The Gambler
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The Gambler may refer to:
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In music:
- The Gambler (album)The Gambler (album)The Gambler is the sixth studio album by Kenny Rogers', released by United Artists in 1978. One of his most popular, it has established Rogers' status as one of the most successful artists of the 1970s and 1980s...
, a 1978 album by Kenny Rogers- "The Gambler" (song)The Gambler (song)"The Gambler" is the title of a song written by Don Schlitz and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1978 as the title track from his album The Gambler which won him the Grammy award for best male country vocal performance in 1980. Bobby Bare had...
, a 1978 song featured on the Kenny Rogers album
- "The Gambler" (song)
- The Gambler (Mike Doughty album)The Gambler (Mike Doughty album)The Gambler is an EP by Mike Doughty, released in 2005 exclusively through the iTunes Music Store. It contains mostly live performances. Several of the tracks are covers , and two of the songs were originally performed with Doughty's previous band Soul Coughing...
- "The Gambler" (Interstate 94 song), a 2010 song featured on the album Trance Country by Interstate 94Interstate 94Interstate 94 is the northernmost east–west Interstate Highway, connecting the Great Lakes and Intermountain regions of the United States. I-94's western terminus is in Billings, Montana at a junction with Interstate 90; its eastern terminus is the U.S...
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- "The Gambler" (Interstate 94 song), a 2010 song featured on the album Trance Country by Interstate 94
In the arts:
- The Gambler (novel)The Gambler (novel)The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a...
, a novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky- The Gambler (Prokofiev)The Gambler (Prokofiev)The Gambler is an opera in four acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky....
, a 1917 opera by Prokofiev based on Dostoyevsky's novella - The Gambler (Shostakovich), Act1 of an unfinished opera by Shostakovich based on Dostoyevsky's novella
- The Gambler (1974 film)The Gambler (1974 film)The Gambler is a 1974 feature film starring James Caan, Lauren Hutton, and Paul Sorvino.The film is loosely based on the short novel The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and was filmed at a time when leading actor James Caan was battling his own addiction to cocaine...
, starring James Caan and Paul Sorvino, based on the novella - The Gambler (1997 film)The Gambler (1997 film)The Gambler is a 1997 drama film directed by Károly Makk and starring Michael Gambon, Jodhi May and Polly Walker. It is set around the writing of the novel The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.-Cast:* Michael Gambon ... Fyodor Dostoyevsky...
, a 1997 film about the writing of the novella, directed by Károly Makk
- The Gambler (Prokofiev)
- The Gambler (1971 film)Gambler (1971 film)Gambler is a 1971 Bollywood thriller film directed by Amarjeet. The film stars Dev Anand and Shatrughan Sinha. Raja has been abandoned by his biological mother at a very young age, and grows up with Master, a criminal don and card-sharp, who would like Raja to continue working with him on a...
, a Hindi film starring Dev Anand - The Gambler (TV movie series)The Gambler (TV movie series)The Gambler is a series of American TV movies starring Kenny Rogers as Brady Hawkes, a fictional old-west gambler. The character was inspired by Rogers' hit song The Gambler. There are five movies in the series. The first four are directed by Dick Lowry while the last was directed by Jack Bender...
, a set of TV movies starring Kenny Rogers and based his album and song The Gambler - "The Gambler" (Matlock episode)
- "The Gambler" (Transformers episode), from the second season of Transformers
- The Gambler (play), a 1950 drama by Ugo BettiUgo BettiUgo Betti was an Italian judge, better known as an author, who is considered by many the greatest Italian playwright next to Pirandello....
- The Gambler (comics), a supervillain in the DC Universe
- The Gambler, custom car, winner of the 1988 Ridler
Nicknames:
- A nickname for the country singer Kenny RogersKenny RogersKenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
- A nickname for Kenny Rogers (baseball player)Kenny Rogers (baseball player)Kenneth Scott Rogers is a former American Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. During a 20-year baseball career, he pitched from 1989-2008 for six different teams. In addition to being known for his fielding , he pitched the fourteenth perfect game in major league baseball history...
- The ring name of former professional wrestler Jeff Gann