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Moonage Daydream

as Self (archive footage)

2022
The Velvet Underground

as Self (voice)

2021
Moby Doc

as Self

2021
David Bowie: Finding Fame

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock

as Self - Musician (archive footage)

2017
Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2017
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

as Jack Celliers (archive footage)

2017
David Bowie: Starman

as Self

2016
David Bowie: The Man Who Stole the World

as Self (archive footage)

2016
Soul Boys of the Western World

as Self (archive footage)

2014
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

as Phillip Jeffries

2014
David Bowie: Five Years

as Self (archive footage)

2013
David Bowie & The Story of Ziggy Stardust

as Self / Ziggy Stardust (archive footage)

2012
Acoustic At The BBC

as Self

2011
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

as Self (archive footage)

2009
August

as Cyrus Ogilvie

2008
Seven Ages of Rock

as Self

2007
David Gilmour - Remember That Night

as Self - Guest Artist

2007
The Prestige

as Nikola Tesla

2006
TV Party

as Self

2005
David Bowie David Bowie

Birthday

1947-01-08

Place of Birth

Brixton, London, England, UK

Biography

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, releasing eleven number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Born and raised in South London, Bowie developed an interest in music as a child, eventually studying art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. "Space Oddity" became his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart after its release in July 1969. After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of his single "Starman" and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which won him widespread popularity. In 1975, Bowie's style shifted radically towards a sound he characterised as "plastic soul", initially alienating many of his UK devotees but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single "Fame" and the album Young Americans. In 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth and released Station to Station. The following year, he further confounded musical expectations with the electronic-inflected album Low (1977), the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno that would come to be known as the "Berlin Trilogy". "Heroes" (1977) and Lodger (1979) followed; each album reached the UK top five and received lasting critical praise. After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes", its parent album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), and "Under Pressure", a 1981 collaboration with Queen. He then reached his commercial peak in 1983 with Let's Dance, with its title track topping both UK and US charts. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including industrial and jungle. Bowie also continued acting; his roles included Major Celliers in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), the Goblin King Jareth in Labyrinth (1986), Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Nikola Tesla in The Prestige (2006), among other film and television appearances and cameos. He stopped concert touring after 2004 and his last live performance was at a charity event in 2006. In 2013, Bowie returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with the release of The Next Day. He remained musically active until he died of liver cancer two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar (2016).
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