‘Dukes of Hazzard’ star coming to Catoosa
John Schneider, best known for playing Bo Duke on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” is coming to the Catoosa County Colonnade in Ringgold. Tickets for his upcoming show, set for Friday, July 7, at
7 p.m. can be purchased at www.catoosacolonnade.com.
He has also released a number of country albums and charted four No. 1 hits, including “Country Girls,” “What’s a Memory
Like You,” “I’ve Been Around Enough to Know” and “You’re the Last Thing I Needed Tonight”. He played Jonathan Kent in the 2001— 11 TV series “Smallville,” and James “Jim” Cryer on the television series “The Haves and The Have Nots,” created by Tyler Perry.
He’s also been seen in everything from the movies “Smokey and the Bandit” (Burt Reynolds), “Felicity: An American Girl Adventure” (Shailene Woodley), “Sydney White” (Amanda Bynes) and “Christmas In Tune” (costarring with Reba McEntire) to regularly popping up on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” “Nip/Tuck,” “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” and even showing off some of his own fancy footwork on “Dancing with the Stars.”
Schneider has carried over the spirit of both speaking his mind and representing that adopted region in just as steady of a movie-making schedule, where he remains at the forefront of pushing the envelope. His personally-coined “Southern horsepowered comedy” tradition is “Poker Run,” a full-throttled sequel to “Stand On It,” which featured a spectacular shout-out to his fellow racing film, “Smokey and the Bandit.”
Those authentic trends will continue in an entirely different lane throughout the forthcoming “To Die For,” which Schneider describes as a movie “about a reclusive veteran who gets arrested because he refuses to take the American flag off the back of his El Camino when he’s driving by the high school, so he winds up orchestrating a situation through which he can die for his flag. It’s not a light-hearted film at all, but a perspective and a story that I very much want to get out there. I want to display somebody who actually desires dying for his country. That to me is a heroic posture that we’ve not really seen in a very long time in the studio system.”
Though Schneider definitely deserves a day (or a decade) off given that unceasing work ethic, he fills in any free time with the completely selfless efforts of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, which he co-founded with Marie Osmond in 1983 and has since raised more than $7 billion for medical research and awareness that’s been distributed directly to a network of 170 facilities.