Lindsay Kemp

Lindsay Kemp

Born: May 3, 1938
Died: August 24, 2018
in South Shields, England, UK
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.

Movies for Lindsay Kemp...

David Bowie: London Boy
Title: David Bowie: London Boy
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 2021
Type: Movie
A documentary about David Bowie.
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Lindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp
Title: Lindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp
Character: Self
Released: May 2, 2020
Type: Movie
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 With footage from the Rai Teche and private archives, and an intimate and touching unpublished interview conducted by the director in her home in Livorno. The documentary is unique in its kind because it collects for the first time in an almost anthological way the repertoire of the shows of the glorious Lindsay Kemp Company from Salome to Flowers, from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Duende and Onnagata, up to the last show Kemp Dances. Lindsay Dances celebrates one of the most original, creative, and innovative artists in contemporary dance theatre. The documentary was nominated by Rai for the 72nd edition of the Prix Italia 2020.
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David Bowie: Finding Fame
Title: David Bowie: Finding Fame
Character: Self
Released: February 9, 2019
Type: Movie
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 includes footage from the BBC Archives including footage of a BBC audition in 1965 of David Bowie and the Lower Third, which included a performance of Chim-Chim-Cheree and Baby That's A Promise.
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Battle of Soho
Title: Battle of Soho
Released: May 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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 sub-culture, but the cabaret atmosphere of the entire neighborhood in enormous ways. This active pursuit to destroy a bubbling and vibrant part of the city's heart is viewed by many as an atrocity akin to turning the lights off on Broadway. Over 3rd of London's music venues have been closed in recent years and no one noticed. An active movement to bring a halt to this disaster has begun to unfold with one organization after another emerging to fight for Soho. Organizations made up of citizens and celebrities have sprung up to combat this onslaught. Will they win this battle and save Soho?
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The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
Title: The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
Character: Self
Released: August 22, 2014
Type: Movie
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 has inspired.
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Title: Seven Ages of Rock
Character: Self
Released: May 19, 2007
Type: TV
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.
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Velvet Goldmine
Title: Velvet Goldmine
Character: Pantomime Dame
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
Almost a decade has elapsed since glam-rock superstar Brian Slade escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on assignment to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic Slade. Stuart, himself forged by the music of the 1970s, explores the larger-than-life stars who were once his idols and what has become of them since the turn of the new decade.
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The Line, the Cross & the Curve
Title: The Line, the Cross & the Curve
Character: Guide
Released: November 13, 1993
Type: Movie
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 of Red Shoes. The cursed shoes dance beautifully, but endlessly. The singer is drawn irresistibly into the fey world beyond the mirror, where she must redeem three magic symbols from the mysterious woman in order to obtain release from the cursed shoes.
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Italian Postcards
Title: Italian Postcards
Character: Vinicio Secchi
Released: March 26, 1987
Type: Movie
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 house owner and former stage star Pola Mareschi, who is very protective of her tenant's privacy. Lidia is robbed by a motorcycle gang in the middle of the living room and is caught up in a performance put on by the residents. Lidia soon finds herself wanting to stay with the quirky actors as she becomes a performer in their offbeat antics.
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Flowers
Title: Flowers
Character: Divine
Released: April 2, 1982
Type: Movie
Filmed performance of Lindsay Kemp's free adaptation of Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers.
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Jubilee
Title: Jubilee
Character: Cabaret Performer
Released: February 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
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Valentino
Title: Valentino
Character: Mortician
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
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Sebastiane
Title: Sebastiane
Character: Dancer
Released: December 17, 1976
Type: Movie
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, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. Sebastian becomes the target of lust for the officer Severus, but repeatedly rejects the man's advances. Castigated for his Christian faith, he is tortured, humiliated and ultimately killed.
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The Wicker Man
Title: The Wicker Man
Character: Alder MacGreagor
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
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Savage Messiah
Title: Savage Messiah
Character: Angus Corky
Released: June 27, 1972
Type: Movie
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 untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.
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The Looking Glass Murders
Title: The Looking Glass Murders
Character: Pierrot
Released: July 8, 1970
Type: Movie
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. Pierrot is a freaky mime who ventures into a mirror where he falls in love and rolls around with the equally grotesque Columbine. But when Columbine spurs him for Harlequin, Pierrot's jealousy takes over and drives him to murder. Cloud, perched on a ladder, watches over the proceedings and narrates in song.
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Hamlet at Elsinore
Title: Hamlet at Elsinore
Character: Player Queen
Released: April 15, 1964
Type: Movie
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, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
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I Filmed Your Death
Title: I Filmed Your Death
Character: Jonathan Edwards, CVC Announcer
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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 the tragic decision to base a film off of this event and show it on the town's public access channel. As he attempts to throw a premiere party for himself, his friends ditch him, his community shuns him, and he finds out that not everyone wants to be in a movie.