David Byrne, a true renaissance man, has been the leader of an intellectual new wave rock-band Talking Heads, an actor, a filmmaker, screenwriter, and composer of musical scores. Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, he was raised in Baltimore after moving to the U.S. at the age of seven. As a young man, he studied photography, performance and video production at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1984, he and the Talking Heads were the subject of Jonathan Demme's concert film Stop Making Sense. He then tried filmmaking with his off-beat satire of Texas life True Stories (1986). Some of Byrne's quirky songs have appeared in feature films as well. In 1987, he and co-composers Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su won Academy Awards for their musical score for Bertolucci's The Last Emperor.
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Into the Abyss
Musical Performer |
2011 | |||
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Talking Heads: Chronology
Interviewee |
2011 | |||
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This Must Be the Place
Composer (Music Score) |
2011 | NOT YET RELEASED | ||
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Ride, Rise, Roar
Composer (Music Score), Participant |
2010 | |||
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Featured Music |
2010 | |||
| 2009 | ||||
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Celia the Queen
Participant |
2008 | |||
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The Man Who Bottled Clouds
Participant |
2008 | |||
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Fabricating Tom Zé
Participant |
2007 | |||
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Absolute Wilson
Actor |
2006 | |||
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Duck
Featured Music |
2005 | |||
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TV Party: The Documentary
Interviewee |
2005 | |||
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Young Adam
Composer (Music Score) |
2003 | |||
| 2001 | ||||
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Live From Austin TX: David Byrne
Performance |
2001 | |||
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The Book of Life
Composer (Music Score) |
1998 | |||
| 1995 | ||||
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David Byrne: Between the Teeth
Performance |
1994 | |||
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MTV Unplugged: 10,000 Maniacs
Performance |
1994 | |||
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Merci La Vie
Composer (Music Score) |
1991 | |||
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Magicians of The Earth
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
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Red, Hot + Blue
Performance |
1990 | |||
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Checking Out
Actor |
1989 | |||
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Heavy Petting
Actor |
1989 | |||
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Ilé Aiyé
Composer (Music Score), Director |
1989 | |||
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Saturday Night Live: Woody Harrelson [1]
Performance |
1989 | |||
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A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution
Composer (Music Score) |
1988 | |||
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Married to the Mob
Composer (Music Score) |
1988 | |||
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Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
Performance |
1988 | |||
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Cross My Heart
Songwriter |
1987 | |||
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Heat and Sunlight
Songwriter |
1987 | |||
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The Last Emperor
Composer (Music Score) |
1987 | |||
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Dead End Kids
Composer (Music Score) |
1986 | |||
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Something Wild
Songwriter |
1986 | |||
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True Stories
Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter, Songwriter, Voice |
1986 | |||
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Two Moon July
Actor |
1985 | |||
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Stop Making Sense
Actor, Composer (Music Score) |
1984 | |||
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The Catherine Wheel
Composer (Music Score) |
1983 | |||
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It's Clean, It Just Looks Dirty
Performance |
1980 | |||
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