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Bernie Taupin

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Bernard John Taupin
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2013 Mike & Mike (TV series)
– Episode dated 13 May 2013 (2013) (writer: "Rocket Man" - uncredited)
 
2010-2013 Glee (TV series)
– Shooting Star (2013) (writer: "Your Song" - uncredited)
– Big Brother (2012) (lyrics: "I'm Still Standing" - uncredited)
– Duets (2010) (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" - uncredited)
 
2013 The Voice UK (TV series)
– Blind Auditions 2 (2013) (writer: "Your Song" - uncredited)
 
2013 Dancing with the Stars (TV series)
– Week 1: Performance Show (2013) (writer: "Tiny Dancer")
 
2013 The 55th Annual Grammy Awards (TV movie) (writer: "Your Song")
 
2010-2013 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)
– Episode #21.86 (2013) (lyrics: "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" - uncredited)
– Episode #21.16 (2012) (lyrics: "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" - uncredited)
– Episode #20.153 (2012) (lyrics: "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" - uncredited)
– President Barack Obama/Yo-Yo Ma & Friends (2011) (lyrics: "I'm Still Standing" - uncredited)
– Episode #19.197 (2011) (lyrics: "I'm Still Standing" - uncredited)
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2008-2012 The X Factor (TV series)
– Live Show 6 (2012) (writer: "I'm Still Standing" - uncredited)
– Auditions 1 (2011) (writer: "Your Song")
– Episode #7.29 (2010) (writer: "Your Song" - uncredited)
– Episode #7.6 (2010) (writer: "Your Song")
– Episode #7.2 (2010) (writer: "Your Song" - uncredited)
See all 6 episodes »
 
2003-2012 EastEnders (TV series)
– Episode dated 2 November 2012 (2012) (writer: "Your Song")
– Episode dated 23 March 2010 (2010) (writer: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - uncredited)
– Episode dated 12 March 2003 (2003) (writer: "Your Song" - uncredited)
 
2011-2012 The Big Bang Theory (TV series)
– The Re-Entry Minimization (2012) (writer: "Rocket Man" - uncredited)
– The Toast Derivation (2011) (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" - uncredited)
 
2012 The X Factor (TV series)
– Live Show 5 (2012) (lyrics: "I'm Still Standing")
 
2012 The Campaign (writer: "These Dreams")
 
2012 Dancing with the Stars (TV series)
– Movie Night (2012) (writer: "Tiny Dancer" - uncredited)
 
2012 Dark Shadows (writer: "Crocodile Rock")
 
2012 Die Harald Schmidt Show (TV series)
– Show #72 - Untergang mit Pauken und Trompeten (2012) (writer: "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word")
 
2012 White Heat (TV series)
– Eve of Destruction (2012) (writer: "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" - uncredited)
 
2012 No me la puc treure del cap (TV series)
– Mort i espiritualitat (2012) (writer: "Candle in the Wind")
 
2012 Bachelorette (writer: "These Dreams")
 
2006-2012 How I Met Your Mother (TV series)
– 46 Minutes (2012) (music: "We Built Chip Cities" - uncredited / lyrics: "We Built Chip Cities" - uncredited)
– Life Among the Gorillas (2006) (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart")
 
2012 Tu cara me suena (TV series)
– Especial Navidad (2012) (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart")
 
2011 The Muppets (writer: "We Built This City")
 
2011 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)
– Episode #19.32 (2011) (lyrics: "Candle in the Wind" - uncredited)
– Episode #18.86 (2011) (lyrics: "Hey Ahab" - uncredited)
 
2011 Saturday Night Live (TV series)
– Tina Fey/Ellie Goulding (2011) (writer: "Your Song")
– Elton John/Leon Russell (2011) (writer: "Your Song")
 
2011 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV series)
– Episode #1.420 (2011) (lyrics: "Harmony" - uncredited, "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" - uncredited, "Your Song" - uncredited)
 
2011 I Heart You Pare (TV series)
– Ang pinsan ni Joel (2011) (writer: "Your Song")
 
2011 Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews (TV series)
– Gnomeo and Juliet (2011) (lyrics: "Hello Hello", "Love Builds A Garden")
 
2011 Nocturninos (TV series)
– Edición Especial: La Máquina del Tiempo (2011) (writer: "Your Song")
 
2011 't Schaep Met De 5 Pooten (TV series)
– Opoes Rapsody (2011) (writer: "Sorry is zo'n vreselijk moeilijk word")
 
2011 Gnomeo & Juliet (writer: "Crocodile Rock", "Tiny Dancer", "Rocket Man", "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting", "Your Song", "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", "The Bitch Is Back", "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word", "I'm Still Standing", "Bennie And The Jets" / lyrics: "Hello Hello", "Love Builds A Garden")
 
