From 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' and 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' to 'Feeling Mortal,' Variety picks 10 Kris Kristofferson immortal classics.

“There’s no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson,” Willie Nelson, bandmate alongside Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in The Highwaymen, said in 2009.

US singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, a country music legend who notably hit the silver screen opposite Barbra Streisand in "A Star is Born," has died at the age of 88, his family announced.

KRIS Kristofferson, who became one of the most influential American singer-songwriters of his time with works such as “Me and Bobby McGee,“ as well as...

Kris Kristofferson, influential American singer-songwriter and successful actor, has died at the age of 88, according to a family statement.

Music giant Kris Kristofferson, one of the great songwriters and show-business figures, has died. According to a statement from his family, Kristofferson died peacefully at home in Maui, surrounded by family. No particular cause of death has been reported. Kristofferson was 88.

Kristofferson first established himself in the music world as a songwriter in Nashville. In the early 1970s he became well-known as a performer with a rumbling, unpolished baritone, as well as an in-demand actor, notably opposite Barbra Streisand in A Star Is Born, one of the most popular films of 1976.

The singer-songwriter and successful actor died on Saturday, Rolling Stone reported, citing his spokesperson.

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died.

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died.

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died.