John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, but re-emerged in 1980 with a new album, Double Fantasy. He was murdered by Mark Chapman three weeks after its release. Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his political and peace activism. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement. As of 2010, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 27 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

Filmography

• 2026John Lennon: The Last Interview
• 2025As Aventuras de Will e Mike no jardim do Éden
• 2025The Beatles — Self (archive footage), Musician
• 2024An Ordered Hit of a Man (In Sequence) — Music
• 2024Beatles '64 — Self (archive footage), Songs
• 2024La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
• 2024Man. — Music
• 2024The Beatles LOVE — Music
• 2022Infamous Crime Scenes: John Lennon
• 2022The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert — Self (archive footage), Songs
• 2021Life In Ten Pictures: John Lennon
• The Beatles: Get Back — Self (archive footage), Songs
• 2019Yesterday — Songs
• 2018Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
• 2017John Lennon: Hard to Imagine
• 2017The Summer of Love
• 2016Andy Warhol, Fluorescent — (archive footage)
• 2016The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years — Self (Archive Footage), Songs
• 2016WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It) — Self, Director
• 2014Lennon or McCartney — Thanks
• 2014When the Beatles Drove Us Wild — archival footage
• 2013Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed — (Archive footage)
• 20102Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift — (archive footage) (voice)
• 2010Discovering Lennon
• 2010Imagine Lennon — archives footages
• 2010Imagine Peace — Music
• 2009Project 9: The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band — Self (archive footage), Thanks
• The 60s: The Beatles Decade
• 2007Across the Universe — Songs
• 2005Meet the Beatles — Self (Archival footage), Songs
• 2005The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2 — Self - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
• 2003Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon — Self (archive footage), Director
• 2002John Lennon: The Messenger
• 1997Happy Birthday to John — Self, Songs
• 1992Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
• 1992The John Lennon Video Collection — Director
• 1990Lennon: A Tribute
• 1987Imagine — Music
• 1986John Lennon: One to One Concert Live in New York — Self (archive footage), Producer
• 1986Vain Glory — John Lennon
• Miami Vice — Songs
• First Tuesday
• 1981Beatlemania — Songs
• 1981Island of the Evil Spirits — Songs
• 1978Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — Songs
• 1977Fire in the Water
• 1976All This and World War II — Songs
• 1976Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
• 1972Imagine — Self, Director, Producer, Writer
• 1972John Lennon - Imagine — Director
• 1972Oh! Calcutta! — Writer
• 1971Almarna i Kungsträdgården — Music
• 1971Brazil in Cannes
• 1971Erection — Director
• 1971Frank Zappa, John Lennon & Yoko Ono: At Fillmore East
• 1971The Inner Revolution — Music
• The Old Grey Whistle Test
• 1971Up Your Legs Forever — Self - Last Legs/Self - credit narrator(uncredited), Director
• 1970Apotheosis — Director, Writer
• 1970Did Britain Murder Hanratty? — Producer
• 1970Fly — Director, Writer
• 1970Freedom — Sound, Writer
• 1970Let It Be — Self - The Beatles (uncredited), Songs, Executive Producer
• 1969Bed Peace — Self, Director, Writer
• Hawaii Five-O — Huffman
• 1969Rape — Director, Sound, Editor, Music, Writer
• 1969Self-Portrait — Self, Director, Writer
• 1969The Beatles: Abbey Road — Self - Vocals, Guitar
• 1968Film No. 5 — Self, Sound, Music
• 1968Revolution — Songs
• 1968The Beatles: Revolution — Self, Music
• 1968Two Virgins — Director, Writer
• 1968Yellow Submarine — John (uncredited), Songs
• 1967How I Won the War — Gripweed
• 1967Magical Mystery Tour — Self / Ticket Salesman / Magician with Coffee / Narrator, Producer, Songs, Writer, Director
• 1967Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever — Self, Songs
• 1966The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966) — Self - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
• 1966Us Down by the Riverside — Music
• 1965Help! — John, Songs
• 1964A Hard Day's Night — John, Songs
• Inside the Beatles: 1962-1970

Appearances as themselves (285)

• 2026Evolver 62 — Self (archive footage)
• 2026Man on the Run — Self (archive footage)
• 2026Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC — Self
• 2025A Love Letter to the Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade — Self (archive footage)
• David Frost Vs — self (archive footage)
• 2025One to One: John & Yoko — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror — Self (archive photo)
• 2025TWST / Things We Said Today — Self (archive footage)
• 2025The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn — Self (archive footage)
• 2025The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere — Self (archive footage)
• 2025The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution — Self
• 2024DEVO — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Daytime Revolution — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Elton John: Never Too Late — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Here Today — Self (Music)
• 2024Hinckley — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands — Self (archive footage)
• 2024No Hamburg, No Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley — Self (archive footage)
• 2024The Bannfoot Ferry — Self (archive footage)
• 2024The Beach Boys — Self (archive footage)
• John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Little Richard: I Am Everything — Self (archive voice)
• 2023Louder Than Rock — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Paul McCartney: Got Back — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan — Self (archive footage)
• 2023The Beatles and the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 2023The Lost Weekend: A Love Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles — Self
• 2022Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL — Self (archive footage)
• 2022How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s? — Self (archive footage)
• 2022If These Walls Could Sing — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Mickey: The Story of a Mouse — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Ringo Starr: One of Them — Self (archive footage)
• 2022The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction — Self
• 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything — Self (archive footage)
• A Life in Ten Pictures — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Best of the 60s: The Story of Ready, Steady, Go! — Self (archive footage)
• McCartney 3, 2, 1 — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Parkinson at 50 — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The Beatles and India — Self (archive footage)
