Billy Preston

Q: Did Billy Preston win any awards?

Billy Preston received several awards, including a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for his song 'Will It Go Round in Circles.' He was also nominated for other Grammy Awards throughout his career.

Q: What was Billy Preston's first film?

Billy Preston's first film appearance was in 'Let It Be,' released in 1970. He played a crucial role in the documentary, showcasing his musical talent alongside The Beatles.

Q: What are some of Billy Preston's most successful songs?

Some of Billy Preston's most successful songs include 'Nothing from Nothing,' 'Will It Go Round in Circles,' and 'Outa-Space.' These tracks topped the charts and showcased his unique blend of rock and soul.

Q: What was Billy Preston's personal life like?

Billy Preston had a relatively private personal life. He was known to have one child and was married once. He faced challenges, including health issues later in life, but remained a beloved figure in music.

Q: What is Billy Preston's estimated net worth?

Billy Preston's estimated net worth was reported to be around 3 million USD at the time of his passing. His wealth was accumulated through his successful music career and collaborations.

Q: What milestones did Billy Preston achieve in his filmography?

Billy Preston's major filmography milestone includes his role in 'Let It Be,' where he gained recognition as a musician. He also appeared in various television shows and documentaries celebrating his contributions to music.

Q: How was Billy Preston involved with The Beatles?

Billy Preston was involved with The Beatles during the recording of 'Let It Be.' He played the electric piano on several tracks and contributed significantly to their final recordings, earning the title 'the Fifth Beatle.'

Known for

Let It Be (1970)

1970 / Documentary, Music / 81mins

A documentary chronicling the Beatles' rehearsal sessions in January 1969 for their proposed "back to basics" album, "Get Back," later re-envisioned and released as...

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

IMDb 4.9 / 10

1998 / Action, Comedy / 123 min

Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's...

Name

Billy Preston

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

2 September 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA

Spouses

Name (1971–1977)

Children

1 child, name not publicly known

Parents

Josephine Preston, Billy Preston Sr.

