Born on this day – Robbie Robertson:

Singer

Musician

Composer

July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023

 

Credits:

Charity work: member of Artists Against Racism.

Books:

Hiawatha and the Peacemaker (2015); Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music That Changed the World (2013); Robbie Robertson: Authentic Guitar Transcriptions (1996); Testimony (2016).

Albums:

Classic Masters (2002); Contact from the Underworld of Redboy (1998); How to Become Clairvoyant (2011); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023); Music from Big Pink (1968); Robbie Robertson (1987); Sinematic (2019); Storyville (1991); Testimony (2016); The Basement Tapes (1975).

Movies, television and video:

100 Greatest Albums of Rock & Roll (2001); 1408 (2007); 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2023); 21 and a Wake-Up (2009); 90 Minutes Live (1978); A Home at the End of the World (2004); A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (1988); American Gods (2017); American Masters (1990–2022); American Roots Music (2001); And So It Goes (2014); Any Given Sunday (1999); Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023); Ask the Dust (2006); Bandstand (1966); Baywatch (1989); Beat Shazam (2018); Beat-Club (1971); Behind the Music (1998); Berkeley in the Sixties (1990); Beyond Famous (2017); Beyond the Law (1993); Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James (2021); Breakfast with Hunter (2003); Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life (2006); Californication (2009); Canadian Idol (2006); Carny (1980); Casino (1995); Castle Rock (2018); CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell (2023); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2016); Celebrating Greatness: A Canada's Walk of Fame Special (2020); Celebrating Greatness: Canada's Walk of Fame Special (2021); Celebrity Page (2020); Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987); Classic Albums (1997); Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives (2017); Cold Case (2010); Cold Pursuit (2019); Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (2011); Cousin Bette (1998); Crooked Arrows (2012); CTV National News (2019); CTV News at 11:30 Toronto (2019); CTV News at Six Toronto (2019); Curse of the Axe (2012); Dakota 38 (2012); Dakota Exile (1996); Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000); Dancing in the Street (1996); Darren Vigil Gray Counterclockwise (2003); Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014); Defiance (2015); Down in the Flood: Bob Dylan, the Band & the Basement Tapes (2012); Eastbound & Down (2012); Easy Rider (1969); Eat the Document (1972); Ed (2001); Electric Dreams (2018); Elvis Presley: The Searcher (2018); Emporio Armani: A Private Party (1996); Eric Clapton: It's in the Way That You Use It (1986); Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013 (2013); eTalk Daily (2020); Extraordinary Measures (2010); Festival Express (2003); Firstborn (1984); Five Corners (1987); Folk America (2009); For All Mankind (2021); Forces of Nature (1999); Four Strong Winds (2003); Gangs of New York (2002); Genius (2021); Get It Together (1978); Girl, Interrupted (1999); Good Girls Revolt (2016); Hawaii Five-0 (2019); Igby Goes Down (2002); I'm Your Woman (2020); Independent Lens (2006–2014); It Might Get Loud (2008); Jenifa (2004); Jimmy Hollywood (1994); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2011); Juno Awards 2011 (2011); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023); Kippevel (1987); Ladder 49 (2004); Larger Than Life (1996); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1995); Late Night with David Letterman (1988–1992); Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2011); Late Show with David Letterman (1994–2015); Later... With Jools Holland (2011); Lennon or McCartney (2014); Lethal Weapon (2018); Leyendas de la guitarra (1991); Life and Times (1997–2001); Little White Lies (2010); Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live (2005); Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued (2014); Mafia III (2016); Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson (1998); Matthijs gaat door (2022); Mavis! (2015); Midnight Caller (1990); Morning Joe (2023); Movies Are My Life (1978); MTV 80s - Top 50 at the Movies! (2020); MTV Rockumentary (1992); Muscle Shoals (2013); My Name Is Earl (2006); National Geographic Specials / Asteroids: Deadly Impact (1997); Native America (2018); NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (2023); Neil Diamond: Love at the Greek (1977); Neil Diamond: Solitary Man (2010); New Amsterdam (2021); No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2008); Norah Jones: Live in New Orleans (2003); Norman's Rare Guitars Documentary (2023); Nothing's All Bad (2010); Once Were Brothers (2019); Patch Adams (1998); Peace Through Music: A Global Event for Social Justice (2020); Peace Through