Chill Wills Biography, Age, Death, Wife, Children Net worth, Band, Academy Award, and Films

Wills’s early start as a performer led him to found and lead the singing group ‘Chill Wills and His Avalon Boys‘ (also known as ‘The Avalon Boys’) in the 1930s. The group disbanded in 1938. Before that, he had worked with his group in several low-budget Westerns. An ‘RKO’ executive scouted him while his group was performing at the ‘Trocadero’ in Hollywood. Following this, he built a career as an actor.

Unfortunately, Chill lost his only chance to win the most-coveted award because of his aggressive and tasteless campaign for a win, which was considered one of the most expensive and excessively political campaigns of the time. He was 58 by then and was insecure about losing the ‘Academy’ award, as he earned the nomination after spending decades in the industry.

Chill was one of the few Hollywood stars who endorsed Wallace’s campaign against Nixon and Hubert H Humphrey. In 1966, he reprised his role as a shady Texas rancher named ‘Jim Ed Love’ from the 1965 Western film ‘The Rounders’ in the ‘ABC’ comedy/Western series of the same name. In 1968, he starred in an episode of the syndicated radio and TV Western drama series ‘Gunsmoke,’ titled ‘A Noose for Dobie Price.’

He played the character ‘Elihu Gorman,’ a former outlaw who worked together with ‘Marshal Matt Dillon’ (played by James Arness) to track down a former gang member who had escaped jail. Chill’s last appearance was in the 1978 TV movie ‘Stubby Pringle’s Christmas,’ in which he played a janitor.