Estimated Net Worth

3 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It With his signature gospel sound on the Hammond B3, Billy Preston doublehandedly elevated the greatest artists of his time –...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2025	Movie The Rolling Stones: Black and Blue The Rolling Stones' Black and Blue Super Deluxe box set, released on November 14, 2025, celebrates the 1976 album with...	Unknown character	Not rated
2025	Movie Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2023	Movie Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan Ed Sullivan broke barriers by booking Black artists on his Sunday night variety show. This documentary spotlights the TV pioneer's...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2022	Movie The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert On the 30th of January, 1969, the Beatles performed an unannounced concert from the rooftop of their Apple Corps headquarters...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2021	TV The Beatles: Get Back The three-part documentary series, compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage, captures the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that...	Self	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2017	Movie In Hollywood's Backyard: Topanga in the 1970s Filmmakers (and canyon residents) Alexander and Anne Christine Von Wetter filmed this documentary for German Television in the early 1970s...	Self	Not rated
2015	Movie Kings of Soul A documentary celebrating the men whose vocal stylings have carried the torch for soul across six decades.. Featuring footage of...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2014	Movie Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Live In Denmark 1969 The band, which consisted of Bobby Whitlock on keys, Carl Radle on bass, Jim Gordon on drums, Jim Price on...	Self	Not rated
2010	Movie Rappin' With The Rickster Join photographer turned public access guru Ricky Powell in this collection of clips from his influential NY TV show, Rappin'...	Self	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2009	Movie Motown at the BBC To mark the 50-year anniversary of Motown in 2009, a compilation of some of the iconic record label's greatest names...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2007	Movie The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1980	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2006	Movie The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1975	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2005	Movie George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited Short documentary focused on the background story of the show, including interviews with cast and crew.	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2005	Movie The Derby Stallion An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the...	Will Gentry	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2005	Movie The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent This is a "Fly on the Wall" look at The Beatles' recording sessions from productive days at Apple Studios January...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2004	Movie Eric Clapton: Sessions for Robert J Live, intimate, and raw, Sessions For Robert J is the essential audio/video companion to Eric Clapton's 2004 gold, Top 10...	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2004	Movie Genius. A Night for Ray Charles A meld of legendary performers and contemporary artists of today who have been influenced by Ray's music perform in this...	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2004	Movie Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004 Recorded Live at the Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas Captures Highlights from Festival With Performances...	Self	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2003	Movie Concert for George As a memorial to George Harrison on the first anniversary of his passing, The Concert for George was held at...	Self	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2003	Movie Alan Simon ‎– Gaia In 2003 Alan Simon created GAIA, a humanitarian concept album dealing with the preservation of the environment and for which...	Self	Not rated
2001	Movie Eric Clapton: One More Car One More Rider Clapton, live from Los Angeles' Staples Center on August 18, 2002, part of the sold-out worldwide tour that followed Clapton's...	Self - Hammond B-3 Organ, Keyboards, Backing Vocals	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2001	Movie Ticker Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous...	Blues Band Organ	TMDB 3.7 / 10
1998	Movie Blues Brothers 2000 Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise...	The Louisiana Gator Boys	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1997	TV Good News Good News is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from 1997 to 1998. The series is a spin-off of...	Billy	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	TV Classic Albums A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band...	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1990	Movie Billy Preston: In Concert - Ohne Filter	Self	Not rated
1990	Movie Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band After an absence of several years (1983's Old Wave had been his last release to date), Ringo surprised everyone by...	Self	TMDB 9.5 / 10
1990	Movie The Kingdom Chums - Original Top Ten Join Petey, Annie, and Osborne as they meet the Kingdom Chums and embark on a fun-filled, colorful quest. Essie, Christopher,...	Marvelous Mose (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1984	Movie Blame It on the Night When his unmarried mother dies, custody of 13-year-old Job is assumed by his alleged father, Chris, whom he has never...	Billy Preston	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1982	Movie The Compleat Beatles Now, for the first time, you can re-live the Beatles legends with this stunning 2-hour musical “Rockumentary”. It’s all there...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1982	TV Na sowas!	Self	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1979	TV Okay	Self	Not rated
1978	Movie Stony Island Richie Bloom, the only white kid on the block, forms an R&B band with his best friend, Kevin. With the...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1978	Movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the...	Sgt. Pepper	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1978	TV Bio’s Bahnhof	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1977	Movie Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary Train wreck, some might call it a TV special, proving that not everything was better in the good old days....	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1976	TV Donny & Marie Donny & Marie is an American variety show which aired on ABC from January 1976 to January 1979. The show...	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1975	TV Saturday Night Live A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary...	Self - Musical Guest	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1975	Movie The Rolling Stones: L.A. Friday (Live 1975) The Rolling Stones Tour Of The Americas '75 was the band's first tour with new guitarist Ronnie Wood. Even before...	Self	Not rated
1975	TV Les Rendez-vous du dimanche A talk show presented by Michel Drucker	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1974	Movie George Harrison: Live in North America 1974 Compilation of pro-shot and handheld footage from George's only tour in the states	Unknown character	Not rated
1974	TV Dinah! Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1973	Movie The Midnight Special Legendary Performances 1973 The Midnight Special is an American late-night musical variety series that aired on NBC during the 1970s and early 1980s,...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1973	TV Rock Concert Don Kirshner's Rock Concert is an American television music variety show that ran during the 1970s and early 1980s, created...	Self	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1972	TV Musikladen Der Musikladen was a West German music television programme that ran from December 13, 1972 to November 29, 1984. The...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1972	TV The Midnight Special The Midnight Special is an American late-night musical variety series that aired on NBC during the 1970s and early 1980s,...	Self	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1972	Movie The Concert for Bangladesh A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of...	Self	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1971	TV Rollin' On The River Rollin' On The River 1971-72 - (Rollin 1972-73) was a Canadian Music Variety Series hosted by Kenny Rogers and The...	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1970	Movie Let It Be A documentary chronicling the Beatles' rehearsal sessions in January 1969 for their proposed "back to basics" album, "Get Back," later...	Self (uncredited)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1969	TV The Price of Fame or Fame at any Price Featuring the combined and various talents of Georgie Fame and Alan Price	Self	Not rated
1962	TV The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1961	TV The Mike Douglas Show The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in...	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1958	Movie St. Louis Blues Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to...	Will Handy as a Boy	TMDB 7.7 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2005	Movie The Derby Stallion An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1975	Movie Flash and the Firecat Gang of robbers use dune buggies for their big heist.	Music Sound	TMDB 8.5 / 10

Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It

2026 / TMDB 10.0

The Rolling Stones: Black and Blue

2025

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

2025 / TMDB 7.8

Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan

2023 / TMDB 6.8

The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert

2022 / TMDB 8.0

In Hollywood's Backyard: Topanga in the 1970s

2017

Got a question about Billy Preston?

What were Billy Preston's career highlights?

Billy Preston's career highlights include his work with The Beatles and collaborations with artists like Sly and the Family Stone and George Harrison. His unique sound and style made him a sought-after musician in the 1970s.

Did Billy Preston win any awards?

What was Billy Preston's first film?

What are some of Billy Preston's most successful songs?

What was Billy Preston's personal life like?

What is Billy Preston's estimated net worth?

What milestones did Billy Preston achieve in his filmography?

How was Billy Preston involved with The Beatles?