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Janis Joplin (1943–1970)

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Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta... See full bio »

Born:

Janis Lyn Joplin
in Port Arthur, Texas, USA

Died:

(age 27) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
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2012 Voice - Danmarks største stemme (TV series)
– Fjerde blindtest (2012) (writer: "Move Over" - uncredited)
 
2012 Aufgspuit! (TV series)
– Schmidbauer mit Claudia Koreck (2012) (writer: "Mercedes Benz")
 
2011 So You Think You Can Dance (TV series)
– Top 12 Perform (2011) (performer: "Piece of My Heart")
 
2011 American Idol (TV series)
– 9 Finalists Compete (2011) ("Piece of My Heart")
 
2011 Gent de paraula (TV series)
– Episode #1.19 (2011) (performer: "Me and Bobby McGee")
 
2011 A Little Bit of Heaven ("Mercedes Benz")
 
2009 A Mulher Invisível (performer: "A Woman Left Lonely")
 
2009 Taking Woodstock (performer: "Try Just a Little Bit Harder")
 
2009 Watchmen (performer: "Me and Bobby McGee")
 
2007-2008 Banda sonora (TV series)
– Episode #4.3 (2008) (performer: "Work Me Lord")
– Episode #1.13 (2007) (performer: "Me and Bobby McGee")
– Episode #1.6 (2007) (performer: "Ball and Chain")
 
2008 The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (performer: "Summertime")
 
2008 Queridos Amigos (TV mini-series)
– Episode #1.1 (2008) (performer: "Cry Baby")
 
2007 Esti showder (TV series)
– Episode #10.1 (2007) (writer: "Mercedes Benz")
 
2007 Introducing the Dwights (writer: "Move Over" / performer: "Piece of My Heart', "Move Over")
 
2005 ShakespeaRe-Told (TV mini-series)
– Macbeth (2005) (writer: "Mercedes Benz")
 
2005 Romance & Cigarettes (performer: "Piece of My Heart")
 
2004 Boston Public (TV series)
– Chapter Seventy-Nine (2004) (performer: "Piece of My Heart" - uncredited)
 
2003 Waking the Dead (TV series)
– Walking on Water: Part 1 (2003) (writer: "Mercedes Benz" - uncredited / 1970)
 
2003 Festival Express (documentary) (performer: "Cry Baby", "Ain't No More Cane", "Tell Mama", "Me & Bobby McGee")
 
2003 Janis and John (writer: "Kozmic Blues" / performer: "Down On Me" Live, "Kozmic Blues" / arranger: "Down On Me" Live)
 
2003 The Dreamers (writer: "I Need a Man to Love" 1968)
 
2002 Ultimate X: The Movie (documentary short) (performer: "Cry Baby")
 
2001 Mohamed (short) (performer: "Cry Baby")
 
2001 Eva & Adam: Four Birthdays and a Fiasco (writer: "Mercedes Benz")
 
2000 One Hundred Steps (performer: "Summertime")
 
2000 Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970) (TV documentary) (performer: "Ball And Chain")
 
1999 Freaks and Geeks (TV series)
– Beers and Weirs (1999) (performer: "Maybe")
 
1999 Three Kings (writer: "Mercedes Benz")
 
1997 El tiempo de la felicidad (performer: "Me and Bobby McGee")
 
1996 The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon (documentary) (writer: "Oh Sweet Mary")
 
1995 Home for the Holidays (performer: "Piece of My Heart")
 
1995 The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (TV documentary) (performer: "Piece of My Heart Take Another", "Tell Mama")
 
1994 The War (performer: "Summertime")
 
1994 Woodstock Diary (TV documentary) (performer: "Try Just a Little Bit Harder", "Ball and Chain")
 
1994 L'eau froide (performer: "Me & Bobby McGee")
 
1994 Le péril jeune (music: "Move over" / lyrics: "Move over" / performer: "Move over")
 
1993 Household Saints (performer: "Maybe")
 
1991 Beverly Hills, 90210 (TV series)
– Wildfire (1991) (writer: "Mercedes Benz" - uncredited)
 
1991 The Indian Runner (performer: "SUMMERTIME")
 
1990 Woodstock: The Lost Performances (video documentary) (performer: "Work Me Lord")
 
1990 Flashing on the Sixties: A Tribal Document (video documentary) (writer: "Down on Me")
 
1989 The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (writer: "Down On Me")
 
1989 Bangkok Hilton (TV mini-series) (writer: "Mercedes-Benz " - uncredited)
 
1989 Look Who's Talking (performer: "Cry Baby")
 
1988 Off Limits (writer: "Down on Me" / performer: "Down on Me")
 
1986 Série noire (TV series)
– Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (1986) (writer: "Mercedes Benz" / performer: "Mercedes Benz")
 
1986 Women in Rock (video documentary) (performer: "Summertime" - uncredited, "Ball and Chain" - uncredited, "Piece of My Heart" - uncredited)
 
