Name	Fritz Lang
Birth date	December 05, 1890
Birth place	Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Birth name	Friedrich Christian Anton Lang
Influences	Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Denola
Influenced	Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Claude Chabrol, Luis Buñuel, Stanley Kubrick, Ken Russell
Death date	August 02, 1976
Death place	Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film director, film producer
Years active	1919–1960
Spouse	Lisa Rosenthal (1919-1921)Thea von Harbou (1922-1933)Lily Latté (1971-1976)}}

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known ''émigrés'' from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. His most famous films are the groundbreaking ''Metropolis'' (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and ''M'', made before he moved to the United States, his iconic precursor to the ''film noir'' genre.

Life and career

Early life

Lang was born in Vienna as the second son of Anton Lang (1860–1940), an architect and construction company manager, and his wife Pauline "Paula" Lang née Schlesinger (1864–1920). Fritz Lang himself was baptized on 28 December 1890 at the Schottenkirche in Vienna.

Lang's parents were of Moravian descent and practicing Roman Catholics. His mother was born Jewish, but had converted to Catholicism when Fritz was ten. His mother took this conversion seriously and was dedicated to raising Fritz as a Catholic. Lang never had an interest in his Jewish heritage and identified himself as Catholic. Although he was not a particularly devout Catholic, he "regularly used Catholic images and themes [in] his films".

After finishing school, Lang briefly attended the Technical University of Vienna, where he studied civil engineering and eventually switched to art. In 1910 he left Vienna to see the world, traveling throughout Europe and Africa and later Asia and the Pacific area. In 1913, he studied painting in Paris, France.

At the outbreak of World War I, Lang returned to Vienna and volunteered for military service in the Austrian army and fought in Russia and Romania, where he was wounded three times. While recovering from his injuries and shell shock in 1916, he wrote some scenarios and ideas for films. He was discharged from the army with the rank of lieutenant in 1918 and did some acting in the Viennese theater circuit for a short time before being hired as a writer at Decla, Erich Pommer's Berlin-based production company.

Expressionist films: the Weimar years (1918-1933)

His writing stint was brief, as Lang soon started to work as a director at the German film studio Ufa, and later Nero-Film, just as the Expressionist movement was building. In this first phase of his career, Lang alternated between art films such as ''Der Müde Tod'' ("The Weary Death") and popular thrillers such as ''Die Spinnen'' ("The Spiders"), combining popular genres with Expressionist techniques to create an unprecedented synthesis of popular entertainment with art cinema. In 1920, he met his future wife, the writer and actress Thea von Harbou. She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's ''Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler'' (Dr. Mabuse the Gambler), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour ''Die Nibelungen'', the famous 1927 film ''Metropolis'', and the 1931 classic, ''M'', his first "talking" picture.

Although some consider Lang's work to be simple melodrama, he produced a coherent oeuvre that helped to establish the characteristics of ''film noir'', with its recurring themes of psychological conflict, paranoia, fate and moral ambiguity. His work influenced filmmakers as disparate as Jacques Rivette and William Friedkin.

In 1931, after ''Woman in the Moon'', Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: ''M'', a disturbing story of a child murderer (Peter Lorre in his first starring role) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld. ''M'' remains a powerful work; it was remade in 1951 by Joseph Losey, but this version had little impact on audiences, and has become harder to see than the original film. Lang epitomized the stereotype of the tyrannical German film director such as Erich von Stroheim and Otto Preminger; he was known for being hard to work with. During the climactic final scene in ''M'', he allegedly threw Peter Lorre down a flight of stairs in order to give more authenticity to Lorre's battered look. His wearing a monocle added to the stereotype.

At the end of 1932, Lang started filming ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse''. Adolf Hitler came to power in January 1933, and by March 30, the new regime banned it as an incitement to public disorder. ''Testament'' is sometimes deemed an anti-Nazi film as Lang had put phrases used by the Nazis into the mouth of the title character.

Whereas Lang was worried about the advent of the Nazi regime, partly because of his Jewish heritage, his wife and screen writer Thea von Harbou had started to sympathize with the Nazis in the early 1930s and joined the NSDAP in 1932. They soon divorced. Lang's fears would be realized following his departure from Austria, as under Nazi eugenics laws he would be identified as a Jew even though his mother was a converted Roman Catholic, and he was raised as such.

Emigration

Shortly afterwards, Lang left Germany. According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that ''The Testament of Dr Mabuse'' was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker (especially ''Metropolis''), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA. Lang had been, unbeknownst to Goebbels, already planning to leave Germany for Paris, but the meeting with Goebbels ran so long that the banks were closed by the time it finished. Lang has stated that he fled that very evening.

