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- Birth nameJohnnie Robert Wright Jr.
- Johnny Wright was born on May 13, 1914 in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, USA. He was a producer, known for Full Metal Jacket (1987), God's Bloody Acre (1975) and Untitled Boy Band Documentary (2024). He was married to Kitty Wells. He died on September 27, 2011 in Madison, Tennessee, USA.
- SpouseKitty Wells(1939 - September 27, 2011) (his death, 3 children)
- Originally billed as Johnnie Wright [of Johnnie and Jack, the country music singing duo], he changed the spelling to Johnny after the death of his partner Jack Anglin - who was married to Wright's sister - in a car crash while on the way to the funeral of Patsy Cline in 1963.
- Father of Bobby Wright & Ruby Wright.
- His singer son, Bobby Wright, used the name John Wright when he was a regular on television's McHale's Navy (1962).
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