Bob Geldof
Acting
- Born:
- 1951-10-05
- Place of birth:
- Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland
Biography
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof KBE (born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter and political activist. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved popularity as part of the punk rock movement. The band had UK number one hits with his co-compositions "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays". Geldof starred as Pink in Pink Floyd's 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall. As a fundraiser, Geldof organised the charity supergroup Band Aid and the concerts Live Aid and Live 8, and co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?", one of the best-selling singles to date. Geldof is widely recognised for his activism, especially his anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa. In 1984, he and Midge Ure founded the charity supergroup Band Aid to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. They went on to organise the charity super-concert Live Aid the following year and the Live 8 concerts in 2005. Geldof currently serves as an adviser to the ONE Campaign, co-founded by fellow Irish rock singer and activist Bono, and is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. A single father, Geldof has also been outspoken for the fathers' rights movement. Geldof was granted an honorary knighthood (KBE) by Elizabeth II in 1986 for his charity work in Africa: it is an honorary award as Geldof is an Irish citizen, but he is often referred to as 'Sir Bob'. He is a recipient of the Man of Peace title which recognises individuals who have made "an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace", among numerous other awards and nominations. In 2005, he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Geldof, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Boomtown Rats: Live at Wacken
BP Fallon: Rock'n'Roll Wizard
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible
Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
The Rory Gallagher Story
Rory Gallagher: Calling Card
Quintessentially Irish
The Greatest Night in Pop
Paula
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
ABBA V Queen
Doug and the Slugs and Me
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
The Quiet One
Bohemian Rhapsody: Recreating Live Aid
Postcards from the 48%
Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar
Jazz Open Stuttgart 2017 - Festival of World Stars and Child Prodigies
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
London's Burning
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
Stranded
Bob Geldof - Berlin Live
Irish Rock at the BBC
The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities
Bob Geldof: The Moment
Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen
Bad Girl
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
Berlin Live
Ghost Blues: The Story of Rory Gallagher
The Noughties...Was That It?
Starsuckers
Modern Slavery
The Meaning of Life
Skavlan
8
The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?
Seven Ages of Rock
I Am Bob
Blair: The Inside Story
Legends
Best Ever Spitting Image
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Semperopernball
The World's Greatest Gigs
Live 8
Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today
Live Aid Against All Odds
Stuck in the Middle
The Boomtown Rats: Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1978
New York Doll
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Lovesongs Of The 70's
Live Aid
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition
Parkinson
Live Eighties
Clan Banlieue, 1992-2004: La Grande Famiglia in Movimento
Grumpy Old Men
The Old Fools
Top Gear
There's Only One Paul McCartney
V Graham Norton
Richard & Judy
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Behind the Music: Michael Hutchence
Queen: Is This the Real Life?
maybrit illner
Parkinson
Spice World
Diana & Me
Leute heute
HARDtalk
The Rocker: A Portrait of Phil Lynott
Queen: Champions of the World
Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era
Bob Geldof - Geldof goes Goondiwindi
Late Show with David Letterman
Pavarotti & Friends
ECHO-Verleihung
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
Bernard and the Genie
DAS!
Schmidteinander
One World, One Voice
Have I Got News for You
The Word
Scarfe's Follies
Going Live!
The Best of Max Headroom
Coast to Coast
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey
ZDF-Fernsehgarten
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
An Audience with Billy Connolly
Live Aid
Number One
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
The Making of Sun City
'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid Video
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Goldene Kamera
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Wogan
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
The Kenny Everett Television Show
The Other Side of the Wall
Three of a Kind
The Kenny Everett Video Show
An Audience with...
Punk in London
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Plattenküche
3 nach 9
Omnibus
World in Action
The Late Late Show
This Is Your Life
The Boomtown Rats Live in Japan 1980
Zombie Plane
On the Frontlines of Hunger
Fly Squad – First Strike!
For a Million Years