John Lennon
Acting
Born 1940-10-09
Died 1980-12-08
Liverpool, England, UK
365 credits
Academy Awards 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1
Member of the Order of the British Empire 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won · 1 nominated
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1 won
- 1994 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Won
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1 won
- 1991 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Won
Member of the Order of the British Empire 1 won
- 1965 Member of the Order of the British Empire Won
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John Winston Ono 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.
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Acting
51 credits
Top of the Pops
Hawaii Five-O
The Merv Griffin Show
The Dick Cavett Show
Mentiras verdaderas
Omnibus
Behind the Music
Classic Albums
Timewatch
The Ed Sullivan Show
Epic Rap Battles of History
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Morecambe & Wise
The Beatles: Get Back
Sweet Toronto
The Beatles Anthology
This Is Pop
A Hard Day's Night
The Defiant Ones
Yellow Submarine
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial
The Beatles
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
Man on the Run
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
McCartney 3, 2, 1
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Zappa
My Generation
Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
The Movie Orgy
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
Help!
The Beach Boys
Grass
Beatles '64
A Life in Ten Pictures
Frost on Sunday
In Their Own Words
Infamous Assassinations
Television: The First Fifty Years
Let It Be
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
One to One: John & Yoko
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
Elton John: Never Too Late
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Miami Vice
First Tuesday
Yesterday
The Old Grey Whistle Test
The Beatles: Get Back
A Hard Day's Night
Yellow Submarine
Across the Universe
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Imagine Peace
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Help!
Beatles '64
Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
Let It Be
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
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