David Bowie
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PERSONAL DATA OF DAVID BOWIE
Born in: Brixton, London, England
Born on: 08/01/1947
Dies at: New York, USA
He dies on: 10/01/2016
DAVID BOWIE BIOGRAPHY
One of the most important and influential characters in rock music and pop culture, David Bowie was born on 8 January 1947 in Brixton, near London, with the name of David Robert Haywood Jones. The pseudonym with which he is universally known he adopted it at the beginning of his artistic career, in the 1960s, to avoid confusion with the then more famous Davy Jones, singer of Monkees.
From a very young age he showed a great interest in music, especially rock and blues from the United States. To the natural inclinations for music and art in general was added the influence of the stepbrother Terry Burns, older than him, passionate about jazz and beat literature, and model of freedom. It is no coincidence that his first instrument was the saxophone, which he began playing in the late 1950s.
In 1960, encouraged by a progressive teacher (Owen Frampton, Peter’s father) joined a group of students very interested in music and art, and in 1962, with George Underwood (the one who in a fight causes him an injury to the pupil that has changed the color of one of his irises) joins a band for the first time, The Kon-rads. The adventure will be short and followed by other similar ones, but Bowie begins to compose, sing and make himself known: until his solo debut in 1967 with an album titled simply “David Bowie”.
In the same they also began his career as an actor, interpreting the short film by Michael Armstrong The Image (which, in retrospect, in 1983, he called “terrible”), and appearing in the film The Virgin Soldiers. In 1968 he met Lindsay Kemp, fundamental for the development of his artistic personality and in the succession of his many incarnations: together with him Bowie he writes and performed the television short Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders.
In the late sixties Bowie he began to audition for the cinema more and more often: but while thanks to records like “Space Oddity” (1969), “The Man Who Sold the World” (1970), “Hunky Dory” (1971), “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars” (1972) and all that will come after, multiform and iridescent, the musical career explodes, to assert itself in the cinema at Bowie it will take a few more years.
And the 1976, in fact, when Nicolas Roeg he wants him in the shoes of Thomas Jerome Newton, the alien protagonist of The Man Who Fell to Earth, a film that earned him critical acclaim. Two years later he plays Gigolo of David Hemmings (1978), where it appears next to Marlene Dietrich, and in the same period he tries to free himself from the addiction to cocaine and the occasional use of heroin. These are the years of the trilogy “Low”, “Heroes” and Lodger “, composed in Berlin with Brian Eno: and not surprisingly, perhaps, it appears in 1981 in a cameo in the celebrated Christiane F. – We, the guys from the Berlin Zoo.
In 1983, after having interpreted The Elephant Man in the theatre, Bowie he makes two of his most famous films: he is a revisionist vampire in Miriam wakes up at midnight of Tony Scott and an ambiguous Australian officer in a Japanese prison camp during World War II in Furyo of Nagisa Oshima, which was presented in competition at Cannes Film Festival in that year, while the Bowie musician published “Let’s Dance”, which was an extraordinary commercial success.
At the height of Furyo, less incisive roles followed, such as that of a killer in All in one night (1985), a cameo in Absolute Beginners (1986) and the role of Jared, king of the goblins in Labyrith of Jim Henson.
In 1988 is Pontius Pilate there The last temptation of Christ of Martin Scorsese, his last participation in the relief for years: we have to wait for the 1992 the role of a mysterious FBI agent in Fire walk with me, and the 1996 to see it in the Basquiat of Julian Schnabel in the role of Andy Warhol: character who met and collaborated in 1971, at the time of “Hunky Dory”.
Since then, his appearances have been almost only cameos: from that on My West (1998) of Giovanni Veronesi to the one in Zoolander (2001), where he plays himself. Little more than a cameo is also the one in The Prestige by Christopher Nolan (2006) where he plays an intense and sulphurous Nikola Tesla.
His son Duncan Jones, had in 1971 by his then wife Mary Angela Barnett, is an appreciated director.
Since 1992 he has been happily married to the Somali model Iman.
THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY DAVID BOWIE
Bandslam – High School band (Bandslam)
Role: Actor
Year: 2009
Landshark – Risk on Wall Street (August)
Role: Actor
Year: 2008
The Prestige
Role: Actor
Year: 2006
Zoolander
Role: Actor
Year: 2001 Go to the complete Filmography
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF DAVID BOWIE
Drama: 32% Fantasy: 14% Comedy: 8% Thriller: 8%
DAVID BOWIE’S STATISTICS ON COMINGSOON.IT
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RECENT ROLES PLAYED BY DAVID BOWIE
| Movie | Role |
|---|---|
Landshark – Risk on Wall Street | Cyrus Ogilvie |
The Prestige | Nikola Tesla |
Zoolander | Himself |
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