# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/smiley-burnette
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:39:18.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/smiley-burnette"
name: "Smiley Burnette"
slug: "smiley-burnette"
description: "Lester Alvin Burnett, better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who is reported to have played proficiently over 100 musical instruments, sometimes more than one simultaneously. His career, beginning in 1934, spanned four decades, including a regular role on CBS-TV's Petticoat Junction in the 1960s."
tagline: "American country music performer and comedic actor (1911–1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Smiley_Burnette_in_Oh%2C_Susanna!.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1911-03-18"
deathDate: "1967-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.64
  momentum:             1.905460951262478
  historical:           15.01264666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122470/"
    handle:    "nm0122470"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.smileyburnette.org/Smiley/index.html"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Smiley Burnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سمايلي بيرنيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "سمايلى بيرنيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%DB%8E%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8E%D8%AA"
    title: "سمایلی بێرنێت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Burnette"
    title: "Smiley Burnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Burnette"
    title: "Smiley Burnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Burnette"
    title: "Smiley Burnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "اسمیلی بارنت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Burnette"
    title: "Smiley Burnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Burnette"
    title: "Smiley Burnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%EB%B0%80%EB%A6%AC_%EB%B2%84%EB%84%B7"
    title: "스밀리 버넷"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Burnette"
    title: "Smiley Burnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Burnette"
    title: "Smiley Burnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Burnette"
    title: "Smiley Burnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%B9"
    title: "سمائلی برنیٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3090745"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/90072"
    title: "Smiley Burnette"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump