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Ray Manzarek (1939–2013)


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Keyboard player with The Doors. See more trivia »

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Hide HideSoundtrack (46 titles)
2013 Divorce (TV series)
Episode #1.4 (2013) (writer: "Riders on the Storm")
 
2012/I The Watch (writer: "People Are Strange")
 
2011 Fringe (TV series)
The Last Sam Weiss (2011) (writer: "Riders on the Storm" - uncredited)
 
2010 De wereld draait door (TV series)
Episode #6.60 (2010) (writer: "When the music's over" - uncredited)
 
2010 Por Toda Minha Vida (TV series documentary)
RPM (2010) (writer: "Light My Fire")
 
2010 Glee (TV series)
Hell-O (2010) (writer: "Hello, I Love You" - uncredited)
 
2009 BBC Electric Proms (TV mini-series documentary)
Dame Shirley Bassey (2009) (writer: "Light My Fire")
 
2009 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV series)
Episode #1.133 (2009) (writer: "Roadhouse Blues" - uncredited)
 
2009 Taking Woodstock (writer: "Maggie M'Gill" / as Raymond Manzarek)
 
2009 Being Erica (TV series)
What I Am Is What I Am (2009) (writer: "People Are Strange")
 
1999-2008 The Simpsons (TV series)
Smoke on the Daughter (2008) (writer: "The End" - uncredited)
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder (1999) (writer: "The End")
 
2006-2007 Parashat Ha-Shavua (TV series)
Shemot, Part I (2007) (writer: "End")
Bereishit (2006) (writer: "RIDERS ON THE STORM")
 
2007 The Sopranos (TV series)
The Blue Comet (2007) (writer: "When the Music's Over" - uncredited)
 
2006 The Eight (TV series)
The Bell (2006) (writer: "Break on Through To the Other Side" - uncredited)
Line 32 (2006) (writer: "The End" - uncredited)
 
2006 Saturday Night Live: The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse (video) (writer: "The End" - uncredited)
 
2006 Kiss Me Again (writer: "Feijoada")
 
2005 American Wasteland (Video Game) (writer: "Peace Frog")
 
2005 X: Live in Los Angeles (video) (writer: "Soul Kitchen")
 
2005 The Jeff Healey Band: Live at Montreux 1999 (video documentary) (writer: "Roadhouse Blues")
 
2004 Ramones Raw (documentary) (writer: "Take It As It Comes" / as Manzarek)
 
2001 Someone Like You... (writer: "I'm a Tree")
 
2000 Cast Away (writer: "Light My Fire")
 
1999 Girl, Interrupted (writer: "Roadhouse Blues")
 
1999 Me and Will (writer: "Queen of the Highway")
 
1999 Superstar ("I'm a Tree")
 
1998 The Waterboy (writer: "Peace Frog")
 
1998 The X Files (writer: "Crystal Ship" / producer: "Crystal Ship")
 
1995 Strange Days (performer: "Strange Days")
 
1995 The Basketball Diaries (writer: "Riders On The Storm")
 
1995 The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (TV documentary) (writer: "When the Music's Over")
 
1992-1994 Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV series)
Village of the Giants (1994) (writer: "L.A. Woman")
Crash of Moons (1992) (writer: "People Are Strange" - uncredited)
 
1991 Palm Harbor Vice (writer: "L.A. Woman")
 
1989 The Jeff Healey Band: See the Light - Live from London (video) (writer: "Roadhouse Blues")
 
1989 Casualties of War (writer: "Hello, I Love You")
 
1989 Road House (writer: "Roadhouse Blues")
 
1989 The Wonder Years (TV series)
How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation (1989) (writer: "Light My Fire" - uncredited)
 
1989 True Believer (writer: "Crystal Ship")
 
1987 Less Than Zero (music: "Moonlight Drive" / lyrics: "Moonlight Drive")
 
1987 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (TV documentary) (writer: "FIVE TO ONE")
 
1987 The Lost Boys (producer: "People Are Strange")
 
1986 X: The Unheard Music (documentary) (writer: "Soul Kitchen")
 
1985-1986 Miami Vice (TV series)
Payback (1986) (writer: "Soul Kitchen" - uncredited)
Back in the World (1985) (writer: "Strange Days" - uncredited, "The Crystal Ship" - uncredited, "Five to One" - uncredited, "The Spy" - uncredited, "Roadhouse Blues" - uncredited, "Break on Through To the Other Side" - uncredited, "I Can't See Your Face in My Mind" - uncredited, "My Eyes Have Seen You" - uncredited)
 
1981 American Pop (writer: "People Are Strange" / as Raymond Manzarek)
 
1973 The Midnight Special (TV series)
Episode #1.20 (1973) (writer: "Light My Fire")
 
1972 The Coming Thing (writer: "Hello, I Love You" - uncredited, "Love Me Two Times" - uncredited, "Five to One" - uncredited, "End of the Night" - uncredited)
 
1968 The Doors (TV special documentary) (performer: "Alabama Song", "Back Door Man", "Love Me Two Times", "When the Music's Over", "The Unknown Soldier")
 
Show ShowDirector (10 titles)
2000 Love Her Madly
 
1999 The Doors Collection (video documentary)
 
1997 The Best of the Doors (video)
 
1991 The Doors: Live in Europe 1968 (video documentary)
 
1991 The Doors: The Soft Parade (video documentary)
 
1987 The Doors: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (video documentary)
 
1985 The Doors: Dance on Fire (video documentary) (creative director)
 
1965 Induction (short)
 
Show ShowComposer (5 titles)
2000 VH1 Storytellers (TV series documentary)
 
