Kevin Rowland

Acting

Kevin Rowland

Born 1953-08-17 · Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

Kevin Rowland is an English singer-songwriter best known as the passionate, fiercely independent frontman and co-founder of the pop/soul band Dexys Midnight Runners (now known simply as Dexys). Rowland has guided the band through massive global commercial peaks, intense creative reinventions and deep personal comebacks across nearly five decades.

Acting credits

The End poster
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A stop-motion doomsday comedy, in which airport-bound creatures wait out the impending apocalypse.

The End

2026

Funny Cow poster
6.3

A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.

Funny Cow

2018

Proclaimers: This Is the Story poster
8.0

David Tennant talks to Craig and Charlie Reid of The Proclaimers about a 30-year career that has seen them become one of Scotland's most iconic bands.

Proclaimers: This Is the Story

2017

Punk in London poster
6.7

A visual record of London punk life in the late '70s, filled with never-before-seen live concert footage and commentary from the Clash, the Jam, X-Ray Spex and the Electric Chairs.

Punk in London

1977

The Story of Skinhead poster
8.0

Don Letts examines the history of this notorious subculture in a fascinating documentary, which features interviews with members of different skinhead scenes through the decades. Beginning in the late 1960s, Don fondly recalls a time of multiracial harmony as youngsters bonded over a love of ska, reggae and smart clothes as white working-class kids were attracted to Jamaican culture and adopted its music and fashions. But when far-right politics targeted skinheads in the 1970s and 1980s, an ugly intolerance emerged, and Don reveals how the once-harmonious subgroup has since struggled to shake this stigma.

The Story of Skinhead

2016

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony poster
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The closing ceremony for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, held at the Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr.

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony

2022

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That Musical We Made is an honest and funny look at the making of a musical. Victoria Wood takes us behind the scenes of That Day We Sang, the film she wrote and directed, and also looks at the real events which inspired her story. She goes back to Manchester to find out about the original choir of the 1920s, and the children who sang on the record of Nymphs and Shepherds. And in between unpeeling the history and sharing the fun of the shoot, she tries to work out how a piece of writing can evolve. Victoria unpicks the process in an attempt to understand how what started as a straightforward account of a day in the life of a children's choir in 1929 ended up as a middle-aged love story about the power of music to reconnect lonely people and give them a second chance to fall in love.

Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made

2014

Dexys at the BBC poster
9.0

Kevin Rowland looks back on his unique career as he introduces the best of Dexys' BBC performances.

Dexys at the BBC

2025

Dexys: Nowhere Is Home poster
6.8

A document of Dexy's residency at the Duke of York Theatre in London in April, 2013.

Dexys: Nowhere Is Home

2014

Nowhere Is Home: Live at Duke of York's Theatre poster
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Full Dexys performance at Duke of York’s Theatre, London, April 2013

Nowhere Is Home: Live at Duke of York's Theatre

2014

This Is What She's Like poster
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A promotional film for Dexys Midnight Runners' 1985 single in which Kevin Rowland attempts to explain the indefinable qualities of woman to bandmate Billy Adams. This dialogue is intercut with scenes of Rowland singing and dancing through a desolate Wall Street and footage of the extended group performing in-studio. Directed by Jack Hazan (David Hockney: A Bigger Splash, Rude Boy).

This Is What She's Like

1985

Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners - "The Bridge" - The Live Performance poster
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Filmed live at the Shaftsbury Avenue theatre in 1982 over two shows in October 1982, The Bridge captures Dexy's Midnight Runners at a peak showing the intensity and passion of their live performance. Shot direct to film by Irish music promo director Steve Barron (who went on to direct "Electric Dreams" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" among others), the DVD captures Kevin Rowland's extreme showmanship and training that make Dexy's one of the truly individual groups of the 20th Century.

Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners - "The Bridge" - The Live Performance

1983

Knowledge of Beauty (My National Pride) poster
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A promotional film for Dexys Midnight Runners in which Kevin Rowland reflects on his Irish roots

Knowledge of Beauty (My National Pride)

1985