Pete Seeger
Born in New York City, New York, USA — May 03 1919• Died Jan 27 2014
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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, countercultur…
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Pete Seeger's Credits
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Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Rainbow Quest
Self - Host
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
Self
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
Self (archive footage)
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
Self (archive footage)
Gasland
Self (archive footage)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self (archive footage)
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Self
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Himself
Palme
Self (archive footage)
Alice's Restaurant
Himself
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self
Festival
Self
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Self
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Self
Strange Fruit
Self
An Act of Conscience
Self
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Self
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Self
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Self
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Self
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Self
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
Self
The Winding Stream
Self (archive footage)
Freedom Summer
Self
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: Red River Blues 1948-1974
Self
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Self
Give Me the Banjo
Self
ReMastered: The Lion's Share
Himself (archive footage)
Tribute to Harry Chapin
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
Self
The End of the Line
Sound
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
Self
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Self (archive footage)
Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
Himself
Chords of Fame
Himself
BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
Self
Canto Libre - den fria sången
Self
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
Self
Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian
Self
The Foolish Frog
Narrator (voice)
Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
Self
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
To Hear Your Banjo Play
Self
Cattle Ranch
Sound
The Arlo Guthrie Show
Self
Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan
Indian Summer
Sound
Lines: Horizontal
Sound
The Internationale
Self
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
Self - Folksinger
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert
A Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes
Himself
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
Self
Wasn't That a Time
Self
The Streets of Greenwood
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Editing
Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison
Directing
I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson
Pete and Toshi Get a Camera
Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning
The Fight for Maritime Unity
Sound
Singing Fishermen of Ghana
Crew
Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone
Self
Down By The Riverside
THE MANY COLORED PAPER
Himself
Pete Seeger at Home
Himself