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Overview
Mini Biography:
Miles Davis, famous jazz trumpeter, composer and band-leader was born... moreTrivia:
Had 4 children: Cheryl (born 1944), Gregory, (born 1946), Miles IV (born... moreAwards:
1 win moreNewsDesk:
(15 articles)
Clifton Collins Jr. Discusses His Burgeoning Career (From MovieWeb. 26 June 2009, 1:56 PM, PDT)
Thank God It's Thursday: Miles Davis, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Charles Mingus, Tito Puente and Babatunde Olatunji
(From Huffington Post. 25 June 2009, 11:20 AM, PDT)
Filmography
Soundtrack:
- "Banda sonora" (2 episodes, 2007-2009)
- Episode #5.20 (2009) TV episode (performer: "Kind of Blue")
- Episode #1.12 (2007) TV episode (writer: "So What") (performer: "So What") - "The Simpsons" (1 episode, 2008)
- Mypods and Boomsticks (2008) TV episode (performer: "Moon Dreams" (uncredited)) - Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) (VG) ("Move")
... aka GTA IV (International: English title: short title) - "Parashat Ha-Shavua" (9 episodes, 2006-2008)
- Tetzaveh (2008) TV episode (writer: "It's About That Time") (performer: "In a Silent Way")
- Yitro (2008) TV episode (writer: "Final Round")
- BeShalach (2008) TV episode (writer: "Yaphet")
- Bo (2008) TV episode (performer: "My Funny Valentine")
- Toldot (2006) TV episode (writer: "Lonely Fire")
(4 more) - "Dexter" (1 episode, 2007)
- That Night, a Forest Grew (2007) TV episode (writer: "So What") (performer: "So What") - Zodiac (2007/I) (writer: "Solar") (performer: "Solar")
- Midnight Son (2007) (performer: "Nature Boy")
- "Druckfrisch" (1 episode, 2006)
- Episode #4.8 (2006) TV episode (performer: "Harry and Dolly") - Collateral (2004) (writer: "Spanish Key") (performer: "Spanish Key")
- Levity (2003) (writer: "Blue in Green" (1959)) (performer: "Blue in Green" (1959))
- "The West Wing" (1 episode, 2003)
- The Long Goodbye (2003) TV episode (performer: "Kind of Blue") - Comedian (2002) (performer: "If I Were a Bell")
- "The Wire" (1 episode, 2002)
- Old Cases (2002) TV episode (writer: "All Blues") (performer: "All Blues") - "Livshunger" (1 episode, 2002)
- Episode #1.3 (2002) TV episode (music: "SO WHAT") - The Score (2001) (performer: "Autumn Leaves")
... aka The Score (Germany) - Scratch (2001) (writer: "Doo Bop Song") (performer: "Doo Bop Song")
- Extranjeros de sí mismos (2000) (performer: "Soleá")
... aka Aliens to Themselves (International: English title)
... aka Strangers to Themselves (International: English title) - The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) (performer: "NATURE BOY") ("FOUR")
... aka The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley (USA: complete title) - In Too Deep (1999) (performer: "I Thought About You")
- Runaway Bride (1999) (performer: "It Never Entered My Mind")
- Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998) (performer: "It Never Entered My Mind")
- Where's Marlowe? (1998) (writer: "All Blues")
- Pleasantville (1998) (writer: "So What") (performer: "So What")
- One Eight Seven (1997) (writer: "Blue in Green") (performer: "Blue in Green")
- The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) (performer: "Move")
- Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (1997) (writer: "Call It Anything") (performer: "Call It Anything")
... aka Message of Love: The Isle of Wight Festival: The Movie (USA: video title)
... aka Message to Love (UK) - Trzy dni z zycia malzenskiego (1997) (performer: "The Pan Piper")
... aka Three Days from a Marriage - Terra Estrangeira (1996) (performer: "Fran Dance") ("Fran Dance")
... aka Foreign Land - Basquiat (1996) (writer: "Flamenco Sketches") (performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
... aka Build a Fort, Set It on Fire - La flor de mi secreto (1995) (performer: "Soleá")
... aka La fleur de mon secret (France)
... aka The Flower of My Secret (USA) - A Bronx Tale (1993) (performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
- In the Line of Fire (1993) (writer: "All Blues") (performer: "All Blues")
- Sneakers (1992) (writer: "Flamenco Sketches") (performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
- Tacones lejanos (1991) (performer: "Soleá", "Saeta")
... aka High Heels (USA)
... aka Talons aiguilles (France) - A Kiss Before Dying (1991) (writer: "So What") (performer: "So What")
- Scrooged (1988) (performer: "We Three Kings of Orient Are") (arranger: "We Three Kings of Orient Are")
- 36 fillette (1988) (performer: "Moon Dreams")
... aka Junior Size 36 (Canada: English title: festival title)
... aka Virgin (UK) - Absolute Beginners (1986) (writer: "So What (Lyric Version)")
... aka Absolute Beginners - The Musical (International: English title: poster title) - Lenny (1974) ("It Never Entered My Mind", "Tempus Fugit", "Well You Needn't")
- The Sound of Miles Davis (1959) (TV) (writer: "So What")
