---
name: "Mickey Gilley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mickey-gilley"
fi1m_id: "mickey-gilley"
imdb_id: "nm0319076"
tmdb_id: 1193569
wikidata_id: "Q324757"
roles: []
born: "9 March 1936"
died: "7 May 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T16:55:46.238796+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mickey Gilley

## Identity

Mickey Gilley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mickey-gilley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mickey-gilley
- **IMDb ID:** nm0319076
- **TMDB ID:** 1193569
- **Wikidata ID:** Q324757
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Gilley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324757, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319076/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1193569

Actor. Born 9 March 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi, USA. Died 7 May 2022.

## Details

- **Born:** 9 March 1936, Natchez, Mississippi, USA
- **Died:** 7 May 2022
- **Also known as:** Mickey Leroy Gilley
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Gilley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324757, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319076/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1193569

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Urban Cowboy*](https://film.one/film/urban-cowboy.md) (61)

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## Biography

Mickey Gilley was an American country singer, musician and actor. Born Mickey Leroy Gilley on 9 March 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi, he was a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart. He opened Gilley's nightclub in Pasadena, Texas, in 1971, which became the setting for the 1980 film *Urban Cowboy* and featured Gilley as himself.

Gilley placed 17 singles at number one on the country charts between 1974 and 1983. He appeared as himself on television series including *CHiPs* (1977), *Fantasy Island* (1978) and *Murder, She Wrote* (1984). He died on 7 May 2022 in Branson, Missouri.

*Sources: nytimes.com, apnews.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Urban Cowboy* (1980), Fi1m 61, as Himself — [page](https://film.one/film/urban-cowboy.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Country Anthology Classics Volume 2* (2004), as (archive footage)
- *Austin City Limits: Country* (2001), series, Actor
- *Gordy* (1995), as Branson Performer
- *Jerry Lee Lewis: I Am What I Am* (1987), Actor
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), series, as Conrad Booker
- *Off the Wall* (1983), as Buck Banner
- *Solid Gold* (1980), series, Actor
- *Fantasy Island* (1978), series, as Billy Jo Prine

## Gallery

- ![Mickey Gilley at the Redneck Country Club in 2014](https://film.one/media/person/5539437/gallery-47cbee6e87ae.jpg) Mickey Gilley at the Redneck Country Club in 2014 — Republic Country Club, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Mickey_Gilley_%2813564712084%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mickey Gilley at the Redneck Country Club in 2014](https://film.one/media/person/5539437/gallery-cf3c7c0be05f.jpg) Mickey Gilley at the Redneck Country Club in 2014 — Republic Country Club, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Mickey_Gilley_%2813565402954%29.jpg/1280px-Mickey_Gilley_%2813565402954%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mickey Gilley at the Redneck Country Club in 2017](https://film.one/media/person/5539437/gallery-3a07b3032984.jpg) Mickey Gilley at the Redneck Country Club in 2017 — Republic Country Club, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Mickey_Gilley_%2835856913404%29.jpg/1280px-Mickey_Gilley_%2835856913404%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mickey Gilley](https://film.one/media/person/5539437/gallery-2cf57cdcee03.png) Mickey Gilley — GRT Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Mickey_Gilley.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mickey Gilley at the Redneck Country Club in 2018](https://film.one/media/person/5539437/gallery-7a21f59c540f.jpg) Mickey Gilley at the Redneck Country Club in 2018 — Republic Country Club, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Mickey_Gilley_%2844132406680%29.jpg/1280px-Mickey_Gilley_%2844132406680%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mickey Gilley at the Redneck Country Club in 2018](https://film.one/media/person/5539437/gallery-d81156a2dd71.jpg) Mickey Gilley at the Redneck Country Club in 2018 — Republic Country Club, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Mickey_Gilley_%2839902914122%29.jpg/1280px-Mickey_Gilley_%2839902914122%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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