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Willie Dixon (1915–1992)

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Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 (under the category Early Influence).

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2013 Dancing with the Stars (TV series)
Week 4: Best Year's of Our Lives (2013) (writer: "I Just Want to Make Love to You")
 
2013 The Last Stand (writer: "I Ain't Superstitious")
 
2012 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)
Episode #21.63 (2012) (writer: "Whole Lotta Love" - uncredited)
Episode #20.131 (2012) (writer: "Whole Lotta Love" - uncredited)
 
2012 Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day (documentary) (writer: "Whole Lotta Love")
 
2012 Not Fade Away (writer: "I Just Want to Make Love to You")
 
2012 Voice - Danmarks største stemme (TV series)
Anden blindtest (2012) (writer: "Whole Lotta Love" - uncredited)
 
2012/II The Bay (writer: "Spoonful")
 
2011 The Celebrity Apprentice Australia (TV series)
All Fired Up 2 (2011) (writer: "I Just Want to Make Love to You" - uncredited)
 
2011 Formula 1: BBC Sport (TV series)
The British Grand Prix: Qualifying (2011) (writer: "Whole Lotta Love" - uncredited)
 
2011 Cry Baby: The Pedal that Rocks the World (video documentary) (writer: "I Ain't Superstitious")
 
2010/I Red (writer: "I Want to be Loved")
 
2010 Going the Distance (writer: "I Want To Be Loved")
 
2010 True Blood (TV series)
It Hurts Me Too (2010) (writer: "Spoonful" - uncredited)
 
2010 Frankie & Alice (writer: "I Just Want to Make Love to You")
 
2009 Halloween II (writer: "I Just Want To Make Love To You")
 
2008-2009 De wereld draait door (TV series)
Episode #4.131 (2009) (writer: "Little red rooster" - uncredited)
Episode #4.43 (2008) (writer: "You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover" - uncredited)
 
2009 Dancing on Ice (TV series)
Episode #4.15 (2009) (writer: "I Just Want to Make Love to You")
 
2009 Big River Man (documentary) (writer: "Little Red Rooster")
 
2008 Cadillac Records (writer: "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man", "My Babe")
 
2008 Religulous (documentary) (writer: "I Ain't Superstitious")
 
2007 Chuck (TV series)
Chuck Versus the Wookiee (2007) (writer: "Gone Daddy Gone" - uncredited)
 
2007 Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (documentary) (writer: "Spoonful")
 
2006 How Music Works (TV series documentary)
Melody (2006) (writer: "Whole Lotta Love")
 
2006 Bobby (writer: "Spoonful")
 
2006 The Black Crowes: Freak 'N' Roll... Into the Fog (video documentary) (writer: "Mellow Down Easy")
 
2006 Parashat Ha-Shavua (TV series)
VaYeshev (2006) (writer: "Bring It On Home")
 
2006 The Darwin Awards (writer: "Gone Daddy Gone/I Just Want to Make Love to You")
 
2005 Great Performances (TV series)
Cream Reunion Concert (2005) (writer: "Spoonful")
 
2005 Stoned (writer: "Little red rooster")
 
2005 Shadowboxer (writer: "I Don't Care Who Knows")
 
2005 Proof (writer: "I'm Ready" 1954)
 
2005 The Devil's Rejects (writer: "I Can't Quit You Baby")
 
2005 Lords of Dogtown (writer: "I Just Wanna Make Love to You")
 
2005 The Jeff Healey Band: Live at Montreux 1999 (video documentary) (writer: "Third Degree", "Hoochie Coochie Man")
 
2004 Against the Ropes ("Wang Dang Doodle")
 
2004 The Girl Next Door (writer: "HOOTCHIE COOTCHIE MAN")
 
2003 Secondhand Lions (writer: "Help Me")
 
2003 How to Deal (writer: "Hidden Charms")
 
2003 Led Zeppelin DVD (video documentary) (writer: "I Can't Quit You Baby", "Whole Lotta Love", "Bring It on Home")
 
2003 Daredevil (writer: "Top o' the Morning to Ya" / performer: "Top o' the Morning to Ya")
 
2003 Estradilla: Agents & Elvis (TV movie) (writer: "My Babe")
 
2002 Eric Clapton: One More Car, One More Rider - Live on Tour 2001 (video documentary) (writer: "Hoochie Coochie Man")
 
2002 Un paso adelante (TV series)
Volver al armario (2002) (writer: "I Just Want to Make Love to You")
 
2002 Sex with Strangers (documentary) (writer: "I Just Want To Make Love To You")
 
2002 Run Ronnie Run (writer: "I Just Want To Make Love To You")
 
2001 Mulholland Dr. (writer: "Bring It On Home")
 
2001 Joe Dirt (writer: "I Just Want to Make Love to You")
 
2000 Big Momma's House (writer: "Wang Dang Doodle")
 
2000 The Linda McCartney Story (TV movie) (writer: "Back Door")
 
1999 Jeff Buckley: Remembered (TV documentary) (writer: "Whole Lotta Love")
 
1999 Eric Clapton & Friends in Concert: A Benefit for the Crossroads Centre at Antigua (TV documentary) (writer: "Hoochie Coochie Man")
 
