Herbie Hancock

Career Overview

Herbie Hancock has 114 screen credits in a career dating back to 1959. Their work is anchored in the Death Wish universe with 1 titles. Signature works include Traffic, Death Wish, Harlem Nights. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Sound

Gender

male

Known Credits

114

Birth Date

1940-04-12

Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known For

• 

  Traffic
• 

  Death Wish
• 

  Harlem Nights
• 

  Colors
• 

  'Round Midnight
• 

  A Soldier's Story

Associated Universes

• Death Wish (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

• Don Cheadle (2 collaborations)
• Gary Carlos Cervantes (2 collaborations)
• Art Evans (2 collaborations)
• Bobby McGee (2 collaborations)
• Michael Douglas (1 collaborations)
• Benicio del Toro (1 collaborations)
• Catherine Zeta-Jones (1 collaborations)
• Erika Christensen (1 collaborations)
• Jacob Vargas (1 collaborations)
• Miguel Ferrer (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (96 credits)

  • Herbie Hancock - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2010

    Self — Acoustic piano / Keyboards

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Herbie Hancock And The Rockit Band Live in London

    Themself

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Herbie Hancock And The Rockit Band

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Tuner

    Herbie Hancock

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Herbie

    Self (Archives)

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Don Lewis and The Live Electronic Orchestra

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • They All Came Out to Montreux

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Joni Mitchell - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • Herbie Hancock - Live at SummerStage 2022

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • Hargrove

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • That Click

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Buster Williams Bass to Infinity

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

    Self - Musician

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • International Jazz Day Australia Concert 2019

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

    Defence Minister

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Chick Corea: The Musician

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • More Than Jazz

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Jazz at the White House

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • River of Gold

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Miles Ahead

    Live Concert Band

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Kareem: Minority of One

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Marcus

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Herbie Hancock Trio - Full Concert - 08/14/88 - Newport Jazz Festival

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Charles Lloyd - Arrows Into Infinity

    Piano

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Keep on Keepin' On

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    - Ewan McGregor, Charles Barkley, Wilco, Herbie Hancock (2014) ... Self actor actors
    2014
  • Girl Meets World

    - Girl Meets Brother (2014) ... Self actor actors
    2014
  • Experience Montreux

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Lang Lang & Herbie Hancock - Live in Berlin

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Gustavo Dudamel and Herbie Hancock Celebrate Gershwin

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • The Girls in the Band

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • A Man's Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Miles Davis: Around Midnight

    Piano

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • On the Shoulders of Giants

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand

    Self - Performer

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Music

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • DeJohnette, Metheny, Holland, Hancock - Parallel Realities Live

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Herbie Hancock - The River Of Possibilities Tour - Jazz a Vienne

    Piano

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Quincy Jones: Breaking New Sound

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Marcus Miller - Master Of All Trades

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Herbie Hancock: Possibilities

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Miles Electric - A Different Kind of Blue

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Herbie Hancock Special

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Valerian

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • One Night with Blue Note

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Larry presents: Best of The 80s

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Prachtig 80: Volume 2

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    - Matt LeBlanc, Vanessa Marcell (2005) ... Self actor actors
    2003
  • Hitters

    District Attorney

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • World of Rhythm - Live in Lugano

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • The Jazz Channel Presents Herbie Hancock

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Herbie Hancock Future2future Live

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Herbie Hancock: Jazz Channel

    Herbie Hancock

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute

    Self - Pianist

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Kulturzeit

    - Episode 29 (2012) ... self actor actors
    1995
  • Indecent Proposal

    Herbie Hancock

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

    - Dakota Fanning, Charles Barkley, Musashimaru, Christina Aguilera, Herbie Hancock (2005) ... actor actors
    1992
  • The Neville Brothers: Tell It Like It Is

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Miles Davis - At La Villette

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Branford Marsalis: Steep

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Dejohnette, Hancock, Holland and Metheny in Concert

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Jazz Under the Skies

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Jack DeJohnette, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland: Parallel Realities Live... (Live at Mellon Jazz Festival)

    Keyboards

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Celebrity Guide to Wine

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Live at Munich Summer Piano Festiva

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • Herbie Hancock At The Munich Summer Piano Festival

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • 'Round Midnight

    Eddie Wayne

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Before Midnight

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • The Making of Sun City

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • I Love Quincy

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane!

    Self - Piano

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Saturday Night Live

    - Ringo Starr/Herbie Hancock (1984) ... Self - Musical Guest actor actors
    1975
  • PBS Soundstage 1974: Chick Corea & Return to Forever + Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Great Performances

    - Episode 3 (1994) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 4 (1986) ... Self actor actors
    1971
  • Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    - Episode 47 (1970) ... Self actor actors
    1962
  • The Grammys

    - The 67th Annual Grammy Awards (2025) ... Self actor actors

    - The 50th Annual Grammy Awards (2008) ... Self actor actors
    1959

• sound (16 credits)

  • On the Shoulders of Giants

    original music composer

    sound
    2011
  • Traffic

    musician

    sound
    2000
  • The Neville Brothers: Tell It Like It Is

    music director

    sound
    1991
  • Livin' Large!

    original music composer

    sound
    1991
  • Rabbit Ears - Koi and the Kola Nuts

    music

    sound
    1991
  • Harlem Nights

    original music composer

    sound
    1989
  • The George McKenna Story

    original music composer

    sound
    1988
  • Colors

    original music composer

    sound
    1988
  • 'Round Midnight

    original music composer

    sound
    1986
  • Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

    original music composer

    sound
    1986
  • A Soldier's Story

    original music composer

    sound
    1984
  • Death Wish

    original music composer

    sound
    1974
  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    original music composer

    sound
    1973
  • Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert

    original music composer

    sound
    1969
  • Blow-Up

    original music composer

    sound
    1966
  • Herbie

    music

    sound
    1966

• writing (1 credits)

  • Janet Jackson: From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos

    musical

    writing
    2004

• directing (1 credits)

  • Herbie Hancock: Jazz Channel

    director

    directing
    2001