
Patti Smith
Department: Acting
Biography
Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "punk poet laureate," Smith fused rock and poetry in her work.
Known For

The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009

Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008

WBCN and the American Revolution
2019

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
2015

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021

Chornobyl
2023

Patti Smith: Electric Poet
2022

Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
2001

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010

Ron Delsener Presents
2023

Film Socialisme
2010

West Side Stories
1971

Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005
2012

NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
2007

One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
2008

Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976
1977

Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2013

Benjamin Smoke
2000

Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
2014

Robert Having His Nipple Pierced
1971

Sleepless Nights Stories
2011

Chelsea Hotel
1970

Three Stones for Jean Genet
2014

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022

Turn in the Wound
2024

One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two
2024

R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
2003

Brian Wilson: On Tour
2003

Spheres
2018

West of Memphis
2012

Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000

Song to Song
2017

Burroughs: The Movie
1984

The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
2010

365 Day Project
2007

What the Punk - An MVD Sampler
2002

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
2016

The Blank Generation
1976

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997

All Tomorrow's Parties
2009

The Rugrats Movie
1998

No. 18: Mahagonny
1980

The Book of Conrad
2016

Kurt Everywhere
2018

The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1
1997

You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007

Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band
2018

Patti Smith Group: Rockpalast 1979
1979

Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)
2009

Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
2017

Still Moving/Patti Smith
1978

The 8th Floor
2014

25 Years of Punk
2001

Night Lunch
1975

Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You
2002

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2017

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019

Girls in Bands at the BBC
2015

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009

John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music
1998

Rock My Religion
1984

I Am La Scala
2016

Dancing Barefoot
1995

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007

Now
2021

Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
2019

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020

New York Rock at the BBC
2008

The Big Empty
2003

The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave
2006

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007

Women in Rock
1986

Film catastrophe
2018

Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998
1998

New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film
1996

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025

The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin
2008

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
2016

Go to Izzy!
2024

Station to Station
2014

Nova '78
2025

Lou Reed - Remembered
2013

The Early Show
1999

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

The Colbert Report
2005

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

Saturday Night Special
1996

Saturday Night Live
1975

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001

Popular Voices at the BBC
2017

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

The Culture Show
2004

Saturday Night Live
1975

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

The Defiant Ones
2017

Kulturplatz
2004

Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002

NeXt
1994

Rockpolitik
2005

Sternstunde Musik
2013

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015