Music: A Global Event for the Environment (2021); Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011); Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023); Phenomenon (1996); Powwow Highway (1988); Raging Bull (1980); Reel Injun (2009); Rellik (2017); Reservation Dogs (2023); Revisiting 'the Last Waltz' (2002); Rick and Morty (2020); Rise Up: Canadian Pop Music in the 1980s (2009); Road Songs: A Portrait of Robbie Robertson (2001); Robbie Robertson Feat. Ulali: Mahk Jchi (Heartbeat Drum Song) (1994); Robbie Robertson: Fallen Angel (1987); Robbie Robertson: Ghost Dance (1995); Robbie Robertson: Go Back to Your Woods (1992); Robbie Robertson: Going Home (1995); Robbie Robertson: In the Blood (1998); Robbie Robertson: Showdown at Big Sky (1987); Robbie Robertson: Somewhere Down the Crazy River (1988); Robbie Robertson: Take Your Partner by the Hand (1998); Robbie Robertson: Unbound (1998); Robbie Robertson: What About Now (1991); Rock & Roll (1995); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (1993); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live (2009); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Come Together (2009); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Feelin' Alright (2009); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Light My Fire (2009); Rock Video Girls 2 (1992); RocKwiz (2011–2016); Rod Stewart: Broken Arrow (1991); Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll (1987); Ronnie Hawkins 'Still Alive and Kickin' (2004); Roswell (1999); Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World (2017); Sarah McLachlan Feat. Robbie Robertson: World on Fire (2005); Saturday Night Live (1976–1992); Scent of a Woman (1992); Scrooged (1988); SEAL Team (2021); Shakin' All Over! (2006); Shangri-La (2019); Shout (1991); Shutter Island (2010); Silence (2016); Skeppsholmen (2003); Skins (2002); Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016); Sports Night (1998); Star 80 (1983); Stars in Their Eyes (1994); Starsky & Hutch (2004); Street Spirits (2018); Supernatural (2014); Tavis Smiley (2011–2013); TCM Remembers 2023 (2023); The 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2010); The 2011 Giller Prize (2011); The 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2011); The 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2012); The 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2018); The 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2019); The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert (2009); The 25th Annual Juno Awards (1996); The 27th Annual Juno Awards (1998); The 30th Annual Grammy Awards (1988); The 34th Annual Grammy Awards (1992); The 55th Annual Grammy Awards (2013); The '60s (1999); The Allman Brothers Band: Live at Great Woods (1992); The Andrew Klavan Show (2017); The BackStage Pass (2009); The Beatles: Get Back (2021); The Big Chill (1983); The Big Interview with Dan Rather (2020); The Big Picture (2020); The Black Crowes: Freak 'N' Roll... Into the Fog (2006); The Blues (2003); The Bob Hope Christmas Special (1970); The Boys of 2nd Street Park (2003); The Brothers Bloom (2008); The Bukharan (2021); The Center of the World (2001); The Cinema Snob (2013); The Color of Money (1986); The Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995); The Crossing Guard (1995); The Dancing Man of L.A. (2021); The Doe Boy (2001); The Dreaming (2008); The Drug Years (2006); The Full Moon Show (1990); The Go!! Show (1966); The Good Guys (2010); The High Note (2020); The History of Rock 'n' Roll (1995); The Hour (2011); The Hustler of Money (1987); The Irishman (2019); The John Denver Show (1973); The King of Comedy (1982); The King of Staten Island (2020); The Last Man on Earth (2016); The Last Waltz (1978); The Last Waltz: Archival Outtakes Jam 2 (1978); The Messenger (2009); The Muppet Show (1980); The Native Americans (1994); The Return of El Topo Chico (2011); The ScapeCast (2006); The Shadow of Chikara (1977); The Stud (1978); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2015–2019); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1994–1996); The War (1994); The Whoopi Goldberg Show (1992–1993); The Whoopi Goldberg Show (1993); The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); This Is 40 (2012); Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017); Today (2023); Top of the Pops (1978 / 1988); True Blood (2010); U (1991); U2: Rattle and Hum (1988); U2: The Making of the Movie 'Rattle and Hum' (1988); Until the End of the World (1991); VH1 Presents the 70's (1996); Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001); Wanderlust (2006); Whispers in the Dark (1992); WKRP in Cincinnati (1980); Wogan (1988); Wolves (1999); Woodstock Diary (1994); Woodstock: The Lost Performances (1990); World Tour 1966: The Home Movies (2003); Write Record Tour (2021); WTF with Marc Maron (2017); Yonge Street: Toronto Rock & Roll Stories (2011); You Are What You Eat (1968).