Lang left Germany in 1934 and moved to Paris after his marriage to Thea von Harbou, who stayed behind, ended in 1933.

In Paris, Lang filmed a version of Ferenc Molnár's ''Liliom'', starring Charles Boyer. This was Lang's only film in French (not counting the French version of ''Testament''). He then went to the United States.

Hollywood career (1936-1957)

Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Lang joined the MGM studio and directed the crime drama ''Fury'', starring Spencer Tracy as a man wrongly lynched for a crime he didn't commit. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1939. Lang made twenty-one features in the next twenty-one years, working in a variety of genres at every major studio in Hollywood, occasionally producing his films as an independent. These films, often compared unfavorably by contemporary critics to Lang's earlier works, have since been reevaluated as being integral to the emergence and evolution of American genre cinema, ''film noir'' in particular.

One of his most famous ''films noir'' is the police drama ''The Big Heat'' (1953), noted for its uncompromising brutality, especially for a scene in which Lee Marvin throws scalding coffee on Gloria Grahame's face. During this period, his visual style simplified (owing in part to the constraints of the Hollywood studio system) and his worldview became increasingly pessimistic, culminating in the cold, geometric style of his last American films, ''While the City Sleeps'' (1956) and ''Beyond a Reasonable Doubt'' (1956).

Lang found it harder to find congenial production conditions in Hollywood and his advancing age left him less inclined to grapple with American backers. The German producer Artur Brauner expressed interest in remaking ''The Indian Tomb'' (a story that Lang had developed in the twenties that was ultimately taken from him by studio heads and directed instead by Joe May), so Lang abandoned his plans for retirement and returned to Germany in order to make his "Indian Epic". Following the production, Brauner was ready to proceed with his remake of ''Das Testament des Doctor Mabuse'' when Lang approached him with the idea of adding another original film to the series. The result was ''The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse'' (1960), made in a hurry and with a relatively small budget. It can be viewed as the marriage between the director's early experiences with expressionist techniques in Germany as well as the spartan style already visible in his late American work. Lang was approaching blindness during the production, making it his final project.

Death and legacy

While his career had ended without fanfare, his American and later German works were championed by the critics of the ''Cahiers du cinéma''. Lang died in 1976 and was interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Filmography

Pop culture

Lang appears as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film ''Le Mepris''. During the film, his reputation is discussed, and he somewhat lampoons his own reputation for being a temperamental director.

An old German director with the demeanor of Lang appears during the filming of a bank robbery in Woody Allen's 1969 comedy ''Take the Money and Run.''

In David Foster Wallace's novel ''Infinite Jest'', Lang is mentioned in tandem with James Cameron on page 48.

A fictional Lang appears as a main character in the ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' movie ''Conqueror of Shambala''.

In Episode 11 of Season 1 of ''City Hunter'', the antagonist's name is Fritz Lang.

Madonna portrayed Lang for a sequence in her 1989 music video for Express Yourself, complete with Lang's signature suit and monocle. The video itself is a tribute to Metropolis (film).

References

Further reading

Michaux, Agnès. 'Je les chasserai jusqu'au bout du monde jusqu'à ce qu'ils en crèvent''; Paris: Editions 1, 1997; ISBN 2863919334

Friedrich, Otto. ''City of Nets'': ''A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s''; New York: Harper & Row, 1986; ISBN 0060156260 (See e.g. pp. 45–46 for anecdotes revealing Lang's arrogance.)

McGilligan, Patrick. ''Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast''; New York: St. Martins Press, 1997; ISBN 0312132476

Schnauber, Cornelius. ''Fritz Lang in Hollywood''; Wien: Europaverlag, c1986; ISBN 3203509539 (in German)

- Contains interviews with Lang and a discussion of the making of the film ''M''

External links

Fritz Lang Bibliography (via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center)

Senses of Cinema - Biographie

Fritz Lang at filmportal.de

Interview with Fritz Lang from 1967

Bibliography

"Symptôme, exhibition, angoisse. Représentation de la terreur dans l’œuvre allemande de Fritz Lang (1919-1933/1959-1960)", un article de Nicole Brenez extrait de ''De la Figure en général et du Corps en particulier'' (1998).

