Storm Thorgerson

Directing

Storm Thorgerson

Born — Died

1944-02-28 — 2013-04-08

Place of birth

Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

British graphic designer, music video director and co-founder of Hipgnosis.

Known for

Omnibus poster
7.2

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.

Omnibus

1967

Classic Albums poster
7.7

A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.

Classic Albums

1997

Now Voyager poster
7.0

A spoiled pop star crashes his car in an irrigation ditch and comes to in a public indoor pool supervised by a mysterious man who attempts to show him the error of his ways.

Now Voyager

1985

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) poster
7.4

In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers.

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

2023

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd poster
7.3

Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd

2023

Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis poster
5.0

This documentary chronicles the long and storied career of Storm Thorgerson, the most famous artist you've never heard of -- the brilliant photographer who created scores of iconic album covers for bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.

Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis

2011

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

1990s · 1 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Now Voyager poster
7.0

A spoiled pop star crashes his car in an irrigation ditch and comes to in a public indoor pool supervised by a mysterious man who attempts to show him the error of his ways.

Now Voyager

1985

Now Voyager poster
7.0

A spoiled pop star crashes his car in an irrigation ditch and comes to in a public indoor pool supervised by a mysterious man who attempts to show him the error of his ways.

Now Voyager

1985

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd poster
7.3

Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd

2023

Retrospective: Looking Back at the Wall poster
6.5

Interviews on the making of Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982). Included as a 2-Part special feature on the 1999 and 2005 DVD editions.

Retrospective: Looking Back at the Wall

1999

The Art of Tripping poster
9.0

Based on the idea that drugs have influenced some of our greatest minds (Poe, Baudelaire etc.), this film documents just how influential drug experiences have been on the minds of great writers, poets and thinkers.

The Art of Tripping

1993

Incident at Channel Q poster
7.0

A quiet suburban neighborhood declares war on a heavy metal music DJ and his radio station, triggering an all-out war between the "metal heads" and the "straights."

Incident at Channel Q

1986

Train of Thought poster
NR

Anthology music film starring Japanese singer-songwriter Yumi Matsutoya. It takes place on a train intercut with a series of flashbacks or daydreams which serve as long-form music videos.

Train of Thought

1984

Train of Thought poster
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Anthology music film starring Japanese singer-songwriter Yumi Matsutoya. It takes place on a train intercut with a series of flashbacks or daydreams which serve as long-form music videos.

Train of Thought

1984