Don Letts

Career Overview

Don Letts has 62 screen credits in a career dating back to 1978. Signature works include Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen, Punk: Attitude, One Love. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

62

Birth Date

1956-01-10

Birth Place

London, England, UK

Known For

• Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
• 

  Punk: Attitude
• 

  One Love
• 

  The Punk Rock Movie
• 

  Strummerville
• 

  In Those Days

Frequent Collaborators

• Poly Styrene (2 collaborations)
• Tommy Ramone (2 collaborations)
• Siouxsie Sioux (2 collaborations)
• Ari Up (2 collaborations)
• Paul Simonon (2 collaborations)
• Joe Strummer (2 collaborations)
• Sean Ono Lennon (1 collaborations)
• Iggy Pop (1 collaborations)
• Debbie Harry (1 collaborations)
• Yoko Ono (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (36 credits)

  • Big Audio Dynamite: Meltdown 1987

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Big Audio Dynamite: The Tube 1986

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Too Much

    - The Idea of Glue (2025) ... Jonah the Ox actor actors

    - Nonsense & Sensibility (2025) ... Jonah the Ox actor actors
    2025
  • Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Sinéad

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • When Blondie Came to Britain

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Sounds Like the 80s

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Don Letts - 6 Music Festival

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Rebel Dread

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • When Bob Marley Came to Britain

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • England 79

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • My View: Clem Burke

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Here to be Heard: The Story of The Slits

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Two Sevens Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • The Story of Skinhead

    Himself, Presenter

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • No Future - Als der Punk Wellen schlug

    Don Letts

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Basically, Johnny Moped

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Evidently... John Cooper Clarke

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Who Killed Nancy?

    Self - Filmmaker

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Chaos! Sex Pistols Secret History

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • A City Runs Through the Festival

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Rock Milestones: The Clash Years

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • The Clash: Westway To The World

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Punk rule O.K.

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Gummed Labels

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • BAD I+II

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Coping with Cupid

    Man on Train

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Midnight Breaks

    Tyrone

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • The King of Comedy

    Street Scum

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • The Punk Rock Movie

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • The Year Of Punk

    actor

    actors
    1978

• directing (22 credits)

  • Strummerville

    director

    directing
    2026
  • In Those Days

    director

    directing
    2025
  • Two Sevens Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers

    director

    directing
    2017
  • The Story of Skinhead

    director

    directing
    2016
  • Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Carnival!

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Tony Christie: Going Home

    director

    directing
    2009
  • The Clash: Live (Revolution Rock)

    director

    directing
    2008
  • George Clinton: Tales of Dr Funkenstein

    director

    directing
    2006
  • The Jam: The Making of All Mod Cons

    director

    directing
    2006
  • Punk: Attitude

    director

    directing
    2005
  • Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

    director

    directing
    2005
  • The Clash: The Last Testament - The Making of London Calling

    director

    directing
    2004
  • The Clash : The Essential Clash

    director

    directing
    2003
  • One Love

    director

    directing
    2003
  • Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

    director

    directing
    2003
  • The Clash: Westway To The World

    director

    directing
    1999
  • Dancehall Queen

    director

    directing
    1997
  • BAD I+II

    director

    directing
    1992
  • Public Image Ltd. : Videos

    director

    directing
    1986
  • The Clash On Broadway

    director

    directing
    1981
  • The Punk Rock Movie

    director

    directing
    1978

• writing (3 credits)

  • Punk: Attitude

    writer

    writing
    2005
  • Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

    writer

    writing
    2003
  • Dancehall Queen

    writer

    writing
    1997

• camera (1 credits)

  • The Punk Rock Movie

    director of photography

    camera
    1978