Acting Career
He made his film debut in the 1978 motion picture Remember My Name. He met his biological father Carl Autry for the first time in 1982 while on location in Shreveport, for the motion picture Southern Comfort, after finding his name in the phone book. Afterwards, he made the decision to return to his birth name Autry.
During his acting years, he struggled with his drug and alcohol use, according to an interview he did with The 700 Club in 2007. After nine years in Hollywood, he returned home and left his career. He tells The 700 Club, "I realized that God had moved in my life like never before. I really realized what God and the power of Jesus Christ was." By 1986, he was a born-again Christian and began to devote much of his time to working with charitable causes. He is married to Kimberlee Autry and they have three children.
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