Quincy Jones Filmography

Brando

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Richard Bailey, Janet Aemisegger, Ellen Adler, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, James Caan, Jane Fonda

Synopsis: As originally screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, at the Cannes Film Festival, and on Turner Classic Movies, the mammoth, epic-length documentary Brando chronicles in encyclopedic detail (and with a consistently reverent overtone) the life and career of the man widely regarded as the most Read More

The Truth in Terms of Beauty

Actors: Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, Herman Leonard

Synopsis: Photographer Herman Leonard has enjoyed a distinguished career by any standards -- getting his start as an apprentice with the great Yousuf Karsh, Leonard became a top fashion and travel photographer, worked for Life and Time magazines, and spent years as the European photo editor for Playboy. But Read More

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marc John Jefferies, Viola Davis, Joy Bryant, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson

Synopsis: Hip-hop star 50 Cent makes his movie debut in this hard-edged urban drama inspired by the rapper's own life. Marcus (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, aka 50 Cent) grew up in a tough New York neighborhood and was left to fend for himself after the death of his mother when he was a kid. Marcus fell in with Read More

The Art of 16 Bars

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The Art of 16 Bars features interviews with major hip-hop stars that involve them discussing how they rose to prominence. Among the artists who offer their insights are 50 Cent, Nas, Kanye West, Russell Simmons, and The RZA. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

MADtv: The Best of Seasons 8-10

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this release offering highlights from three seasons of the popular weekly sketch comedy series Mad TV, the whole cast comes together to offer some of the funniest sketches from seasons Eight through Ten. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rockin' the Corps

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Rockin' the Corps documents a music and comedy concert held to honor Marines returning from Iraq. The concert offers a variety of acts including the hard rocking Kiss and Ted Nugent, the hip-hop sound of Ja Rule, the smooth R&B of Destiny's Child, and the comedy of Cedric the Entertainer, Louie Read More

The N Word

Synopsis: The biggest names in show business come together to offer their opinions on one of the most inflammatory words in the English language in filmmaker Todd Williams' revealing and thought-provoking documentary. In its long and complex history, the word "nigger" has gone from a cutting and derogatory Read More

Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee

Synopsis: This documentary compiles 20 different film and television appearances by the distinctive singer Peggy Lee. She is seen and heard performing such classics as "Fever," "Wind Beneath My Wings," "A Fine Romance," "Big Spender," and "Is That All There Is." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Austin Powers in Goldmember

Actors: Mike Myers, Beyoncé Knowles, Seth Green, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Mike Myers' phenomenally successful spy spoof gains a few more characters, a slew of celebrity cameos, and even more free-associative laughs in this third installment of the popular franchise. Austin Powers in Goldmember continues the exploits of the swinging-'60s leftover, who, as the film opens Read More

Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel - The Life of an Outlaw

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tupac Shakur

Synopsis: Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Peter Spirer (Rhyme & Reason, East Coast Mix, Volume 1: Another Reason to Rhyme, BloodTies) directs this look at the life and art of rap artist Tupac Shakur. In addition to rare footage of Shakur, the film includes interviews with significant members of the rap Read More

The Smokers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dominique Swain, Busy Philipps, Keri Lynn Pratt

Synopsis: Christina Peters directs this wacky comedy about a trio of evil teens. Based at Wisconsin's Lindenhurst Academy, Jefferson (Dominique Swain), Karen (Busy Phillips), and Lisa (Keri Lynn Pratt) like to smoke pot and rape men at gunpoint. Thora Birch appears as Jefferson's drug-addled sister. Read More

Fantasia 2000

Actors: Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones, Bette Midler, James Earl Jones, Teller, Penn Jillette, James Levine, Angela Lansbury, Leopold Stokowski

Synopsis: Initially released to IMAX theaters at the crescendo of millennial fever and 60 years after the original Fantasia, Fantasia 2000 was meant to revitalize Walt Disney's goal of a constantly evolving film, with new segments replacing old ones with each re-release. Only The Sorcerer's Apprentice Read More

Passing Glory

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Andre Braugher, Rip Torn, Sean Squire, Ruby Dee, Bill Nunn

Synopsis: Set in the institutionally segregated New Orleans of 1965, the made-for-cable Passing Glory is the story of black priest Father Joseph Verrett (Andre Braugher) and his efforts to arrange the first integrated high-school basketball game in the city's history. Against the wishes of trepid white Read More