• This Is Pop — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Under the Volcano — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon — Self (archive footage)
• 2020John Lennon: His Life, Legacy, Last Days — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Lennon & McCartney: Hello From Liverpool — Self
• 2020Lennon's Last Weekend — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Meeting the Beatles in India — Self (archive footage)
• 2020The Shadows At Sixty — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2020Understanding McCartney — Self
• 2020Zappa — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1 — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2 — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal — Self (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
• 2019Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle — Self (archive footage)
• 2019The Last 24 Hours: John Lennon — Self
• Elvis Presley: The Searcher — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars — Self (archive footage)
• 2018George Harrison - All Things Pass — Self (archive footage)
• 2018John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Looking for Lennon — Self (Archive footage)
• 2018Take Your Pills — Self (archive footage)
• 2018The Beatles ‎– Ready Steady Go! — Self
• 2018The King — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Understanding Lennon/McCartney — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions — Self - Musician (archive footage)
• 2017Free to Rock — Self - The Beatles (archive footage)
• 2017How the Beatles Changed the World — Self (archive footage)
• 2017I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance — Self
• 2017It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Kyoko — Self (archive footage)
• 2017My Generation — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution — Self (archive footage)
• The Defiant Ones — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Året var 1967 — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Beatles chronology (1962-1970) — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead — Self (archive footage)
• In Their Own Words — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The Beatles 1 — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The Beatles 1+ — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The Last Lennon Interview — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Beatles på Sverigeturné — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Good Ol' Freda — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' — Self - Musician (archive footage)
• 2013Population Boom — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Salinger — Self - Musician (archive footage)
• 2013Året var 1963 — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Becoming the Beatles — Self
• 2012Genius — Self (archive footage)
• Infamous Assassinations — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Magical Mystery Tour Revisited — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Palme — Self (archive footage)
• 2012The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966 — Self
• 2012The Beatles: Their Golden Age — Self
• 2012The Winged Beetle — Self
• 2011Beatles Stories — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Composing Outside The Beatles: Lennon & McCartney 1973-1980 — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2011Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film — Himself (archive footage)
• George Harrison: Living in the Material World — Self (archive footage)
• 2011I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern — Self (archive footage)
• Mentiras verdaderas — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1 — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2 — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3 — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4 — Self (archive footage)
• 2010John Lennon: Love Is All You Need — Self (archive footage)
• 2010LennoNYC — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison — Self (archive footage)
• 2010The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• 2010The Beatles: A Magical History Tour — Self (archive footage)
• 2010The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years — Self (archive footage)
• 2010The Beatles: The Complete Story — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2010The Day John Lennon Died — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) — Self (archive footage)
• 2009O Melhor do Flash Back - 92 Clipes Para Recordar — Self (archive footage)
• 2009The Beatles - Composing Outside The Beatles: Lennon & McCartney 1967-1972 — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2009The Beatles on Record — Self
• 2009The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere — Self (archive footage)
• 2009The Beatles: Parting Ways — Self
• 2009The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries — Self
• 2009The Rise & Fall of WCW — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band — Self
• 2008Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970 — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965 — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2008Rare and Unseen: The Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Blue Album 1967 - 1970 — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Red Album 1962 - 1966 — Self (archive footage)
• 2008The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories — Self (archive footage)
• 2008The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland — self
• 2008The Beatles: Up Close and Personal — Self (archive footage)
• 2007365 Day Project — Self
• 2007Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens — Self (archive footage)
• 2007I Met the Walrus — Self
• 2007Rock Milestones: The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour — Self (archive footage)
• 2007THE BEATLES in HELP! — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Beatles Explosion — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Beatles In America — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Beatles Phenomenon — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Beatles: Destination Hamburg — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Doctor Who: Origins — Self (archive footage)
• 2006John & Yoko Bed-In — Self
• 2006John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Give Peace A Song — Self
• 2006The Ballad of AJ Weberman — Self (archive footage)
• 2006The Beatles: Love — Self
• 2006The U.S. vs. John Lennon — Self (archive footage)
• 2006To John With Love — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Warhol and Maciunas — Self
• 2005I Killed John Lennon — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Pink Floyd London '66-'67 — Self (uncredited)
• 2005Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits — Self (archive)
• 2005The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent — Self (archive footage)
