Sheb Wooley didn't only do Pete the scout in "Rawhide" and the Principal in "Hoosiers", he was also in a horrible film called "Hootenanny Hoot" which was an attempt to do for the Folk Scare what some of the Rock & Roll movies did for th 50's.


Still in country, Ferlin Husky and Don "Wildwood Weeds" Bowman starred in the truly horrible "Hillbillies in a Haunted House" and "Las Vegas Hillbillies" which had Sonny James, as well.


Robert Mitchum actually had a hit record with the theme song from "Thunder Road" which featured Keely Smith of Louis Prima fame as a love interest. He also issued an album of calypsos under his name during that craze, for an example of doing it the other way round.


Robert Guilliomme was in a black folk trio called The Pilgrims in the 60's with an album, I think, on Columbia.


I even saw Limelighter Lou Gottlieb in a bad comedy as a Guru type.Did it have Peter Sellers in it? ("I Love You Alice B. Toklas"?, maybe?)

And his bandmate Alex Hassilev was on the submarine crew in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming", a crew commanded by.....


Theodore "You speak 16 tongues and whaddaya get" Bikel, a fine actor award winning in film and Broadway and member of the Newport Folk Festival Board of Directors. He was in anything from "The African Queen" to My Fair Lady" to "I Bury The Living" speaking every dialect known to man, most of them convincingly.