Chuck BerryFilmography

1950s: Music, Memories and Milestones

Synopsis: In a tribute to the 1950s, this documentary depicts the era through such memorable personalities as Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Elvis Presley. Also shown are news events such as the Korean War and the launching of Sputnik. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Jerry Lee Lewis: I Am What I Am

Synopsis: This 1987 documentary presents the life story of influential singer, songwriter, and musician Jerry Lee Lewis, whose pioneering brand of country-blues-boogie shook the world of rock & roll. Nicknamed "The Killer," and a cousin of notorious televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Lewis displayed a prodigious Read More

Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Etta James, Julian Lennon, Keith Richards

Synopsis: Rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry's 60th birthday party (October 18, 1986) in his home town of St. Louis forms the nucleus of Taylor Hackford's lively musical documentary. In addition to Berry, we are treated to interviews with Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Roy Orbison, The Everly Brothers, and Read More

Concrete Angels

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Joseph di Mambro, Luke McKeehan, Omie Craden, Dean Bosacki

Synopsis: Set in 1964, a group of four Toronto teens enter a battle of the bands to win an opening spot at a Beatles show. Led by an Italian teenager (Joseph Dimambro), the band just might be successful. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra

Synopsis: A Musical-Educational-Informative video all in one! Cab Calloway is featured with his band in this compilation of vintage films. Beginning in 1935 with "Jitterbug Party" to a 1937 feature film, "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round, and a tune called "Mama I Wanna Make Rhythm." Skip to 1942 for four Read More

Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley's Rock & Roll All-Star Jam

Actors: Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Ronnie Wood, Carl Wilson

Synopsis: Two of rock & roll's great pioneering guitarists pair up for a show with guest appearances from some of the biggest names in rock. Guests include Ron Wood (Rolling Stones), Carl Wilson (Beach Boys), Ronnie Lane (Faces), Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night), Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix), Kenny Jones Read More

Chuck Berry: Chuck Berry Featuring Tina Turner

National Lampoon's Class Reunion

Actors: Gerritt Graham, Michael Lerner, Fred McCarren, Miriam Flynn, Stephen Furst

Synopsis: A high school class reunion turns bloody when a former student seeks revenge on his classmates in this black comedy. That mayhem would strike this 20-year reunion seems preordained, given that the name of the school is Lizzie Borden High. Little did anyone expect, however, that this trouble would Read More

Chuck Berry: Live at the Roxy with Tina Turner

Synopsis: Originally, filmed at the Roxy in Los Angeles during 1982, this video features singing legend Chuck Berry belting out several of his greatest hits. The equally renowned Tina Turner joins him for one song, and later rejoins him in a choreographed farewell performance. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Read More

American Hot Wax

Actors: Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Jay Leno, Laraine Newman, Carl Earl Weaver

Synopsis: This lively musical comedy pays tribute to the birth of rock & roll in the late 1950s and the instrumental role played by disc jockey Alan Freed who helped bring the new sound into vogue. Much of the story centers on the daring deejay's attempts to put on the very first live rock & roll stage show Read More

Saturday Night Live: Ruth Gordon

Actors: Ruth Gordon, Chuck Berry

Synopsis: This 1977 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Ruth Gordon and features musical guest Chuck Berry. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n Roll (Rock 'n Roll)

Actors: Bill Haley, Carl Perkins, Chubby Checker, Chuck Berry, Cliff Richard

Synopsis: In this installment in the All You Need Is Love documentary series, filmmakers examine the musical influences that have come out of Memphis, Tennessee, including the works of producer Sam Phillips, singer Elvis Presley, and more. Other artists featured in concert footage and interviews include Read More

Alice in den Städten

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sybille Baier, Mirko, Sam Presti

Synopsis: Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten) was the first of German director Wim Wenders' films to be lensed in part in the United States. Phillip (Rüdiger Vogler) is a roving German reporter who, after a chance encounter with an elusive American woman, reluctantly accepts temporary custody of Read More

Let the Good Times Roll

Actors: Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Chubby Checker, Bo Diddley

Synopsis: A highly entertaining rock documentary, Let the Good Times Roll combines film clips from the 1950s with footage from a rock & roll revival show filmed in the early '70s. As is not always the case with such things, most of the artists are in fine shape in their latter-day performances, with the Coasters Read More

