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Overview
Date of Birth:
26 May
1926
,
Alton, Illinois, USA
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Date of Death:
28 September
1991
, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Mini Biography:
Miles Davis, famous jazz trumpeter, composer and band-leader was born...
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He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7060...
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46 articles
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Dog Ears Music: Volume 101
(From
Huffington Post
. 4 December 2009, 9:38 AM, PST)
Bill Murray Brings Joy To The World In 'Scrooged' For Today's Sick Day Stash
(From
MTV Movies Blog
. 2 December 2009, 12:00 PM, PST)
Filmography
Jump to filmography as:
Soundtrack
,
Composer
,
Music Department
,
Actor
,
Self
,
Archive Footage
Soundtrack:
2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
1950s
"Later with Jools Holland"
(1 episode, 2009)
... aka A Little Later (USA: cut version)
-
Episode #35.1
(2009)
TV episode
(writer: "Freddie Freeloader", "All Blues")
"Banda sonora"
(2 episodes, 2007-2009)
-
Episode #5.20
(2009)
TV episode
(performer: "Kind of Blue")
-
Episode #1.12
(2007)
TV episode
(writer: "So What") (performer: "So What")
"The Simpsons"
(1 episode, 2008)
-
Mypods and Boomsticks
(2008)
TV episode
(performer: "Moon Dreams" (uncredited))
Grand Theft Auto IV
(2008) (VG) ("Move")
... aka GTA IV (International: English title: short title)
"Parashat Ha-Shavua"
(9 episodes, 2006-2008)
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Tetzaveh
(2008)
TV episode
(writer: "It's About That Time") (performer: "In a Silent Way")
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Yitro
(2008)
TV episode
(writer: "Final Round")
-
BeShalach
(2008)
TV episode
(writer: "Yaphet")
-
Bo
(2008)
TV episode
(performer: "My Funny Valentine")
-
Toldot
(2006)
TV episode
(writer: "Lonely Fire")
(
4 more
)
"Dexter"
(1 episode, 2007)
-
That Night, a Forest Grew
(2007)
TV episode
(writer: "So What") (performer: "So What")
Zodiac
(2007/I) (writer: "Solar") (performer: "Solar")
Midnight Son
(2007) (performer: "Nature Boy")
"Druckfrisch"
(1 episode, 2006)
-
Episode #4.8
(2006)
TV episode
(performer: "Harry and Dolly")
Collateral
(2004) (writer: "Spanish Key") (performer: "Spanish Key")
Levity
(2003) (writer: "Blue in Green" (1959)) (performer: "Blue in Green" (1959))
"The West Wing"
(1 episode, 2003)
-
The Long Goodbye
(2003)
TV episode
(performer: "Kind of Blue")
Comedian
(2002) (performer: "If I Were a Bell")
"The Wire"
(1 episode, 2002)
-
Old Cases
(2002)
TV episode
(writer: "All Blues") (performer: "All Blues")
"Crossing Jordan"
(1 episode, 2002)
-
For Harry, with Love & Squalor
(2002)
TV episode
(performer: "Stella By Starlight" (uncredited))
"Livshunger"
(1 episode, 2002)
-
Episode #1.3
(2002)
TV episode
(music: "SO WHAT")
The Score
(2001) (performer: "Autumn Leaves")
... aka The Score (Germany)
Scratch
(2001) (writer: "Doo Bop Song") (performer: "Doo Bop Song")
Extranjeros de sí mismos
(2000) (performer: "Soleá")
... aka Aliens to Themselves (International: English title)
... aka Strangers to Themselves (International: English title)
The Talented Mr. Ripley
(1999) (performer: "NATURE BOY") ("FOUR")
... aka The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley (USA: complete title)
In Too Deep
(1999) (performer: "I Thought About You")
Runaway Bride
(1999) (performer: "It Never Entered My Mind")
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
(1998) (performer: "It Never Entered My Mind")
Where's Marlowe?
(1998) (writer: "All Blues")
Pleasantville
(1998) (writer: "So What") (performer: "So What")
Day 532
(1998) (writer: "Ife") (performer: "Ife")
One Eight Seven
(1997) (writer: "Blue in Green") (performer: "Blue in Green")
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
(1997) (performer: "Move")
Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival
(1997) (writer: "Call It Anything") (performer: "Call It Anything")
... aka Message of Love: The Isle of Wight Festival: The Movie (USA: video title)
... aka Message to Love (UK)
Trzy dni z zycia malzenskiego
(1997) (performer: "The Pan Piper")
... aka Three Days from a Marriage
Terra Estrangeira
(1996) (performer: "Fran Dance") ("Fran Dance")
... aka Foreign Land
Basquiat
(1996) (writer: "Flamenco Sketches") (performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
... aka Build a Fort, Set It on Fire
La flor de mi secreto
(1995) (performer: "Soleá")
... aka La fleur de mon secret (France)
... aka The Flower of My Secret (USA)
A Bronx Tale
(1993) (performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
In the Line of Fire
(1993) (writer: "All Blues") (performer: "All Blues")
Sneakers
(1992) (writer: "Flamenco Sketches") (performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
Tacones lejanos
(1991) (performer: "Soleá", "Saeta")
... aka High Heels (USA)
... aka Talons aiguilles (France)
A Kiss Before Dying
(1991) (writer: "So What") (performer: "So What")
Scrooged
(1988) (performer: "We Three Kings of Orient Are")
36 fillette
(1988) (performer: "Moon Dreams")
... aka Junior Size 36 (Canada: English title: festival title)
... aka Virgin (UK)
Absolute Beginners
(1986) (writer: "So What (Lyric Version)")
... aka Absolute Beginners - The Musical (International: English title: poster title)
Lenny
(1974) ("It Never Entered My Mind", "Tempus Fugit", "Well You Needn't")
The Sound of Miles Davis
(1959) (TV) (writer: "So What")
Composer:
2000s
1990s
1980s
1960s
1950s
