From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Toby Keith Covel (born July 8, 1961), best known as Toby Keith, was an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin', plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of Mercury Records before exiting in 1998. These albums all earned gold or higher certification, and produced several chart singles, including his debut "Should've Been a Cowboy", which topped the country charts and was the most played country song of the 1990s. The song has received three million spins since then, according to Broadcast Music Incorporated. Signed to Nashville DreamWorks in 1998, Keith released his breakthrough single "How Do You Like Me Now?!" that year. This song, the title track to his 1999 album of the same name, was the Number One country song of 2000, and one of several chart-toppers during his tenure on DreamWorks Nashville. His next three albums, Pull My Chain, Unleashed, and Shock'n Y'all, produced three more Number Ones each, and all of the albums were certified multi-platinum. A second Greatest Hits package followed in 2004, and after that, he released Honkytonk University. When Dreamworks closed in 2005, Keith founded his own label, Show Dog Nashville, which became part of Show Dog-Universal Music in December 2009. He has released five studio albums on this label: 2006's White Trash with Money, 2007's Big Dog Daddy, 2008's That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy, 2009's American Ride and 2010's Bullets in the Gun as well as the compilation 35 Biggest Hits. He has also signed several other acts to the label, including Trailer Choir, Carter's Chord, Flynnville Train, Trace Adkins, Mac McAnally and Mica Roberts. Keith also made his acting debut in 2005, starring in the film Broken Bridges and co-starred with comedian Rodney Carrington in the 2008 film Beer for My Horses. Keith has released thirteen studio albums, two Christmas albums, and multiple compilation albums. He has also charted more than forty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including nineteen Number One hits and sixteen additional Top Ten hits. His longest-lasting Number One hits are "Beer for My Horses" (a 2003 duet with Willie Nelson) and "As Good as I Once Was" (2005), at six weeks each. Description above from the Wikipedia article Toby Keith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- July 8, 1961
- February 5, 2024 (aged 62)
- Clinton, Oklahoma, USA
- Actor, composer, producer and writer
- 5 on MovieCove · 8 credits in all
Known for
What are Toby Keith's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 1 · Earnest 3
Light 4 · Serious 1 · Dark 0
Grounded 4 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
Gentle 4 · Charged 1 · Intense 0
Steady 5 · Shifting 0 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 2
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 5 · Engaged 0 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 4 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 5 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
- Heroas Bo Price in Broken Bridges (2006)
- Heroas Joe Bill 'Rack' Racklin in Beer for My Horses (2008)
Moods and endings
- Happy4
- Bittersweet1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Toby Keith's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Toby Keith's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
8 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page; 26 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Beer for My Horses(2008)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
Broken Bridges(2006)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
Celebrity Duets (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
CMT Insider (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
WWE Smackdown!(1999)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Touched by an Angel(1994)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all shows
Live with Kelly and Mark(1988)
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all shows
Toby Keith - Honky Tonk Town - Full Concert (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 67th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 8 titles, 7 of them dated from 1988 to 2008.
Biggest box office
Beer for My Horses (2008)
Highest rated
A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! (2008)
Most popular right now
The Beach Boys: Nashville Sounds (1996)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Toby Keith's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 41st percentile, the median of all 2; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 51st percentile for acclaim.
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 5 titles are Cult Classics.
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic2
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the acting 49/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 66, detractors 23. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Toby Keith work with?
People who share at least 2 of Toby Keith's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Willie Nelson shares the most, 3.
Actors
- Willie NelsonShared titles: A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! (2008), Beer for My Horses (2008), The Beach Boys: Nashville Sounds (1996)See all 3 shared titles with Willie Nelson
Producers
- Donald ZuckermanShared titles: Beer for My Horses (2008), Broken Bridges (2006)See all 2 shared titles with Donald Zuckerman
- Leslie BelzbergShared titles: Beer for My Horses (2008), Broken Bridges (2006)See all 2 shared titles with Leslie Belzberg
- T.K. KimbrellShared titles: Beer for My Horses (2008), Broken Bridges (2006)See all 2 shared titles with T.K. Kimbrell