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Miles Davis (I) (1926–1991)


Miles Davis, famous jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader, was born 26 May 1926 in Alton, Illinois. He moved to New York in 1944 and studied at Juilliard. He left school and entered the jazz society of New York, meeting such famous musicians as Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus... See full bio »

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Filmography

Hide HideSoundtrack (57 titles)
2012 Any Day Now (writer: "Green Haze" / performer: "Green Haze")
 
2010 Barney's Version (writer: "Solar" / performer: "Solar")
 
2010 Rubicon (TV series)
The First Day of School (2010) ("Solar" - uncredited)
 
2010 Frankie & Alice (performer: "Fall")
 
2010 Fringe (TV series)
Brown Betty (2010) (writer: "Freddie Freeloader" - uncredited / performer: "Freddie Freeloader" - uncredited)
 
2009 Later with Jools Holland (TV series)
Episode #35.1 (2009) (writer: "Freddie Freeloader", "All Blues")
 
2007-2009 Banda sonora (TV series)
Episode #5.20 (2009) (performer: "Kind of Blue")
Episode #1.12 (2007) (writer: "So What" / performer: "So What")
 
2009 The Uninvited (writer: "Green Haze" / performer: "Green Haze")
 
2008 The Simpsons (TV series)
Mypods and Boomsticks (2008) (performer: "Moon Dreams" - uncredited)
 
2008 Sonny Rollins: Live in '65 & '68 (video) (music: "Four")
 
2008 Roland Kirk: Live in '64 & '67 (video) (music: "Milestones")
 
2008 Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game) ("Move")
 
2006-2008 Parashat Ha-Shavua (TV series)
Tetzaveh (2008) (writer: "It's About That Time" / performer: "In a Silent Way", "It's About That Time")
Yitro (2008) (writer: "Final Round" / performer: "Final Round")
BeShalach (2008) (writer: "Yaphet" / performer: "Yaphet")
Bo (2008) (performer: "My Funny Valentine")
Toldot (2006) (writer: "Lonely Fire" / performer: "Lonely Fire")
 
2007 Dexter (TV series)
That Night, a Forest Grew (2007) (writer: "So What" / performer: "So What")
 
2007 Mad Men (TV series)
The Hobo Code (2007) (performer: "Concierto De Aranjuez Adagio" - uncredited)
 
2007 Zodiac (writer: "Solar" / performer: "Solar")
 
2007 Midnight Son (short) (performer: "Nature Boy")
 
2006 Druckfrisch (TV series)
Episode #4.8 (2006) (performer: "Harry and Dolly")
 
2004 Collateral (writer: "Spanish Key" / performer: "Spanish Key")
 
2003 Levity (writer: "Blue in Green" 1959 / performer: "Blue in Green" 1959)
 
2003 The West Wing (TV series)
The Long Goodbye (2003) (writer: "So What" - uncredited / performer: "Kind of Blue", "So What" - uncredited)
 
2002 Comedian (documentary) (performer: "If I Were a Bell")
 
2002 The Wire (TV series)
Old Cases (2002) (writer: "All Blues" / performer: "All Blues")
 
2002 Crossing Jordan (TV series)
For Harry, with Love & Squalor (2002) (performer: "Stella By Starlight" - uncredited)
 
2002 Livshunger (TV series)
Episode #1.3 (2002) (music: "SO WHAT" / "SO WHAT")
 
2001 The Score (performer: "Autumn Leaves")
 
2001 Scratch (documentary) (writer: "Doo Bop Song" / performer: "Doo Bop Song")
 
2000 Aliens to Themselves (documentary) (performer: "Soleá")
 
1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley (performer: "NATURE BOY" / "FOUR")
 
1999 In Too Deep (performer: "I Thought About You")
 
1999 Runaway Bride (performer: "It Never Entered My Mind")
 
1998 Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (documentary) (performer: "It Never Entered My Mind")
 
1998 Where's Marlowe? (writer: "All Blues")
 
1998 Pleasantville (writer: "So What" / performer: "So What")
 
1998 Day 532 (short) (writer: "Ife" / performer: "Ife")
 
1998 Trzy dni z zycia malzenskiego (short) (performer: "The Pan Piper")
 
1997 One Eight Seven (writer: "Blue in Green" / performer: "Blue in Green")
 
1997 The Last Time I Committed Suicide (performer: "Move")
 
1997 Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (documentary) (writer: "Call It Anything" / performer: "Call It Anything")
 
1996 Foreign Land (writer: "Fran Dance" / performer: "Fran Dance")
 
1996 Basquiat (writer: "Flamenco Sketches" / performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
 
1995 The Flower of My Secret (performer: "Soleá")
 
1995 Snaps (TV series)
Episode #1.1 (1995) (performer: "Blow")
Episode #1.2 (1995) (performer: "Blow")
 
1994 Surviving the Game (writer: "Flamenco Sketches" / performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
 
1993 A Bronx Tale (performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
 
1993 Miles Davis & Quincy Jones: Live at Montreux (video) (performer: "Boplicity", "Springsville", "Maids of Cadiz", "The Duke", "My Ship", "Miles Ahead", "Blues for Pablo", "Orgone", "Gone, Gone, Gone", "Summertime", "Here Come de Honey Man", "The Pan Piper", "Solea")
 