Les lunettes
(2007)
"Beef: The Series"
(2006)
TV series
(unknown episodes)
Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue
(2004)
Dingo
(1991)
... aka Dingo - Dog of the Desert
Siesta
(1987)
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
(1 episode, 1985)
-
Prisoners
(1985)
TV episode
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
(1968)
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
(1958)
... aka Elevator to the Gallows
... aka Elevator to the Scaffold
... aka Frantic (USA)
... aka Lift to the Scaffold (UK)
Music Department:
1990s
1980s
1970s
1950s
Dresden
(1999) (composer: song "Big Foot")
Tacones lejanos
(1991) (musician: trumpet, "Solea" and "Saeta")
... aka High Heels (USA)
... aka Talons aiguilles (France)
Street Smart
(1987) (musician)
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
(1986) (musician: trumpet, "Just Squeeze Me")
Lenny
(1974) (musician: "Tempus Fugit", "Well You Needn't" and "It Never Entered My Mind")
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
(1958) (musician: trumpet)
... aka Elevator to the Gallows
... aka Elevator to the Scaffold
... aka Frantic (USA)
... aka Lift to the Scaffold (UK)
Actor:
2000s
1990s
1980s
Miles Davis: Live from the Montreal Jazz Festival
(2000) (V) .... Trumpeter
Dingo
(1991) .... Billy Cross
... aka Dingo - Dog of the Desert
Scrooged
(1988) .... Street Musicians
"VH1 New Visions"
(1986)
TV series
.... Guest Host VJ (1987)
"Miami Vice"
.... Ivory Jones (1 episode, 1985)
-
Junk Love
(1985)
TV episode
.... Ivory Jones
Self:
2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
1960s
1950s
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
(2003) (V) .... Himself (segment "Nobody Told Me")
Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival
(1997) .... Himself
... aka Message of Love: The Isle of Wight Festival: The Movie (USA: video title)
... aka Message to Love (UK)
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones
(1990) .... Himself
... aka Listen Up
20th NAACP Image Awards
(1988) (TV) .... Himself - Presenter
"Late Night with David Letterman"
.... Himself (1 episode, 1987)
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Episode dated 11 December 1987
(1987)
TV episode
.... Himself
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
(1986) (TV) .... Himself
"Crime Story"
.... Himself (1 episode, 1986)
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The War
(1986)
TV episode
.... Himself
Sun City: Artists United Against Apartheid
(1986) (V) .... Himself
Miles Davis live in Europe
(1983) .... Himself
"Saturday Night Live"
.... Himself - Musical Guest (1 episode, 1981)
... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: complete title)
... aka SNL (USA: informal title)
... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title)
... aka Saturday Night (USA: first season title)
... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title)
... aka Saturday Night Live 15 (USA: fifteenth season title)
... aka Saturday Night Live 20 (USA: twentieth season title)
... aka Saturday Night Live 25 (USA: twentiefifth season title)
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George Kennedy/Miles Davis
(1981)
TV episode
.... Himself - Musical Guest
"In Concert"
.... Himself (1 episode, 1973)
-
Episode #1.11
(1973)
TV episode
.... Himself
Imagine
(1972) (uncredited) .... Himself
Fight of the Century
(1971) (TV) .... Himself - Audience Member
... aka Ali-Frazier I (USA: informal title)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
(1968) (uncredited) .... Himself
The Sound of Miles Davis
(1959) (TV) .... Himself
"Tonight!"
.... Himself - Trumpet / ... (1 episode, 1955)
... aka Knickerbocker Beer Show (USA: summer title)
... aka The Knickerbocker Beer Presents The Steve Allen Show (USA: second season title)
... aka The Steve Allen Show (USA: second season title)
... aka Tonight (USA: syndication title)
... aka Tonight Starring Steve Allen (USA: alternative title)
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Down Beat Magazine Jazz Award
(1955)
TV episode
.... Himself - Trumpet/Recipient Down Beat Award
Archive Footage:
"Banda sonora"
-
Episode #5.20
(2009)
TV episode
.... Himself
-
Episode #1.12
(2007)
TV episode
.... Himself
"Tracks"
-
Dennis Hopper
(2008)
TV episode
.... Himself
"ETV tokushû"
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Miles Davis: The Man and His Music
(2007)
TV episode
.... Himself
"Video on Trial"
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Episode #2.8
(2006)
TV episode
.... Himself
Marilyn Mazur: Queen of Percussion
(2006) .... Himself
"The Greatest Canadian"
(2004)
Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue
(2004) .... Himself
A Huey P. Newton Story
(2001) (TV) (uncredited) .... Himself
The Miles Davis Story
(2001) (TV) .... Himself
Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
(2000) (TV) (uncredited) .... Himself - Audience Member
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
(2000) (V) .... Himself
"CNN World Beat"
-
Miles Davis Retrospective
(2000)
TV episode
.... As Himself
Prince Interactive
(1994) (VG) .... Himself
"Great Performances"
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Miles Davis: A Tribute
(1991)
TV episode
.... Himself
Additional Details
Other Works:
A member of the "Artists United Against Apartheid" charity project in 1985.
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Publicity Listings:
8 Biographical Movies | 1 Print Biography | 1 Interview | 10 Articles | 3 Magazine Cover Photos
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