off the picture’s entire $44 million cost a week after its premiere. Its title became virtually synonymous with Tinseltown excess and hubris.
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