• 2005The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary — Self (archive footage)
• 2005The World's Greatest Gigs — Self (archive footage)
• 20th Century Greats — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Beatles Biggest Secrets — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle — Self (archive footage)
• 2004The Beatles: Watching Rainbows — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Beatles: The Journey — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Imagine Imagine — Self
• 2003Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized — Self (archive footage)
• 2003The Beatles - Trilogy — Self
• 2003The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road — Self (archive footage)
• 2003The Beatles: Around the World — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Elvis: King of Entertainment — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Hanratty: The Whole Truth — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Monday Night Mayhem — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Naqoyqatsi — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2002Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Things They Said Today — Self (archive footage)
• 2001Beatles: Big Beat Box — Self (archive footage)
• 2001Wingspan — Self (archive footage)
• 2000Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album — Self
• 2000John & Yoko's Year of Peace — Self (archive footage)
• 2000The Real John Lennon — Self (archive footage)
• 1999Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales — Self - The Beatles (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1999Grass — Self (archive footage)
• 1999Naked and Free - The History of Free Body Culture — Self (archive footage)
• 1999Television: The First Fifty Years — Self – The Beatles (archive footage)
• 1999The Beatles: A Celebration — Self (archive footage)
• Behind the Music — Self (archive footage)
• Classic Albums — Self
• 1996Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary — Self (archive footage)
• 1996The Beatles Story — Self (archive footage)
• 1996The Beatles Unauthorized — Self (archive footage)
• 1996The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus — Self - Lead Vocals
• The Beatles Anthology — Self (archive footage)
• 1995You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' — Self
• 1994The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary — Self (archive footage)
• 1993Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary — Self
• 1993Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live — Self
• 1992Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show' — Self (archive footage)
• 1992Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special — Self
• 1992The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper — Self (Archival Footage)
• 1991The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections — Self
• 1988Imagine: John Lennon — Self (archive footage)
• 1988Ken Russell's ABC of British Music — Self (archive)
• 1987Jimi Plays Monterey — Self (archive footage)
• 1986Fun with the Fab Four — Self (archive footage)
• 1986He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life — Self (archive footage)
• 1986The John Lennon Sketchbook — Self
• 1985British Rock: The First Wave — Self (archive footage)
• 1985John Lennon: A Journey in the Life — Self (archive footage)
• 1985The Real Buddy Holly Story — Self (archive footage)
• 1984Yoko Ono: Then and Now — Self (archive footage)
• 1983When the Music's Over — Self (archive footage)
• 1982Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! — Self (archive footage)
• 1982The Compleat Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• Timewatch — Self (archive footage)
• 1981The Killing of America — Self (archive footage)
• 1981This Is Elvis — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1979Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip — Self (archive footage)
• 1978I Wanna Hold Your Hand — Self (archive footage)
• 1977Mighty Good: The Beatles — Self
• 1977The Beatles at Shea Stadium — Self
• 1977The Day the Music Died — Self
• 1977Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante — Self
• 1975A Salute to Sir Lew Grade — Self
• 1974Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles — Self (archive footage)
• 1974Muhammad Ali, the Greatest — Self
• 1972Eat the Document — Self
• 1972The One to One Concert — Self
• 1972Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here — Self
• 1971Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family — Self
• 1971Dynamite Chicken — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1971Sweet Toronto — Self
• 1971Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally — Self
• 1971Yoko and John Party — Self
• 196924 Hours: The World of John and Yoko — Self
• 1969The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One — Self (archive footage)
• 1969The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three — Self (archive footage)
• 1969The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two — Self (archive footage)
• 1969The Beatles: Something — Self
• 1969Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? — Self
• 1968Beatles Electroniques — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1968Diaries, Notes, and Sketches — Self
• Frost on Sunday — Self (as The Beatles)
• 1968The Beatles Mod Odyssey — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1968The Movie Orgy — Self (archive footage)
• 1967All You Need Is Love — Self
• 1967Monument — Self (archive footage)
• Omnibus — Self
• 1967Our World — Self
• 1966El Rey en Londres — Self (archive footage)
• 1966Reflections on Love — Self (archive footage)
• 1966The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966 — Self
• 1966The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966) — Self
• 1966The Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany — Self - The Beatles
• 1965Doctor Who: The Chase — Self (archive footage)
• 1965Pop Gear — Self
• The Beatles — Self (vocals musical segments) (uncredited)
• 1965The Beatles: Live in Paris — Self
• 1965The Music of Lennon & McCartney — Self (archive footage)
• 1964Around the Beatles — Self
• Not Only... But Also — Self
• 1964The Beatles Sing for Shell — Self
• 1964The Beatles in Australia — Self
• 1964The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum — Self
• 1964The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands — Self
• Top of the Pops — Self
• 1964What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA — Self - The Beatles Member
• 1964Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York — Self (archive footage)
• 1963The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool — Self
• 1963The Beatles Come to Town — Self
• 1963The Mersey Sound — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• Morecambe & Wise — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• Building the Beatles — Self (Archive Footage)
• The Beatles - 1967-1970 — Self (archive footage)