The Mike Douglas Show: February 16, 1972

Synopsis: In 1972, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, made a strategic and historic week-long guest appearance on the hit talk/variety television program The Mike Douglas Show hoping to get their counterculture message across to middle America. Day three, February 16, 1972, features Lennon meeting his Read More

Chuck Berry: Rock & Roll Music

Synopsis: The man who invented rock & roll guitar (and wrote some of rock's best songs) plays his hits and a few personal favorites in this concert video. Songs include "Johnny B. Goode," "Sweet Little Sixteen," and "Hoochie Coochie Man." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Little Richard: Live at the Toronto Peace Festival 1969

Actors: Little Richard

Synopsis: The 1969 Toronto Peace Festival featured sets by some of the most popular rock acts of the day including John Lennon, Chuck Berry, and The Doors. This documentary captures Little Richard's performance at the festival, a nine-song set that includes renditions of classics like "Good Golly, Miss Read More

That Was Rock

Synopsis: This rollicking music film is a compilation of two previous films from the mid-1960s, The T.A.M.I. Show and The Big T.N.T. Show. Chuck Berry hosts the acts which include some of the greatest R&B acts and rock & roll acts of that generation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hullabaloo: Show 017

Synopsis: Hullabaloo was one of network TV's first attempts to deal with rock & roll on its own terms; it was a weekly prime-time variety hour devoted to the hottest names in pop music. This episode from 1965 was hosted by Trini Lopez and includes performances by the Sir Douglas Quintet, Chuck Berry, Martha Read More

The T.A.M.I. Show

Actors: Teri Garr

Synopsis: In 1964, television director Steve Binder was given the task of staging the Teen-Age Music International Show, a concert event which would showcase some of the biggest rock and pop acts of the day; Binder and his camera crew then captured the proceedings on video tape, and the results were Read More

Shindig Presents: Legends of Rock 'n' Roll

Synopsis: In the 1960s, Shindig was the premiere showcase for the greatest acts in rock & roll. This collection of rock legend performances includes the Righteous Brothers singing "Ko Ko Joe," Jerry Lee Lewis singing "High School Confidential," Aretha Franklin with "Mockingbird," Tina Turner singing Read More

Jazz on a Summer's Day

Actors: Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day

Synopsis: Jazz on a Summer's Day is a priceless record of the 1958 Jazz Festival at Newport, Rhode Island. It just doesn't get better than this. We see Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Dinah Washington, Chuck Berry, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, George Shearing, Jack Teagarden, Sonny Stitt, Chico Hamilton Read More

Go, Johnny Go!

Actors: Alan Freed, Ritchie Valens

Synopsis: Go, Johnny, Go! was second and last of a proposed trio of jukebox movies built around and co-produced by DJ Alan Freed. He plays himself in this rags-to-riches tale, told in flashback, of a young rock & roll singer named Johnny Melody (Jimmy Clanton), whose rise from life in an orphanage where no Read More

Mr. Rock and Roll

Actors: Alan Freed

Synopsis: To anyone born between 1935 and 1949, Mr. Rock and Roll can mean only one person: Visionary disc-jockey and concert producer Alan Freed. Made a few years before Freed ran into deep doo-doo during the Payola investigations, this ramshackle film purports to show how Freed brought R&R to the masses Read More

Rock, Rock, Rock!

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Connie Francis, Teddy Randazzo, Alan Freed, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, Chuck Berry, Johnny Burnette

Synopsis: Rock, Rock, Rock stars 13-year-old Tuesday Weld, who looks 11 if she's a day. Even so, Weld's Dori is trying to get together enough money to buy a strapless gown (she's far more self-confident than she should be at this biological stage of the game). Daddy has cut off Dori's allowance, but gee Read More

Rock 'n' Roll Classics, Vol. 3

Synopsis: A 6 volume rock 'n' roll video series with Volume 3 featuring artists Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Rock 'n' Roll Classics, Vol. 5

Synopsis: A 6 volume rock 'n' roll video series with Volume 5 featuring artists Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers and Big Joe Turner. ~ All Movie Guide Read More