Joan Baez
Acting • Born 1941-01-09
Biography
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice.] Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums. Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country, and gospel music. She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 and Joan Baez in Concert, all achieved gold record status. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets others' work, having recorded many traditional songs and songs written by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and many others. She was one of the first major artists to record songs by Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. Her tumultuous relationship with Dylan later became the subject of songs by each of them and generated much public speculation. On her later albums she has found success interpreting the work of more recent songwriters, including Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle, Natalie Merchant, and Joe Henry. Baez's songs include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". She also recorded "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Forever Young", "Here's to You", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". Baez performed fourteen songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights, and the environment. Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Baez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
98 credits
Dont Look Back
Movie • 1967
Self
Merton: A Film Biography
Movie • 1984
Self
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Movie • 2023
Self
Woodstock
Movie • 1970
Self
Slacker Uprising
Movie • 2007
Self
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Movie • 2007
Self
Berkeley in the Sixties
Movie • 1990
Self (archive footage)
Live Aid
Movie • 1985
Self
Ennio
Movie • 2022
Self
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Movie • 2009
Self
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Movie • 1996
Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Movie • 2009
Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Movie • 2013
Self
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Movie • 2007
Self
The Big T.N.T. Show
Movie • 1965
Self
B.B. King & Joan Baez - Live At Sing Sing
Movie • 1972
Self
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Movie • 1993
Self
Wondering About Things
Movie • 1971
Self
Renaldo and Clara
Movie • 1978
The Woman in White
Carry It On
Movie • 1970
Self
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Movie • 2013
Self
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Movie • 2021
Self
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
Movie • 2014
Self
Celebration at Big Sur
Movie • 1971
Self
Joan Baez - Blessed Are
Movie • 1971
Self
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
Movie • 1976
Self
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Movie • 2005
Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Movie • 2022
Self (voice)
Dynamite Chicken
Movie • 1971
Self
The Making of Silent Running
Movie • 1972
Self
The March
Movie • 1964
Self
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Festival
Movie • 1967
Self
Scruggs: A Festival of Music
Movie • 1972
Self
Woodstock: Untold Stories
Movie • 2009
Self
The Return of Bruno
Movie • 1987
Joan Baez
The Memory of Justice
Movie • 1976
Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Movie • 2009
Self
Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration
Movie • 2016
Self
King in the Wilderness
Movie • 2018
Self
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Movie • 2002
Self
Bulles de Vian
Movie • 2009
Self
Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
Movie • 2019
Self
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Movie • 2011
Self
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Movie • 2019
The Balladeer
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Movie • 2019
Self
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Movie • 2019
Self
In Remembrance of Martin
Movie • 1986
Self
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973
Movie • 1973
Self
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Movie • 1984
Self
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Movie • 1970
Self (archive footage)
Live Aid
Movie • 2004
Self
65 Revisited
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Sing Sing Thanksgiving
Movie • 1974
Self
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Movie • 2015
Self - Special Guest
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
Movie • 1976
Self
Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
Movie • 2024
Self - interviewee / performer
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Movie • 2025
Self
... Sings Dylan II
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
Movie • 2019
Self
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
Movie • 2018
Self
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
Movie • 2024
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Woodstock Directors cut
Movie • 1994
Self
Joan Baez released from jail in Oakland
Movie
We Shall Overcome
Movie • 1989
Self
Fame
TV • 1982
Joan Baez
Okay
TV • 1979
Self
Tonight in Person
TV • 1963
Self
The Muppet Show
TV • 1976
Self - Special Guest Star
Where Are They Now?
TV • 1999
Self
Playboy After Dark
TV • 1969
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
The Midnight Special
TV • 1972
Self
Folk Britannia
TV • 2006
Self (archival footage)
Joan Baez In Concert
TV • 1965
Self (archive footage)
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Leute heute
TV • 1997
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self - Main Guest
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Numéro un
TV • 1975
Self
Q&A
TV • 2008
Self - Panelist
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
TV • 1967
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Please Turn the Page
TV • 1977
Self
Le monde est à vous
TV • 1987
Self
Discorama
TV • 1959
Self
Heut' abend
TV • 1980
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
TV • 2025
Self - Musician and Activist
Rockpalast
TV • 1974
Bains de Minuit
TV • 1987
Self