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Jim Morrison (I) (1943–1971)


Jim Morrison was born on December 8, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida. His father was a U.S. Naval Officer who fought in World War II. Jim eventually became so estranged from his parents that he would later claim that they were dead. Not much is known about his early years, although he claimed in interviews... See full bio »

Died:

(age 27) in Paris, France

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Filmography

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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")
 
2009 Being Erica (TV series)
What I Am Is What I Am (2009) (writer: "People Are Strange")
 
2008 Top Gear (TV series)
Episode #12.8 (2008) (writer: "The End")
 
2008 Memòries de la tele (TV series)
Episode #2.25 (2008) (writer: "Light My Fire")
 
1993-2008 The Simpsons (TV series)
Smoke on the Daughter (2008) (writer: "The End" - uncredited)
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder (1999) (writer: "The End")
I Love Lisa (1993) (music: "Break On Through To The Other Side" - uncredited)
 
2008 Blodigt jävla helvete (writer: "Wintertime Love")
 
2006-2007 Parashat Ha-Shavua (TV series)
Shemot, Part I (2007) (writer: "End")
Bereishit (2006) (writer: "RIDERS ON THE STORM")
 
2007 Californication (TV series)
Hell-A Woman (2007) (writer: "L.A. Woman Paul Oakenfeld Remix")
 
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)
 
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 Morrison)
 
2004 Woyzeck (TV movie) (writer: "Light my Fire")
 
2002 Medicopter 117 - Jedes Leben zählt (TV series)
Die Flammenfalle (2002) (writer: "Light My Fire")
 
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")
 
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 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (documentary) (writer: "The End")
 
1991 Palm Harbor Vice (writer: "L.A. Woman")
 
1991 The Doors (writer: "The Movie", "Not to Touch the Earth", "Dead Cats, Dead Rats", "Severed Garden", "Ghost Song" / performer: "The Movie", "Severed Garden")
 
1991 The Doors: The Soft Parade (video documentary) (writer: "Wild Child", "The Soft Parade")
 
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")
 
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)
 
1985 The Doors: Dance on Fire (video documentary) (writer: "Wild Child", "Roadhouse Blues")
 
1981 American Pop (writer: "People Are Strange")
 
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")
 
1967 Who's That Knocking at My Door (writer: "The End" - uncredited)
 
Show ShowWriter (3 titles)
2003 A Feast of Friends (short) (writer)
 
2000 Love Her Madly (story)
 
1969 HWY: An American Pastoral (writer)
 
Show ShowProducer (2 titles)
1970 Feast of Friends (documentary) (producer)
 
1969 HWY: An American Pastoral (producer)
 
Show ShowActor (2 titles)
1969 HWY: An American Pastoral
The Hitchhiker
 
1965 Induction (short)
Partygoer (uncredited)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
2002 The Banger Sisters (thanks)
 
1989 Fast Food (soul and inspiration)
 
Show ShowSelf (18 titles)
2010 P.O.V. (TV series documentary)
Himself
The Beaches of Agnes (2010) … Himself
 
1999 The Doors Collection (video documentary)
Himself
 
1997 The Best of the Doors (video)
Vocals
 
1997 Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (documentary)
Himself (The Doors)
 
1991 The Doors: Live in Europe 1968 (video documentary)
Himself (vocals)
 
1991 The Doors: The Soft Parade (video documentary)
Himself (Vocals)
 
1987 The Doors: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (video documentary)
Himself (vocals)
 
1972 Beat-Club (TV series)
Episode #1.78 (1972) (as The Doors)
 
1970 Feast of Friends (documentary)
Himself (The Doors)
 
1969 Lions Love
Himself (uncredited)
 
1968 The Doors: The Doors Are Open (TV documentary)
Himself (vocals) (as Jim)
 
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 - Singer
 
1967 The Jonathan Winters Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.1 (1967) … Himself
 
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)
 
1967 The O'Keefe Centre Presents: The Rock Scene - Like It Is! (TV movie)
Himself - Doors Singer
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (33 titles)
2013 Doorstown (documentary short)
Himself
 
2011 Fantástico (TV series documentary)
 
2010 No me la puc treure del cap (TV series)
 
2009 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
2008 The Beaches of Agnès (documentary)
Himself
 
2008 60/90 (TV series)
 
2007 Banda sonora (TV series)
 
2006 SexTV (TV series documentary)
 
2006 Video on Trial (TV series)
 
2006 The Music of Apocalypse Now (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2005 Musikprogrammet - programmet om musik (TV series documentary)
 
2004 Bully & Rick (TV series)
 
2003 Mayor of the Sunset Strip (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 The Doors: Soundstage Performances (video documentary)
Himself - Interviewee/Vocals
 
1997 The Road of Excess (video documentary short)
Himself
 
1995 Rock & Roll (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
 
1995 L'univers de Jacques Demy (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1995 Nico Icon (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1995 The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1991 Idols (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1991 X-Large (TV series documentary)
 
1990 When the Applause Died (video documentary)
Himself
 
1987 Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1986 Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties (documentary short)
Himself (The Doors)
 
1985 The Doors: Dance on Fire (video documentary)
Himself (vocals)
 
1981 No One Here Gets Out Alive: A Tribute to Jim Morrison (video documentary)
Himself
 
1977 All You Need Is Love (TV series documentary)
 
1977 The Day the Music Died (documentary)
Himself
 

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Personal Details


Publicity Listings:

2 Biographical Movies  | 10 Print Biographies  | 15 Articles  | 10 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Official Sites:

The Doors' Official Site | See more »

Alternate Names:

The Doors | Jim

Height:

5' 11" (1.80 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

A friend is someone who gives you the complete freedom to be yourself. See more »

Trivia:

In 1971, while living in Paris, he quit drinking, shaved his thick beard and lost a great deal of weight, beginning a clean and sober new life. However, reports at the time of death continue to depict him as bloated. Some attribute this to congestive heart failure. See more »

Trademark:

Shoulder length hair See more »

Nickname:

Mr. Mojo Risin' See more »

Star Sign:

Sagittarius