Bob Dylan
Known for Acting · 156 credits
- Born
- 1941-05-24 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Duluth, Minnesota, USA
- Also known as
- Robert Allen Zimmerman · Blind Boy Grunt · The Bard · The Voice of a Generation · The Voice of Protest · Zimbo
Biography
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and painter. He has been a major figure in music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler, and an apparently reluctant figurehead, of social unrest. Though he is well-known for revolutionizing perceptions of the limits of popular music in 1965 with the six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone," a number of his earlier songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements.
His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica. Backed by a changing line-up of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his greatest contribution is generally considered to be his songwriting.
Since 1994, Dylan has published three books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a songwriter and musician, Dylan has received numerous awards over the years including Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards; he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2008, a road called the Bob Dylan Pathway was opened in the singer's honor in his birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."
Known For
TV Shows (16)
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Musical Guest
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Dharma & Greg
1997
as Self
MTV Unplugged
1989
as Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
Disco
1971
as Self
The Top Ten Revealed
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The Johnny Cash Show
1969
as Self
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The Grammys
1959
as Self
Popular Voices at the BBC
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Folk Britannia
2006
as Self (archival footage)
Movies (140)
Dylan Speaks
1965
as Self
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
as Self - Singer (archive footage)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Alias
Mavis!
2015
as Self
Catchfire
1990
as Artist (uncredited)
The Magic Voices of Pop
2021
as Self (archive)
Masked and Anonymous
2003
as Jack Fate
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
as Self (archive footage)
The Greatest Night in Pop
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967
as Self
The People Speak
2009
as Self
My Darling Vivian
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The Beach Boys
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Hearts of Fire
1987
as Billy Parker
Live Aid
1985
as Self
The Last Waltz
1978
as Self
Imagine: John Lennon
1988
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
2024
as Self (archive footage)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
as Self
Song to Woody: Greenwich Village, The Folk Revival, and Bob Dylan
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan: Trouble No More
2017
as Self
No Time to Think: Bob Dylan as Filmmaker
2026
as Himself (archival footage)
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
1995
as Self - Performer
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
as Self
Leonard Cohen: Under Review: 1934-1977
1977
Bob Dylan: When the Deal Goes Down
2006
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965
as Self
The Story of the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
1983
as Self
Seattle Supersonic
2005
as Self
Eat the Document
1972
as Self
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The Dancing Man of L.A.
2021
as Self (archive footage)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of Sun City
1985
as Self
Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
2007
as Self
Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today
2005
as Self
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Robbie Robertson: Going Home
1995
as Self
Bob Dylan: Woodstock '94
1994
as Self
Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music
1969
as Self
Eric Clapton & Friends in Concert
1999
as Self - Guest star
The Concert for Bangladesh
1972
as Self
Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
1993
as Self
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
as Self
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
1985
as Self
Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels
2004
as Self
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
2021
as Self (archival footage)
Bob Dylan: Jokerman
1984
George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited
2005
as Self
My Generation: The Animals
1995
as Self (Archive Footage)
Van Morrison: One Irish Rover
1991
as Self
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
2022
as Self
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom
2021
as Self
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Mellencamp: It's About You
2012
as Self
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
1993
as Self
O Melhor do Flash Back - 92 Clipes Para Recordar
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
2020
as Self
Getting to Dylan
1987
as Self
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
1979
as Self
The Ballad of AJ Weberman
2006
as Self (archive sound)
The Best Of Beat
2003
as Self (archive footage)
YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Renaldo and Clara
1978
as Renaldo
Bob Dylan - Live At The House Of Blues
2005
as Self
The Wild West Bank Sound
as Self - Musician/Self - songwriter (archive footage)
Live Aid
2004
as Self
Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan & The Band: Down In The Flood
2012
as Self
Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan
2006
as self - archival footage
Johnny Cash: American Rebel
2015
as Self (archive photos/footage)
The Discreet Françoise Hardy
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Johnny Cash: Live On Air
2008
as Self
Highway 99: A Double Album
2025
as Self [Archival]
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
2007
as Self
Johnny Cash's America
2008
as Self
The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
2007
as Self
Bob Dylan - TV Live & Rare 1963 - 1975
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965
2008
as Self (Archive Footage)
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
1970
as Self
Festival
1967
as Self
Bob Dylan: 1978-1989 - Both Ends of the Rainbow
2008
as Self
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Born In Chicago
2013
as Self
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
1994
as Himself
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
as Self
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
2024
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
1986
as Self
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
2019
as Self
The Best of The Johnny Cash TV Show 1969-1971
2007
as Self
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Inside Bob Dylan's Jesus Years: Busy Being Born... Again!
2008
as Self
Bob Dylan: 1990-2006 - The Never Ending Narrative
2011
as Self
Paradise Cove
1999
as Alfred - Chauffeur
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
as Self
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan Never Ending Tour Diaries: Drummer Winston Watson's Incredible Journey
2009
as Self
Bob Dylan: MTV Unplugged
1994
as Self
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
Bob Dylan: World Tours 1966-1974 - Through the Camera of Barry Feinstein
2004
as Self
65 Revisited
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Året var 1966
2016
as Self (archive footage)
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Screen Test [ST83]: Bob Dylan
1965
as Self
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Guitar Legends EXPO '92 at Sevilla - The Experimental Night
1991
as Self
The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
1994
as Self
The Rolling Stones: Bridges To Buenos Aires
1998
as Self
Taj Mahal and Friends
1987
as Self
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan and The Band: 1969-1970 Compilation
2006
as Self
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
2006
as Self
Nanci Griffith: Other Voices, Other Rooms
1993
as Self
Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield
2013
as Self
The Bob Dylan Phenomenon
2007
as Self
Tales From a Golden Age: Bob Dylan 1941-1966
2004
as Self (archive footage)
About Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and painter. He has been a major figure in music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler, and an apparently reluctant figurehead, of social unrest. Though he is well-known for revolutionizing perceptions of the limits of popular music in 1965 with the six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone," a number of his earlier songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'… With 156 credits spanning from 1953 to 2026, Bob Dylan has appeared in 140 films and 16 TV shows.
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Most Popular Bob Dylan Movies
- Dylan Speaks (1965) — as Self
- John Candy: I Like Me (2025) — as Self - Singer (archive footage)
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) — as Alias
- Mavis! (2015) — as Self
- Catchfire (1990) — as Artist (uncredited)
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