John Lennon
Acting • Born 1940-10-09 – Died 1980-12-08
Biography
John Beatle Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 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
317 credits
A Hard Day's Night
Movie • 1964
John
The Movie Orgy
Movie • 1968
Self (archive footage)
El Rey en Londres
Movie • 1966
Self (archive footage)
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
Movie • 1965
Self (archive footage)
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Movie • 1978
Self (archive footage)
Let It Be
Movie • 1970
Self - The Beatles (uncredited)
Best of the 60s: The Story of Ready, Steady, Go!
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Under the Volcano
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
Movie • 2000
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Magical Mystery Tour
Movie • 1967
Self / Ticket Salesman / Magician with Coffee / Narrator
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Jimi Plays Monterey
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Imagine: John Lennon
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Beatles Stories
Movie • 2011
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
Movie • 1964
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The Day the Music Died
Movie • 1977
Self
How I Won the War
Movie • 1967
Gripweed
Help!
Movie • 1965
John
Zappa
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Things They Said Today
Movie • 2002
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Beatles chronology (1962-1970)
Movie • 2016
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The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles
Movie • 2010
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Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
Movie • 2019
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The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
Movie • 2022
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Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
Movie • 2016
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Louder Than Rock
Movie • 2023
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Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Movie • 1972
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Take Your Pills
Movie • 2018
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The Beatles and India
Movie • 2021
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Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Movie • 2023
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Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
Movie • 2010
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The Beatles at Shea Stadium
Movie • 1977
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Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
Movie • 2008
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THE BEATLES in HELP!
Movie • 2007
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The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries
Movie • 2009
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The Beatles Unauthorized
Movie • 1996
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The Beatles: Watching Rainbows
Movie • 2004
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The Beatles: A Magical History Tour
Movie • 2010
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The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum
Movie • 1964
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Imagine
Movie • 1972
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Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
Movie • 2010
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Fun with the Fab Four
Movie • 1986
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The Beatles on Record
Movie • 2009
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Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Movie • 2008
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Sweet Toronto
Movie • 1971
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The Mersey Sound
Movie • 1963
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The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
Movie • 2011
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LennoNYC
Movie • 2010
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John Lennon: One to One Concert Live in New York
Movie • 1986
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Eat the Document
Movie • 1972
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John Lennon: His Life, His Legacy, His Last Days
Movie • 2020
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Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
Movie • 2018
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Give Peace A Song
Movie • 2006
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Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne
Movie • 2016
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Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
Movie • 2019
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John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
Movie • 2010
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Our World
Movie • 1967
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Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970
Movie • 2008
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Apotheosis
Movie • 1970
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Movie • 2023
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Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
Movie • 2004
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Movie • 1986
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Life In Ten Pictures: John Lennon
Movie • 2021
Parkinson at 50
Movie • 2021
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Movie • 1982
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Good Ol' Freda
Movie • 2013
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John Lennon - Imagine
Movie • 1972
The Beatles Come to Town
Movie • 1963
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The Beatles: Something
Movie • 1969
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The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
Movie • 2005
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The Beatles: Revolution
Movie • 1968
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Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
Movie • 1979
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Discovering Lennon
Movie • 2010
Mighty Good: The Beatles
Movie • 1977
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Happy Birthday to John
Movie • 1997
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You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Movie • 1995
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The Beatles Explosion
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966
Movie • 2012
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The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
Movie • 2018
Self
Brazil in Cannes
Movie • 1971
The Real Buddy Holly Story
Movie • 1985
Self (archive footage)
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Movie • 1977
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The Beatles: Parting Ways
Movie • 2009
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Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles and the BBC
Movie • 2023
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The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966
Movie • 1966
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The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966)
Movie • 1966
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Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
Movie • 1996
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The Beatles: A Celebration
Movie • 1999
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The King
Movie • 2018
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This Is Elvis
Movie • 1981
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Movie • 2023
Self (archive voice)
The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool
Movie • 1963
Self
The Beatles - 1967-1970
Movie
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Fire in the Water
Movie • 1977
Paul McCartney: Got Back
Movie • 2023
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Understanding Lennon/McCartney
Movie • 2018
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The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
Movie • 2022
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Beatles på Sverigeturné
Movie • 2014
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When the Music's Over
Movie • 1983
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Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
Movie • 1992
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Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
Movie • 1999
Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)
Reflections on Love
Movie • 1966
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Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
Movie • 2003
