Pete Townshend Filmography

Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who

Actors: Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Kenney Jones

Synopsis: Oscar-winning filmmaker Murray Lerner and co-director Paul Crowder draw on the essential themes of The Who's music and lyrics to craft a definitive audio-visual document of the influential band's timeless legacy. From their origins as a 1960s R&B cover band to their transformation into the band Read More

The Who: Tommy and Quadrophenia - Live with Special Guests

Synopsis: Rock and roll legends The Who come alive for a whole new generation of fans in this release that offers a collection of unforgettable live performances. In addition to a stunning live performance of Tommy featuring special guest stars Elton John, Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Patty Labelle, and Steve Read More

CSI: NY: Season 01

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Eddie Cahill, Carmine Giovinazzo, Hill Harper

Synopsis: Introduced in May 2004 as an episode of CSI: Miami, the CBS "procedural" cop drama CSI: NY launches its first full season with 22 hour-long episodes. The opener, "Blink," finds NYC Crime Lab head Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) and his team of brilliant, iconoclastic forensic specialists hunting for a Read More

Pete Townshend: Music From Lifehouse

Actors: Pete Townshend

Synopsis: After 30 years in the making, The Who's Pete Townshend presented his experimental music project the Lifehouse at London's Sadler's Well Theatre on February 25th and 26th, 2000. Image presents this account of the performance which was directed by Hugo Currie and Toby Leslie. Released in 2002, Pete Read More

VH1 Storytellers: Classics

Synopsis: Combining intimate acoustic performances with personal banter and song history, VH1 Storytellers attempted to take the concept introduced with MTV Unplugged a step further. On this 2001 release, viewers are given the opportunity to sample highlights from some of the program's most popular Read More

The Iron Giant

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Eli Marienthal, Vin Diesel, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Christopher McDonald, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney

Synopsis: A boy's best friend is his robot in this animated adventure from Brad Bird, best known for his TV work on such series as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and The Critic. Set in 1957, The Iron Giant focuses on Hogarth (voice of Eli Marienthal), an imaginative nine-year-old boy who daydreams of alien Read More

The Who: Who's Next

Synopsis: Part of the Classic Album series, this documentary details the process by which the Who created 1971's outstanding {^Who's Next} album. Featuring insider information, such as how the final mixes were worked out, the documentary also explains that the songs on the album were initially written to be Read More

The History of Rock 'n' Roll: Guitar Heroes

Synopsis: Volume Seven of this 10-part series has interviews and profiles of such greats as Hendrix, Page, Townsend, and Van Halen; guys so big you only need to know their last names to know you're in the presence of masters. Make way for the ax masters! Lots of history and gritty low-down about the average Read More

Roger Daltry: A Celebration - With Pete Townshend and Music of the Who

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Roger Daltrey

Synopsis: Former Who vocalist Roger Daltrey celebrated his fiftieth birthday with this concert at New York's Carnegie Hall, in which he pays tribute to the songs of his former bandmate Pete Townshend (who makes a guest appearance, as does the other surviving member of the original Who lineup, John Read More

Pete Townshend: Live

GoodFellas

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish Read More

The Who: Who's Better, Who's Best

Synopsis: The Who were one of the most exciting and original rock bands to come out of England in the 1960's, combining a distinctive and intelligent lyrical perspective with a music that was passionate and explosive. The Who: Who's Better, Who's Best is a video compilation that features performances of Read More

Playing for Keeps

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Daniel Jordano, Matthew Penn, Leon Grant, Mary Ward, Marisa Tomei

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, three exuberant high-school graduates finally find a direction in life when they decide to fix-up a ramshackle Catskill resort and turn it into a little slice of rock & roll heaven for teens. They work hard to make the repairs and pay the over $8,000 in back taxes. When Read More

Pete Townshend: Deep End Live

Synopsis: Brixton, London was host to Pete Townshend from The Who playing great hits live. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Sun City - Artists United Against Apartheid

White City - Pete Townshend

Ready Steady Go, Vol. 2

Synopsis: One of a series of volumes containing tapes of live performances as seen on the fab British rock 'n roll TV show so popular in the 60s. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Pete Townshend: White City

Synopsis: Pete Townsend of The Who is star of this hybrid music video. Why call it a hybrid? Well, at times it seems to want to be a music video pure and simple, with several top Townsend tunes given emphasis. At other times, it veers towards straight drama, illustrating an incident that reportedly happened Read More

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour

Synopsis: Rock to the sounds of Pink Floyd with music video titles such as "After the Floyd," "Blue Light" and "All Lovers Are Deranged." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Secret Policeman's Private Parts

