FILM AND TV CAREER

King’s Movie career started with the role of Tommy Johnson in the phenomenally successful motion picture, tour and soundtrack, O Brother, Where Art Thou? The soundtrack, which reached #1 on the Billboard pop charts, has sold more than (8) eight million copies in the U.S.

King followed his success in O Brother with the role of Blind Willie Johnson in Wim Wenders’ feature film The Soul of a Man, produced by Martin Scorsese which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and aired on PBS TV as part of Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues, during 2003s ‘The Year of the Blues’ tributes and activities.

In 2004 movie goers saw King on the silver screen once again in the Oscar winning Ray Charles biopic ‘Ray” (Universal Pictures), King played Lowell Fulson (with whom King accompanied on tour as a teenager), and in this role, King became one of the last artists to record with the great Ray Charles at his Los Angeles studio.