Jackson Browne
Known for: Acting
Born: October 9, 1948
Place of birth: Heidelberg, Germany
Browne was born October 9, 1948, in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father Clyde Jack Browne, an American serviceman, was stationed for his job assignment with the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Browne's mother, Beatrice Amanda (née Dahl), was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry. Browne has three siblings. Roberta "Berbie" Browne was born in 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany; and Edward Severin Browne was born in 1949 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His younger sister, Gracie Browne, was born a number of years later. At the age of three, Browne and his family moved to his grandfather's house, Abbey San Encino, in the Highland Park district of Los Angeles. In his teens, he began singing folk songs in local venues such as the Ash Grove and The Troubador Club. He attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, graduating in 1966. Clyde Jackson Browne is a German/American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded songs such as "These Days", "The Pretender", "Running on Empty", "Lawyers in Love", "Doctor My Eyes", "Take It Easy", "For a Rocker", and "Somebody's Baby". In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and given an honorary doctorate of music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him as 37th in its list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time".
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Filmography
51 movies · 12 TV shows, newest first
8.7
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
2025
6.7
Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill
2024
7.4
Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
2023
7.4
Immediate Family
2022
7.5
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
2022
4.9
Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute
2022
NR
Really Good Rejects
2022
6.7
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts
2021
6.8
The Velvet Underground
2021
10.0
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020 Inductions
2020
8.0
Linda and the Mockingbirds
2020
8.2
Laurel Canyon
2020
8.1
The Story of Plastic
2019
7.6
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019
7.0
David Crosby: Remember My Name
2019
6.8
Echo in the Canyon
2019
7.3
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
2019
7.0
Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30
2017
NR
The Poet of Havana
2015
6.8
Station to Station
2014
NR
ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival 2014
2014
4.0
All My Friends - Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman
2014
7.2
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
2014
5.0
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
NR
Jackson Browne: I'll Do Anything - Live In Concert
2013
7.5
History of the Eagles
2013
4.5
Jackson Browne with Special Guest Sara Watkins Live
2012
7.5
Troubadours
2011
8.0
The Eagles - Earlybird Live Usa 1974 & Europe 1973
2011
NR
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live - Start Me Up
2010
NR
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live - Sweet Emotion
2009NR
Talking Guitars
2008
6.6
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
7.7
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
2007
5.7
Trudell
2005
NR
Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
2003
NR
Soundstage
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
9.0
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
2002
NR
Raitt, Browne, Colvin, Hornsby, Lindley & Ingram - Red Rocks, Denver - Sept.12, 1999
1999
6.5
Jackson Browne: VH-1 Storytellers
1996
8.5
Bonnie Raitt: Road Tested
1996
7.7
The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True
1995
8.1
Nico Icon
1995
10.0
Jackson Browne: Going Home
1994
7.0
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
1993
7.2
Incident at Oglala
1992
8.0
The Simpsons
1989
6.5
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988
7.7
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988
NR
The Best of Max Headroom
1987
7.5
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
1987
7.5
The Max Headroom Show
1985
9.5
The Making of Sun City
1985
10.0
No Nukes
1980NR
Jackson Browne: BBC in Concert
1978
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
6.3
Austin City Limits
1975
10.0
Rockpalast
1974
NR
Eagles: The Broadcast Collection
1974
NR
Eagles | Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1973
8.3
Rock Concert
1973
4.8
The Ski Bum
1971