Pete Seeger

Acting 70 credits

Born

May 03, 1919

Died

Jan 27, 2014 (94 years old)

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental ca...

Pete Seeger

Biography

Movies (59)

Gasland

The Internationale

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

Festival

Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation

Palme

Alice's Restaurant

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

The Winding Stream

The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Shows (11)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Mike Douglas Show

The Dick Cavett Show

Reading Rainbow

The Kennedy Center Honors

The David Susskind Show

The Johnny Cash Show

Tonight in Person

All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music

The Smothers Brothers Summer Show

Rainbow Quest

As... (11)

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Indian Summer

Cattle Ranch

The Foolish Frog

The Fight for Maritime Unity

Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison

Singing Fishermen of Ghana

Singing Fishermen of Ghana

The End of the Line

THE MANY COLORED PAPER

Pick a Bale of Cotton