
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