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Cracked Actor (1975)

53m

Running Time

Cracked Actor (1975)

Name: Cracked Actor
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1975-01-26

53m

Running Time

January 26, 1975
Release Date

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Plot.

The documentary depicts Bowie on tour in Los Angeles, using a mixture of vérité sequences filmed in limousines and hotels, and concert footage. Most of the concert footage was taken from a show at the Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre on 2 September 1974 (Also featured are excerpts from D.A. Pennebaker's concert film shot at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973). Cracked Actor is notable for being a source for footage of Bowie's ambitious Diamond Dogs tour, and also for showing Bowie's fragile mental state during this period.

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Cast & Crew.

David Bowie

Self

Alan Yentob

Director / Producer / Writer

D. A. Pennebaker

Thanks

Carol Bell

Associate Producer

Tony Woollard

Editor

David Myers

Director of Photography

Michael D. Murphy

Director of Photography

Pat Darrin

Sound

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Details.

Release Date
January 26, 1975

Status
Released

Running Time
53m

Genres
Documentary Music

Last updated: 2025-04-12

This Movie Is About.

glam rock

singer-songwriter

art rock

david bowie

english musician

actors

Wiki.

Cracked Actor (also known as Cracked Actor: A Film About David Bowie and Cracked Actor: David Bowie) is a 1975 television documentary film about the musician David Bowie, made by Alan Yentob for the BBC's Omnibus strand. It was first shown on BBC1 on 26 January 1975.

It was filmed in 1974 when Bowie was struggling with cocaine addiction, and the documentary has become notable for showing his mental state during this period.