Janis Joplin
Known for: Acting
Born: January 19, 1943
Died: October 4, 1970
Place of birth: Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer considered the premier female blues vocalist of the Sixties; her raw, powerful and uninhibited singing style, combined with her turbulent and emotional lifestyle, made her one of the biggest female stars in her lifetime. She died of a drug overdose in 1970, aged 27, after releasing three albums. A fourth album, Pearl, was released a little more than three months after her death, reaching number 1 on the charts.
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Filmography
36 movies · 7 TV shows, newest first
8.5
Janis, Amores de Carnaval
2024
NR
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
2023
7.2
70 Years of Youth Revolt
2020
6.6
The UnXplained
2019
NR
Året var 1969
2019
5.8
27: Gone Too Soon
2018
7.4
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017
7.2
The Summer of Love
2017
7.3
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015
7.5
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013NR
Love, Janis
2010
7.3
When You're Strange
2010NR
Janis Joplin with Big Brother: Ball and Chain
2009
8.8
Janis Joplin : Piece Of My Heart - Live Woodstock
2009
6.2
Janis Joplin - The way she was Janis
2007
6.0
Janis Joplin – The Kozmic Blues Video Anthology
2007
10.0
Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics: Rockin' the Sixties
2005
NR
The Best Of Beat
2003
7.2
Festival Express
2003
7.5
Monterey Pop - The Outtake Performances
2002
8.0
Big Brother and The Holding Co.: Nine Hundred Nights
2001NR
Janis Joplin: Southern Discomfort
2000
5.0
The Beach Boys and The Satan
1997
8.5
Woodstock Diary
19948.5
Janis Joplin Slept Here
1994
4.5
Intimate Portrait
1993
7.5
Jimi Plays Monterey
1987
6.1
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
1986
7.0
Women in Rock
1986
NR
When the Music's Over
1983
2.0
Women Prison: Vigilante Justice
1978
7.6
Janis
1974
NR
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert
1970
7.6
Woodstock
1970NR
Got No Shoes, Got No Blues: the Texas International Pop Festival
1969
7.3
Monterey Pop
1968
6.0
Petulia
1968
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
NR
Wake at Generation
1968
5.0
The Hollywood Palace
1964
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
19485.5
Janis Joplin: In Woodstock
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3.0
Janis Joplin - Live
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