1985 Miami Vice (TV series)
– Buddies (1985) (writer: "Mercedes Benz")
 
1983 Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style (video documentary) (performer: "Ball and Chain" - uncredited)
 
1981 American Pop (performer: "Summertime")
 
1980 Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV mini-series)
– Fassbinder, Berlin Alexanderplatz, 14 - Mein Traum vom Traum des Franz Biberkopf von Alfred Döblin: Ein Epilog (1980) (performer: "Me and Bobby McGee")
 
1979 Chilly Scenes of Winter (performer: "Get It While You Can")
 
1978 Coming Home (performer: "Call on Me" 1966)
 
1976 Gladys and Her All-Girl Band (performer: "Try Just a Little Bit Harder" - uncredited)
 
1974 Little Girl Blue (performer: "Little Girl Blue" - uncredited)
 
1970 Woodstock (documentary) (performer: "Work Me, Lord")
 
1969 Music Scene (TV series)
– Episode #1.6 (1969) (performer: "Maybe")
 
1968 Petulia (writer: "Road Block" - uncredited, "Down On Me" - uncredited / performer: "Road Block" - uncredited, "Down On Me" - uncredited)
 
Show ShowCinematographer (1 title)
2008 Mixuga (documentary)
 
Show ShowMusic Department (1 title)
1973 The Experts (musician)
 
Show ShowActress (1 title)
1967 Ball and Chain (short)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
Show ShowSelf (17 titles)
2009 Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (video documentary short)
Herself
 
2003 Festival Express (documentary)
Herself - Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band
 
2000 Intimate Portrait (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Janis Joplin (2000) … Herself
 
1995 The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1994 Woodstock Diary (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1990 Woodstock: The Lost Performances (video documentary)
Herself
 
1973 Free (documentary)
 
1969-1970 The Dick Cavett Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 3 August 1970 (1970) … Herself
– Episode dated 25 June 1970 (1970) … Herself
– Episode #3.24 (1969) … Herself
 
1970 Woodstock (documentary)
Herself
 
1969 This Is Tom Jones (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Episode #2.11 (1969) … Herself
 
1969 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 3 November 1969 (1969) … Herself
 
1969 Music Scene (TV series)
Herself - Musical Guest
– Episode #1.6 (1969) … Herself - Musical Guest
– Episode #1.2 (1969) … Herself - Musical Guest
 
1969 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Singer
– Episode #22.23 (1969) … Singer
 
1969 Keep on 'Rockin (documentary short)
Herself
 
1968 Monterey Pop (documentary)
Performer
 
1968 The Hollywood Palace (TV series)
Herself - Singer
– Episode #6.5 (1968) … Herself - Singer
 
1967 Big Brother and the Holding Company: Come Up the Years (TV documentary)
Herself
 
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2006-2012 60 Minutes (TV series documentary)
 
2011 Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2011 Fantástico (TV series documentary)
 
2010 Love, Janis (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2009 Woodstock: Now & Then (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2009 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
2007-2008 Banda sonora (TV series)
 
2008 Chelsea on the Rocks (documentary)
Herself
 
2008 68 (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2008 The O'Reilly Factor (TV series)
 
2006 Video on Trial (TV series)
 
2006 Queens of Heartache (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2006 Musikprogrammet - programmet om musik (TV series documentary)
 
2006 Death by Excess (TV mini-series documentary)
 
2000-2003 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
2003 Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics, Vol. 4: Elvis & Other Rock Greats (video)
Herself
 
2002 Pink Floyd The Wall Redux
Herself (uncredited)
 
2001 The Best of Music Flashback Television Shows: Featuring Music Scene and Hullabaloo (video documentary short)
Herself
 
2001 Nine Hundred Nights (video documentary)
Herself
 
2000 Hendrix (TV movie)
Herself (uncredited)
 
2000 My Generation (documentary)
Herself
 
1995 VH1 Legends (TV series documentary)
 
1991 Comin' Home (video documentary short)
Herself
 
1990 When the Applause Died (video documentary)
Herself
 
1987 Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1986 Jimi Plays Monterey (documentary)
Herself
 
1986 Women in Rock (video documentary)
Herself
 
1986 Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties (documentary short)
Herself
 
1983 Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style (video documentary)
Herself
 
1977 All You Need Is Love (TV series documentary)
 
1974 Janis (documentary)
Herself
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

Album (movie soundtrack): "Janis", 1975 (Columbia) See more »

Publicity Listings:

5 Biographical Movies  | 1 Print Biography  | 5 Articles  | 3 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Official Sites:

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Height:

5' 6" (1.68 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

My advice to everyone is come to California and I'll buy you a drink. See more »

Trivia:

Wrote her will shortly before her death. Drawing up the document with her Los Angeles lawyer, she set aside $2500 for her friends to throw a party in the event of her death. After she died of a heroin overdose on October 4, 1970, her friends followed her wishes and threw a party in her honor at a club in San Anselmo... See more »

Trademark:

Long flowing hair See more »

Nickname:

Pearl See more »

Star Sign:

Capricorn