1993 In the Line of Fire (writer: "All Blues" / performer: "All Blues")
 
1992 Sneakers (writer: "Flamenco Sketches" / performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
 
1991 High Heels (performer: "Soleá", "Saeta")
 
1991 A Kiss Before Dying (writer: "So What" / performer: "So What")
 
1988 Scrooged (performer: "We Three Kings of Orient Are")
 
1988 36 fillette (performer: "Moon Dreams")
 
1986 Absolute Beginners (writer: "So What Lyric Version")
 
1974 Lenny ("It Never Entered My Mind", "Tempus Fugit", "Well You Needn't")
 
1964 Jazz 625 (TV series)
Bill Le Sage's Directions in Jazz Unit (1964) (writer: "Milestones")
 
1959 The Sound of Miles Davis (TV movie) (writer: "So What")
 
1958 Elevator to the Gallows (Played by:)
 
Show ShowComposer (10 titles)
2011 La nube (short)
 
2007 Les lunettes (short)
 
2006 Beef: The Series (TV series documentary)
 
1991 Dingo
 
1987 Siesta
 
1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)
Prisoners (1985)
 
1970 Jack Johnson (documentary)
 
1968 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (documentary)
 
Show ShowMusic Department (6 titles)
2009 Parashat Ha-Shavua (TV series) (composer: additional music - 1 episode)
Tzav (2009) (composer: additional music)
 
1999 Dresden (composer: song "Big Foot")
 
1993 Miles Davis & Quincy Jones: Live at Montreux (video) (musician: trumpet)
 
1991 High Heels (musician: trumpet, "Solea" and "Saeta")
 
1987 Street Smart (musician)
 
1958 Elevator to the Gallows (musician: trumpet)
 
Show ShowActor (5 titles)
1991 Dingo
Billy Cross
 
1988 Scrooged
Street Musicians
 
1987 On the Edge (TV movie)
Ozzie
 
1985 Miami Vice (TV series)
Ivory Jones
Junk Love (1985) … Ivory Jones
 
Show ShowSelf (27 titles)
2005 Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation (TV documentary)
 
2003 Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (video documentary)
Himself (segment "Nobody Told Me")
 
1997 Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (documentary)
Himself
 
1992 Miles Davis and Friends (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1991 The 33rd Annual Grammy Awards (TV special)
Himself
 
1990 Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (documentary)
Himself
 
1989 The Arsenio Hall Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 14 June 1989 (1989) … Himself
 
1988 The 30th Annual Grammy Awards (TV special)
Himself
 
1988 20th NAACP Image Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter
 
1986 VH1 New Visions (TV series)
Himself - Guest Host VJ (1987)
 
1987 Late Night with David Letterman (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 11 December 1987 (1987) … Himself
 
1987 The 29th Annual Grammy Awards (TV special)
Himself
 
1986 Great Performances (TV series)
Himself
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis (1986) … Himself
 
1986 Crime Story (TV series)
Himself
The War (1986) … Himself
 
1986 The Core of the Apple (TV series documentary)
Himself - Performer
Manhattan Afrodreams - sorte drømme (1986) … Himself - Performer
 
1986 Sun City: Artists United Against Apartheid (video documentary)
Himself
 
1984 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Lillian Gish (TV special documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1983 Miles Davis live in Europe
Himself
 
1981 Saturday Night Live (TV series)
Himself - Musical Guest
George Kennedy/Miles Davis (1981) … Himself - Musical Guest
 
1977 All You Need Is Love (TV series documentary)
Themselves
Jungle Music: Jazz (1977) … Themselves (as Miles Davis Quartet)
 
1973 In Concert (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.11 (1973) … Himself
 
1972 Imagine (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1971 Fight of the Century (TV movie)
Himself - Audience Member
 
1960 The Robert Herridge Theater (TV series)
Himself
The Sound of Miles Davis (1960) … Himself
 
1959 The Sound of Miles Davis (TV movie)
Himself
 
1955 Tonight! (TV series)
Himself - Trumpet / Recipient Down Beat Award
Down Beat Magazine Jazz Award (1955) … Himself - Trumpet/Recipient Down Beat Award
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (17 titles)
2009 Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (documentary)
Himself
 
2007-2009 Banda sonora (TV series)
 
2008 Tracks (TV series documentary)
 
2007 ETV Special (TV series documentary)
 
2006 Video on Trial (TV series)
 
2006 Marilyn Mazur: Queen of Percussion (documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (documentary)
Himself
 
2001 A Huey P. Newton Story (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
2001 The Miles Davis Story (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2000 Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible (TV documentary)
Himself - Audience Member (uncredited)
 
2000 CNN World Beat (TV series)
 
1997 François Chalais, la vie comme un roman (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1994 Prince Interactive (Video Game)
Himself
 
1993 Great Performances (TV series)
 
1970 Music on 2 (TV series)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

CD: "Miles Davis Plays for Lovers" See more »

Publicity Listings:

8 Biographical Movies  | 2 Print Biographies  | 1 Interview  | 14 Articles  | 3 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Official Sites:

Official Site | See more »

Alternate Names:

Miles Davis Quartet

Height:

5' 6½" (1.69 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me "a legend". See more »

Trivia:

Had 4 children: Cheryl Davis (born 1944), Gregory Davis, (born 1946), Miles Davis IV (born 1950) and Erin Davis (born 1970). See more »

Nickname:

Prince Of Darkness See more »

Star Sign:

Gemini