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name	William Friedkin
birth date	August 29, 1935
birth place	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
occupation	Director, producer, screenwriter
years active	1965–present
spouse	Jeanne Moreau (1977-1979) Lesley-Anne Down (1982-1985) Kelly Lange (1987-1990) Sherry Lansing (1991-present) }}

William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing ''The French Connection'' in 1971 and ''The Exorcist'' in 1973; for the former, he won the Academy Award for Best Director. His most recent film, ''Bug'' (2006) won the FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Career

After seeing the movie ''Citizen Kane'' as a boy, Friedkin became fascinated with movies. He began working for WGN-TV immediately after high school. He eventually started his directorial career doing live television shows and documentaries, including ''The People vs. Paul Crump'' which won several awards and contributed to the commutation of Crump's death sentence. As mentioned in Friedkin's voice-over commentary on the DVD re-release of Alfred Hitchcock's ''Vertigo'', Friedkin also directed one of the last episodes of ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' in 1965, called "Off Season".

Hitchcock admonished Friedkin for not wearing a tie while directing. In 1965 Friedkin moved to Hollywood and two years later released his first feature film, ''Good Times'' starring Sonny and Cher. Several other "art" films followed (including the gay-themed movie ''The Boys in the Band''), although Friedkin did not necessarily want to be known as an art house director. He wanted to be known for action, serious drama, and for stories about an America turned upside down by crime, hypocrisy, the occult, and amorality, which he mounted up into his films.

In 1971, his ''The French Connection'' was released to wide critical acclaim. Shot in a gritty style more suited for documentaries than Hollywood features, the film won five Academy Awards, including an Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director.

Friedkin followed up with 1973's ''The Exorcist'', based on William Peter Blatty's best-selling novel, which revolutionized the horror genre and is considered by some critics to be one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Friedkin's directorial 'ethics' however, came into serious question when filming the now notorious scene where Linda Blair smacks Ellen Burstyn, causing her to fly backwards into a break-away table. Even after warning Friedkin the stuntman was "pulling her too hard," Friendkin prompted him to pull her harder, resulting in a permanent back injury for Burstyn. ''The Exorcist'' was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. It won the Best Screenplay Award.

Following these two critically acclaimed pictures, Friedkin, along with Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich, was deemed as one of the premier directors of New Hollywood. Unfortunately, Friedkin's later movies did not achieve the same success. ''Sorcerer'' (1977), a $22 million dollar American remake of the French classic ''Wages of Fear'', starring Roy Scheider, was overshadowed by the box-office success of ''Star Wars'', which was released around the same time. Friedkin considers it his finest film, and was personally devastated by its financial and critical failure (as mentioned by Friedkin himself in the documentary series ''The Directors'' (1999).

''Sorcerer'' was shortly followed by the crime-comedy ''The Brink's Job'' (1978), based on the real-life Great Brink's Robbery in Boston, Massachusetts, which was also unsuccessful at the box-office. In 1980, he directed the highly controversial gay-themed crime thriller ''Cruising'', starring Al Pacino, which was protested against even during its making and remains the subject of heated debate to this day.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Friedkin's films received mostly lackluster reviews and moderate ticket sales. ''Deal of the Century'' (1983), starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines and Sigourney Weaver, was sometimes regarded as a latter-day ''Dr. Strangelove'', though it was generally savaged by critics. However, his action/crime movie ''To Live and Die in L.A.'' (1985), starring William Petersen and Willem Dafoe, was a critical favorite and drew comparisons to Friedkin's own ''The French Connection'' (particularly for its car-chase sequence), while his courtroom-drama/thriller ''Rampage'' (1987) received a fairly positive review from Roger Ebert despite major distribution problems. ''The Guardian'' (1990) and ''Jade'' (1995), starring Linda Fiorentino, received somewhat favorable response from critics and audiences. Friedkin even said that ''Jade'' was the favorite of all the films he had made.

Friedkin has also done features drawing attention to artists as different as Fritz Lang and Barbra Streisand.

In 2000, ''The Exorcist'' was re-released in theaters with extra footage and grossed $40 million in the U.S. alone. Friedkin's involvement in 2007's ''Bug'' resulted from a positive experience watching the stage version in 2004. He was surprised to find that he was, metaphorically, on the same page as the playwright and felt that he could relate well to the story.

Later, Friedkin directed an episode of the hit TV series ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' entitled "Cockroaches," which re-teamed him with ''To Live and Die In L.A.'' star William Petersen. He would go on to direct again for CSI's 200th episode, "Mascara."

