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Bill Haley (1925-1981)

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Birthplace:
Highland Park, Michigan, USA

Born:
July 6, 1925

Died:
September 2, 1981

Biography from TheMovieDB

William John Clifton Haley (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was an American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later, Alligator", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Rocket 88", "Skinny Minnie", and "Razzle Dazzle". Haley has sold over 60 million records worldwide. In 1987, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Film Performances

1956 Rock Around the Clock
Himself
1956 Don't Knock The Rock
Himself
1958 Music of Always
1961 Besito a papá
1973 The London Rock and Roll Show
Self
1980 Blue Suede Shoes
Self
1983 When the Music's Over
Self (archive footage)
1999 Hollywood Rocks 'n' Rolls in the '50s
Self (archive footage)
2004 Eddie Cochran & Friends: C'mon Everybody
Self (archive footage)
2013 My Father And The Man In Black
Self (archive footage)
2021 The Sparks Brothers
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Film Production

Music:
1957 Venga a bailar el rock

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TV Performances

1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1957 American Bandstand
Self

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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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