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Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan

  • Born: 24 May 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
  • Estimated net worth: $500 million

Bob Dylan is a celebrated musician and actor known for his distinctive voice and profound lyrics. He gained fame in the 1960s with songs like 'Blowin' in the Wind' and has appeared in films such as 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'. Dylan's career spans…

About Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is a celebrated musician and actor known for his distinctive voice and profound lyrics. He gained fame in the 1960s with songs like 'Blowin' in the Wind' and has appeared in films such as 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'. Dylan's career spans decades, and he is recognized as a cultural icon with a unique style that blends folk, rock, and blues.

Born
24 May 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Known for
Acting
Height
5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Spouses
Sarina McKenna (1986-present)
Children
6 children: Jesse Dylan, Anna Dylan, Samuel Dylan, Jakob Dylan, Desiree Dylan, and Maria Dylan
Parents
Abram Zimmerman, Beatrice Zimmerman
Estimated net worth
$500 million

Fun facts about Bob Dylan

  • Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, making him the first musician to receive this honor.
  • He has also acted in several films, including 'Don't Look Back' and 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'.

Famous Bob Dylan quotes

“The times they are a-changin'.”
N/A, 1964
“It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there.”
N/A, 1997
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
N/A, 1965

Bob Dylan filmography

Cast (160)

YearTitleCharacterRating
2026No Time to Think: Bob Dylan as Filmmaker MovieHimself (archival footage)
2025Newport and the Great Folk Dream MovieSelf (archive footage)9.0
2025John Candy: I Like Me MovieSelf - Singer (archive footage)7.9
2025Highway 99: A Double Album MovieSelf [Archival]
2025One to One: John & Yoko MovieSelf (archive footage)7.1
2024Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center MovieUnknown character
2024Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley MovieSelf (archive footage)7.5
2024The Beach Boys MovieSelf (archive footage)6.7
2024Song to Woody: Greenwich Village, the Folk Revival, and Bob Dylan MovieSelf (archive footage)
2024The Greatest Night in Pop MovieSelf (archive footage)7.9
Show 150 more credits
YearTitleCharacterRating
2023Joan Baez: I Am a Noise MovieSelf (archive footage)6.8
20222022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony MovieSelf (archive footage)8.2
2022Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue MovieSelf (archive footage)8.0
2022Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song MovieSelf7.4
2022Andy Warhol's America TVUnknown character
2022Andy Warhol's America MovieUnknown character8.0
2021Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff MovieSelf (archive footage)
2021Karen Dalton: In My Own Time MovieSelf (archive footage)6.1
2021Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom MovieSelf7.0
2021Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends MovieSelf (archive footage)6.6
2021Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres MovieSelf (archival footage)7.3
2021The Dancing Man of L.A. MovieSelf (archive footage)
20211971: The Year That Music Changed Everything TVSelf (archive footage)7.5
2020Bob Dylan & Phil Lesh & Friends - Baltimore Arena 1999 MovieSelf
2020Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President MovieSelf6.9
2020My Darling Vivian MovieSelf (archive footage)7.1
2020Bob Dylan: Busy Being Born MovieSelf
2020Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens MovieSelf (archive footage)6.0
2020Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band MovieSelf (archive footage)6.8
2019Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music MovieSelf (archive footage)
2019Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind MovieSelf (archive footage)6.8
2019Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film MovieSelf
2019Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese MovieSelf7.0
2019The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash MovieSelf (archive footage)7.3
2018Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground MovieUnknown character
2018Elvis Presley: The Searcher TVSelf (archive footage)7.6
2018Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars MovieSelf (archive footage)7.1
2018The Top Ten Revealed TVSelf (archive footage)8.0
2017Popular Voices at the BBC TVSelf (archive footage)
2017Bob Dylan: Trouble No More MovieSelf6.4
2016Andy Warhol, Fluorescent Movie(archive footage)5.0
2016The Discreet Françoise Hardy MovieSelf (archive footage)8.0
2016Året var 1966 MovieSelf (archive footage)
2015Johnny Cash: American Rebel MovieSelf (archive photos/footage)8.2
2015Bob Dylan: Roads Rapidly Changing - In & Out of the Folk Revival 1961 - 1965 MovieSelf9.5
2015Mavis! MovieSelf6.9
2015Snapshots from the Tour MovieHimself8.0
2013Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield MovieSelf
2013Born In Chicago MovieSelf5.7
2013Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation MovieSelf (archive footage)7.1
2013Legend of Lead Belly MovieSelf8.5
2012Bob Dylan & The Band: Down In The Flood MovieSelf10.0
2012John Mellencamp: It's About You MovieSelf5.0
2011YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls MovieSelf (archive footage)5.7
2011Bob Dylan Revealed MovieSelf10.0
2011Bob Dylan: 1990-2006 - The Never Ending Narrative MovieSelf10.0
2011Bob Dylan: The Blood of the Lamb MovieSelf
2009The People Speak MovieSelf7.2
2009Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound MovieSelf6.7
