Actor

John Lee Hooker

1960–present1912–2001MusicDocumentaryActionComedy

Comic Visionary

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Known For

23 acting credits

as Street Slim

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as Street Slim

1980

The Blues Brothers

Filmography

2025Newport and the Great Folk DreamSelf (archive footage)2020John Lee Hooker - Live At Montreux 1990Himself5.0 2019John Lee Hooker: The Boogie ManSelf 2014Play It Loud: The Story of MarshallSelf6.5 2009The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ConcertsSelf (archive footage)7.9 2009Blues at the BBCSelf5.0

About

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.

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