1999 Three to Tango (writer: "Violent Love")
 
1998 Another Day in Paradise (writer: "Nervous" / performer: "Nervous")
 
1998 Mercury Rising (writer: "Evil Is Going On")
 
1997 Playing God (writer: "If the Sea Was Whiskey" / performer: "If the Sea Was Whiskey")
 
1997 Flipping (writer: "I MAKE LOVE")
 
1997 Eric Clapton: Live in Hyde Park (TV documentary) (writer: "Hoochie Coochie Man")
 
1996 Heaven's Prisoners (writer: "Good Moanin' Blues")
 
1995 Heat (writer: "Top O' The Morning To Ya")
 
1995 Casino (writer: "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Ain't Superstitious")
 
1995 Destiny Turns on the Radio (writer: "The seventh son")
 
1994 Foreign Student (writer: "Evil")
 
1994 Cops and Robbersons (writer: "You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover")
 
1993 Dazed and Confused (writer: "I Just Want To Make Love To You")
 
1993 Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (documentary) (writer: "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "I Ain't Superstitious", "Hoochie Coochie Man")
 
1992 The Allman Brothers Band: Live at Great Woods (video documentary) (writer: "Hoochie Coochie Man")
 
1991 Rush (writer: "Wang Dang Doodle", "Don't Know Which Way To Go")
 
1991 The Doctor (writer: "Everything's Got a Time" / performer: "Everything's Got a Time")
 
1991 Flirting (writer: "I Just Wanna Make Love to You")
 
1991 The Doors (writer: "Back Door Man")
 
1989 The Delinquents (writer: "My Babe")
 
1989 Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV series)
The Crawling Eye (1989) (writer: "Whole Lotta Love" - uncredited)
 
1989 Ginger Ale Afternoon (writer: "SAVE THE CHILD", "I DON'T TRUST NOBODY", "WIGGLING WORM", "FLAMIN' MAMIE", "BE WHAT YOU WANT TO BE", "THAT'S MY BABY", "I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU", "GOOD UNDERSTANDING" / performer: "SAVE THE CHILD", "I DON'T TRUST NOBODY", "WIGGLING WORM", "THAT'S MY BABY", "I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU", "GOOD UNDERSTANDING")
 
1989 Road House (writer: "Hoochie Coochie Man")
 
1989 The Wonder Years (TV series)
Walk Out (1989) (writer: "Hoochie Coochie Man")
 
1987 It's Garry Shandling's Show. (TV series)
Nancy Gets Amnesia (1987) (writer: "Whole Lotta Love")
 
1987 Adventures in Babysitting (music: "Evil Is Going On" / lyrics: "Evil Is Going On")
 
1987 La Bamba (producer: "Who Do You Love")
 
1987 The Doors: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (video documentary) (writer: "Back Door Man")
 
1986 Soul Man ("Hoochie Coochie Man")
 
1986 The Color of Money (writer: "Don't Tell Me Nothin'" / performer: "Don't Tell Me Nothin'")
 
1983 Get Crazy (writer: "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man")
 
1983 Heart Like a Wheel (writer: "Built for Comfort")
 
1974 Ape Over Love (writer: "Whole Lotta Love" - uncredited)
 
1974 Cry Rape (writer: "I Ain't Superstitious" - uncredited)
 
1974 Butler's Night Out (short) (writer: "Whole Lotta Love" - uncredited)
 
1972 The Coming Thing (writer: "I Ain't Superstitious" - uncredited, "Back Door Man" - uncredited)
 
1970 Homer (writer: "Spoonful")
 
1964-1965 Shindig! (TV series)
Episode #1.45 (1965) (writer: "Seventh Son")
Episode #1.44 (1965) (writer: "Seventh Son", "Nervous")
Episode #1.3 (1964) (writer: "My Babe")
 
1961 New American Bandstand 1965 (TV series)
Episode dated 27 November 1961 (1961) (writer: "It Do Me So Good")
 
Show ShowActor (2 titles)
1991 Night of the Warrior
Willie Dixon
 
1966 The Blues (TV movie)
 
Show ShowComposer (1 title)
Show ShowMusic Department (1 title)
1986 The Color of Money (special music participation)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
1987 The Doors: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (video documentary) (special thanks)
 
1981 Thief (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (8 titles)
1999 Blues Masters (video documentary)
Himself
 
1990-1992 The Full Moon Show (TV series documentary)
Himself
Chicago & the American Heartland (1992) … Himself
Memphis & the Mississippi Delta Blues (1990) … Himself
 
1991 Rich Girl
Himself
 
1987 The 29th Annual Grammy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Performer
 
1983 Chicago on the Good Foot (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1974 Soundstage (TV series)
Himself
Blues Summit (1974) … Himself
 
1964 Tempo (TV series)
Music performer
The Blues Came Walkin': Part 1 (1964) … Music performer
 
1963 I Hear the Blues (TV movie)
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (4 titles)
2003 My Kinda People (TV movie)
Himself
 
2003 The Howlin' Wolf Story (documentary)
Himself
 
2003 The Blues (TV series documentary)
 
1993 Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (documentary)
Himself
 

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Height:

6' 2" (1.88 m)
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Trivia:

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 (under the category Early Influence). See more »

Nickname:

The Poet Laureate of the Blues See more »

Star Sign:

Cancer