1999 The Doors Collection (video documentary)
 
1968 The Doors: The Doors Are Open (TV documentary)
 
Show ShowWriter (3 titles)
2013 The Poet in Exile (based on the novel by) (pre-production)
 
2000 Love Her Madly
 
1965 Induction (short)
 
Show ShowProducer (3 titles)
2013 The Poet in Exile (producer) (pre-production)
 
2000 Light My Fire: Ray Manzarek - A Return to the Whisky a Go Go (video documentary) (executive producer)
 
1970 Feast of Friends (documentary) (producer)
 
Show ShowMusic Department (2 titles)
2000 VH1 Storytellers (TV series documentary) (musician: keyboards - 1 episode)
The Doors: A Celebration (2000) (musician: keyboards)
 
1975 A Boy and His Dog (musician)
 
Show ShowActor (2 titles)
1983 Deal of the Century
Charlie Simbo
 
1965 Induction (short)
Ray (uncredited)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1985 The Doors: Dance on Fire (video documentary) (concept, creative director)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
2010 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (special thanks)
 
2002 The Banger Sisters (thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (55 titles)
2013 Napa Valley Dreams (documentary short)
Keyboardist, The Doors
 
2011 Down the Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story (documentary)
Himself
 
2011 Beatles Stories (documentary)
Himself
 
2011 Re:Generation (documentary)
 
2011 A Norml Life (documentary)
Himself
 
2009 Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's (video documentary)
Himself
 
2008 The Reinactors (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Obscene (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 9am with David & Kim (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 4 April 2007 (2007) … Himself
 
2007 The UCLA Dynasty (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2006 Breaking the Rules (documentary)
Himself
 
2006 The Drug Years (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
Feed Your Head … Himself
 
2006 An Ox's Tale: The John Entwistle Story (documentary)
Himself
 
2003 Temples of Rock (TV documentary)
Host
 
2003 Mayor of the Sunset Strip (documentary)
Himself
 
2003 The Definitive Elvis: 25th Anniversary (video documentary)
Himself - Keyboards: The Doors
 
2002 The Doors: Soundstage Performances (video documentary)
Himself - Interviewee/keyboards
 
2002 Venice: Lost and Found (documentary)
 
2002 The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years (video documentary)
 
2000 VH1 Storytellers (TV series documentary)
Himself - The Doors
The Doors: A Celebration (2000) … Himself - The Doors
 
2000 Light My Fire: Ray Manzarek - A Return to the Whisky a Go Go (video documentary)
Himself - Host & Musician
 
2000 The Third Mind (documentary)
 
1999 The Adam and Joe Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #3.6 (1999) … Himself
 
1999 The Doors Collection (video documentary)
Himself
 
1997 The Best of the Doors (video)
Keyboards
 
1997 Feed Your Head (documentary short)
Himself (Interview)
 
1997 Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (documentary)
Himself (The Doors)
 
1995 The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 1 (TV documentary)
Himself (The Doors)
 
1995 The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1991 The Full Moon Show (TV series documentary)
Himself
California Dreamin' (1991) … Himself
 
1991 The Doors: Live in Europe 1968 (video documentary)
Himself (keyboards)
 
1991 X-Large (TV series documentary)
Himself
Jim Morrison lebt (1991) … Himself
 
1991 Hard 'N Heavy Volume 12 (video documentary)
Himself
 
1991 The Doors: The Soft Parade (video documentary)
Himself (Keyboards)
 
1988 John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band: Sweet Toronto (video documentary)
Himself in the Limousine (uncredited)
 
1987 The Doors: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (video documentary)
Himself (keyboards)
 
1986 X: The Unheard Music (documentary)
Himself
 
1985 The Doors: Dance on Fire (video documentary)
Himself (keyboards) (also archive footage)
 
1981 No One Here Gets Out Alive: A Tribute to Jim Morrison (video documentary)
Himself
 
1972 Beat-Club (TV series)
Episode #1.78 (1972) (as The Doors)
 
1970 Feast of Friends (documentary)
Himself (The Doors)
 
1968 The Doors: The Doors Are Open (TV documentary)
Himself - keyboards (as Ray Daniel Manzarek)
 
1968 The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (TV series)
Himself - Musical Guest
Episode #3.9 (1968) … Himself - Musical Guest (as The Doors)
 
1968 The Doors (TV special documentary)
Himself - Musician
 
1967 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #21.2 (1967) … Himself (as The Doors)
 
1967 Malibu U. (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.6 (1967) … Himself (as The Doors)
 
1967 New American Bandstand 1965 (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 22 July 1967 (1967) … Himself (as The Doors)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (11 titles)
2013 Doorstown (documentary short)
Himself
 
2009 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
2007 Banda sonora (TV series)
 
2006 Video on Trial (TV series)
 
2006 The Music of Apocalypse Now (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2005 Musikprogrammet - programmet om musik (TV series documentary)
 
1997 The Road of Excess (video documentary short)
Himself
 
1995 Rock & Roll (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
 
1986 Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties (documentary short)
Himself (The Doors)
 

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Personal Details


Publicity Listings:

1 Print Biography  | 2 Interviews  | 1 Article  | See more »

Official Sites:

The Doors' Official Site | See more »

Alternate Names:

The Doors | Ray Daniel Manzarek

Height:

6' 0½" (1.84 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

Johnny Depp has beatnik blood. See more »

Trivia:

Keyboard player with The Doors. See more »

Trademark:

His glasses See more »

Star Sign:

Aquarius