Ringo Starr
Biography
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and The Beatles version of "Act Naturally"), as co-writer with the song "What Goes On" and primary writer with "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden".
As drummer for The Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills", technically limited by being a left-handed person playing a right-handed kit. Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers, behind drummers such as John Bonham, Keith Moon and Neil Peart.
Starr is the most documented and critically acclaimed actor-Beatle, playing a central role in several Beatles films, and appearing in numerous other movies, both during and after his career with The Beatles. After The Beatles' break-up in 1970, Starr achieved solo musical success with several singles and albums, and recorded with each of his fellow ex-Beatles as they too developed their post-Beatle musical careers. He has also been featured in a number of TV documentaries, hosted TV shows, and narrated the first two series of the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. He currently tours with the All-Starr Band.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-07-07
Place of birth
Liverpool, England, UK
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Cast
A Hard Day's Night
1964
7.30
The Movie Orgy
1968
6.50
El Rey en Londres
1966
0.00
Let There Be Drums!
2022
6.70
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965
0.00
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978
6.30
Let It Be
1970
7.56
Blindman
1971
5.70
The Kids Are Alright
1979
7.30
The Magic Christian
1969
5.80
The Point
1971
7.02
The Society of the Spectacle
1974
6.70
Video From Hell
1987
7.00
Magical Mystery Tour
1967
6.53
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002
6.50
Jimi Plays Monterey
1987
7.40
Imagine: John Lennon
1988
6.80
That'll Be The Day
1973
6.30
200 Motels
1971
5.30
Beatles Stories
2011
7.60
Give My Regards to Broad Street
1984
4.70
Concert for George
2003
8.10
The Last Waltz
1978
7.63
The Day the Music Died
1977
0.00
Help!
1965
6.84
Zappa
2020
7.27
The Beatles: Let It Be
2021
0.00
Things They Said Today
2002
0.00
Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels
1971
0.00
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
6.00
Beatles chronology (1962-1970)
2016
0.50
Candy
1968
5.20
Louder Than Rock
2023
4.00
Lisztomania
1975
5.97
The Making of Sgt. Pepper
1992
7.00
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
6.00
Take Your Pills
2018
6.53
Caveman
1981
6.50
The Beatles and India
2021
6.30
All You Need Is Klaus
2010
6.50
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023
9.00
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
1977
7.70
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
2008
6.00
Cilla in Scandinavia
1971
6.00
The Beatles: Help!
2007
6.50
The Beatles Unauthorized
1996
0.00
The Beatles: Watching Rainbows
2004
0.00
Fun with the Fab Four
1986
0.00
The Beatles on Record
2009
6.40
The Concert for Bangladesh
1972
7.88
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023
8.10
The Mersey Sound
1963
0.00
The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
2011
0.00
All Together Now
2008
6.90
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018
7.40
Radio
2003
7.30
Weekend of a Champion
1972
7.00
Produced By George Martin
2012
7.70
Our World
1967
0.00
Sextette
1978
3.90
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
6.00
Good Ol' Freda
2013
7.10
The Beatles Come to Town
1963
7.00
The Beatles: Something
1969
7.70
The Beatles: Revolution
1968
9.30
Mighty Good: The Beatles
1977
4.00
Happy Birthday to John
1997
4.80
The Beatles Explosion
2007
6.50
The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
2018
0.00
Son of Dracula
1974
4.50
The Beatles: Parting Ways
2009
6.50
The Beatles and the BBC
2023
7.50
Beatles - Tokyo, Japan 66
1966
7.00
Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
1996
0.00
The Beatles: A Celebration
1999
0.00
This Is Elvis
1981
7.00
A Concert by the Lake
2010
6.20
The Making of Sun City
1985
0.00
Rat Pack
2022
9.00
Understanding Lennon/McCartney
2018
0.00
The Beatles: Hey Jude
1968
8.70
Beatles på Sverigeturné
2014
0.00
Thomas & Friends: Best of Percy
2001
9.20
Walking After Midnight
1988
0.00
Reflections on Love
1966
0.00
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
2001
0.00
Genius
2012
5.50
If These Walls Could Sing
2022
6.54
Wingspan
2001
6.90
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
6.56
Doctor Who: The Chase
1965
6.60
The Beatles 1
2015
6.00
The Beatles - Abbey Road
1969
0.00
The Beatles 1+
2015
8.50
The Beatles Mod Odyssey
1968
0.00
The Beatles: Around the World
2003
0.00
Ringo at the Ryman
2013
9.00
The Beach Boys
2024
6.60
The Bannfoot Ferry
2024
0.00
Water
1985
5.90
Becoming the Beatles
2012
0.00
Ringo
1978
5.20
British Rock: The First Wave
1985
0.00
Ringo Starr: Off the Record
2008
0.00
The Beatles Sing for Shell
1964
0.00
The Beatles in Australia
1964
0.00
The Compleat Beatles
1982
7.50
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969
0.00
Beatles: The Journey
2003
5.00
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
2017
7.70
Free to Rock
2017
6.40
Echo in the Canyon
2019
6.70
All You Need Is Love
1967
0.00
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
2007
0.00
The Cooler
1982
5.00
Beatles: Big Beat Box
2001
0.00
Doctor Who: Origins
2006
0.00
David Wants to Fly
2010
7.09
The Beatles Story
1996
8.00
Did Somebody Drop His Mouse?
1972
5.00
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
2012
0.00
Oh My God
2009
5.50
Die Beatles
1966
0.00
The Return of Bruno
1987
6.60
Yellow Submarine
1968
7.20
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
1982
0.00
Around the Beatles
1964
0.00
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
2020
6.80
Pop Gear
1965
7.50
Ringo Starr’s Big Birthday Show
2020
0.00
The Beatles: Live in Paris
1965
0.00
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020
6.50
Beatles Biggest Secrets
2004
0.00
The Beatles: Love
2006
10.00
An Audience with Billy Connolly
1985
8.40
The Winged Beetle
2012
0.00
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
1974
6.00
Ringo Starr Going Home
1993
0.00
What Drives Us
2021
6.80
Monument
1967
0.00
Naqoyqatsi
2002
6.10
The Beatles in Japan 1966
2009
0.00
Beatles Electroniques
1969
8.00
Understanding McCartney
2020
0.00
Our Cilla
2015
6.50
The Beatles: The Complete Story
2010
8.50
Beatles '64
2024
6.40
Shed 17
0.00
The Sparks Brothers
2021
7.38
Wings Over the World
1979
8.00
Ringo Starr: One of Them
2022
8.00
Året var 1967
2017
0.00
To John With Love
2006
0.00
Året var 1963
2013
0.00
Elvis: King of Entertainment
2002
0.00
Abbey Road
1969
0.00
Ringo Starr: VH1 Storytellers
1998
0.00
Palme
2012
7.64
Ringo & Friends at the Ryman
2025
0.00
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
1985
10.00
The Beatles - Trilogy
2003
0.00
The Beatles
2025
0.00