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Johnny Cash was born February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, to Carrie Cash (Rivers) and Raymond Cash. He made his first single, "Hey Porter", for Sun Records in 1955. In 1958 he moved to Columbia Records. He had long periods of drug abuse during the 1960s, but later that decade he successfully fought his addiction with the help of singer June Carter Cash, whom he married in 1968. In 1971 he appeared in the western A Gunfight (1971) with 'Kirk Douglas (I)'. Cash made only a few films, but quite a few appearances on television, both in series and made-for-TV films, and was especially effective as a rural Southern sheriff in the 1930s determined to bring to justice a wealthy landowner who committed murder because he believed he was above the law in Murder in Coweta County (1983), a drama based on a true story. In 1975 Cash wrote his autobiography, "Man In Black", which is now out of print. In the late 1980s he moved from Columbia Records to Mercury, then in the next decade moved again to American Recordings. Amongst his biggest hit records were "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire" and "A Boy Named Sue". After several years of ill health, he died of complications from diabetes on 12 September 2003, only a few months after the death of his beloved wife.

Carrie Cash was born on 13 March 1904 in Kingsland, Arkansas, USA. She was married to Ray Cash. She died on 11 March 1991 in Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA.

While studying journalism at an Arkansas university, Sims created a short, civil war film that was selected to play before IMAX revival screenings of Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil (1999). Notoriety from that project led to a position on War Eagle, Arkansas (2007), and in 2008, Sims served as director of photography on The River Within (2009), his first feature as cinematographer.

In 2011, he returned to Arkansas to make his feature directorial-debut, Come Morning (2012). Sims also wrote, photographed, and edited the film. Come Morning (2012) premiered at the 2012 Austin Film Festival, and in 2013, the Oxford Film Festival awarded Sims and his crew a special jury prize for cinematography. The film also received the Charles B. Pierce Best of Fest award in 2014.

In 2016, Sims jumped back into the writer/director chair for The Perfect Host: A Southern Gothic Tale (2018).

He is the founder of Fabled Motion Pictures and Fabled Effects House and now lives and works in New Zealand.