Pete Seeger
Known for: Acting
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, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes.
Filmography
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
Series
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
Series
The Johnny Cash Show
Self
1969
Series
The David Susskind Show
Self
1959
Tonight in Person
Self
1963
Film
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self
2005
Film
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
Self (archive footage)
1990
Film
Gasland
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
ReMastered: The Lion's Share
Himself (archive footage)
2019
Series
Rainbow Quest
Self - Host
1965
Film
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Self
1984
Film
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Self
2006
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
1970
The Arlo Guthrie Show
Self
1987
Film
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Himself
1970
Film
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Self
2007
Film
An Act of Conscience
Self
1997
Film
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Self
1988
Series
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
Self (archive footage)
1977
Film
Give Me the Banjo
Self
2011
Film
Alice's Restaurant
Himself
1969
Film
BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
Self
1988
Film
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
Self
2009
Film
Palme
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
Self
1982
Film
Pete and Toshi Get a Camera
2015
Film
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Self
1999
Film
I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson
1990
Film
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
Self
1989
Film
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Self
2007
Film
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Down By The Riverside
2023
Pete Seeger at Home
Himself
1989
Film
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self
2002
Film
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Self
2011
Film
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
Self - Folksinger
1983
Film
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
Self
2000
Film
The Internationale
Self
2000
Film
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
Film
The Winding Stream
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Self
2019
Film
Freedom Summer
Self
2014
Film
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Self
2013
Film
The Foolish Frog
Narrator (voice)
1971
Film
The Streets of Greenwood
1962
Film
THE MANY COLORED PAPER
Himself
Film
To Hear Your Banjo Play
Self
1947
Film
Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story
1996
Film
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
Self
1977
Film
Tribute to Harry Chapin
1991
Film
Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
Self
2013
Film
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert
1978
Film
Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian
Self
2007
Wasn't That a Time
Self
1962
Film
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
Self
1965
Film
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
Himself
2004
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
Film
Strange Fruit
Self
2002
Film
Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan
2008
A Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes
Himself
2001
Film
Canto Libre - den fria sången
Self
1980
Film
Chords of Fame
Himself
1984
Film
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: Red River Blues 1948-1974
Self
2003
Film
Festival
Self
1967
Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone
Self
1972
Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning
1988