Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 05, 1951
Place of Birth
Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland
Credits
128 titles
Bob Geldof
Biography
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof KBE (born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter and political activist. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved popularity as part of the punk rock movement. The band had UK number one hits with his co-compositions "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays". Geldof starred as Pink in Pink Floyd's 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall. As a fundraiser, Geldof organised the charity supergroup Band Aid and the concerts Live Aid and Live 8, and co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?", one of the best-selling singles to date. Geldof is widely recognised for his activism, especially his anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa. In 1984, he and Midge Ure founded the charity supergroup Band Aid to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. They went on to organise the charity super-concert Live Aid the following year and the Live 8 concerts in 2005. Geldof currently serves as an adviser to the ONE Campaign, co-founded by fellow Irish rock singer and activist Bono, and is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. A single father, Geldof has also been outspoken for the fathers' rights movement. Geldof was granted an honorary knighthood (KBE) by Elizabeth II in 1986 for his charity work in Africa: it is an honorary award as Geldof is an Irish citizen, but he is often referred to as 'Sir Bob'. He is a recipient of the Man of Peace title which recognises individuals who have made "an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace", among numerous other awards and nominations. In 2005, he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Geldof, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Boomtown Rats: Live at Wacken
Vocals / Guitar
BP Fallon: Rock'n'Roll Wizard
Self
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
Self
Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible
Self
Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped
Self
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
Self
The Rory Gallagher Story
Self
Rory Gallagher: Calling Card
Self
Quintessentially Irish
Self
The Greatest Night in Pop
Self (archive footage)
Paula
Self (archive footage)
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
Self
ABBA V Queen
Self (archive footage)
Doug and the Slugs and Me
Self
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
Self (archive footage)
Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
Self
The Quiet One
Self
Bohemian Rhapsody: Recreating Live Aid
Self (archival footage)
Postcards from the 48%
Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar
Self (archive footage)
Jazz Open Stuttgart 2017 - Festival of World Stars and Child Prodigies
Self
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
Self
London's Burning
Bob Geldof
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
Self
Stranded
Self
Bob Geldof - Berlin Live
Singer
Irish Rock at the BBC
Self
The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities
Self
Bob Geldof: The Moment
Himself
Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen
Bad Girl
George
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
Self
Berlin Live
Self - Performer
Ghost Blues: The Story of Rory Gallagher
Self
The Noughties...Was That It?
Self
Starsuckers
Self (archive footage)
Modern Slavery
The Meaning of Life
Self
Skavlan
Self - Guest
8
Himself
The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?
Self
Seven Ages of Rock
Self
I Am Bob
Bob
Blair: The Inside Story
Self
Legends
Self
Best Ever Spitting Image
Self
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Self
Semperopernball
Self
The World's Greatest Gigs
Live 8
Self