Bob Geldof
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof KBE (born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter and political activist. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved popularity as part of the punk rock movement. The band had UK number one hits with his co-compositions "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays". Geldof starred as Pink in Pink Floyd's 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall. As a fundraiser, Geldof organised the charity supergroup Band Aid and the concerts Live Aid and Live 8, and co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?", one of the best-selling singles to date. Geldof is widely recognised for his activism, especially his anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa. In 1984, he and Midge Ure founded the charity supergroup Band Aid to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. They went on to organise the charity super-concert Live Aid the following year and the Live 8 concerts in 2005. Geldof currently serves as an adviser to the ONE Campaign, co-founded by fellow Irish rock singer and activist Bono, and is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. A single father, Geldof has also been outspoken for the fathers' rights movement. Geldof was granted an honorary knighthood (KBE) by Elizabeth II in 1986 for his charity work in Africa: it is an honorary award as Geldof is an Irish citizen, but he is often referred to as 'Sir Bob'. He is a recipient of the Man of Peace title which recognises individuals who have made "an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace", among numerous other awards and nominations. In 2005, he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Geldof, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
123 acting credits
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Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Top Gear
2002
Have I Got News for You
1990
DAS!
1991
Leute heute
1997
Wogan
1982
ZDF-Fernsehgarten
1986
Omnibus
1967
3 nach 9
1974
An Audience with...
1978
Richard & Judy
2001
V Graham Norton
2002
maybrit illner
1999
Goldene Kamera
1984
Going Live!
1987
Parkinson
1998
Skavlan
2009
World in Action
1963
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
This Is Your Life
1955
Legends
2006
ECHO-Verleihung
1992
The Kenny Everett Television Show
1982
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
Pink Floyd: The Wall
1982
HARDtalk
1997
Semperopernball
2006
Seven Ages of Rock
2007
Three of a Kind
1981
The Kenny Everett Video Show
1978
Schmidteinander
1990
The Greatest Night in Pop
2024
Spice World
1997
The Meaning of Life
2009
Grumpy Old Men
2003
Berlin Live
2011
Live Aid
1985
Zombie Plane
2025
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986
Plattenküche
1976
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
1985
Live 8
2005
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
1992
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
2025
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today
2005
8
2008
An Audience with Billy Connolly
1985
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982
Blair: The Inside Story
2007
Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar
2017
Diana & Me
1997
Live Aid
2004
Paula
2023
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986
Bohemian Rhapsody: Recreating Live Aid
2019
Quintessentially Irish
2024
Starsuckers
2009
Bernard and the Genie
1991
'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid Video
1984
The Making of Sun City
1985
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
1987
Queen: Champions of the World
1995
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
2022
BP Fallon: Rock'n'Roll Wizard
2025
Live Aid Against All Odds
2005
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
2024
Coast to Coast
1987
Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible
2025
Number One
1985
Behind the Music: Michael Hutchence
2000
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition
2004
Bad Girl
2012
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
2012
Ghost Blues: The Story of Rory Gallagher
2010
Postcards from the 48%
2018
The Best of Max Headroom
1987
Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped
2024
Scarfe's Follies
1988
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016
Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
2020
The Noughties...Was That It?
2009
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
2020
The World's Greatest Gigs
2005
The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities
2015
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002
Pavarotti & Friends
1992
Modern Slavery
2009
Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen
2012
The Quiet One
2019
Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era
1994
Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey
1986
Best Ever Spitting Image
2006
The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?
2007
ABBA V Queen
2022
One World, One Voice
1990
I Am Bob
2007
Stranded
2015
Rory Gallagher: Calling Card
2024
Punk in London
1977
The Rocker: A Portrait of Phil Lynott
1996
Jazz Open Stuttgart 2017 - Festival of World Stars and Child Prodigies
2017
New York Doll
2005
Live Eighties
2004
The Other Side of the Wall
1982
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
2016
Bob Geldof: The Moment
2014
Irish Rock at the BBC
2015
Doug and the Slugs and Me
2022
Stuck in the Middle
2005
The Rory Gallagher Story
2024
Lovesongs Of The 70's
2004
Clan Banlieue, 1992-2004: La Grande Famiglia in Movimento
2004
London's Burning
2016
The Boomtown Rats: Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1978
2005
The Old Fools
2002
On the Frontlines of Hunger
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The Boomtown Rats: Live at Wacken
2025
Bob Geldof - Berlin Live
2015
Bob Geldof - Geldof goes Goondiwindi
1993
The Boomtown Rats Live in Japan 1980
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