David Johansen

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Jan 09, 1950 (75 years old)
Death date
Feb 28, 2025

David Johansen

Known For

Personality Crisis: One Night Only
2h 7m
Movie 2022

Personality Crisis: One Night Only

A portrait of musician David Johansen from Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi featuring a live performance at Café Carlyle in New York City, where he performs as Buster Poindexter singing the Johansen songbook, along with new and archival interviews.

Above the Shadows
1h 51m
Movie 2019

Above the Shadows

A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.

Always at The Carlyle
1h 32m
Movie 2018

Always at The Carlyle

The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorkers.

Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past
1h 30m
Movie 2017

Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past

Bandleader Vince Giordano keeps the Jazz Age alive with his 11-member band The Nighthawks, vintage musical instruments, and a collection of more than 60,000 original arrangements from the 1920s and '30s.

A Very Murray Christmas
0h 56m
Movie 2015

A Very Murray Christmas

Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a massive snowstorm in New York City. Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at Gotham’s Carlyle Hotel to help him — dancing and singing in holiday spirit.

Clockwork Orange County
1h 13m
Movie 2012

Clockwork Orange County

Many objected to leather-jacket, spike-hair kids with tattoos. But, that did not dissuade a generation... No one realized that a little club in Costa Mesa, CA would end up spawning a multi-billion dollar youth culture that still endures today! It was the Cuckoos Nest of the late 70s and early 80s. With archival, unseen and new footage, the filmmakers compiled an intimate story about the beginning of a movement, a place of refuge for a youth culture, a fearful establishment and a police force that didnt understand what was happening.

New York Dolls: Live From The Bowery
1h 6m
Movie 2011

New York Dolls: Live From The Bowery

On March 16th, 2011, to kick off the release of their album "Dancing Backward in High Heels," the New York Dolls, the godfathers of punk and glam rock, took it to the place where it all began, New York City's Lower East Side for a high styled High Def production.

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
1h 31m
Movie 1994

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill

Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill.

Naked in New York
1h 35m
Movie 1993

Naked in New York

Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life. From there it flashes back to his memories of his parents, college, house across from a squirrel infested peanut factory, best friend, writing career and Joanne.

Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
1h 27m
Movie 1992

Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel

Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. They stay at a rundown place called the Sunset Motel nearby. Soon the wife is having an affair with a man staying at the motel. The husband hires a psychotic criminal to spy on them, the wife and her lover plan to murder the husband, and the voyeuristic motel manager is spying on everybody.

Biography

David Roger Johansen (born January 9, 1950) was an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls. He is also known for his work under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter. David has appeared in several films including Car 54, Where Are You? and Scrooged with Bill Murray.

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