D.A. Pennebaker

Don Alan Pennebaker is an American scenario writer born in 1925 with Evanston, Illinois.

Celebrate for its documentary musical, it in particular carried out Don' T Look Back (1967), recalling the English round of Bob Dylan in 1965. Pennebaker shows a true talent to film the concerts, being involved on scene with a camera knowing to retranscribe the fever of a live combined with a direction of the undeniable rate/rhythm as testify to it Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973) (historical in the concert of David Bowie accompanying the exit by its legendary album Ziggy Stardust ), and 101 (1989) where the live service of Depeche Mode is filmed with a dynamism which them scenic configuration could not predict (3 of the 4 members of the group are fixed behind their synthetizers).

Pennebaker also carried out documentary on John DeLorean ( DeLorean , 1981), Jimi Hendrix ( Jimi Hendrix Live , 1989, artist whom he often filmed on scene), Woodstock ( Woodstock Diary , 1994) and on Monterey Pop Festival, first festival of rock'n'roll ( Monterey Pop , 1968).

Its films are as many testimonys on the history of the rock'n'roll, such Sweet Toronto/Keep One Rockin (1969) (with Little Richard, Chuck Berry, John Lennon, Yoko Ono…), Jerry Lee Lewis: The Story off Rock'n'roll & Roll (1991), The Music Such You (1992).

Catalog of films

Like realizer

  • 1953 : Daybreak Express train
  • 1957: Brussels Loops
  • 1964: Lambert, Hendricks & Co.
  • 1965 : Yesterday Strauss
  • 1967: Of which Look Back
  • 1968: Pop Monterey
  • 1969: Keep one 'Rockin
  • 1970: Original Cast Album-Company
  • 1972: One TOKEN ENTRY
  • 1973: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
  • 1977: Energy War
  • 1979 : Town Bloody Hall
  • 1981: DeLorean
  • 1983 : Rockaby
  • 1986 : Jimi Plays Monterey
  • 1987 : Shake!: Otis At Monterey
  • 1988: Sweet Toronto (video)
  • 1989: 101
  • 1989 : Jimi Hendrix Live
  • 1991 : Jerry Lee Lewis: The Story off Rock'n'roll & Roll (video)
  • 1992: The Music Such You
  • 1993: The War Room
  • 1994 : Woodstock Diary (TV)
  • 1996: Keine Zeit
  • 1997 : Moon Over Broadway
  • 1999: Searching for Jimi Hendrix (TV)
  • 2000: Down from the Mountain
  • 2002 : Only the Strong Survives
  • 2002: Elaine Stritch: At Liberty (TV)
  • 2004: Elaine Stritch At Liberty (TV)
  • 2006: Assumes the Position with Mr. Wuhl (TV)

As director of the photography

As assembler

As producer

As scenario writer

  • 1953 : Daybreak Express train
  • 1967: Of which Look Back
  • 1968: Wild 90
  • 1972: One TOKEN ENTRY

As actor

  • 1968 : Wild 90 : Al

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