Biography
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, but re-emerged in 1980 with a new album, Double Fantasy. He was murdered by Mark Chapman three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his political and peace activism. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement.
As of 2010, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 27 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Filmography
all 284
Movies 261
self 245
TV Shows 23
Director 9
Producer 2
Writer 1
Music Genres. Voices of the World (2023)
Paul McCartney: Got Back (2023)
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song (2023)
John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial (2023)
The Beatles and the BBC (2023)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback (2023)
Paul Newman: The Restless (2023)
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC (2023)
Louder Than Rock (2023)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story (2023)
Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023)
If These Walls Could Sing (2023)
HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC. What is Rock Music? (2022)
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL (2022)
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction (2022)
Paul McCartney at Glastonbury 2022 (2022)
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse (2022)
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert (2022)
The Beatles: Get Back (2021)
The Beatles and India (2021)
Parkinson at 50 (2021)
McCartney 3, 2, 1 (2021)
Best of the 60s: The Story of Ready, Steady, Go! (2021)
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (2021)
Life In Ten Pictures: John Lennon (2021)
The Beatles: Let It Be (2021)
A Life in Ten Pictures (2021)
Black Power: A British Story of Resistance (2021)
Under the Volcano (2021)
This Is Pop (2021)
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon (2020)
Zappa (2020)
John Lennon: His Life, His Legacy, His Last Days (2020)
Lennon's Last Weekend (2020)
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' (2020)
Meeting the Beatles in India (2020)
Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle (2019)
Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind (2019)
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2 (2019)
Yesterday (2019)
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1 (2019)
Killing John Lennon (2019)
Understanding Lennon/McCartney (2018)
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky (2018)
Deconstructing the Birth of the Beatles (2018)
The King (2018)
The Beatles – Ready Steady Go! (2018)
Looking for Lennon (2018)
Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy (2018)
Elvis Presley: The Searcher (2018)
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2018)
George Harrison - All Things Pass (2018)
Take Your Pills (2018)
John Lennon: Hard to Imagine (2017)
How the Beatles Changed the World (2017)
My Generation (2017)
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance (2017)
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions (2017)
The Defiant Ones (2017)
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution (2017)
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond (2017)
Free to Rock (2017)
Kyoko (2017)
Deconstructing the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (2017)
Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album (2016)
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)
Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne (2016)
Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape (2016)
Beatles chronology (1962-1970) (2016)
The Last Lennon Interview (2015)
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One (2015)
The Beatles 1+ (2015)
The Beatles 1 (2015)
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (2015)
Lennon or McCartney (2014)
When the Beatles Drove Us Wild (2014)
Beatles på Sverigeturné (2014)
Population Boom (2013)
Good Ol' Freda (2013)
Salinger (2013)
Genius (2012)
John Cage: Journeys in Sound (2012)
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited (2012)
Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO (2012)
The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966 (2012)
The Winged Beetle (2012)
Beatles Stories (2011)
Mentiras verdaderas (2011)
George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1 (2011)
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4 (2011)
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2 (2011)
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3 (2011)
I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern (2011)
The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos (2011)
The Beatles: A Magical History Tour (2010)
The Day John Lennon Died (2010)
The Beatles - Live at the Washington Coliseum, 1964 (2010)
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) (2010)
Imagine Peace (2010)
Discovering Lennon (2010)
LennoNYC (2010)
The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles (2010)
Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison (2010)
John Lennon: Love Is All You Need (2010)
Imagine Lennon (2010)
The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years (2010)
The Rise & Fall of WCW (2009)
The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere (2009)
The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries (2009)
The Beatles on Record (2009)
The Beatles: Budokan Tokyo 1966 (2009)
The Beatles: Parting Ways (2009)
Of Time and the City (2008)
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories (2008)
Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (2008)
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles (2008)
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970 (2008)
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg (2007)
The Beatles: Help! (2007)
Across the Universe (2007)
I Met the Walrus (2007)
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (2007)
The Beatles Explosion (2007)
The Beatles: Love (2006)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Give Peace A Song (2006)
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
Doctor Who: Origins (2006)
Stuart Sutcliffe: The Lost Beatle (2005)
I Killed John Lennon (2005)
The World's Greatest Gigs (2005)
Pink Floyd London '66-'67 (2005)
The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2 (2005)
