Lindsay Kemp

Lindsay Kemp

Birthday: 1938-05-03

Place of Birth: South Shields, England, UK

Biography: Lindsay Kemp was an English dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer. He collaborated with David Bowie as he invented theatrical personas such as Ziggy Stardust and taught Kate Bush how to dance. He starred in The Wicker Man and collaborated on films with auteurs like Ken Russell and Derek Jarman.

Movies

The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the local...

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Valentino
Valentino

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to rem...

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Flowers
Flowers

Filmed performance of Lindsay Kemp's free adaptation of Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers....

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The Looking Glass Murders
The Looking Glass Murders

Made for Scottish TV and airing in 1970, "The Looking Glass Murders" is a filmed version of the mime...

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Savage Messiah
Savage Messiah

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an ...

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The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill

This documentary explores Kate Bush's career and music, from January 1978's Wuthering Heights to her...

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Italian Postcards
Italian Postcards

Lidia (Christiana Borghi) passes herself off as a stage actress to interview international star Silv...

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The Stud
The Stud

A sexploitation comedy centered around an Andy Warhold parody named "Randy Warpshot"....

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Velvet Goldmine
Velvet Goldmine

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an ...

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Jubilee
Jubilee

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed si...

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Sebastiane
Sebastiane

Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard ...

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The Line, the Cross & the Curve
The Line, the Cross & the Curve

A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the ...

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David Bowie: Finding Fame
David Bowie: Finding Fame

Coming 50 years after the release of Space Oddity, the 90-minute film explores the Bowie before Zigg...

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I Filmed Your Death
I Filmed Your Death

A small town is rocked when a local man goes on a rampage in a movie theater, killing dozens as well...

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Battle of Soho
Battle of Soho

In November 2014 the Iconic club Madame Jojos closed its doors. This event being interpreted by many...

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Lindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp
Lindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp

A documentary that collects for the first time and in an almost anthological way the historical repe...

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David Bowie: London Boy
David Bowie: London Boy

A documentary about David Bowie....

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Hamlet at Elsinore
Hamlet at Elsinore

The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, ...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set i...

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Kemp: My Best Dance Is Yet to Come
Kemp: My Best Dance Is Yet to Come

The documentary tells the story of the last year of Lindsay Kemp’s life in Livorno, between memories...

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