John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues.

KNOWN FOR

Top of the Pops
1964
The South Bank Show
1993
NCIS: New Orleans
2014
The Blues Brothers
1980
The Blues
2003
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
2017
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009
Wired for Sound: A Guitar Odyssey
1997
Feel Like Going Home
2003
John Lee Hooker: The Boogie Man
2019
Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall
2014
John Lee Hooker - That's My Story
2001

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
28
Sound
1
2025
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
as Self (archive footage)
2020
John Lee Hooker - Live At Montreux 1990
as Himself
2019
John Lee Hooker: The Boogie Man
as Self
2017
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall
as Self
2009
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
as Self (archive footage)
2009
Blues at the BBC
as Self
2008
Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
as Self
2007
Rolling With the Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Bits and Pieces About... John Lee Hooker
as Himself
2004
John Lee Hooker: Come and See About Me
as Self
2003
The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1
as Himself
2003
Feel Like Going Home
as Self
2003
The Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2002
John Lee Hooker - Rare Performances 1960-1984
as himself
2001
John Lee Hooker - That's My Story
1997
Wired for Sound: A Guitar Odyssey
as Self
1995
John Lee Hooker and Furry Lewis - Masters of Blues
as Self
1993
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
as Self
1993
The South Bank Show
1992
John Lee Hooker and Friends 1984-1992
1991
Van Morrison: One Irish Rover
as Self
1990
Van Morrison: The Concert
as Self
1989
The Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels Live
as Self - Special Guest
1983
John Lee Hooker - Live At Montreux 1983
as Himself
1980
The Blues Brothers
as Street Slim
1964
Top of the Pops
as Self
1960
Muddy Waters at Newport