The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary (2005)
Beatles Biggest Secrets (2004)
20th Century Greats (2004)
The Beatles: Watching Rainbows (2004)
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair (2004)
The Beatles with Tony Sheridan (2004)
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle (2004)
Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized (2003)
The Beatles: Around the World (2003)
Imagine Imagine (2003)
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (2003)
Beatles: The Journey (2003)
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. (2002)
Things They Said Today (2002)
Naqoyqatsi (2002)
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe (2002)
John Lennon: The Messenger (2002)
Beatles: Big Beat Box (2001)
Wingspan (2001)
The Real John Lennon (2000)
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album (2000)
John & Yoko's Year of Peace (2000)
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales (1999)
The Beatles: A Celebration (1999)
Happy Birthday to John (1997)
Behind the Music (1997)
Classic Albums (1997)
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996)
The Beatles Story (1996)
Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary (1996)
The Beatles Anthology (1995)
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' (1995)
The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary (1994)
The Beatles, The Long and Winding Road: The Life and Times (1994)
Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live (1993)
Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show' (1992)
Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special (1992)
The John Lennon Video Collections - 1992 (1992)
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit (1991)
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections (1990)
Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (1988)
Jimi Plays Monterey (1987)
Imagine (1987)
The John Lennon Sketchbook (1986)
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
Vain Glory (1986)
John Lennon: Live In New York City (1986)
Fun with the Fab Four (1986)
British Rock: The First Wave (1985)
Buddy Holly (1985)
Yoko Ono: Then and Now (1984)
When the Music's Over (1983)
The Compleat Beatles (1982)
Timewatch (1982)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982)
The Killing of America (1981)
This Is Elvis (1981)
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip (1979)
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
The Beatles at Shea Stadium (1977)
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante (1977)
Mighty Good: The Beatles (1977)
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music (1977)
Fire in the Water (1977)
The Day the Music Died (1977)
Fame (1976)
Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol (1976)
Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles (1974)
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest (1974)
Imagine (1972)
The One to One Concert (1972)
Eat the Document (1972)
John Lennon - Imagine (1972)
Oh! Calcutta! (1972)
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here (1972)
Brazil in Cannes (1971)
Sweet Toronto (1971)
Erection (1971)
The Inner Revolution (1971)
Up Your Legs Forever (1971)
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family (1971)
Almarna i Kungsträdgården (1971)
Fly (1970)
Apotheosis (1970)
Freedom (1970)
Let It Be (1970)
Did Britain Murder Hanratty? (1970)
Will the Real Mr. Sellers... (1969)
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko (1969)
Rape (1969)
The Beatles: SOMETHING (1969)
The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
Self-Portrait (1969)
Bed Peace (1969)
The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent (1969)
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three (1969)
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two (1969)
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One (1969)
Film No. 5 (1968)
The Beatles: HEY JUDE (1968)
Hawaii Five-O (1968)
The Beatles: REVOLUTION (1968)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Two Virgins (1968)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
The Movie Orgy (1968)
Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
How I Won the War (1967)
Omnibus (1967)
Bottoms (1967)
All You Need Is Love (1967)
Our World (1967)
Monument (1967)
Revolution (1967)
El Rey en Londres (1966)
Beatles - Tokyo, Japan 66 (1966)
Die Beatles (1966)
Reflections on Love (1966)
The Music of Lennon & McCartney (1965)
The Beatles: Live in Paris (1965)
The Beatles (1965)
Help! (1965)
Doctor Who: The Chase (1965)
Pop Gear (1965)
The Beatles Unauthorized (1965)
Not Only... But Also (1964)
What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA (1964)
Follow The Beatles (1964)
The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands (1964)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
The Beatles Sing for Shell (1964)
The Beatles in Australia (1964)
Around the Beatles (1964)
The Beatles: Live in Washington DC (1964)
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York (1964)
The Beatles Come to Town (1963)
The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool (1963)
The Mersey Sound (1963)
The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
The Morecambe & Wise Show (1961)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Pre Fab!
Love Me Do: The Beatles '62
The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966
Heaven 17 - Live at La Scala
The Beatles - 1967-1970
The Beatles are Coming
Hanratty: The Whole Truth
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1940-10-09
Deathday1980-12-08 (40 years old)
Birth NameJohn Winston Lennon
Birth PlaceLiverpool Maternity Hospital, United Kingdom
Height
RelationshipsCynthia Lennon (1962-08-23 - 1968-11-08), Yoko Ono (1969-03-20 - 1980-12-08), May Pang (1973-01-01 - 1975-01-01)
ChildrenJulian Lennon, Sean Lennon
FatherAlfred Lennon
MotherJulia Lennon
RelativesMimi Smith, Maribel Smith
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesNew York City, United States of America, Mendips · Menlove Avenue · Liverpool, United Kingdom
Also Known AsThe Beatles, John Winston Ono Lennon
AwardsMember of the Order of the British Empire, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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