In June 2010, author William Peter Blatty, promoting his latest novel, revealed that Friedkin has committed to direct the feature film adaptation of his thriller, ''Dimiter''. This would mark almost forty years since their previous collaboration, ''The Exorcist'', not counting the failed collaboration between the two on ''The Exorcist III''. The idea for the book itself actually came to Blatty while sitting in Friedkin's office in 1972 during the first film's production, as he read an article concerning the then atheist-run state of Albania executing a priest for baptizing a new-born infant. He has been working on it on and off ever since 1974, and, upon its completion, sat down with Friedkin for a one-on-one interview in The Huffington Post a few days after Blatty named Friedkin as attached to direct. According to the author, his friend and director has been eager to adapt the story for the last three years.

Personal life

Friedkin was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Rae ( Green) and Louis Friedkin, a semi-professional softball player, merchant seaman, and men's clothing salesman. He has two sons: Jack (with actress Lesley-Anne Down) and Cedric, whose mother is Australian dancer and Choreographer Jennifer Nairn-Smith. He has been married four times, to Kelly Lange, Lesley-Anne Down, and a short marriage to French actress Jeanne Moreau. He is currently married to former film executive Sherry Lansing.

Justin Green in the 2009 edition of his classic ''Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary'' book says William Friedkin is his first cousin.

Filmography (as director)

Year	Title	Notes
1967
1968	''''
1968	''''
1970	''''
1971	''''	Academy Award for Best DirectorDirectors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial AchievementGolden Globe Award for Best DirectorNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Direction
1973	''''
1977		Also Producer
1978	''''
1980		Also Writer
1983	''Deal of the Century''
1985		Also WriterFestival du Film Policier de Cognac Audience Award
1987		Also Producer/WriterNominated — Saturn Award for Best DirectionNominated — Deauville Film Festival Critics Award
1990	''''	Also Writer
1994	''Blue Chips''
1995
2000
2003	''''
2007		FIPRESCI
2011		Scheduled to compete in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September.

References

External links

Watching Under the Influence: To Live and Die in L.A. essay at Slant Magazine

"From 'Popeye' Doyle to Puccini: William Friedkin" NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Friedkin, 14 September 2006

EXCL: Bug Director William Friedkin

''The Reeler'' interview with Friedkin

American Film Institute interview

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:''For the Horse Racing and Cycling performance specialist, Bernard Sainz, nicknamed 'Doctor Mabuse', please see Bernard Sainz''.

Doctor Mabuse is a fictional character created by Norbert Jacques in the novel ''Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler'', and made famous by the three movies director Fritz Lang made about the character, see ''Dr. Mabuse the Gambler''. Although the character was designed deliberately to mimic pulp magazine-style villains such as Dr. Fu Manchu and Fantômas, the latter of which was a direct inspiration, Jacques' goal was both commercial success and to make political comments, in much the same way that the silent movie ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920) had done just a few years previously.

Description

Dr. Mabuse is a master of disguise and telepathic hypnosis. Mabuse rarely commits his crimes in person, instead operating primarily through a network of agents implementing schemes he has planned for them. Mabuse's agents range from career criminals working for him, to innocents blackmailed or hypnotized into cooperation, to dupes manipulated so successfully they do not realize that they are doing exactly what Mabuse planned for them to do.

Mabuse's identity often changes; one "Dr. Mabuse" may be defeated and sent to an asylum, jail, or grave, only for a new "Dr. Mabuse" to later appear, as depicted in ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse''. The replacement invariably has the same methods, the same powers of hypnosis, and the same criminal genius. There are even suggestions in some installments of the series that the "real" Mabuse is some sort of spirit that possesses a series of hosts spiritually.

History

Dr. Mabuse first appeared in the novel ''Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler'' (translation: "Dr. Mabuse The Player" or "Dr. Mabuse The Gambler") by Norbert Jacques. The novel was the beneficiary of unprecedented publicity efforts and became a best-seller very soon. Lang, already an accomplished director, worked with his wife Thea von Harbou to translate the novel to the screen, where it also became a great success. The film ''Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler'' (1922), with a playing time of more than four hours, was released in two separate sections: ''Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, an Image of the Times'' and ''Inferno, People of the Times.''

After the great success of both the novel and the movie, it was almost a decade before anything more was done with the character. Jacques had been working on a sequel to the novel, named ''Mabuse's Colony'', in which Mabuse has died and a group of his devotees are starting an island colony based on the principles described by Mabuse's manifesto. However, the novel was unfinished. After conversations with Lang and von Harbou, Jacques agreed to discontinue the novel and the sequel instead became the 1933 movie ''Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse'', in which the Mabuse of 1920 (still played by Rudolf Klein-Rogge) is an inmate in an insane asylum, but has for some time been obsessively writing meticulous plans for crime and terrorism — plans that are being performed by a gang of criminals outside the asylum, who receive their orders from a person who has identified himself to them only as Dr. Mabuse.

