Acting credits
89
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Herbie Hancock
Sound
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.5
Moderate attention
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Movies: 89Series: 15Crew credits: 19
TMDB ID: 15193
IMDb ID: nm0359372
Known for: Sound
Born: April 12, 1940
Age: 85
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1959 - 2025
Years active: 67
Average TMDB rating: 6.66
Wikidata: Q105875
Also known as
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock • Herbert Hancock
Other jobs
Original Music Composer (13)Music (2)Director (1)Music Director (1)Musical (1)Musician (1)
Biography
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award after Getz/Gilberto in 1965. As a member of Soka Gakkai, Hancock is an adherent of the Nichiren school of Mahayana Buddhism.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Herbie Hancock.
Herbie
as Self (Archives)
2025 Movie
Don Lewis and The Live Electronic Orchestra
as Self
2024 Movie
8.5
They All Came Out to Montreux
as Self
2023 Movie
9.0
Joni Mitchell - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song
as Self
2023 Movie
7.0
Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes
as Self
2022 Movie
7.0
Hargrove
as Self
2022 Movie
5.0
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022 Movie
8.8
That Click
as Self
2019 Movie
Buster Williams Bass to Infinity
as Himself
2019 Movie
7.2
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician
2019 Movie
6.9
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
as Self
2019 Movie
8.0
International Jazz Day Australia Concert 2019
as Self
2019 Movie
7.0
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
as Self
2018 Movie
8.2
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
as Self
2018 Movie
6.6
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Defence Minister
2017 Movie
Chick Corea: The Musician
as Self
2017 Movie
More Than Jazz
as Himself
2016 Movie
Jazz at the White House
as Self
2016 Movie
River of Gold
as Narrator
2016 Movie
6.4
Miles Ahead
as Live Concert Band
2016 Movie
7.2
Kareem: Minority of One
as Self
2015 Movie
6.0
Marcus
as Self
2015 Movie
6.0
Charles Lloyd - Arrows Into Infinity
as Piano
2014 Movie
7.1
Keep On Keepin' On
as Self
2014 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Herbie Hancock.
3.3
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
as Self • 4 eps
2020 Series
7.3
Jay Leno's Garage
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
6.6
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
8.3
Girl Meets World
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
5.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self • 1 eps
2003 Series
7.7
Classic Albums
as Self • 1 eps
1997 Series
3.5
Kulturzeit
as self • 1 eps
1995 Series
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 eps
1992 Series
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest • 1 eps
1975 Series
8.0
Rock Concert
as Self • 1 eps
1973 Series
6.5
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest
as Self • 1 eps
1972 Series
5.8
Great Performances
as Self • 2 eps
1971 Series
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self • 1 eps
1962 Series
8.6
The Grammys
as Self • 2 eps
1959 Series