2011 Gent de paraula (TV series)
– Episode #1.16 (2011) (lyrics: "Sorry Seems the Word")
 
2006-2010 20 to 1 (TV series documentary)
– 80's Good, Bad & Ugly (2010) (lyrics: "Kiss the Bride" - uncredited)
– Scene-Stealing Songs (2009) (writer: "Tiny Dancer")
– Karaoke Classics (2008) (writer: "Crocodile Rock", "Don't Go Breaking My Heart")
– Songs You Can't Get Out of Your Head (2007) (writer: "We Built This City")
– World's Best Love Songs (2006) (writer: "Your Song")
 
2010 Casal Rock (TV series)
– Casal Punk (2010) (writer: "Crocodile Rock" - uncredited)
 
2010 StreetDance 3D (writer: "Tiny Dancer Hold Me Closer)
 
2010 Cemetery Junction (writer: "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting")
 
2009-2010 Dancing on Ice (TV series)
– Episode #5.10 (2010) (writer: "Tiny Dancer")
– Episode #4.15 (2009) (writer: "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues")
 
2010 Live from Studio Five (TV series)
– Episode #1.93 (2010) (writer: "Your Song")
 
2009 Californication (TV series)
– Mia Culpa (2009) (writer: "Rocket Man" - uncredited)
 
2009 It's Complicated (writer: "Bennie and the Jets")
 
2009 Family Guy (TV series)
– Quagmire's Baby (2009) (lyrics: "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart" - uncredited)
 
2009 Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show (TV short) (lyrics: "Rocket Man" - uncredited)
 
2009 Ànima (TV series)
– Episode #2.25 (2009) (writer: "Bennie and the Jets")
 
2009 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV series)
– Episode #6.30 (2009) (writer: "Tiny Dancer" - uncredited)
 
2009 50 años de (TV series)
– Una periodista de a pie (2009) (writer: "Candle in the Wind")
 
2009 Nobody (writer: "We Built This City")
 
2009 My Sister's Keeper (writer: "We All Fall in Love Sometimes")
 
2009 Memòries de la tele (TV series)
– Episode #3.30 (2009) (writer: "Candle in the Wind")
 
2009 De wereld draait door (TV series)
– Episode #4.174 (2009) (writer: "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" - uncredited)
 
2008-2009 Banda sonora (TV series)
– Episode #5.3 (2009) (writer: "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word")
– Episode #2.10 (2008) (writer: "Rocket Man")
 
2008 Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore 2 (Video Game) (writer: "Rocket Man")
 
2008 Lymelife (writer: "Daniel")
 
2008 Eli Stone (TV series)
– I Want Your Sex (2008) (lyrics: "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" - uncredited)
 
2008 Of All the Things (documentary) (writer: "We Built This City")
 
2008 Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore (Video Game) ("Tiny Dancer")
 
2008 Hamlet 2 (writer: "Someone Saved My Life Tongiht")
 
2008 27 Dresses (writer: "Bennie and the Jets" / as Bernard Taupin)
 
2007 Olivia Newton-John and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Live at the Sydney Opera House (TV movie) (writer: "The Rumour")
 
2007 Rush Hour 3 (writer: "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word")
 
2007 Big Love (TV series)
– Rock and a Hard Place (2007) (writer: "Tiny Dancer")
 
2007 Catch-22 (documentary short) (writer: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road")
 
2007 Evan Almighty (writer: "Just Like Noah's Ark")
 
2007 Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Movie (TV movie) (writer: "Rocket Man I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time" - uncredited)
 
2007 Life on Mars (TV series)
– Episode #2.6 (2007) (writer: "Rocket Man")
 
2005-2007 The Office (TV series)
– The Return (2007) (writer: "Bennie and the Jets")
– The Dundies (2005) (writer: "Tiny Dancer")
 
2007 Music Within (writer: "Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters")
 
2007 Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol (Video Game) ("Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me")
 
