Brian Eno
Brian 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.
Acting
TV
Father Ted
as Father Brian Eno
1995
TV
The Colbert Report
2005
Movie
Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams
as Self
2018
Movie
David Bowie: Five Years
as Self
2013
Movie
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
as Self
2007
Movie
U2: From the Sky Down
as Self
2011
Movie
DEVO
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Movie
We Are Many
as Self
2014
TV
Question Time
as Self - Panellist
1979
TV
Soundbreaking
as Self
2016
Movie
Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree
as Self
1999
Movie
Slowdive: Souvlaki
as Himself (Archival Footage)
2015
TV
Click
as Self
2000
TV
Omnibus
as Self
1967
Movie
The British Guide to Showing Off
2011
TV
Classic Albums
as Self
1997
Movie
Ride, Rise, Roar
as Self
2011
Movie
1 Giant Leap
as Self
2002
Movie
Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes
1989
Movie
Eno
as Self
1973
Movie
What Difference Does It Make?
as Self
2014
TV
Timeshift
as self
2002
Movie
Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth
2011
Movie
Brian Eno & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis, Athens
as Self
2023
Crew
Movie
The Lovely Bones
Original Music Composer
2009
Movie
Ghost in the Shell
Songs
1995
Movie
Dune
Original Music Composer
1984
Movie
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Original Music Composer
2015
Movie
The Jacket
Original Music Composer
2005
Movie
Opera
Original Music Composer
1987
TV
Miami Vice
Songs
1984
Movie
The Million Dollar Hotel
Music
2000
Movie
Fear X
Original Music Composer
2003
Movie
The Pillow Book
Original Music Composer
1995
Movie
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Original Music Composer
2006
Movie
For All Mankind
Music
1989