The actor was the real deal, whether as a cherubic psychopath in Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, or playing second fiddle to Barbra Streisand in the smash hit A Star Is Born
Kris Kristofferson, who has died aged 88, was an American songwriter and singer and one of the leading innovators in country music, who enjoyed a parallel career as an actor which included at least one great film.