Brian Eno
Known for: Sound
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. Eno was a student of Roy Ascott on his Groundcourse at Ipswich Civic College. Then he studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist painting. He joined the band Roxy Music as synthesiser player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. It has also been extremely influential, pioneering ambient and generative music, innovating production techniques, and emphasising "theory over practice". Eno pursues multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including art installations, a newspaper column in The Observer, a regular column on society and innovation in Prospect magazine, and "Oblique Strategies" (written with Peter Schmidt), a deck of cards in which cryptic remarks or random insights are intended to resolve dilemmas.
Filmography
Series
The Colbert Report
2005
Series
Omnibus
Self
1967
Series
Question Time
Self - Panellist
1979
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Classic Albums
Self
1997
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Click
Self
2000
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Father Ted
Father Brian Eno
1995
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Timeshift
self
2002
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Together for Palestine
Self
2025
Riverside
Self
1982
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Article 12
Series
Soundbreaking
Self
2016
Четыре жизни Петра Мамонова
self
2026
Film
Eno
Self
2024
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We Are Many
Self
2014
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Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams
Self
2018
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Slowdive: Souvlaki
Himself (Archival Footage)
2015
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Eno
Self
1973
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DEVO
Self (archive footage)
2024
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Little Red Robin Hood
Self
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Roxette
Self (archive footage)
1978
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Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree
Self
1999
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One Eno
Self
1993
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We Are As Gods
Self
2022
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David Bowie: Five Years
Self
2013
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Ride, Rise, Roar
Self
2011
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David Bowie: The Making of "1.Outside"
Self
1995
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Brian Eno & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis, Athens
Self
2023
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The British Guide to Showing Off
2011
Film
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
Self
2003
Film
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Self
2007
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Oblique Strategist Too
Himself
1984
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What Difference Does It Make?
Self
2014
Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story
2001
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Words for the Dying
Himself
1993
Film
1 Giant Leap
Self
2002
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Resistance
Self
1976
Film
OK MR BRUCE
Himself
2026
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Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes
1989
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2025: The Long Hot Winter
Radio presenter
2019
Film
Anton Corbijn: Geen Stil Leven
Self
2000
Film
U2: From the Sky Down
Self
2011
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Pavarotti & Friends 3 - Together for the Children of Bosnia
Self
1995
Brian Eno: Another Green World
Self
2010
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Daedalus
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
2024
Film
Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth
2011
Film
CAN and Me
Self
2022
The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
1986
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Roxy Music: More Than This - The Story of Roxy Music
Self
2009
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Roxy Music: Inside 1972-1974
Self (archive footage)
2004
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U2360° Tour: Squaring The Circle
Self
2010
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Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2022
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ECHO: The Music of Harold Budd and Brian Eno
2020
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Roxy Music - The Thrill of It All: A Visual History 1972-1982
self
2008
Film
In the Ocean
2001
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Roxy Music Musikladen 1973
Self - keyboards
2001