Classic Albums: Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Synopsis: In 1976, Stevie Wonder released {^Songs in the Key of Life}, a stunningly ambitious two-record-set that is still regarded as the finest hour in Wonder's remarkable career. This documentary (produced for VH1's "Classic Albums" series) traces this history of this masterpiece of pop and R&B, from its Read More

Steel

Crew: Producer

Actors: Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Irma P. Hall

Synopsis: Low-rent, poorly-lit superhero action is the order of the day in this film from television director Kenneth Johnson -- who makes several references to his series Alien Nation throughout the course of the movie. NBA basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal stars as John Henry Irons, a weapons designer Read More

Quincy Jones and Friends: 50 Years in Music - Live at Montreux 1996

Actors: Quincy Jones

Synopsis: Quincy Jones and Friends: 50 Years in Music features the legendary musician performing with a variety of special guests including saxophonist David Sanborn and Phil Collins. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Clint Eastwood

The History of Rock 'n' Roll: Guitar Heroes

Crew: Executive Producer

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

The History of Rock 'n' Roll: The '70s - Have a Nice Decade

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The History of Rock 'n' Roll, Volume Eight: The 70's is part of the ten-volume Time-Warner History of Rock 'n' Roll set. Each of the ten volumes covers a specific aspect of the exciting cultural phenomenon of rock music, documenting everything from Elvis "the Pelvis" Presley to the MTV revolution. Read More

The History of Rock 'n' Roll: My Generation

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Produced by Time Life Video & Television, History of Rock 'n' Roll: My Generation is part 6 in a 10-tape documentary series that depicts the history of rock from its inception to punk and beyond. The music of The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Santana are featured in this segment. Other Read More

A Great Day in Harlem

Actors: Milt Hinton, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins

Synopsis: A Great Day in Harlem is a wonderful documentary about a seemingly ho-hum subject -- the taking of a photograph. Even when the photograph in question involves some of the greatest jazz musicians who ever lived, building a film around a static subject like a photograph is not an easy task. Jean Bach Read More

Oscar Peterson: The Life of a Legend

Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar

Synopsis: Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar documents the career of the respected jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. The film combines interviews with the man and many of the people with whom he worked, archival footage, and a great deal of music in order to show how Peterson grew from a teen star into Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: The Client

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the series' two-part Season Five opener, up-and-coming singer Ashley (Tatyana M. Ali) has put her future in the hands of famous record promoter Gordy Berry (Obba Babatunde)--leaving her original manager Will (Will Smith) out in the cold--and, briefly, out of the Banks house. Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: The Alma Mater

Synopsis: The biggest surprise surrounding The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's obligatory "It's a Wonderful Life" parody is that the episode was NOT originally telecast at Christmastime. Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro) is shocked when Will (Will Smith) is accepted at Princeton University--and he himself is not! Read More

Miles & Quincy: Live at Montreux

Synopsis: Miles Davis was a restless musical innovator who had little use for revisiting the music he had made in the past, but in the summer of 1991, Miles made an exception. Teaming up with Quincy Jones, Miles Davis appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Jones directing the Gil Evans Orchestra, the Read More

Listen Up!: The Lives of Quincy Jones

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis

Synopsis: The extraordinary life of Quincy Jones -- one of the 20th century's most influential and talented composers, musicians and music producers -- provides the basis of this offbeat, free-form documentary tribute. With little regard for formal timelines and traditional documentary biography methods Read More

Saturday Night Live: Quincy Jones

Actors: Quincy Jones

Synopsis: This 1990 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Quincy Jones , who also serves as the musical guest. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Someday Your Prince Will Be in Effect, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single one hour special), Will (Will Smith) and the Banks family continue shopping at the mall in preparation for a Halloween party. Along the way, Will and Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro) compete for the attentions of a toothsome lass Read More

Yakety Yak: Take It Back

Synopsis: An informative presentation that includes a guide to recycling. Includes an information booklet and stars a large group of celebrities. Bugs Bunny, B.B. King, Kenny Loggins, Bette Midler and many others are here to spread the word. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: African American entertainer Will Smith graduated from rap-music stardom to TV sitcom superstardom in the long-running NBC series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Co-produced by Quincy Jones, the series starred the twentysomething Smith as streetwise West Philadelphia teenager Will Smith (they must Read More

Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs

Synopsis: Narrated by Burt Lancaster, Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs provides a comprehensive overview of the life and career of jazz saxophonist Benny Carter. Widely known as one of the originators of the big band sound, Carter's influence can still be heard in modern jazz and big band performances. Read More

Frank Sinatra: Portrait of an Album

Synopsis: Initially influenced by the jazz stylings of, among others, crooner Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) developed his own distinct sound and style. This video offers a view from inside the recording booth as "Old Blue Eyes" lays down some tracks. Viewers get to see "The Chairman of the Board" Read More

The Slugger's Wife

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Ritt, Randy Quaid, Cleavant Derricks

Synopsis: This routine film should have been called the "rock singer's husband" because it is about the life of a baseball player affected by his love for a singer. Darryl Palmer (Michael O'Keefe) plays for the Atlanta Braves, and when he walks into a nightclub and sees an attractive woman singing (Rebecca DeMornay Read More

We Are the World: The Video Event

Fever Pitch

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Catherine Hicks, Giancarlo Giannini, Chad Everett

Synopsis: Writer-director Richard Brooks' final film features a weak script and poor acting but high energy direction in a tale of compulsive gambling in Las Vegas. Ryan O'Neal stars as Taggart, a sports reporter obsessed with gambling. As Taggart gets deeper and deeper into debt, he compounds his problems Read More

The Color Purple

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Willard E. Pugh

Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her Read More

Quincy Jones: A Celebration

The Wiz

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

Actors: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet's The Wiz is the film version of the popular Broadway musical that retells the events of L. Frank Baum's classic novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz through the eyes of a young African-American kindergarten teacher who's "never been below 125th Street." Leaving a large family dinner to Read More

Roots

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the highest-rated television programs in broadcasting history. Based on the best-selling novel by author Alex Haley, Roots chronicles the progress of Haley's own family across many Read More

Sanford and Son: Season 06

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Marlene Clark, Lynn Hamilton

Synopsis: Season six of Sanford and Son was launched on September 24, 1976, with the series' only two-part episode -- and also one of its funniest -- "The Hawaiian Connection," largely filmed on location in Honolulu and its environs. Then it was back to South Central Los Angeles, where irascible Fred Read More

Sanford and Son: Season 05

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Marlene Clark, Hal Williams

Synopsis: Beginning its fifth successful season on Friday, September 12, 1975, Sanford and Son was essentially the mixture as before with most of the familiar regulars firmly in place. His well-publicized contract disputes more or less receding into memory, Redd Foxx was back as cantankerous Watts junk Read More

Sanford and Son: Season 04

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, LaWanda Page, Hal Williams

Synopsis: Season four of Sanford and Son was ushered in on Friday, September 13, 1974, with wonderful news for longtime fans of the series: after a well-publicized volley of recriminations between star Redd Foxx and the series' producers over Foxx's numerous (and somewhat bizarre) contractual demands, the Read More

Ironside: Season 07

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside shows no signs of slowing down his battle against crime, corruption and persecution in Season Seven of Ironside. Likewise not slacking in their duties are the members of Ironside's team: police sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway), aspiring lawyer Mark Read More

Save the Children

Synopsis: This concert documentary chronicles the many acts that appeared during Jesse Jackon's Operation PUSH exposition held in 1972 in Chicago. Featured concert performers include Marvin Gaye singing "What's Going On," The Temptations with "Papa Was a Rolling Stone, " and Bill Withers performing "Lean on Read More

Sanford and Son: Season 03

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, LaWanda Page, Hal Williams

Synopsis: Still riding high in the ratings, Sanford and Son returned to its by then traditional Friday-night NBC time slot for a third successful season on September 14, 1973. The basic premise -- crotchety old Fred Sanford running a rundown Los Angeles junk business with his restless son Lamont -- was Read More

The Getaway

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri

Synopsis: In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved years, Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) sends his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) to dirty politician Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson) to Read More

Ironside: Season 06

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Season Six of Ironside opens with the two-part "Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown, in which the title character (played by Don Galloway) is felled by a sniper's bullet and faces the same fate--permanent confinement in a wheelchair--as his boss, private detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Read More

Sanford and Son: Season 01

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Hal Williams, Noam Pitlik, Lynn Hamilton

Synopsis: With All in the Family reaping huge ratings and even huger controversy on CBS, producer Norman Lear was able to sell another "chancy" sitcom project to rival network NBC. Like Family, which was inspired by the British comedy series Till Death Us Do Part, Lear's Sanford and Son was based on a Read More