Actors: Peter Cook, Terry Jones

Synopsis: The Secret Policeman's Private Parts, the second of two concert films produced on behalf of Amnesty International, is better photographed than the first (The Secret Policeman's Other Ball) but not quite as enjoyable. As in the earlier film, the show is stolen by the Monty Python aggregation: John Cleese Read More

The Who: The Who Rocks America

Synopsis: This final performance on their North American tour includes tunes like "Pinball Wizard" and "Tommy." Filmed at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style

Pete Townshend: Video EP

Synopsis: This special first appeared on MTV and focuses on the talented songwriter and front man for The Who as he performs his latest hits from the early 1980s. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Pete Townshend, Alan Bennett, John Bird, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Jeff Beck

Synopsis: The highlights of two benefit concerts staged in support of Amnesty International are collected in this British performance film, which features ample helpings of both music and comedy. The members of the Monty Python comedy troupe serve as headliners, performing live variations on some of their Read More

Quadrophenia

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer, Musical Direction/Supervision, Screenwriter

Actors: Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Philip Davis, Sting, Garry Cooper, Leslie Ash

Synopsis: This film version of the Who's rock opera {^Quadrophenia} makes a few tentative stabs at "explaining" the alienation of 1960s British working-class youth, but its major selling point is its nonstop rock-and-R&B musical score, including the hit single "Love Reign O'er Me." Phil Daniels (replacing Read More

The Who: The Kids Are Alright

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Keith Moon

Synopsis: The classic rock group The Who are featured in this 1979 documentary about the career of the group. It is enhanced by rare footage of the performers, including a television interview with the later-deceased Keith Moon. Highlights include footage from many of the band's early performances. Among Read More

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Actors: John Cleese, Peter Cook, Eleanor Bron, Pete Townshend, Rowan Atkinson

Synopsis: The first of three films built around documentary footage of two Amnesty International fundraising concerts, The Secret Policeman's Ball was, like its companion films, directed by Roger Graef. While the subsequent Secret Policeman's Other Ball and The Secret Policeman's Private Parts were widely Read More

The Who: At Kilburn 1977

Actors: The Who

Synopsis: This concert film presents The Who's memorable appearance at Kilburn in 1977. The setlist includes classics such as "I Can't Explain," "Won't Get Fooled Again," and "Who Are You." The program also includes a 1969 gig from the band that features the first public performance of material from their Read More

Tommy

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Jack Nicholson, Robert Powell

Synopsis: Tommy (Roger Daltrey) is a "deaf, dumb and blind kid" who retreats into himself after the death of his father. His mother, Nora (Ann-Margret), and stepfather Frank (Oliver Reed) take him to see a specialist (Jack Nicholson) but Tommy is apparently a hopeless case. That is, until Tommy discovers Read More

Jimi Hendrix

Actors: Jimi Hendrix

Synopsis: Jimi Hendrix was one of the most prodigiously gifted electric guitarists in rock music history, leaving behind a remarkable body of work after his death in 1970. Jimi Hendrix combines live footage of Hendrix in concert with interviews with Hendrix's friends and contemporaries. Also known as A Film Read More

Woodstock

Actors: Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, The Who, Crosby, Stills & Nash

Synopsis: This musical documentary covers the three-day 1969 music festival on the property of Max Yasger's farm that symbolized the late 1960s in terms of musical, social and political ideology of the era. American audiences are introduced to Ten Years After, featuring guitar great Alvin Lee. Jimi Hendix Read More

Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Brownjohn, Jean Shrimpton, David Bailey

Synopsis: This experimental film concerns a young man who refuses to give back to society after taking so much. The camera visits a slaughterhouse for pigs and films a mother dialing a telephone in the family home. Music is provided by Speedy Kean and Pete Townshend. Prior to its screening at the 1970 New Read More

Monterey Pop

Synopsis: The first concert film of the rock & roll era, Monterey Pop is an invaluable record of some of the major musical figures of the late 1960s. The organizers of the Monterey International Pop Festival, held June 16-18, 1967, wisely chose to record the proceedings on film for commercial distribution. Read More

The Who: Quadrophenia Live

Synopsis: The struggles of a disillusioned young mod to come of age in the tumultuous 1960's is portrayed with musical thunder as The Who's {^Quadrophenia} comes to the stage in this filmed version of the live performance taken from the band's 1996-1997 U.S. concert tour. Then-unknown actor Alex Langdon Read More

Pete Townshend: Deep End - Mini Concert

SXSW Live 2007

Actors: The Bravery, Ozomatli, Aqualung, Rickie Lee Jones, Bowling for Soup

Synopsis: Music lovers know that when it comes to the biggest festivals on the planet, South by Southwest is the destination of choice for the biggest bands around. As the 2007 festivities get underway, even those who couldn't make it to the event in person can witness stunning stage sets by such giants as Read More