Composer:
- Les lunettes (2007)
- "Beef: The Series" (2006) TV series (unknown episodes)
- Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (2004)
- Dingo (1991)
... aka Dingo - Dog of the Desert - Siesta (1987)
- "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1 episode, 1985)
- Prisoners (1985) TV episode - Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
- Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958)
... aka Elevator to the Gallows
... aka Elevator to the Scaffold
... aka Frantic (USA)
... aka Lift to the Scaffold (UK)
Actor:
- Miles Davis: Live from the Montreal Jazz Festival (2000) (V) .... Trumpeter
- Dingo (1991) .... Billy Cross
... aka Dingo - Dog of the Desert - Scrooged (1988) .... Street Musician
- "VH1 New Visions" (1986) TV series .... Guest Host VJ (1987)
- "Crime Story" (1 episode, 1986)
- Abrams for the Defense (1986) TV episode - "Miami Vice" .... Ivory Jones (1 episode, 1985)
- Junk Love (1985) TV episode .... Ivory Jones
Music Department:
- Dresden (1999) (composer: song "Big Foot")
- Tacones lejanos (1991) (musician: trumpet, "Solea" and "Saeta")
... aka High Heels (USA)
... aka Talons aiguilles (France) - Street Smart (1987) (musician)
- Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986) (musician: trumpet, "Just Squeeze Me")
- Lenny (1974) (musician: "Tempus Fugit", "Well You Needn't" and "It Never Entered My Mind")
- Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958) (musician: trumpet)
... aka Elevator to the Gallows
... aka Elevator to the Scaffold
... aka Frantic (USA)
... aka Lift to the Scaffold (UK)
Self:
- Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (2003) (V) .... Himself (segment "Nobody Told Me")
- Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (1997) .... Himself
... aka Message of Love: The Isle of Wight Festival: The Movie (USA: video title)
... aka Message to Love (UK) - Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990) .... Himself
... aka Listen Up - 20th NAACP Image Awards (1988) (TV) .... Himself - Presenter
- Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis (1986) (TV) .... Himself
- "Crime Story" .... Himself (1 episode, 1986)
- The War (1986) TV episode .... Himself - Sun City: Artists United Against Apartheid (1986) (V) .... Himself
- Miles Davis live in Europe (1983) .... Himself
- "Saturday Night Live" .... Himself - Musical Guest (1 episode, 1981)
... aka "NBC's Saturday Night" (USA: complete title)
... aka "SNL 25" (USA: alternative title)
... aka "SNL" (USA: informal title)
... aka "Saturday Night Live '80" (USA: sixth season title)
... aka "Saturday Night Live 15" (USA: fifteenth season title)
... aka "Saturday Night Live 20" (USA: twentieth season title)
... aka "Saturday Night Live 25" (USA: twentiefifth season title)
... aka "Saturday Night" (USA: first season title)
- George Kennedy/Miles Davis (1981) TV episode .... Himself - Musical Guest - "In Concert" .... Himself (1 episode, 1973)
- Episode #1.11 (1973) TV episode .... Himself - Imagine (1972) (uncredited) .... Himself
- Fight of the Century (1971) (TV) .... Himself - Audience Member
... aka Ali-Frazier I (USA: informal title) - Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) (uncredited) .... Himself
- The Sound of Miles Davis (1959) (TV) .... Himself
- "Tonight!" .... Himself - Trumpet / ... (1 episode, 1955)
... aka "Knickerbocker Beer Show" (USA: summer title)
... aka "The Knickerbocker Beer Presents The Steve Allen Show" (USA: second season title)
... aka "The Steve Allen Show" (USA: second season title)
... aka "Tonight Starring Steve Allen" (USA: alternative title)
... aka "Tonight" (USA: syndication title)
- Down Beat Magazine Jazz Award (1955) TV episode .... Himself - Trumpet/Recipient Down Beat Award
Archive Footage:
-
"Banda sonora"
- Episode #5.20 (2009) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #1.12 (2007) TV episode .... Himself -
"Tracks"
- Dennis Hopper (2008) TV episode .... Himself -
"ETV tokushû"
- Miles Davis: The Man and His Music (2007) TV episode .... Himself -
"Video on Trial"
- Episode #2.8 (2006) TV episode .... Himself - Marilyn Mazur: Queen of Percussion (2006) .... Himself
- "The Greatest Canadian" (2004)
- Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (2004) .... Himself
- A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) (TV) (uncredited) .... Himself
- The Miles Davis Story (2001) (TV) .... Himself
- Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible (2000) (TV) (uncredited) .... Himself - Audience Member
- Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album (2000) (V) .... Himself
-
"CNN World Beat"
- Miles Davis Retrospective (2000) TV episode .... As Himself - Prince Interactive (1994) (VG) .... Himself
-
"Great Performances"
- Miles Davis: A Tribute (1991) TV episode .... Himself
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