Will Rogers current at the time of the performance. The Tony Award-winning musical "The Will Rogers Follies", produced on Broadway in 1991, starred Keith Carradine in the lead role. Rogers was portrayed by actor Keith Carradine in the 1994 film "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle". Carradine had played Rogers three years earlier on Broadway, in the stage musical "The Will Rogers Follies". Travelog Series Will Rogers William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, American cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. He was a Cherokee
USS Will Rogers (SSBN-659) reactor was modified to use an S3G core 3. She conducted additional deterrent deployments from Rota into 1978, bringing the total number of patrols she had conducted to 35. From the latter half of 1978 until November 1991 "Will Rogers" was forward deployed at Site One in Holy Loch, Scotland. On 9 November 1991, "Will Rogers" departed Site One, the last submarine to leave Holy Loch before Submarine Squadron 14, which had been based there, was deactivated. Deactivated while still in commission, "Will Rogers" entered the U.S Navys Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Bremerton, Washington on 2 November