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.
Movie | Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World | Self (archive footage) | 2024-06-28 |
Movie | The Beach Boys | Self (archive footage) | 2024-05-21 |
Movie | The Lost Weekend: A Love Story | Self (archive footage) | 2023-04-13 |
Movie | Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song | Self (archive footage) | 2023-12-13 |
Movie | The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert | Self (archive footage) | 2022-01-30 |
Movie | Mickey: The Story of a Mouse | Self (archive footage) | 2022-03-19 |
Movie | Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL | Self (archive footage) | 2022-09-23 |
Movie | Elvis | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2022-06-22 |
Movie | If These Walls Could Sing | Self (archive footage) | 2022-09-03 |
Movie | The Sparks Brothers | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-06-18 |
Movie | Under the Volcano | Self (archive footage) | 2021-03-20 |
Movie | Parkinson at 50 | Self (archive footage) | 2021-08-28 |
Series | The Beatles: Get Back | Self (archive footage) | 2021-11-25 |
Movie | Meeting the Beatles in India | Self (archive footage) | 2020-09-09 |
Movie | Zappa | Self (archive footage) | 2020-11-27 |
Movie | Lennon's Last Weekend | Self (archive footage) | 2020-10-04 |
Movie | Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2 | Self (archive footage) | 2019-07-01 |
Movie | Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1 | Self (archive footage) | 2019-04-22 |
Movie | Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind | Self (archive footage) | 2019-08-13 |
Movie | Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy | 2018-04-30 | |
Movie | The King | Self (archive footage) | 2018-06-22 |
Movie | I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story | 2018-08-07 | |
Movie | John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky | Self (archive footage) | 2018-11-24 |
Movie | It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond | Self (archive footage) | 2017-05-26 |
Movie | Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution | Self (archive footage) | 2017-06-03 |
Movie | Free to Rock | Self - The Beatles (archive footage) | 2017-05-01 |
Movie | Kyoko | Self (archive footage) | 2017-03-11 |
Movie | Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions | Self - Musician (archive footage) | 2017-08-06 |
Movie | How the Beatles Changed the World | Self (archive footage) | 2017-10-23 |
Movie | My Generation | Self (archive footage) | 2017-10-08 |
Movie | Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape | Self (archive footage) | 2016-03-13 |
Movie | Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne | Self (archive footage) | 2016-03-13 |
Movie | Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album | Self (archive footage) | 2016-11-16 |
Movie | The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years | Self (archive footage) | 2016-09-15 |
Movie | The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-11 |
Movie | Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon | Self (archive footage) | 2015-01-25 |
Movie | The Last Lennon Interview | Self (archive footage) | 2015-12-08 |
Movie | Population Boom | Self (archive footage) | 2013-09-20 |
Movie | Salinger | Self - Musician (archive footage) | 2013-09-06 |
Movie | Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' | Self - Musician (archive footage) | 2013-11-04 |
Movie | Diaries, Notes, and Sketches | Self | 2013-11-23 |
Movie | Elvis Found Alive | (archival footage) | 2012-01-24 |
Movie | I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern | Self (archive footage) | 2011-02-09 |
Movie | 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift | (archive footage) (voice) | 2010-08-03 |
Movie | John Lennon: Love Is All You Need | Self (archive footage) | 2010-07-19 |
Movie | LennoNYC | Self (archive footage) | 2010-09-25 |
Movie | The Day John Lennon Died | Self (archive footage) | 2010-12-06 |
Movie | Discovering Lennon | 2010-10-01 | |
Movie | Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) | Self (archive footage) | 2010-10-26 |
Movie | The Beatles: Parting Ways | Self | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | The Rise & Fall of WCW | Self (archive footage) | 2009-12-17 |
Movie | Rare and Unseen: The Beatles | Self (archive footage) | 2008-04-08 |
Movie | Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band | Self | 2008-04-29 |
Movie | Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens | Self (archive footage) | 2007-05-19 |
Movie | The Beatles Explosion | Self (archive footage) | 2007-01-01 |
Movie | I Met the Walrus | Self | 2007-06-13 |
Movie | 365 Day Project | 2007-12-31 | |