2009Bob Dylan: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize MovieSelf10.0
2009Bob Dylan Never Ending Tour Diaries: Drummer Winston Watson's Incredible Journey MovieSelf10.0
2009O Melhor do Flash Back - 92 Clipes Para Recordar MovieSelf (archive footage)
2008Inside Bob Dylan's Jesus Years: Busy Being Born... Again! MovieSelf
2008Johnny Cash's America MovieSelf8.5
2008Johnny Cash: Live On Air MovieSelf9.3
2008Bob Dylan: 1978-1989 - Both Ends of the Rainbow MovieSelf10.0
2008Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965 MovieSelf (Archive Footage)
2007The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival MovieSelf8.1
200765 Revisited MovieSelf (archive footage)9.4
2007Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream MovieSelf7.7
2007The Best of The Johnny Cash TV Show 1969-1971 MovieSelf8.8
2007Pete Seeger: The Power of Song MovieSelf7.0
2007The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys MovieSelf7.0
2007The Bob Dylan Phenomenon MovieSelf
2006Bob Dylan: The Folk Years MovieHimself (archive footage)
2006Bob Dylan: When the Deal Goes Down MovieUnknown character9.3
2006The Ballad of AJ Weberman MovieSelf (archive sound)4.0
2006Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film MovieSelf8.2
2006Bob Dylan After the Crash 1966-1978 MovieSelf10.0
2006Bob Dylan and The Band: 1969-1970 Compilation MovieSelf
2006Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan Movieself - archival footage
2006Folk Britannia TVSelf (archival footage)
2005George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited MovieSelf8.0
2005No Direction Home: Bob Dylan MovieSelf7.8
2005Seattle Supersonic MovieSelf
2005Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today MovieSelf
2005Bob Dylan - Live At The House Of Blues MovieSelf
2005Bob Dylan: The Best of Bob Dylan MovieSelf
2004Live Aid MovieSelf9.2
2004Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels MovieSelf8.3
2004Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues MovieSelf (archive footage)7.0
2004Tales From a Golden Age: Bob Dylan 1941-1966 MovieSelf (archive footage)8.7
2004Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology MovieSelf (archive footage)
2004Bob Dylan - TV Live & Rare 1963 - 1975 MovieSelf (archive footage)10.0
2004Bob Dylan: World Tours 1966-1974 - Through the Camera of Barry Feinstein MovieSelf10.0
2003The Best Of Beat MovieSelf (archive footage)
2003Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back MovieSelf (archive footage)
2003Masked and Anonymous MovieJack Fate5.2
2003World Tour 1966: The Home Movies MovieSelf (archive footage)
1999Eric Clapton & Friends in Concert MovieSelf - Guest star8.3
1999Paradise Cove MovieAlfred - Chauffeur6.5
1998The Rolling Stones: Bridges To Buenos Aires MovieSelf
1997Storyville TVUnknown character7.6
1997Dharma & Greg TVSelf6.4
1995Sinatra: 80 Years My Way MovieSelf - Performer
1995Robbie Robertson: Going Home MovieSelf
1995My Generation: The Animals MovieSelf (Archive Footage)
1994Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame MovieSelf
1994Bob Dylan: MTV Unplugged MovieSelf9.4
1994Bob Dylan: Woodstock '94 MovieSelf8.0
1994The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994 MovieSelf4.8
1993Nanci Griffith: Other Voices, Other Rooms MovieSelf
1993Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O MovieSelf8.0
1993Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration MovieSelf7.5
1991Guitar Legends EXPO '92 at Sevilla - The Experimental Night MovieSelf
1991Van Morrison: One Irish Rover MovieSelf
1990Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol MovieSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)7.2
1990Catchfire MovieArtist (uncredited)5.3
1989MTV Unplugged TVSelf7.1
1988Imagine: John Lennon MovieUnknown character7.0
1987Hearts of Fire MovieBilly Parker4.1
1987Getting to Dylan MovieSelf
1987Taj Mahal and Friends MovieSelf
1986Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert MovieSelf9.3
1986An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. MovieUnknown character
1985Live Aid MovieSelf7.8
1985We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song MovieSelf8.4
1985The Making of Sun City MovieSelf9.5
1984Bob Dylan: Jokerman MovieUnknown character
1983The Story of the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem MovieSelf
1979Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip MovieSelf2.0
1978The Kennedy Center Honors TVSelf7.4
1978The Last Waltz MovieSelf7.7
1978Renaldo and Clara MovieRenaldo7.9
1977Leonard Cohen: Under Review: 1934-1977 MovieUnknown character10.0
1976Bob Dylan: Hard Rain MovieSelf9.5
1976Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976 MovieSelf
1975Saturday Night Live TVSelf - Musical Guest6.9
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche TVSelf6.0
1973Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid MovieAlias7.2
1972Eat the Document MovieSelf6.9
1972Scruggs: A Festival of Music MovieSelf
1972Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here MovieSelf6.0
1972The Concert for Bangladesh MovieSelf7.9
1971Disco TVSelf
1971Great Performances TVSelf6.1
1970Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks MovieSelf
1969The Johnny Cash Show TVSelf6.5
1969Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music MovieSelf8.2
1967Titel, Thesen, Temperamente TVSelf6.5
1967Festival MovieSelf6.0
1967Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back MovieSelf7.4
1965Dylan Speaks MovieSelf2.0
1965Andy Warhol Screen Tests MovieSelf8.0
1965Screen Test [ST83]: Bob Dylan MovieSelf9.0
1964Bob Dylan Quest Television Special MovieSelf10.0
1963The Madhouse on Castle Street MovieBobby10.0
1959The Grammys TVSelf8.6
1953The Oscars TVSelf7.1
TBAThe Wild West Bank Sound MovieSelf - Musician/Self - songwriter (archive footage)