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Genius
Movie • 2012
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If These Walls Could Sing
Movie • 2022
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Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
Movie • 2022
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Wingspan
Movie • 2001
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24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
Movie • 1969
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John & Yoko's Year of Peace
Movie • 2000
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Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
Movie • 1988
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The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Movie • 2023
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Movie • 2022
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Doctor Who: The Chase
Movie • 1965
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Population Boom
Movie • 2013
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The Rise & Fall of WCW
Movie • 2009
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The Beatles 1
Movie • 2015
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The Beatles - Abbey Road
Movie • 1969
Self - Vocals, Guitar
The Last 24 Hours: John Lennon
Movie • 2019
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The Beatles 1+
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Television: The First Fifty Years
Movie • 1999
Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
A Salute to Sir Lew Grade
Movie • 1975
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The Beatles Mod Odyssey
Movie • 1968
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The Beatles: Around the World
Movie • 2003
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Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
Movie • 2023
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The Beach Boys
Movie • 2024
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Movie • 2015
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Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
Movie • 1971
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The One to One Concert
Movie • 1972
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The Bannfoot Ferry
Movie • 2024
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
Movie • 2010
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Becoming the Beatles
Movie • 2012
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The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years
Movie • 2010
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365 Day Project
Movie • 2007
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Hinckley
Movie • 2024
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British Rock: The First Wave
Movie • 1985
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The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2
Movie • 2005
Self - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Bed Peace
Movie • 1969
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The Beatles Sing for Shell
Movie • 1964
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The Beatles in Australia
Movie • 1964
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I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
Movie • 2017
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The Compleat Beatles
Movie • 1982
Self (archive footage)
Looking for Lennon
Movie • 2018
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The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Movie • 1996
Self - Lead Vocals
I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
Movie • 2011
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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
Movie • 2017
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How the Beatles Changed the World
Movie • 2017
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The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
Movie • 2005
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Beatles: The Journey
Movie • 2003
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Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
Movie • 2018
Free to Rock
Movie • 2017
Self - The Beatles (archive footage)
The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary
Movie • 1994
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Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
Movie • 2017
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I Killed John Lennon
Movie • 2005
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Movie • 2006
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Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
Movie • 1976
Pink Floyd London '66-'67
Movie • 2005
Self (uncredited)
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
All You Need Is Love
Movie • 1967
Self
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
Movie • 2007
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Beatles: Big Beat Box
Movie • 2001
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The John Lennon Sketchbook
Movie • 1986
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Film No. 5
Movie • 1968
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Up Your Legs Forever
Movie • 1971
The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands
Movie • 1964
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Two Virgins
Movie • 1968
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
Movie • 1991
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Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2
Movie • 2019
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Self-Portrait
Movie • 1969
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Doctor Who: Origins
Movie • 2006
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The Beatles Story
Movie • 1996
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Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1
Movie • 2019
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Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Movie • 2017
Self - Musician (archive footage)
Kyoko
Movie • 2017
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Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Movie • 2012
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Movie • 2007
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George Harrison - All Things Pass
Movie • 2018
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The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere
Movie • 2009
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1
Movie • 2011
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3
Movie • 2011
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4
Movie • 2011
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2
Movie • 2011
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The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One
Movie • 1969
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The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three
Movie • 1969
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The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two
Movie • 1969
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The Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany
Movie • 1966
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Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
Movie • 2004
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Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Movie • 1990
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Movie • 1968
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Yellow Submarine
Movie • 1968
John (uncredited)
Salinger
Movie • 2013
Self - Musician (archive footage)
Around the Beatles
Movie • 1964
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Pop Gear
Movie • 1965
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I Met the Walrus
Movie • 2007
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The Beatles: Live in Paris
Movie • 1965
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The John Lennon Video Collection
Movie • 1992
Meeting the Beatles in India
Movie • 2020
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Beatles Biggest Secrets
Movie • 2004
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The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
Movie • 2015
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Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized
Movie • 2003
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The Real John Lennon
Movie • 2000
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The Day John Lennon Died
Movie • 2010
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The Last Lennon Interview
Movie • 2015
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Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles
Movie • 1974
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John Lennon: Hard to Imagine
Movie • 2017
The Beatles: Love
Movie • 2006
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Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
Movie • 2013
Self - Musician (archive footage)