Movie | The Beatles: Help! | Self (archive footage) | 2007-10-27 |
Movie | The Beatles: Destination Hamburg | Self (archive footage) | 2007-11-12 |
Movie | The U.S. vs. John Lennon | Self (archive footage) | 2006-09-15 |
Movie | Doctor Who: Origins | Self (archive footage) | 2006-01-30 |
Movie | The Beatles: Love | Self | 2006-11-20 |
Movie | The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent | Self (archive footage) | 2005-01-01 |
Movie | Pink Floyd London '66-'67 | Self (uncredited) | 2005-09-13 |
Movie | The World's Greatest Gigs | Self (archive footage) | 2005-11-09 |
Movie | I Killed John Lennon | Self (archive footage) | 2005-12-08 |
Movie | Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle | Self (archive footage) | 2004-01-01 |
Movie | Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair | Self (archive footage) | 2004-06-19 |
Movie | Beatles Biggest Secrets | Self (archive footage) | 2004-12-02 |
Series | 20th Century Greats | Self (archive footage) | 2004-11-27 |
Movie | Beatles: The Journey | Self (archive footage) | 2003-06-17 |
Movie | Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized | Self (archive footage) | 2003-11-25 |
Movie | Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe | Self (archive footage) | 2002-01-12 |
Movie | Naqoyqatsi | Self (archive footage) | 2002-09-02 |
Movie | Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. | Self (archive footage) | 2002-11-26 |
Movie | Things They Said Today | Self (archive footage) | 2002-09-30 |
Movie | John & Yoko's Year of Peace | Self (archive footage) | 2000-01-01 |
Movie | The Real John Lennon | Self (archive footage) | 2000-09-30 |
Movie | Happy Birthday to John | Self | 1997-10-09 |
Movie | The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus | Self - Lead Vocals | 1996-10-12 |
Movie | You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' | Self | 1995-01-01 |
Series | The Beatles Anthology | Self (archive footage) | 1995-11-19 |
Movie | Forrest Gump | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1994-06-23 |
Movie | Death Scenes 2 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1992-01-01 |
Movie | Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections | Self (archive footage) | 1990-06-01 |
Movie | Moonwalker | Himself (archive footage) | 1988-10-29 |
Movie | Imagine: John Lennon | Self (archive footage) | 1988-09-30 |
Movie | Jimi Plays Monterey | Self (archive footage) | 1987-10-16 |
Movie | Vain Glory | John Lennon | 1986-01-25 |
Movie | He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life | Self (archive footage) | 1986-02-22 |
Movie | British Rock: The First Wave | Self (archive footage) | 1985-10-10 |
Movie | When the Music's Over | Self (archive footage) | 1983-06-14 |
Movie | The Compleat Beatles | Self (archive footage) | 1982-10-01 |
Movie | The Killing of America | Self (archive footage) | 1981-09-05 |
Movie | This Is Elvis | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1981-04-03 |
Movie | I Wanna Hold Your Hand | Self (archive footage) | 1978-04-01 |
Movie | The Day the Music Died | Self | 1977-01-01 |
Movie | Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante | Self | 1977-08-01 |
Movie | A Salute to Sir Lew Grade | Self | 1975-04-18 |
Movie | Muhammad Ali: The Greatest | Self | 1974-04-09 |
Movie | Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here | Self | 1972-05-11 |
Movie | The One to One Concert | Self | 1972-12-15 |
Movie | Eat the Document | Self | 1972-11-30 |
Movie | Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family | Self | 1971-04-11 |
Movie | Up Your Legs Forever | 1971-08-12 | |
Movie | Sweet Toronto | Self | 1971-11-22 |
Movie | Brazil in Cannes | 1971-12-24 | |
Movie | Let It Be | Self - The Beatles (uncredited) | 1970-05-13 |
Movie | The Beatles: Something | Self | 1969-10-06 |
Movie | The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | 1968-01-01 |
Movie | Yellow Submarine | John (uncredited) | 1968-07-17 |
Movie | How I Won the War | Gripweed | 1967-10-18 |
Movie | Magical Mystery Tour | Self / Ticket Salesman / Magician with Coffee / Narrator | 1967-12-25 |
Movie | Die Beatles | Self - The Beatles | 1966-07-05 |
Movie | El Rey en Londres | Self (archive footage) | 1966-10-11 |
Movie | New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert | 1965-04-11 | |
Movie | Pop Gear | Self | 1965-05-19 |
Movie | Help! | John | 1965-07-29 |
Movie | Doctor Who: The Chase | Self (archive footage) | 1965-06-26 |
Movie | The Music of Lennon & McCartney | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-16 |
Movie | Around the Beatles | Self | 1964-05-06 |
Series | Not Only... But Also | 1964-11-29 | |
Movie | A Hard Day's Night | John | 1964-07-07 |
Movie | The Mersey Sound | Self | 1963-09-10 |