Cultural influences and homages

The German musical group Propaganda released their debut single, "Dr. Mabuse", during 1984 as a tribute to the character; the song was also part of their debut album, ''A Secret Wish'', during 1985.

The German musical band Blue System released a song named "Doctor Mabuse", as part of the album ''X-Ten'', during 1994. The song was also released as a single.

Jean-Marc Lofficier wrote ''Superman's Metropolis'', a trilogy of graphic novels for DC Comics illustrated by Ted McKeever, the third of which was entitled ''Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon'', with the plot derived partly from ''Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler''. The character of Mabuse was combined with Wonder Woman villain Doctor Psycho.

Dr. Mabuse was mentioned as a member of Die Zwielichthelden (The Twilight Heroes) in the graphic novel ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier'', by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Along with Doctor Caligari and Professor Rotwang, Mabuse was a villain for the third volume, ''Century'', published during 2009.

Mabuse also appears with his fellow silent movie characters in Kim Newman's novel ''The Bloody Red Baron'', in which he, Caligari, Rotwang, Count Orlok and others attempt to create the Red Baron.

In Charles Stross' James Bond spoof novel ''The Jennifer Morgue'', the main villain, who has hypnotic eyes, has a yacht named ''Mabuse''. In the afterward, Stross discusses Mabuse as the first supervillain and the direct predecessor of Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

The Brazilian musician and designer H.D. Mabuse has used this name as his pseudonym for more than 20 years.

The name "Mabuse" is a pseudonym of a fictionalized version of Fritz Lang in ''Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa''.

Dr. Mabuse inspired Wong Jing's 1989 movie ''God of Gamblers''.

Filmography

''Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler'' (1922), directed by Fritz Lang.

*English title: ''Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler''.

''Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse'' (1933), directed by Fritz Lang.

*English title: ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse''

*A French-language version was filmed at the same time, on the same sets, but with a mainly different cast.

*''The Crimes of Dr. Mabuse'' is a truncated, reorganized and redubbed adaptation of ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'' made primarily for U. S. audiences.

''Die Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse'' (1960), directed by Fritz Lang, produced by Artur Brauner.

*English title: ''The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse''.

''Im Stahlnetz' des Dr. Mabuse'' (1961), directed by Harald Reinl, produced by Artur Brauner.

*English title: ''The Return of Dr. Mabuse'' (literally; ''In the Steel-Web of Dr. Mabuse).

''Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse'' (1962), directed by Harald Reinl, produced by Artur Brauner.

*English title: ''The Invisible Dr. Mabuse'' (literally: ''The Invisible Claws of Dr. Mabuse'').

''Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse'' (1962), directed by Werner Klingler, produced by Artur Brauner, a remake of the 1933 movie.

*English title: ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'').

''Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse'' (1963), directed by Paul May, produced by Artur Brauner.

* English title: ''Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard'' (literally: ''Scotland Yard hunts Dr. Mabuse'').

''Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse'' (1963), directed by Hugo Fregonese, produced by Artur Brauner.

*English title: ''The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse'' (literally: ''The Death-Rays of Dr. Mabuse'').

''La Venganza del Dr. Mabuse'' (1970), directed by Jess Franco.

* English title: ''The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse''.

''Docteur M'' (1989), directed by Claude Chabrol.

*English title: ''Club Extinction''.

Literature

Kalat, David, ''The strange case of Dr. Mabuse: a study of the twelve movies and five novels'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2001.

References

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name	Teddy Thompson
landscape	Yes
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born	February 19, 1976
origin	London, England
genre	Folk, Alt. Country, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
years active	2000–present
label	Virgin / Verve Forecast
associated acts	Richard Thompson, Linda Thompson, Kamila Thompson, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Roseanne Cash The Gray Race Poundcake
website	http://teddythompson.com}}

Teddy Thompson (born 19 February 1976) is a British folk and rock musician. He is the son of folk-rock musicians Richard and Linda Thompson and brother of singer Kamila Thompson. He released his first album in 2000.

