Lindsay Kemp

AKA:
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1938-05-03

South Shields, England, UK

Biography

Lindsay Kemp was an English dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer. He collaborated with David Bowie as he invented theatrical personas such as Ziggy Stardust and taught Kate Bush how to dance. He starred in The Wicker Man and collaborated on films with auteurs like Ken Russell and Derek Jarman.

Crew Roles

The Looking Glass Murders
Writer
Sebastiane
Choreographer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Wardrobe Designer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {21}

Alder MacGreagor

1973-12-06 7.3

The Wicker Man

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash wit ...
Genre :Horror

Mortician

1977-09-07 5.7

Valentino

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom. ...
Genre :Drama

Divine

1982-04-02 0

Flowers

Filmed performance of Lindsay Kemp's free adaptation of Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers. ...
Genre :

Pierrot

1970-07-08 0

The Looking Glass Murders

Made for Scottish TV and airing in 1970, "The Looking Glass Murders" is a filmed version of the mime improv play "Pierrot in Turquoise", which Lindsay Kemp and David Bowie first staged in 1967. Pierr ...
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Angus Corky

1972-06-27 6.1

Savage Messiah

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his unt ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2014-08-22 6.8

The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill

This documentary explores Kate Bush's career and music, from January 1978's Wuthering Heights to her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow, through the testimony of some of her key collaborators and those she ...
Genre :TV Movie, Documentary, Music

Vinicio Secchi

1987-03-26 1

Italian Postcards

Lidia (Christiana Borghi) passes herself off as a stage actress to interview international star Silvana (Genevieve Page) for her writer boyfriend (David Brandon). Her first obstacle is the boarding ho ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Topstar

1974-01-01 0

The Stud

A sexploitation comedy centered around an Andy Warhold parody named "Randy Warpshot". ...
Genre :Comedy

Pantomime Dame

1998-08-28 6.881

Velvet Goldmine

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Cabaret Performer

1978-02-01 5.877

Jubilee

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music

Dancer

1976-12-17 6.5

Sebastiane

Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers ...
Genre :Drama

Guide

1993-11-13 7.111

The Line, the Cross & the Curve

A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious woman appears through the mirror and gives her a pair ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Self

2019-02-09 6.9

David Bowie: Finding Fame

Coming 50 years after the release of Space Oddity, the 90-minute film explores the Bowie before Ziggy Stardust, following the period from 1966 when he changed his name from David Jones to Bowie. It in ...
Genre :Documentary, Music, TV Movie

Jonathan Edwards, CVC Announcer

0

I Filmed Your Death

A small town is rocked when a local man goes on a rampage in a movie theater, killing dozens as well as himself. Now, a year later, young filmmaker Pierce Lyndale adds salt to the wound when he makes ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller

Self

2017-05-01 2.667

Battle of Soho

In November 2014 the Iconic club Madame Jojos closed its doors. This event being interpreted by many as the death knell of Soho.The gentrification of Soho affects the LGBT community and its Drag Queen ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2020-05-02 0

Lindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp

A documentary that collects for the first time and in an almost anthological way the historical repertoire of the Lindsay Kemp Company's shows, from the end of the 70s to the 90s. With footage from th ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2021-01-10 6

David Bowie: London Boy

A documentary about David Bowie. ...
Genre :Documentary

Player Queen

1964-04-15 7.8

Hamlet at Elsinore

The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fe ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Puck

1984-11-16 0

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night. ...
Genre :

Self

2019-09-27 0

Kemp: My Best Dance Is Yet to Come

The documentary tells the story of the last year of Lindsay Kemp’s life in Livorno, between memories and attempts to stage his last a show dedicated to Nosferatu. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2007-05-19 9

Seven Ages of Rock

A definitive landmark series charting the emergence and re-emergence of rock music as a global force, told through the musicians who have shaped this most enduring of genres. ...
Genre :Documentary