Acting
Ringo Starr
1940-07-07 · Liverpool, England, UK
Richard Starkey MBE (born July 7, 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and The Beatles version of "Act Naturally"), as co-writer with the song "What Goes On" and primary writer with "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden". As drummer for The Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills", technically limited by being a left-handed person playing a right-handed kit. Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers, behind drummers such as John Bonham, Keith Moon and Neil Peart. Starr is the most documented and critically acclaimed actor-Beatle, playing a central role in several Beatles films, and appearing in numerous other movies, both during and after his career with The Beatles. After The Beatles' break-up in 1970, Starr achieved solo musical success with several singles and albums, and recorded with each of his fellow ex-Beatles as they too developed their post-Beatle musical careers. He has also been featured in a number of TV documentaries, hosted TV shows, and narrated the first two series of the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. He currently tours with the All-Starr Band.
Known for
The Simpsons
Yesterday
Across the Universe
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
A Hard Day's Night
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Daily Show
Yellow Submarine
Saturday Night Live
The Beatles: Get Back
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Help!
The Last Waltz
Conan
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Movie credits · 358
High in the Clouds
Thomas & Friends: The Classic Stories
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
Man on the Run
Evolver 62
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
A Love Letter to the Beatles
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere
TWST / Things We Said Today
The Beatles
Ringo & Friends at the Ryman
La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
No Hamburg, No Beatles
Beatles '64
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
The Beatles LOVE
The Bannfoot Ferry
The Beach Boys
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
The Beatles and the BBC
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Louder Than Rock
Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Let There Be Drums!
Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band: Live at the Greek Theater 2019
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
If These Walls Could Sing
Ringo Starr: One of Them
Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
Rat Pack
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
TV credits · 53
Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove
The Beatles: Get Back
McCartney 3, 2, 1
This Is Pop
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Soundbreaking
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
In Their Own Words
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Conan
Live from the Artists Den
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
20th Century Greats
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Pet Star
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
The Early Show
Classic Albums
The Daily Show
TFI Friday
The Beatles Anthology
The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show
TOTP2
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
The Simpsons
Shining Time Station
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
American Masters
Alice in Wonderland
Thomas & Friends
Princess Daisy
Timewatch
Late Night with David Letterman
Wetten, dass..?
Parkinson In Australia
An Audience with...
Please Turn the Page
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