Cast & creator
Bob Dylan
Best known for Saturday Night Live, Great Performances, Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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."
Also known as: Robert Allen Zimmerman, Blind Boy Grunt, The Bard, The Voice of a Generation, The Voice of Protest
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film credits
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television credits
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1953–2026 · acting roles
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Filmography (190)
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Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
1975
Great Performances
Self
1971
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
The Oscars
Self
1953
Dharma & Greg
Self
1997Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Self
1967
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
Storyville
1997
MTV Unplugged
Self
1989
A Complete Unknown
Songs
2024
Disco
Self
1971
The Johnny Cash Show
Self
1969
The Top Ten Revealed
Self (archive footage)
2018
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Singer (archive footage)
2025
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Self (archive footage)
2021
Wonder Boys
Songs
2000
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Alias
1973Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Original Music Composer
1973
The Greatest Night in Pop
Self (archive footage)
2024
Band of the Hand
Theme Song Performance
1986
The Beach Boys
Self (archive footage)
2024
My Own Love Song
Music
2010
Andy Warhol's America
2022
Catchfire
Artist (uncredited)
1990
The Last Waltz
Self
1978
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Self
2019Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Lyricist
2019
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
Self
2022
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Self (archive footage)
2024
One to One: John & Yoko
Self (archive footage)
2025
Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
Self
1993
Popular Voices at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2017
Born In Chicago
Self
2013
The People Speak
Self
2009
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Self (archive footage)
2023
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
Live Aid
Self
1985
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
Self
1967Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
Original Music Composer
1967
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Self (archive footage)
2018
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
Self (archive footage)
2018
Masked and Anonymous
Jack Fate
2003Masked and Anonymous
Writer
2003Masked and Anonymous
Music
2003
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Self
2020
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self (archive footage)
2022
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Self
1985
The Dancing Man of L.A.
Self (archive footage)
2021An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1986
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self
2005
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
Self - Performer
1995
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
Self (archive footage)
2020Folk Britannia
Self (archival footage)
2006
Imagine: John Lennon
1988
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
Self
1993
My Darling Vivian
Self (archive footage)
2020
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
Self (archive footage)
2021
Girl From the North Country
Songs
2024
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Self (archive footage)
2013
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Thanks
1994
Hearts of Fire
Billy Parker
1987
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Music
1986
Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
Self (archive footage)
2004
Robbie Robertson: Going Home
Self
1995
Leonard Cohen: Under Review: 1934-1977
1977
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Self
2007
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
Self (archive footage)
2019
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
Self
1979
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
Self (archive footage)
2019
Highway 99: A Double Album
Self [Archival]
2025
The Power of Speech
Music
1988
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Self
1965
The Grammys
Self
1959
O Melhor do Flash Back - 92 Clipes Para Recordar
Self (archive footage)
2009
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Self
1972
John Mellencamp: It's About You
Self
2012
George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited
Self
2005
The Best Of Beat
Self (archive footage)
2003
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Self (archival footage)
2021
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
Self
2007
Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
(archive footage)
2016
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
Self
1994
Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today
Self
2005
The Making of Sun City
Self
1985The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
Self
1994
Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels
Self
2004
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
Self
1986Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
Music
1986
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
Self (archive footage)
2022
Johnny Cash: American Rebel
Self (archive photos/footage)
2015
Daniel Lanois "Rocky World"
Music
1993
Johnny Cash's America
Self
2008
Bob Dylan: When the Deal Goes Down
2006
Eric Clapton & Friends in Concert
Self - Guest star
1999
Mavis!