Biography

Teddy Thompson was born in 1976 in a London Sufi commune to folk-rock musicians Richard and Linda Thompson, both major musical figures in the English folk rock scene from the 1960s on. He is the brother of singer Kamila Thompson. He formed his own band at the age of 18 and Teddy moved to Los Angeles to pursue his music career, which included work as a singer and guitar player in his father Richard's band during the 1990s. He appears on at least three Richard Thompson Band recordings from that time: ''You? me? us?'', the live album ''Celtschmerz'' (1998) and ''Mock Tudor (1999),'' as well as singing a duet on the track "Persuasion", which appeared on Richard's best-of compilation ''Action Packed'' (1999). He can be seen performing in his father's band on a number of internet videos from as early as 1993, including an appearance on the BBC's Jools Holland show. He coaxed his mother out of retirement and co-produced her first album in 17 years, ''Fashionably Late''.

He currently resides in and operates out of New York City.

Recordings

Debut

In 2000 Thompson released his debut album, ''Teddy Thompson'', which received much critical acclaim but little commercial success. Between the time of his debut album and follow-up, he released the moderately successful EP ''Blunderbuss'' and toured as part of Rosanne Cash's band. His song "Love Her for That" was featured in the 2002 film ''40 Days and 40 Nights''.

''Separate Ways''

In 2005, Thompson released his second full-length album, ''Separate Ways''. It has a strong "second-generation" artist theme, featuring both Rufus and Martha Wainwright, who are close friends of Thompson. He has toured and recorded with both the Wainwrights, including Rufus' 2003 album ''Want One''. Teddy and Rufus recorded a version of "King of the Road" for the 2005 film, ''Brokeback Mountain'', with Thompson also contributing a solo track: "I Don't Want to Say Goodbye". ''Separate Ways'' features Dave Mattacks, Tony Trischka and Garth Hudson of The Band and was produced by Brad Albetta, who also produced Martha Wainwright's much-lauded debut album.

''Upfront & Down Low''

Teddy's third album, ''Upfront & Down Low'', was released on Verve Forecast in the United States on July 17, 2007, and in the UK and Europe later in 2007. The album contains covers of many of Teddy's favorite country songs, plus one of his own compositions, entitled "Down Low". It offers covers of country classics such as George Jones’ “She Thinks I Still Care,” Ernest Tubb’s “Walking the Floor Over You”, and Liz Anderson’s “(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers", made famous by Merle Haggard. Lesser-known songs include Felice and Boudleaux Bryant’s “Change of Heart,” Dolly Parton’s bittersweet “My Blue Tears,” Bob Luman's “Let’s Think About Living”, and the Elvis Presley “I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone.” Six tracks feature string arrangements by English arranger Robert Kirby, renowned for his work with Nick Drake. “My Blue Tears” features strings arranged by Thompson cohort Rufus Wainwright. The only single taken off ''Upfront & Down Low'' was "Change of Heart".

''A Piece of What You Need''

Thompson's fourth studio album, ''A Piece of What You Need'', was released via Verve/Forecast on June 17, 2008 and contains all original songs. It was produced by Marius de Vries, whom Teddy met while recording background vocals on Rufus Wainwright's ''Want'' records in 2002. He had been playing the opening track, "The Things I Do", for several years on tour and originally intended to put it on ''Separate Ways'', but could not get the feel right in time for that album's release. The song "Turning the Gun On Myself" first appeared on the 2004 EP ''Blunderbuss''.

The first single from ''A Piece of What You Need'' is "In My Arms". The music video for the song features a cameo appearance by Rufus Wainwright dressed as Elvis Presley. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at #107. The album received rave reviews in the UK, and much critical acclaim elsewhere, with many stating that this album is Thompson's best work to date. ''A Piece of What You Need'' debuted at #10 after its first week in the UK Charts during August 2008.

''Bella''

Thompson's fifth studio album ''Bella'' was released on February 7, 2011 in Europe and February 8, 2011 in the United States. ''Bella'' is Thompson's fourth album released on the record label Verve Forecast. The album is produced by David Kahne, whose previous collaborations include Paul McCartney, Regina Spector and The Strokes. ''Bella'' contains all original songs which Thompson started working on after returning from his last tour. Thompson crafted the songs for the album going to a Manhattan office every day honing in as a record deadline drew closer. The album single is called "'Looking for a Girl" and was released on January 13, 2011 on Verve Forecast.

''Bella'' has received positive reviews in the UK and the US with critics praising Thompson for crafting another solid album as a follow up to 2008`s A Piece Of What You Need. Critics also note that this is Thompson`s most personal record to date which yet again shows off his talent as a vocalist and craftsman of both deeply personal and hummable pop tunes.

Contributions

Teddy co-wrote the bulk of his mother Linda Thompson's comeback album, ''Fashionably Late'' (2002). He also contributed guitar and vocals on the album. The song ''All I See'', written by Teddy and featuring Linda on vocals, first appeared on Teddy's 2000 self-titled debut.