Come Back, Charleston Blue

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Darryl Knibb, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Peter de Anda, Percy Rodrigues, Jonelle Allen

Synopsis: This sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) brings back Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) and Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge), two freewheeling African-American police detectives working the beat in Harlem. Joe (Peter DeAnda) is a famous photographer who has mounted a crusade to drive Read More

Sanford and Son: Season 02

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Hal Williams, Howard Platt

Synopsis: A confirmed hit in its inaugural 14-episode season, the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son returned to its familiar Friday-night berth for a second batch of 24 episodes beginning September 15, 1972. In true "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" tradition, producer Norman Lear made virtually no changes in the Read More

The Hot Rock

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lynne Gordon, Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, Zero Mostel

Synopsis: Peter Yates directs the early '70s comedy caper The Hot Rock, based on the Donald Westlake novel and adapted for the screen by William Goldman. Robert Redford stars as John Archibald Dortmunder, a former jewel thief just released from prison. His brother-in-law, Andrew Kelp (George Segal) Read More

The New Centurions

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson, Rosalind Cash

Synopsis: Joseph Wambaugh's best-seller about patrol-car cops in urban Los Angeles is given a competent yet antiseptic treatment by director Richard Fleischer. The film has a bad-tasting us-versus-them mentality in its depiction of patrolmen-civilian interaction, and its hopeless atmosphere carries over Read More

Sanford and Son [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Marlene Clark, Lynn Hamilton

Synopsis: Like his previous smash hit All in the Family, producer Norman Lear's NBC sitcom Sanford and Son was based on a British original, in this instance Steptoe and Son, the story of an elderly, irascible cockney junk dealer and his cloddish bachelor son and business partner. In the initial development Read More

The Anderson Tapes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Frank Macetta, Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Alan King, Ralph Meeker

Synopsis: This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from his latest prison term. Seeking a quick financial turnover, Anderson uses mob funding to finance an ambitious robbery. With a gang of expert thieves, Anderson sets about to Read More

Ironside: Season 05

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Season Five of Ironside opens with the two-hour "The Priest Killer", which is actually the pilot for the George Kennedy TV vehicle Sarge, and as such is not included in the current Ironside syndication package. Otherwise, it's business as usual for wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside Read More

Killer by Night

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Killer by Night is reminiscent of such early 1950s film noir exercises as The Killer That Stalked New York and Panic in the Streets. The police of a large city are plagued with two crises at once: A diphtheria epidemic and a triple murderer. With the help of health officials Robert Wagner and Diane Baker Read More

Honky

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brenda Sykes

Synopsis: Honky chronicles the public outcry that greets an interracial relationship between a white teen (John Nielson) and an affluent black woman (Brenda Sykes). Also titled Sheila. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

$ (Dollars)

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Originally billed as merely $, Dollars stars top box office draws Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn. Beatty plays a security whiz, employed in Hamburg, Germany. He devises a clever method of robbing the secret bank vaults of notorious criminals, reasoning that the crooks will never turn to the cops. Read More

Man and Boy

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

Actors: Leif Erickson, Gloria Foster, George Spell, Bill Cosby

Synopsis: This western is notable for having Bill Cosby in a dramatic role in his first feature film. Caleb Rivers (Cosby) is a black Civil War Veteran who just wants to clear out his Arizona homestead and live in peace with his neighbors. Instead, he and his son (George Spell) have to track his stolen Read More

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair, Juano Hernandez, Anthony Zerbe, George Spell

Synopsis: Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Virgil Tibbs in this crime drama, a story unrelated to that of the earlier film In the Heat of the Night. Once again, he is a veteran homicide detective and is currently investigating the murder of a prostitute. The primary suspect is San Francisco political Read More

The Out-of-Towners

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Milt Kamen, Sandy Baron, Anne Meara, Robert Nichols

Synopsis: Ohio businessman Jack Lemmon is offered a golden job opportunity; all he has to do is relocate himself and wife Sandy Dennis to New York City. What follows has led some critics to complain that playwright Neil Simon has written a "hate letter" to Manhattan. Within a 36 hour period, the couple (a) Read More

Ironside: Season 04

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Season Four of Ironside finds the titular wheelchair-bound detective (Raymond Burr) continuing to hunt down criminals and help those who can't help themselves, assisted by his bodyguard (and now law student) Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) and police sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway). Likewise very much