Bob Geldof
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday5 October 1951 (74 years old)
Place of birthDún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland
Known credits130
Biography
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-s…
The Boomtown Rats: Live at Wacken
2025 · Vocals / Guitar
BP Fallon: Rock'n'Roll Wizard
2025 · Self
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
2025 · Self
Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible
2025 · Self
Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped
2024 · Self
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
2024 · Self
The Rory Gallagher Story
2024 · Self
Rory Gallagher: Calling Card
2024 · Self
Quintessentially Irish
2024 · Self
The Greatest Night in Pop
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Paula
2023 · Self (archive footage)
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
2022 · Self
ABBA V Queen
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Doug and the Slugs and Me
2022 · Self
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
2020 · Self - Guest (archive footage)
Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
2020 · Self
The Quiet One
2019 · Self
Bohemian Rhapsody: Recreating Live Aid
2019 · Self (archival footage)
Postcards from the 48%
2018
Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Jazz Open Stuttgart 2017 - Festival of World Stars and Child Prodigies
2017 · Self
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016 · Self
London's Burning
2016 · Bob Geldof
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
2016 · Self
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
2016 · Writer
Stranded
2015 · Self
Bob Geldof - Berlin Live
2015 · Singer
Irish Rock at the BBC
2015 · Self
The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities
2015 · Self
Bob Geldof: The Moment
2014 · Himself
Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen
2012
Bad Girl
2012 · George
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
2012 · Self
Berlin Live
2011 · Self - Performer
Ghost Blues: The Story of Rory Gallagher
2010 · Self
The Noughties...Was That It?
2009 · Self
Starsuckers
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Modern Slavery
2009
The Meaning of Life
2009 · Self
Skavlan
2009 · Self - Guest
8
2008 · Himself
The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?
2007 · Self
Seven Ages of Rock
2007 · Self
I Am Bob
2007 · Bob
Blair: The Inside Story
2007 · Self
Legends
2006 · Self
Best Ever Spitting Image
2006 · Self
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006 · Self
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