Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. Eno was a student of Roy Ascott on his Groundcourse at Ipswich Civic College. Then he studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist painting.   He joined the band Roxy Music as synthesiser player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. It has also been extremely influential, pioneering ambient and generative music, innovating production techniques, and emphasising "theory over practice". Eno pursues multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including art installations, a newspaper column in The Observer, a regular column on society and innovation in Prospect magazine, and "Oblique Strategies" (written with Peter Schmidt), a deck of cards in which cryptic remarks or random insights are intended to resolve dilemmas.

Filmography

• 2026Imperfection — Music
• 2026Snow — Music
• 2025Together for Palestine — Self, Producer
• 2024Daedalus — Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
• 2024Eno — Self, Original Music Composer
• 2023Brian Eno & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis, Athens — Self, Music
• 2022Ithaka — Music
• 2022We Are As Gods — Self, Original Music Composer
• 2022Wood and Water — Music
• 2021The Year of the Everlasting Storm — Original Music Composer
• 2020ECHO: The Music of Harold Budd and Brian Eno
• 20192025: The Long Hot Winter — Radio presenter
• 2019The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage! — Songs
• Top Boy — Original Music Composer
• 2018By This River — Music
• 2018Rams — Music
• 2017492: A Man Called Death — Music
• 2017Hi Stranger — Music
• 2016Late Anthropocene — Music
• 2015100 Years - Armenian Genocide — Music
• 2015Me and Earl and the Dying Girl — Original Music Composer
• 2014We Are Many — Self, Musician
• 2013The Lost World — Music
• 2012Laylou — Music
• 2011Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth
• 2011The British Guide to Showing Off
• Top Boy — Original Music Composer
• 2010Article 12
• 2009Linear — Original Music Composer
• 2009The Lovely Bones — Original Music Composer
• 2006Mein Freund, der Mörder — Music
• 2006The Pervert's Guide to Cinema — Original Music Composer
• 200514 Video Paintings — Music, Director
• The Colbert Report
• 2005The Jacket — Original Music Composer
• 2004Clean — Original Music Composer
• 2003Fear X — Original Music Composer
• 2003Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me — Additional Soundtrack
• 20012001 and Beyond — Music
• 2001Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story
• 2001In the Ocean
• 2001Mon Paradis - Der Winterpalast — Music
• 2001Shadowman — Music
• 2000Buddy Boy — Original Music Composer
• 2000The Million Dollar Hotel — Music
• 1999Music for Airports — Music
• 1999Simon, the Magician — Original Music Composer
• How Buildings Learn — Music
• Neverwhere — Original Music Composer
• Father Ted — Father Brian Eno
• 1995Ghost in the Shell — Songs
• 1995The Pillow Book — Original Music Composer
• 1994Glitterbug — Music
• Mr. Wroe's Virgins — Music
• Later... with Jools Holland
• 1989Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes — Music
• 1989For All Mankind — Music
• 1987Dolphins — Music
• 1987Opera — Original Music Composer
• 1986A Few Things I Know About Miami — Music
• 1986The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July — Music
• 1985The Creation of the Universe — Sound
• 1984Dune — Original Music Composer
• 1984Frevel — Original Music Composer
• 1984How the Frog’s Eye Sees — Music Consultant
• Miami Vice — Songs
• 1984Soldiers in Hiding — Music
• 1984Thursday Afternoon — Director, Music
• 1983Hans, Life Before Death — Music
• 1983The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area? — Additional Music
• 1982Kold ensomhet — Music
• 1982Remembrance — Music, Original Music Composer
• 1982The Falls — Additional Music
• 1982This Woman Is Not a Car — Music
• 1981America Is Waiting — Music
• 1981Candy Store — Original Music Composer
• 1981Mea Culpa — Music
• 1981Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan — Director, Music, Cinematography, Editor
• 1981Transcending Mirror Boundaries — Music
• 1980Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment — Music
• 1978Brutal Ardour — Music
• 1978Jubilee — Original Music Composer
• 1978Short Letter to the Long Goodbye — Music
• 1977Alternative 3 — Original Music Composer
• 1977The Machine-Men — Music
• 1976Resistance — Self, Music
• 1976Sebastiane — Original Music Composer
• 1976The Devil's Men — Original Music Composer
• 1970Berlin Horse — Music
• Little Red Robin Hood — Self, Music
• The Kumbha Mela: Same As It Ever Was — Music
• Zucchero: Luciano Pavarotti & Friends - Together for the Children of Bosnia — Director

Appearances as themselves (37)

• 20264 жизни Петра Мамонова — self
• 2026James: Getting Away with It — Self
• 2026OK MR BRUCE — Himself
• 2024DEVO — Self (archive footage)
• 2022CAN and Me — Self
• 2022Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams — Self
• Soundbreaking — Self
• 2015Slowdive: Souvlaki — Himself (Archival Footage)
• 2014What Difference Does It Make? — Self
• 2013David Bowie: Five Years — Self
• 2011Ride, Rise, Roar — Self
• 2011U2: From the Sky Down — Self
• 2010Brian Eno: Another Green World — Self
• 2010U2360° Tour: Squaring The Circle — Self
• 2009Roxy Music: More Than This - The Story of Roxy Music — Self
• 2008Roxy Music - The Thrill of It All: A Visual History 1972-1982 — self
• 2007Scott Walker: 30 Century Man — Self
• 2004Roxy Music: Inside 1972-1974 — Self (archive footage)
• 2003David Bowie - Sound and Vision — Self
• 20021 Giant Leap — Self
• Timeshift — self
• 2001Roxy Music Musikladen 1973 — Self - keyboards
• 2000Anton Corbijn: Geen Stil Leven — Self
• Click — Self
• 1999Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree — Self
• Classic Albums — Self
• 1995David Bowie: The Making of "1.Outside" — Self
• 1995Pavarotti & Friends 3 - Together for the Children of Bosnia — Self
• 1993One Eno — Self
• 1993Words for the Dying — Himself
• 1984Oblique Strategist Too — Himself
• Riverside — Self
• Question Time — Self - Panellist
• 1978Roxette — Self (archive footage)
• 1973Eno — Self
• Omnibus — Self