
Pete Seeger
Acting
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes.
TV Shows(11)

Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
1983

The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978

All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
Self (archive footage)
1977
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
1970

The Johnny Cash Show
Self
1969

The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968

Rainbow Quest
Self - Host
1965
Tonight in Person
Self
1963

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962

The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961

The David Susskind Show
Self
1959
Movies(59)

Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Self (archive footage)
2025

Down By The Riverside
2023

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self (archive footage)
2022

ReMastered: The Lion's Share
Himself (archive footage)
2019

Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Self
2019

Pete and Toshi Get a Camera
2015

The Winding Stream
Self (archive footage)
2014

Freedom Summer
Self
2014

Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
Self
2013

Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Self
2013

Palme
Self (archive footage)
2012

Give Me the Banjo
Self
2011

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Self
2011

Gasland
Self (archive footage)
2010

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
Self
2009

Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan
2008

The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Self
2007

Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian
Self
2007

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Self
2007
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007

Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Self
2006

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self
2005

Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
Himself
2004

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: Red River Blues 1948-1974
Self
2003

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self
2002

Strange Fruit
Self
2002
A Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes
Himself
2001

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
Self
2000

The Internationale
Self
2000

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Self
1999

An Act of Conscience
Self
1997

Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story
1996

Tribute to Harry Chapin
1991

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
Self (archive footage)
1990

I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson
1990

Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
Self
1989
Pete Seeger at Home
Himself
1989

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Self
1988

BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
Self
1988
Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning
1988
The Arlo Guthrie Show
Self
1987

Chords of Fame
Himself
1984

Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Self
1984

Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
Self - Folksinger
1983

The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
Self
1982

Canto Libre - den fria sången
Self
1980

Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert
1978

Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
Self
1977
Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone
Self
1972

The Foolish Frog
Narrator (voice)
1971

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Himself
1970

Alice's Restaurant
Himself
1969

Festival
Self
1967

The Creative Person: The Folksinger
Self
1965

The Streets of Greenwood
1962
Wasn't That a Time
Self
1962

To Hear Your Banjo Play
Self
1947

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self

THE MANY COLORED PAPER
Himself