Thompson contributes covers of Leonard Cohen's "Tonight Will Be Fine" and "The Future" to a CD soundtrack released by Verve Records in 2006, featuring select covers from 2005 tribute concerts to the singer-songwriter.

Teddy was featured in one of the episodes of ''Live from Abbey Road'', along with Brian Wilson and Martha Wainwright, during September 2008. Teddy contributed two songs: "In My Arms" and "Don't Know What I Was Thinking", from ''A Piece of What You Need''. Thompson and Martha Wainwright also performed the Beatles song "We Can Work it Out" together at the end of the airing episode. The episode aired on The Sundance Channel on September 4 in the US and on September 13 in the UK.

Thompson again co-wrote much of his mother's 2007 album, ''Versatile Heart''.

Thompson is featured in a DVD with Keane, entitled ''Curate a Night For a War Child'' (released in September 2008), contributing two songs from ''Upfront & Down Low''.

Teddy was featured in an upcoming documentary about Jason Crigler; a well-known guitarist and musician whom is also a close friend of Thompson. The documentary is called ''Life. Support.Music'' and is about the amazing recovery Crigler made after suffering from a serious brain hemorrhage in 2004. The documentary also feature Jason's family and friends with appearances by Teddy and Norah Jones amongst others. ''Life. Support.Music'' will air on PBS July 7, 2009.

Performance

Thompson toured as part of Rosanne Cash's band in the early 2000s.

In January and February 2009, he toured the UK with The Gray Race as his opening act and backup band.

Teddy appeared as the opening act for Elton John, supporting him on a line of dates in June 2009, followed by some appearances at the Festival scene in the UK later in the summer.

He appears regularly at the Rockwood Music Hall in New York City with his rockabilly band Poundcake, a trio he completes with Ethan Eubanks and Jeff Hill.

In January 2011 he appeared, with David Ford and Ashley Cleveland, at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.

Throughout January and February 2011 Thompson will tour the UK supporting his latest release ''Bella'' and with him on the road are his regular backing band with Ethan Eubanks on drums, Jeff Hill on bass, Daniel Mintseris on keyboards and featuring Jessie Nelson on fiddle and David Ford on keyboards and guitars on some of the songs.

Thompson and his band will return to the United States in April 2011 supporting rock band Old 97's on their American tour.

Tributes

Thompson participated in a series of Leonard Cohen tribute concerts, called "Came So Far for Beauty", produced and arranged by Hal Willner, performing along with Nick Cave, The McGarrigles, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton, Laurie Anderson, Linda Thompson, Antony Hegarty, and Cohen's original backing singers Perla Batalla and Julie Christensen. The concerts were performed in New York, Brighton, Dublin and Sydney. The Sydney concert was filmed and became ''Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man'', a film tribute to the legendary songwriter. A CD soundtrack featuring select covers from the tribute concerts was released by Verve Records in 2006; Thompson contributes covers of "Tonight Will Be Fine" and "The Future".

In December 2005, Thompson appeared on BBC Radio 2, along with numerous other artists, for a John Lennon tribute. Thompson performed "I'm Only Sleeping" and "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away".

On May 3 Teddy appeared along with a lineup of other artists including Emmylou Harris, Bruce Springsteen, Rufus and Martha Wainwright at Madison Square Garden to celebrate the 90th birthday of folk music icon and folk-singer Pete Seeger.

Special appearances

In December 2006, Thompson appeared with his mother Linda and younger sister Kamila as part of the Rufus and Martha Wainwright's "Christmas Spectacular" at Carnegie Hall in New York.

December 10, 2008, Thompson was again part of the McGarrigle Christmas Hour, at Carnegie Hall. On December 17, 2008, Thompson performed as part of the Thompson Family Christmas Show, with proceeds going to Amnesty International (proceeds from a similar show in 2007 went to the Save Darfur Coalition). The musicians on the roster include Linda Thompson, Badly Drawn Boy, and Thompson's sister Kamilla.

He sang the song shipbuilding on the show the people speak on the history channel.