2006 It's a Boy Girl Thing (writer: "Candle in the Wind")
 
2006 The South Bank Show (TV series documentary)
– George Michael: I'm Your Man (2006) (writer: "Idol")
 
2006 Running with Scissors (writer: "Bennie and the Jets" 1973)
 
2006 The Astronaut Farmer (writer: "Rocket Man")
 
2006 Torvill & Dean's Dancing on Ice (TV series)
– Episode #1.3 (2006) (writer: "Crocodile Rock")
 
2006 Scrubs (TV series)
– My Transition (2006) (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" - uncredited)
 
2006 The Eight (TV series)
– Familiar Treatment (2006) (writer: "Believe" - uncredited)
 
2005 Chicken Little (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart")
 
2005 Elizabethtown (lyrics: "My Father's Gun" 1970)
 
2005 Brokeback Mountain (writer: "A Love That Will Never Grow Old")
 
2004 House of D (writer: "Harmony" / as Bernard Taupin)
 
2004 Tatort (TV series)
– Todesbande (2004) (writer: "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word")
 
2003 Mona Lisa Smile (writer: "The Heart of Every Girl")
 
2001-2003 Operación triunfo (TV series)
– Episode #3.10 (2003) (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" / as Anne Orson and Blanche Carte)
– Episode #1.5 (2001) (writer: "Your Song")
– Episode #1.4 (2001) (writer: "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me")
 
2003 High Chaparall (TV series documentary)
– Steve-O (2003) (writer: "Tiny Dancer" - uncredited)
 
2003 Cala reial (TV movie) (writer: "Your Song")
 
2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (writer: "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting")
 
2003 Heart: Alive in Seattle (video) (writer: "These Dreams", "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters")
 
2003 Six Feet Under (TV series)
– The Eye Inside (2003) (writer: "Rocket Man")
 
2002 Moonlight Mile (writer: "Razor Face")
 
2002 The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (writer: "Crocodile Rock Film Version" / as Bernard Taupin)
 
2002 Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace (TV documentary) (writer: "I Want Love")
 
2002 Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You (TV documentary) (writer: "We All Fall in Love Sometimes" live '92)
 
2002 The Matthew Shepard Story (TV movie) (writer: "American Triangle")
 
2002 The Kid Stays in the Picture (documentary) ("Crocodile Rock" 1972)
 
2001 K-PAX (writer: "Rocket Man")
 
2001 Storytelling (writer: "Island Girl" / as Bernard J.P. Taupin)
 
2001 Moulin Rouge! (writer: "Your Song", "The Pitch Spectacular Spectacular", "One Day I'll Fly Away", "Elephant Love Medley", Musical score features parts of:)
 
2000 Living It Up (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", "Dont Go Breaking My Heart" / as Blanche Carte)
 
2000 Greenfingers (writer: "The Power")
 
2000 Almost Famous (writer: "Tiny Dancer", "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters")
 
1991-2000 The Simpsons (TV series)
– Kill the Alligator and Run (2000) (writer: "We Built This City")
– I'm with Cupid (1999) ("Your Song")
– The Way We Was (1991) ("Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - uncredited)
 
2000 High Fidelity (writer: "Crocodile Rock")
 
2000 Aleph, lectures contades (TV series documentary)
– Oscar Wilde (2000) (writer: "Candle in the Wind")
 
1999 The Muse (writer: "The Muse")
 
1999 Dick (writer: "Crocodile Rock")
 
1999 Drop Dead Gorgeous (writer: "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting")
 
1999 Summer of Sam (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" 1975 / as Carte Blanche)
 
1999 Don't Go Breaking My Heart (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" / as Anne Orson and Blanche Carte)
 
1998 Without Limits (writer: "Rocket Man I Think It's Going to be a Long Long Time")
 
1998 Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV series)
– Gorgo (1998) (writer: "Candle in the Wind" - uncredited)
 
1997 RocketMan (music: "Rocket Man" 1972 / lyrics: "Rocket Man" 1972)
 
1997 The MatchMaker (writer: "Candle in the Wind")
 
1997 The Ice Storm (writer: "Levon")
 
1996 The Associate (writer: "The Border Song")
 
1996 Carla's Song (writer: "Your Song" - uncredited)
 
1996 Phenomenon (writer: "Dance With Life")
 
1996 The Rock (writer: "Rocket Man")
 
1996 Red Ribbon Blues (writer: "THE LAST SONG")
 
1996 Breaking the Waves (writer: "Love Lies Bleeding", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road")
 
1996 Die Harald Schmidt Show (TV series)
– Show #69 (1996) (writer: "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me")
 
1995 Nothing Personal (writer: "Rocket Man", "Candle In The Wind")
 
1995 Flora (short) (writer: "Your Song")
 
1994 Speechless (writer: "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word")
 
1994 The Raffle (writer: "Heartache All Over The World")
 
1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral (writer: "CROCODILE ROCK" 1972 / as Taupin)
 
1994 My Girl 2 (writer: "BENNIE AND THE JETS", "TINY DANCER")
 
1993 And the Band Played On (TV movie) (writer: "The Last Song")
 
1993 The Heartbreak Kid (writer: "Teacher I Need You")
 
1992 Only Fools and Horses.... (TV series)
– Mother Nature's Son (1992) (writer: "Crocodile Rock" - uncredited)
 
1992 Leap of Faith ("Stones Throw from Hurtin'" / as Taupin)
 
1992 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
– Episode dated 22 May 1992 (1992) (lyrics: "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" 1976 - uncredited)
 
