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Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger

Born: 1919-05-03 • New York City, New York, USA

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes.

Filmography
Newport and the Great Folk Dream poster
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
2025 • Self (archive footage)
Down By The Riverside poster
Down By The Riverside
2023
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony poster
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022 • Self (archive footage)
ReMastered: The Lion's Share poster
ReMastered: The Lion's Share
2019 • Himself (archive footage)
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970 poster
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
2019 • Self
Pete and Toshi Get a Camera poster
Pete and Toshi Get a Camera
2015
The Winding Stream poster
The Winding Stream
2014 • Self (archive footage)
Freedom Summer poster
Freedom Summer
2014 • Self
Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain poster
Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
2013 • Self
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation poster
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
2013 • Self
Palme poster
Palme
2012 • Self (archive footage)
Give Me the Banjo poster
Give Me the Banjo
2011 • Self
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune poster
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011 • Self
Gasland poster
Gasland
2010 • Self (archive footage)
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial poster
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009 • Self
Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan poster
Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan
2008
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival poster
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
2007 • Self
Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian poster
Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian
2007 • Self
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song poster
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007 • Self
No Image
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home poster
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
2006 • Self
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan poster
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005 • Self
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal poster
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004 • Himself
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: Red River Blues 1948-1974 poster
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: Red River Blues 1948-1974
2003 • Self
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour poster
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
2002 • Self
Strange Fruit poster
Strange Fruit
2002 • Self
No Image
A Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes
2001 • Himself
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack poster
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
2000 • Self
The Internationale poster
The Internationale
2000 • Self
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand poster
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1999 • Self
An Act of Conscience poster
An Act of Conscience
1997 • Self
Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story poster
Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story
1996
Tribute to Harry Chapin poster
Tribute to Harry Chapin
1991
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! poster
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
1990 • Self (archive footage)
I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson poster
I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson
1990
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center poster
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
1989 • Self
No Image
Pete Seeger at Home
1989 • Himself
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie poster
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
1988 • Self
BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie poster
BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
1988 • Self
No Image
Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning
1988
No Image
The Arlo Guthrie Show
1987 • Self
Chords of Fame poster
Chords of Fame
1984 • Himself
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' poster
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984 • Self
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists poster
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
1983 • Self - Folksinger
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time poster
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
1982 • Self
Canto Libre - den fria sången poster
Canto Libre - den fria sången
1980 • Self
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert poster
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert
1978
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration poster
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
1977 • Self
No Image
Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone
1972 • Self
The Foolish Frog poster
The Foolish Frog
1971 • Narrator (voice)
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon poster
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
1970 • Himself
Alice's Restaurant poster
Alice's Restaurant
1969 • Himself
Festival poster
Festival
1967 • Self
The Creative Person: The Folksinger poster
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
1965 • Self
The Streets of Greenwood poster
The Streets of Greenwood
1962
No Image
Wasn't That a Time
1962 • Self
To Hear Your Banjo Play poster
To Hear Your Banjo Play
1947 • Self
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War poster
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
— • Self
THE MANY COLORED PAPER poster
THE MANY COLORED PAPER
— • Himself