Style and musical genre

Coming from a family of folk-musicians, Thompson has naturally drawn influences from folk-music into his own musical sound. While still a teenager he was listening exclusively to American music such as Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly. Thompson also later stated that these artists are some of his main musical influences when he first started to write songs (quotation needed). Later when he grew up he began to listen more to contemporary pop music such as Crowded House, and his own musical style today is a mix of folk, country, rock and pop music. As he says himself:

In a video interview he says:

In addition to his tenor singing voice, Thompson plays both the acoustic and electric guitar, and occasionally the ukulele. He has a strong, versatile and expressive voice which he uses both in the higher and lower vocal range with ease, but he apparently prefers using his voice in the middle register while singing. He stated in an interview that his voice was "his only weapon so to speak" in the early years as a vocalist and musician playing in his father's backing band. It has been said that Thompson has inherited much of his singing voice from his mother. He has also been compared vocally to Chris Isaak and Justin Hayward.

On Thompson`s 2011 release ''Bella'' many critics comment on the striking vocal resemblance to singer Roy Orbison on many of the songs, especially on ''Take me back again'' and ''Take care of yourself'' which on the latter Thompson soars into a perfect falsetto at the end of the song evoking the late 1960`s singer.

Musical themes

Thompson's songs are often characterized by their personal and observational style and common use of black humor, such as "Turning the Gun On Myself" and "The Things I Do". He is also known for his ability of writing both personal and wry lyrics with a very melodic style, with such songs like "What's This?!!" and "In My Arms". As a lyricist, he has often been compared to his father, but has developed his own unique writing style. He is also said to have a knack of catching the exact state of mind into his songs, like in "Everybody Move It" and "Slippery Slope".

Teddy has said that "Everybody Move It" was inspired and partly based on personal experience with going out to clubs as a teenager, often ending up in a corner watching everybody else having all the fun.

Recurring themes in Thompson's music are love, loss, the look at fame ("You Made It", "Shine So Bright"), popular culture ("A Piece of What You Need"), and regarding much of his earlier work, self-loathing.

While on his first two albums written songs only in a first-person perspective, Teddy has also explored writing songs in the third person, most notably in "Jonathan's Book".

Rufus Wainwright states on the DVD which accompanied the "Release the Stars" album that the song "Nobody's Off the Hook" is about his friendship with Thompson.

Discography

Albums

Year	Album	Chart Positions				Label
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2000
2005
2007	''Upfront & Down Low''
2008	''A Piece of What You Need''
2011

EPs, etc.

''L.A.'' (EP) (2001)

''Blunderbuss'' (EP) (2004)

Singles

"Everybody Move It" (2005)

"In My Arms" (2008) - (UK #107)

"Christmas" (2008) - featuring special guests Linda, Richard, and Kamila Thompson

"Looking for a Girl" (2011)

Guest appearances

1996 - Richard Thompson's ''You? me? us?'' - "Bank Vault in Heaven" - vocals

1998 - Richard Thompson's ''Celtschmerz'' - "A Heart Needs a Home", "Persuasion" - vocals

1999 - Richard Thompson's ''Mock Tudor'' - guitar, backing vocals, harmony vocals

2001 - Richard Thompson ''Action Packed'' - "Persuasion" - live duet

2002 - Rufus Wainwright's ''Poses'' - "One Man Guy"- guitar, harmony vocals

2002 - Richard Thompson's ''Semi-Detached Mock Tudor'' - dulcimer, guitar, vocals

2002 - Linda Thompson's ''Fashionably Late'' - co-writer and guest vocals

2003 - Rosanne Cash's ''Rules of Travel'' - "Three Steps Down" - vocals

2005 - Kate and Anna McGarrigle's ''The McGarrigle Christmas Hour - vocals

2006 - Shawn Colvin's ''These Four Walls'' - "Let it Slide" - vocals

2007 - Linda Thompson's ''Versatile Heart'' - co-writer and guest vocals

2007 - Rufus Wainwright's ''Release the Stars'' - "Tiergarten" - backing vocals

2008 - Jason Crigler's ''The Music of Jason Crigler'' - "Through Tomorrow", "Dixie" - vocals

2008 - Marianne Faithfull's ''Easy Come, Easy Go'' - "How Many Worlds" - vocals

Compilation/soundtrack contributions

1998 - ''Psycho'' - "Psycho"

2006 - ''Brokeback Mountain'' - "I Don't Want to Say Goodbye", co-lead "King of the Road" (with Rufus Wainwright)

2006 - ''Q Covered: The Eighties'' - "Don't Dream it's Over"

2006 - ''Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man'' - "The Future", "Tonight Will Be Fine"

2006 - ''Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys'' - "Sally Brown"

Video

"Teddy Thompson Performs On The BPP" live performance on The Bryant Park Project on NPR News July, 13 2007.

References

External links

Official website

Teddy Thompson at MySpace

Teddy Thompson on Facebook

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