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Country music legend and actor Kris Kristofferson dies aged 88 after incredible six-decade career

HOLLYWOOD actor and country music superstar Kris Kristofferson has died aged 88.

Kristofferson passed peacefully surrounded by his family at his home in Maui, Hawaii on Saturday, a family spokeswoman said.

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Starting in the late 1960s, the Brownsville, Texas native wrote such classics standards as Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down, Help Me Make it Through the Night, For the Good Times and Me and Bobby McGee.

As an actor, he played the leading man opposite Barbara Streisand in A Star is Born, but also had a fondness for shoot-out Westerns and cowboy dramas.

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