Crew (29)

YearTitleRoleRating
2025I understand MovieMusic · Sound
2024A Complete Unknown MovieSongs · Sound7.1
2024Girl From the North Country MovieSongs · Sound6.9
2024Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western MovieMusic · Sound
2024Song to Woody: Greenwich Village, the Folk Revival, and Bob Dylan MovieMusic · Sound
Show 24 more credits
YearTitleRoleRating
2024The Partners MovieMusic · Sound
2024Girl from the North Country MovieSongs · Sound7.0
2019Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese MovieLyricist · Writing7.0
2010My Own Love Song MovieMusic · Sound6.2
2005Prisoners of Beckett MovieMusic · Sound
2004Bob Dylan - TV Live & Rare 1963 - 1975 MovieOriginal Music Composer · Sound10.0
2003Masked and Anonymous MovieWriter · Writing5.2
2003Masked and Anonymous MovieMusic · Sound5.2
2000Wonder Boys MovieSongs · Sound6.8
1994The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg MovieThanks · Crew5.7
1993Daniel Lanois "Rocky World" MovieMusic · Sound8.0
1988The Power of Speech MovieMusic · Sound6.0
1986Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company MovieMusic · Sound6.1
1986Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert MovieMusic · Sound9.3
1986Band of the Hand MovieTheme Song Performance · Sound6.3
1978Renaldo and Clara MovieEditor · Editing7.9
1978Renaldo and Clara MovieDirector · Directing7.9
1978Renaldo and Clara MovieWriter · Writing7.9
1973Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid MovieOriginal Music Composer · Sound7.2
1972Eat the Document MovieEditor · Editing6.9
1972Eat the Document MovieDirector · Directing6.9
1971Diary Films I - V MovieMusic · Sound
1967Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back MovieOriginal Music Composer · Sound7.4
TBACalico Joe MovieProducer · Production

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Questions about Bob Dylan

What are some of Bob Dylan's career highlights?

Bob Dylan's career highlights include his influential music in the 1960s, his Nobel Prize in Literature, and numerous Grammy Awards. He is also known for his iconic albums such as 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Blonde on Blonde'.

Has Bob Dylan won any major awards?

Yes, Bob Dylan has received numerous awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

What was Bob Dylan's first film?

Bob Dylan's first film appearance was in 'Don't Look Back' (1967), a documentary that chronicles his 1965 tour in England.

What are Bob Dylan's most successful songs?

Some of Bob Dylan's most successful songs include 'Like a Rolling Stone', 'Blowin' in the Wind', and 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door', which have become classics over the years.

What is known about Bob Dylan's personal life?

Bob Dylan has been married twice and has six children. He tends to keep his personal life private but is known for his relationships with several notable figures in the music and arts community.

What is Bob Dylan's estimated net worth?

Bob Dylan's estimated net worth is around $500 million, making him one of the wealthiest musicians in the world, largely due to his music sales, tours, and art.

What are some milestones in Bob Dylan's filmography?

Bob Dylan's filmography includes appearances in movies like 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' and 'Masked and Anonymous', as well as documentaries that highlight his music career and impact on culture.

How has Bob Dylan influenced music and culture?

Bob Dylan has greatly influenced music and culture through his innovative songwriting, blending of genres, and social commentary, inspiring countless artists across various musical styles.