Hanratty: The Whole Truth
Movie • 2002
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The World's Greatest Gigs
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
Movie • 1964
Self - The Beatles Member
Lennon's Last Weekend
Movie • 2020
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The Winged Beetle
Movie • 2012
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Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
Movie • 1992
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Imagine Imagine
Movie • 2003
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Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
Movie • 1969
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Vain Glory
Movie • 1986
John Lennon
Monument
Movie • 1967
Self (archive footage)
Imagine Lennon
Movie • 2010
archives footages
Naqoyqatsi
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live
Movie • 1993
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The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966)
Movie • 1966
Self - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
My Generation
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
Movie • 2020
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Beatles Electroniques
Movie • 1969
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Understanding McCartney
Movie • 2020
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Elton John: Never Too Late
Movie • 2024
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One to One: John & Yoko
Movie • 2025
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The Beatles: The Complete Story
Movie • 2010
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Daytime Revolution
Movie • 2024
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Paul McCartney: Got Back - Live at River Plate Stadium
Movie • 2024
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Beatles '64
Movie • 2024
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Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
Movie • 2024
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Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965
Movie • 2008
Self (Archive Footage)
O Melhor do Flash Back - 92 Clipes Para Recordar
Movie • 2009
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No Hamburg, No Beatles
Movie • 2024
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Ringo Starr: One of Them
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Året var 1967
Movie • 2017
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To John With Love
Movie • 2006
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John & Yoko Bed-In
Movie • 2006
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Warhol and Maciunas
Movie • 2006
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Året var 1963
Movie • 2013
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Elvis: King of Entertainment
Movie • 2002
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Abbey Road
Movie • 1969
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How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
Movie • 2022
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Grass
Movie • 1999
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The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland
Movie • 2008
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Oh Yoko!
Movie • 1973
Himself (voice)
Monday Night Mayhem
Movie • 2002
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Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
Movie • 1969
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Palme
Movie • 2012
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The Beatles - Trilogy
Movie • 2003
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Yoko Ono: Then and Now
Movie • 1984
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The Beatles
Movie • 2025
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The Beatles: Their Golden Age
Movie • 2012
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Frank Zappa, John Lennon & Yoko Ono: At Fillmore East
Movie • 1971
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
Movie • 1971
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TWST / Things We Said Today
Movie • 2025
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The Beatles - Composing Outside The Beatles: Lennon & McCartney 1967-1972
Movie • 2009
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Composing Outside The Beatles: Lennon & McCartney 1973-1980
Movie • 2011
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Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
Movie • 1993
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Dynamite Chicken
Movie • 1971
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Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Movie • 2023
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The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road
Movie • 2003
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The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
Movie • 1992
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John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
Movie • 1985
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The Ballad of AJ Weberman
Movie • 2006
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Power To The People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
Movie • 2026
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Meet the Beatles
Movie • 2005
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As Aventuras de Will e Mike no jardim do Éden
Movie • 2025
Yoko and John Party
Movie • 1971
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Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
Movie • 2003
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John Lennon: The Messenger
Movie • 2002
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Movie • 2024
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Naked and Free - The History of Free Body Culture
Movie • 1999
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A Love Letter to the Beatles
Movie • 2025
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The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
Movie • 2025
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Here Today
Movie • 2024
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The Summer of Love
Movie • 2017
Man on the Run
Movie • 2026
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Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
Movie • 1992
WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)
Movie • 2016
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Evolver 62
Movie • 2026
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Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
Movie • 1967
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La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
Movie • 2024
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Huffman
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
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Mentiras verdaderas
TV • 2011
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The Beatles
TV • 1965
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The Beatles: Get Back
TV • 2021
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This Is Pop
TV • 2021
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A Life in Ten Pictures
TV • 2021
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Omnibus
TV • 1967
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John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial
TV • 2023
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The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
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1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
TV • 2021
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Elvis Presley: The Searcher
TV • 2018
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World
TV • 2011
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McCartney 3, 2, 1
TV • 2021
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Not Only... But Also
TV • 1964
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The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
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20th Century Greats
TV • 2004
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The Beatles Anthology
TV • 1995
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Infamous Assassinations
TV • 2012
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The Defiant Ones
TV • 2017
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Top of the Pops
TV • 1964
Timewatch
TV • 1982
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Behind the Music
TV • 1997
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Classic Albums
TV • 1997
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Top of the Pops
TV • 1964
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Morecambe & Wise
TV • 1961
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The Old Grey Whistle Test
TV • 1971
In Their Own Words
TV • 2015
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Frost on Sunday
TV • 1968
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