Ringo Starr

DOB: 1940-07-07

DOD: -

Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and The Beatles version of "Act Naturally"), as co-writer with the song "What Goes On" and primary writer with "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden". As drummer for The Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills", technically limited by being a left-handed person playing a right-handed kit. Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers, behind drummers such as John Bonham, Keith Moon and Neil Peart. Starr is the most documented and critically acclaimed actor-Beatle, playing a central role in several Beatles films, and appearing in numerous other movies, both during and after his career with The Beatles. After The Beatles' break-up in 1970, Starr achieved solo musical success with several singles and albums, and recorded with each of his fellow ex-Beatles as they too developed their post-Beatle musical careers. He has also been featured in a number of TV documentaries, hosted TV shows, and narrated the first two series of the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. He currently tours with the All-Starr Band.

Starred In

1964
Movie

A Hard Day's Night

1968
Movie

The Movie Orgy

1966
Movie

El Rey en Londres

1970
Movie

Let It Be

1971
Movie

Blindman

1971
Movie

The Point

1987
Movie

Video From Hell

1973
Movie

That'll Be The Day

1971
Movie

200 Motels

2011
Movie

Beatles Stories

2003
Movie

Concert for George

1978
Movie

The Last Waltz

1965
Movie

Help!

2020
Movie

Zappa

1968
Movie

Candy

2023
Movie

Louder Than Rock

1975
Movie

Lisztomania

2018
Movie

Take Your Pills

1981
Movie

Caveman

2007
Movie

The Beatles: Help!

1963
Movie

The Mersey Sound

2008
Movie

All Together Now

2003
Movie

Radio

1967
Movie

Our World

1978
Movie

Sextette

2013
Movie

Good Ol' Freda

1974
Movie

Son of Dracula

1981
Movie

This Is Elvis

2022
Movie

Rat Pack

2012
Movie

Genius

2001
Movie

Wingspan

2015
Movie

The Beatles 1

2015
Movie

The Beatles 1+

2013
Movie

Ringo at the Ryman

2024
Movie

The Beach Boys

2024
Movie

The Bannfoot Ferry

1985
Movie

Water

1978
Movie

Ringo

2017
Movie

Free to Rock

2019
Movie

Echo in the Canyon

1982
Movie

The Cooler

2010
Movie

David Wants to Fly

1996
Movie

The Beatles Story

2009
Movie

Oh My God

1968
Movie

Yellow Submarine

1964
Movie

Around the Beatles

1965
Movie

Pop Gear

2006
Movie

The Beatles: Love

2012
Movie

The Winged Beetle

2021
Movie

What Drives Us

1967
Movie

Monument

2002
Movie

Naqoyqatsi

2015
Movie

Our Cilla

2024
Movie

Beatles '64

NaN
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Shed 17

2017
Movie

Året var 1967

2006
Movie

To John With Love

2013
Movie

Året var 1963

1969
Movie

Abbey Road

2012
Movie

Palme

2025
Movie

The Beatles

1989
Tv

The Simpsons

2002
Tv

Pet Star

1965
Tv

The Beatles

1994
Tv

TOTP2

2021
Tv

This Is Pop

1967
Tv

Omnibus

1970
Tv

Treffpunkte

1982
Tv

Timewatch

2010
Tv

Conan