Self
2015
Bob Dylan: Trouble No More
Self
2017Calico Joe
Producer
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Self
2009
The Rolling Stones: Bridges To Buenos Aires
Self
1998
World Tour 1966: The Home Movies
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Concert for Bangladesh
Self
1972
Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
Self (archive footage)
2003
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Discreet Françoise Hardy
Self (archive footage)
2016
Seattle Supersonic
Self
2005
Song to Woody: Greenwich Village, the Folk Revival, and Bob Dylan
Self (archive footage)
2024Song to Woody: Greenwich Village, the Folk Revival, and Bob Dylan
Music
2024
Andy Warhol's America
2022
Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music
Self
1969
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Self
2007
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film
Self
2019
Renaldo and Clara
Renaldo
1978Renaldo and Clara
Writer
1978Renaldo and Clara
Director
1978Renaldo and Clara
Editor
1978
The Story of the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Self
1983
The Madhouse on Castle Street
Bobby
1963
Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music
Self (archive footage)
2019
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Self (archive footage)
2025
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Self
2006
The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
Self
2007
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
Music
2024
The Wild West Bank Sound
Self - Musician/Self - songwriter (archive footage)
YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls
Self (archive footage)
2011
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965
Self (Archive Footage)
2008
Girl from the North Country
Songs
2024
Johnny Cash: Live On Air
Self
2008
Bob Dylan: Roads Rapidly Changing - In & Out of the Folk Revival 1961 - 1965
Self
2015
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
Self (archive footage)
2021
Blood on the Tracks
Author
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
Self
1970
Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan
self - archival footage
2006
Bob Dylan: Woodstock '94
Self
1994
Eat the Document
Self
1972Eat the Document
Director
1972Eat the Document
Editor
1972
The Partners
Music
2024
The Best of The Johnny Cash TV Show 1969-1971
Self
2007Taj Mahal and Friends
Self
1987
Nanci Griffith: Other Voices, Other Rooms
Self
1993
Live Aid
Self
2004My Generation: The Animals
Self (Archive Footage)
1995
Tales From a Golden Age: Bob Dylan 1941-1966
Self (archive footage)
2004
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology
Self (archive footage)
2004
Bob Dylan: Busy Being Born
Self
2020
Van Morrison: One Irish Rover
Self
1991
Bob Dylan: MTV Unplugged
Self
1994
Bob Dylan & The Band: Down In The Flood
Self
2012
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Self (archive footage)
2020
No Time to Think: Bob Dylan as Filmmaker
Himself (archival footage)
2026Scruggs: A Festival of Music
Self
1972
Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976
Self
1976
Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom
Self
2021
Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
Self
1976
The Ballad of AJ Weberman
Self (archive sound)
2006
Guitar Legends EXPO '92 at Sevilla - The Experimental Night
Self
1991
Dylan Speaks
Self
1965![Screen Test [ST83]: Bob Dylan](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/mzBL8VvwH67ktB1wcPKFtsCNXPF.jpg?width=1200)
Screen Test [ST83]: Bob Dylan
Self
1965
Bob Dylan: 1978-1989 - Both Ends of the Rainbow
Self
2008
I understand
Music
2025
Getting to Dylan
Self
1987
Festival
Self
1967Bob Dylan Never Ending Tour Diaries: Drummer Winston Watson's Incredible Journey
Self
2009
Legend of Lead Belly
Self
2013
Bob Dylan and The Band: 1969-1970 Compilation
Self
2006
Året var 1966
Self (archive footage)
2016
Snapshots from the Tour
Himself
2015
Paradise Cove
Alfred - Chauffeur
1999
Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield
Self
2013
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
2024
Bob Dylan - Live At The House Of Blues
Self
2005
Bob Dylan: Jokerman
1984
Bob Dylan: The Blood of the Lamb
Self
2011
Prisoners of Beckett
Music
2005
Inside Bob Dylan's Jesus Years: Busy Being Born... Again!
Self
2008
Bob Dylan: 1990-2006 - The Never Ending Narrative
Self
2011
Bob Dylan & Phil Lesh & Friends – Baltimore Arena 1999
Self
2020
Bob Dylan: World Tours 1966-1974 - Through the Camera of Barry Feinstein
Self
2004Bob Dylan: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
Self
2009
Bob Dylan After the Crash 1966-1978
Self
2006
The Bob Dylan Phenomenon
Self
2007
Bob Dylan: The Best of Bob Dylan
Self
2005
65 Revisited
Self (archive footage)
2007
Bob Dylan Quest Television Special
Self
1964
Bob Dylan - TV Live & Rare 1963 - 1975
Self (archive footage)
2004Bob Dylan - TV Live & Rare 1963 - 1975
Original Music Composer
2004
Bob Dylan: The Folk Years
Himself (archive footage)
2006
Diary Films I - V
Music
1971
Bob Dylan Revealed
Self
2011