Ringo Starr
- Acting
- July 7, 1940 · Liverpool, England, UK
Biography
Richard Starkey MBE (born July 7, 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and The Beatles version of "Act Naturally"), as co-writer with the song "What Goes On" and primary writer with "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden". As drummer for The Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills", technically limited by being a left-handed person playing a right-handed kit. Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers, behind drummers such as John Bonham, Keith Moon and Neil Peart. Starr is the most documented and critically acclaimed actor-Beatle, playing a central role in several Beatles films, and appearing in numerous other movies, both during and after his career with The Beatles. After The Beatles' break-up in 1970, Starr achieved solo musical success with several singles and albums, and recorded with each of his fellow ex-Beatles as they too developed their post-Beatle musical careers. He has also been featured in a number of TV documentaries, hosted TV shows, and narrated the first two series of the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. He currently tours with the All-Starr Band.
Known for
Filmography
- High in the Clouds · Roy (Voice)
- Thomas & Friends: The Classic Stories · Narrator
- Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It · Self
- Man on the Run · Self
- Evolver 62 · Self
- The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn · Self, Producer
- A Love Letter to the Beatles · Self
- The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution · Self
- The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere · Self
- TWST / Things We Said Today · Self
- The Beatles · Self, Musician
- Ringo & Friends at the Ryman · Self, Producer
- La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
- No Hamburg, No Beatles · Self
- Beatles '64 · Self, Producer
- Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands · Self
- Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley · Self
- Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove · Self
- The Beatles LOVE · Producer, Music
- The Bannfoot Ferry · Self
- The Beach Boys · Self
- Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song · Self, Thanks
- The Beatles and the BBC · Self
- AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex · Self
- Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback · Self
- Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan · Self
- Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC · Self
- Louder Than Rock · Self
- Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll · Self
- The Lost Weekend: A Love Story · Self
- Let There Be Drums! · Self
- Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band: Live at the Greek Theater 2019 · Self
- Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues · Self
- The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction · Self
- If These Walls Could Sing · Self
- Ringo Starr: One of Them · Self
- Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles · Self
- The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert · Self, Producer
- How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s? · Self
- Rat Pack · Self
- The Beatles: Get Back · Self, Producer
- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony · Self
- The Beatles and India · Self
- McCartney 3, 2, 1 · Self
- What Drives Us · Self
- This Is Pop · Self
- Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon · Self
- Zappa · Self
- Meeting the Beatles in India · Self
- Ringo Starr’s Big Birthday Show · Self, Director
- Understanding McCartney · Self
- Mae West: Dirty Blonde · Self
- The Shadows At Sixty · Self
- Lennon & McCartney: Hello From Liverpool · Self
- Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle · Self
- Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice · Self
- Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind · Self
- Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2 · Self
- Yesterday · Songs
- Echo in the Canyon · Self
- Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1 · Self
- Understanding Lennon/McCartney · Self
- The Beatles – Ready Steady Go! · Self
- Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017 · Self
- Elvis Presley: The Searcher · Self
- Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars · Self
- George Harrison - All Things Pass · Self
- Take Your Pills · Self
- How the Beatles Changed the World · Self
- Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions · Self
- The Summer of Love
- Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution · Self
- It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond · Self
- Free to Rock · Self
- Året var 1967 · Self
- Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album · Self
- Soundbreaking · Self
- The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years · Self
- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping · Ringo Starr
- Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me · Self