Cast & creator
Brian Wilson
Best known for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 — June 11, 2025) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group. He originally functioned as the band's songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader. Wilson was considered a major innovator in the field of music production, the principal originator of the California Sound, one of the first music producer auteurs, and the first rock producer to use the studio as its own instrument. The unusual creative control Capitol gave him over his own records effectively set a precedent that allowed other bands and artists to act as their own producers or co-producers. He was a major influence on the retrospectively-termed "sunshine pop" and Flower Power music that proceeded.
Also known as: Brian Douglas Wilson, The Beach Boys, Beach Boys, Melinda and Brian, Bryan Wilson
85
film credits
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television credits
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1948–2026 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (106)
Showing 106 of 106 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest / Security Guard
1975
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
1992
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Champs-Elysées
Self - The Beach Boys
1982
Full House
Brian Wilson
1987
Later... with Jools Holland
1992
Omnibus
Self
1967
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Behind the Music
Self
1997
Duck Dodgers
Brian Wilson (voice)
2003Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
Classic Albums
Self - The Beach Boys
1997
Hack
Raymond Henley
2002
Legends
Self (archive footage)
2006
Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes
Self - Former Member 'The Beach Boys' (archive footage)
2026
Love & Mercy
Self (Archive Footage)
2015Love & Mercy
Songs
2015Olympic Gala
1984
The Beach Boys
Self
2024
The Rhythm of Life
1997
Live 8
Self
2005
Disorderlies
Himself
1987
Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile
Self
2004Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile
Music
2004
Live Aid
Self
1985Dr. Feelgood
Self (archive footage)
2015
Tales of the Rat Fink
The Surfite (voice)
2006
I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song
Self
2015
The Monkey's Uncle
Self - The Beach Boys
1965
The Beach Boys: Nashville Sounds
Self
1996
Bad Vibrations
Music
2024
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
Self
2021
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Beach Boy
1965
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Self – Founder of The Beach Boys
1995
The T.A.M.I. Show
Self - The Beach Boys
1964
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Self (Archival footage)
2006
The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
Self
1992
The Beach Boys: It's OK
Self - Beach Boys member
1976
The Girls on the Beach
Self
1965Food Rocks
Songs
1994
Brian Wilson - Live at Baloise Session
Self
2016
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
Self
1967
Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace
Self - Performer
2002
The Wrecking Crew
Self - The Beach Boys Co-Founder
2008
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
Self
1979
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
Self
2002
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Self (archive footage)
2023
Streetlight Harmonies
Self
2020
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's "American Pie"
Self (archive footage)
2022
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
Self
2023
Brian Wilson and Friends - A Soundstage Special Event
Self
2015
Mellodrama
Self
2008
Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Self - Guest
1991
Classic Albums: The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Self - The Beach Boys
2010
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Self - The Beach Boys (archive footage)
2019
The Beach Boys: 25 Years Together - A Celebration In Waikiki
Self
1987
The Return of Bruno
Brian Wilson
1987
The Beach Boys: It's OK
Self (The Beach Boys)
1976The Beach Boys: It's OK
Music
1976
The Jack Benny Hour
Self (uncredited)
1965
The Beach Boys: An American Band
Self
1985
Brian Wilson: On Tour
Self
2003
Brian Wilson’s Imagination
Self
1998
Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1962-1969
Self (archive footage)
2010
Goin' Platinum Presents The Beach Boys
Self
1980
The Beach Boys: Endless Harmony
Self
2000
Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun
Self
2009
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Self
1995
The Beach Boys: Doin' It Again
Self
2012One Man's Challenge
Self
1962
Good Timin': Live at Knebworth England 1980
Self
2003
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
Self
1967
Beach Boys: Surfin' Success
Self
2008
Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1969-1982
Self (archive footage)
2014
The Beach Boys: A Celebration Concert
Self
1980Van Dyke Parks: An Obsession with Music
Self
2002
The Beach Boys: Live In Paris, 1969
Self
1969
The Beach Boys: The Lost Concert
Self (uncredited)
2003
Endless Syncopation: The Rising Fall of The Beach Boys and The California Myth
Himself
2012
The Beach Boys: Live At Knebworth
Self
1980The Beach Boys: Wouldn't It Be Nice
Self
2005
The Beach Boys: Making Pet Sounds
Self
2017Music is God Speaking – Brian Wilson
Self
2026The Beach Boys 20th Anniversary Special
Self
1981The Beach Boys - California Surfin
Self (archive footage)
2004
Going Home
Self
2009
Jan & Dean: The Other Beach Boys
Self
2002
Mount Vernon and Fairway
Pied Piper (voice)
2024Mount Vernon and Fairway
Writer
2024Mount Vernon and Fairway
Music
2024
Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE
Self
2005
The Beach Boys - Live in Concert 50th Anniversary
Self
2012
The Swinging 60's - The Beach Boys
Self (archive footage)
2007
The Beach Boys and The Satan
Self
1997
Cease to Exist
Self (archive footage)
2007
…Sings Musicals
Self (archive footage)
2012
The Beach Boys: A Long Promised Road - Volume 1 & 2 - 1962-1971
Self
2016
Musicares Presents a Tribute to Brian Wilson
Self
2007Bringing Her Home: The Story of Sloop John B
Self (archive footage)
An All-Star Tribute To Brian Wilson
Self
2001
Brian Wilson: A Beach Boy's Tale
Self
1999
Brian Wilson Presents: Pet Sounds – Live in London
Self
2003
Pet Stories
Self
2003