1992 Lethal Weapon 3 (writer: "Runaway Train")
 
1992 Sjans (TV series)
– Kamernummers (1992) (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" - uncredited)
 
1991 Olivia Down Under (TV movie) (writer: "The Rumour")
 
1991 Lo Kolel Sherut (TV series)
– Episode #2.8 (1991) (lyrics: "Kashe Lomar Slicha")
 
1990 Days of Thunder (writer: "YOU GOTTA LOVE SOMEONE", "DEAL FOR LIFE")
 
1989 Ha-Hofesh Ha'Acharon (TV series)
– Episode #1.4 (1989) (lyrics: "Lo Keday Lach Crocodile Rock")
– Episode #1.8 (1989) (lyrics: "Lo Keday Lach Crocodile Rock" - uncredited)
 
1988 La última cena... del 88 (TV special) (writer: "I'm Still Standing", "A Word in Spanish")
 
1988 Totally Minnie (TV movie) (writer: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart")
 
1988 The Benny Hill Show (TV series)
– The Halitosis Kid (1988) (writer: "I'm Still Standing")
 
1987 The Lost Boys (writer: "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me")
 
1986 Fame (TV series)
– A Different Drummer (1986) (writer: "Never Give Up On A Dream")
 
1985 Fandango (writer: "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting")
 
1984 Kidd Video (TV series)
 
1982 L'ultimo schermo (writer: "CANDLE IN THE WIND")
 
1981 The Greatest American Hero (TV series)
– The Greatest American Hero (1981) (writer: "Rocket Man")
 
1980 Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights (TV special) (writer: "Candle In Thw Wind")
 
1979 Walk Proud (lyrics: "We All Fall in Love Sometimes")
 
1978 Science Fiction Film Awards (TV documentary) (writer: "Rocket Man")
 
1977 The Muppet Show (TV series)
– Elton John (1977) (writer: "Crocodile Rock", "Bennie and the Jets", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Don't Go Breaking My Heart")
 
1977 Roseland (music: "Super Cool" / lyrics: "Super Cool")
 
1977 Harley's Angels (writer: "One Horse Town" - uncredited)
 
1976-1977 Donny and Marie (TV series)
– Episode #2.14 (1977) (writer: "Honky Cat")
– Episode #2.3 (1976) (writer: "Honky Cat")
 
1977 The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (TV series)
– Episode #1.1 (1977) (writer: "Your Song", "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart")
 
1976 La marge (writer: "Funeral for a Friend", "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting")
 
1975 Dog Day Afternoon ("Amoreena")
 
1975 The First Time, I Ever... (writer: "Crocodile Rock" - uncredited)
 
1974 Countdown (TV series)
– Episode #1.7 (1974) (writer: "Step into Christmas")
 
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (writer: "Daniel" 1972)
 
1972 The Swing Thing (writer: "Honky Cat" - uncredited)
 
1971 Friends (writer: "Friends", "Michelle's Song", "Seasons", "Variation on Michelle's Song A Day in the Country", "Can I Put You On", "Honey Roll", "I Meant to Do My Work Today A Day In the Country")
 
1971 Top of the Pops (TV series)
– Episode dated 14 January 1971 (1971) (writer: "Your Song")
 
Show ShowActor (1 title)
1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV series)
Tim Carstairs
– Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula: Part 2 (1977) … Tim Carstairs
– Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula (1977) … Tim Carstairs
 
Show ShowMusic Department (1 title)
2011 Gnomeo & Juliet (original songs: lyrics)
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
1995 Elton John Love Songs (video)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
2011 The Union (documentary) (special thanks)
 
1997 A Thousand Acres (thanks: The Farm Dogs)
 
Show ShowSelf (10 titles)
2010 The Making of Elton John: Madman Across the Water (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2008 The Big O in Britain (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Happy Birthday Elton! From Madison Square Garden, New York (TV movie)
Himself
 
2006 Parkinson (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 16 September 2006 (2006) … Himself
 
2001 Classic Albums: Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (video documentary)
Himself - Lyricist
 
1999 In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1991 Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1986 Deja View (video)
Himself
 
1978 Science Fiction Film Awards (TV documentary)
Himself - Presenter
 
1971 Aquarius (TV series)
Himself
– Elton John: Mr. Superfunk (1971) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (2 titles)
2006 20 to 1 (TV series documentary)
 
2005 Musikprogrammet - programmet om musik (TV series documentary)
 
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