Simon Le Bon

Acting

Simon Le Bon

Born 1958-10-27 · Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Simon John Charles Le Bon is a British singer, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the new wave band Duran Duran and its offshoot Arcadia. Simon Le Bon was a member of the local church choir from a young age, and was trained as an actor. However, in 1980, he auditioned to join the pop group Duran Duran. Before long, Duran Duran became one of the biggest music acts of the decade worldwide selling millions of records. Hits such as “Rio”, “Girls on Film”, “The Reflex”, “Hungry like the Wolf”, “The Wild Boys” and more made in into the UK charts. In 1985 Duran Duran were chosen to produce the theme song for the James Bond film “A View to a Kill” which got them back into the charts. Unfortunately by the late 1980s, Duran Duran’s popularity began to wane, but that didn’t stop them, they continued to make music and still do to this day.

Acting credits

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony poster
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The 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. This year’s Performer Inductees are Pat Benatar, Duran Duran, Eminem, Eurythmics, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and Carly Simon. Judas Priest and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis will receive the Musical Excellence Award, Harry Belafonte and Elizabeth Cotten the Early Influence Award, and Allen Grubman, Jimmy Iovine, and Sylvia Robinson the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

2022

Live Aid poster
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Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, United States. It was one of the largest scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: watched live by an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations. "It's twelve noon in London, seven AM in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time for Live Aid...!"

Live Aid

1985

Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know poster
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Celebrating Duran Duran with exclusive backstage access, interviews with the band and rare footage charting their rise to fame, and the highs and lows of their career.

Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know

2018

The Sound of 007 poster
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Pull back the curtain on the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music, from Sean Connery’s Dr No through to Daniel Craig’s final outing in No Time to Die.

The Sound of 007

2022

Duran Duran:  Future Past - Live in Concert on DREAMSTAGE poster
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Duran Duran comes to Dreamstage on October 21st, on the eve of the release of their already-critically-acclaimed 15th studio album: FUTURE PAST. Celebrating the band’s rich and colorful 40-year career, the Dreamstage event will include an exclusive, live Q&A with the band as they reveal untold stories about their time together, followed by the global premiere of Duran Duran & Alison Jackson in conversation: Double Take Documentary directed by Gerry Fox & Una Burnand. This half-hour film gives viewers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the artistry and hard work that went into making the band’s sensational upcoming music video for their latest single ANNIVERSARY. The video was directed by BAFTA-winning artist, photographer and filmmaker, Alison Jackson, whose widely published work explores the cult of celebrity, using highly-styled lookalikes and actors. This momentous occasion will be an event you won’t want to miss.

Duran Duran: Future Past - Live in Concert on DREAMSTAGE

2021

Concert for Diana poster
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Concert for Diana was a benefit concert held at the then newly built Wembley Stadium in London, United Kingdom in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 1 July 2007, which would have been her 46th birthday. 31 August that year brought the 10th anniversary of her death. The concert was hosted by Diana's sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, who helped to organise many of the world's most famous entertainers and singers to perform. Proceeds from the concert went to Diana's charities, as well as to charities of which William and Harry are patrons. The concert was broadcast in 140 countries with an estimated potential audience of 500 million. In December 2006, 22.500 tickets were made available for purchase for the concert, selling out in just 17 minutes. 63.000 people turned out to Wembley Stadium to watch the performances to commemorate Diana.

Concert for Diana

2007

Red Hot Rock poster
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Eleven sexy music videos you could never see on television complete and uncensored for the first time.

Red Hot Rock

1984

Arena poster
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Call my name, and I'll be there. Dr. Duran Duran escapes the punishment of the Matmos at the height of British rock group Duran Duran's 1980s popularity. Mistaking the cries of teenage girls at crowded concerts for devotees screaming his name, the Doctor makes his way to Earth so he can lead his faithful masses. Once he discovers the kids don't want an evil Doctor, he goes about trying to destroy the source of the real desires a rock concert taking place at the Oakland (Calif.) Colesium.

Arena

1985

Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today poster
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This concert film was created for the London premiére launch of Live Aid on dvd in November 2004. It contains selected highlights of the marathon fundraising concert that took place across two continents with worldwide TV coverage on july 13, 1985. The event was never re-broadcast and never available until the release of the Live Aid 4-dvd set almost 20 years later. The 52-minute premiére version allows you to relive the experience that was Live Aid with songs and excerpts from more than 40 live performances from the event

Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today

2005

Mark Ronson: From the Heart poster
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Mark Ronson, hit songwriter and producer openly discusses his life and musical influences. With interviews from Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Broadcast on National Album Day.

Mark Ronson: From the Heart

2019

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

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony

2022

Top of the Pops: The True Story poster
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BBC documentary on the long-running British TV show, Top of the Pops.

Top of the Pops: The True Story

2001

The Best of Max Headroom poster
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Some of the best bits from 'The Max Headroom Show'.

The Best of Max Headroom

1987

Duran Duran: Unstaged poster
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Duran Duran: Unstaged is a multimedia event that takes the audience on a cinematic journey with one of the most successful acts in the world during their performance at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles.

Duran Duran: Unstaged

2014

Duran Duran: Live Music Hall Cologne poster
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Duran Duran at Rocklife, Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany.

Duran Duran: Live Music Hall Cologne

1993

Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar poster
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Following an extensive, two-year Seven News investigation spanning four continents and five countries, hidden bank vaults housing Michael’s prized treasures are unlocked; his diary is opened; his final lyrics, recorded but never released, can finally be played; and for the for the first time intensely private photographs and family videos, Michael’s haunting last message, hand-written in the hotel room where he died, and his secrets are finally revealed.

Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar

2017

Hunting Venus poster
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Former pop-star turned con artist Simon Delancey is kidnapped by two fans of his eighties band the Venus Hunters, and blackmailed to re-form the band for one final show.

Hunting Venus

1999

The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas? poster
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Forty years on from the release of the hit single by charity supergroup Band Aid, this documentary unearths 75 minutes of rare and previously unseen film footage from the day of recording

The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?

2024

Live Aid poster
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4 × DVD, The broadcast of the biggest benefit concert in history, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief. This entry is for the compilation box set released in 2004.

Live Aid

2004

Classic Albums: Duran Duran - Rio poster
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This entry in the Classic Albums series examines RIO, the 1982 release that put Duran Duran on the road to stardom. Looking back at the creation and release of the hit singles "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Save a Prayer," and many others, the critical retrospective analyzes the album's overall effect on the musical landscape of the early 1980s. The optimistic and celebratory album generated a string of hit singles and groundbreaking videos, catapulting the band to global stardom. This DVD tells the story behind the writing, recording, and subsequent success of the album through newly filmed interviews, musical demonstrations, and both new and archival performances.

Classic Albums: Duran Duran - Rio

2008

Duran Duran: MTV Unplugged poster
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A bootleg with songs recorded on MTV show on 17th November 1993, aired 2005 on VH1: Hungry like The Wolf, Ordinary World, Serious, Girls On Film, Rio, Planet Earth, Come Undone, Too Much Information.

Duran Duran: MTV Unplugged

1993

Duran Duran - Live at Baloise Session 2025 poster
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Duran Duran, pop pioneers who became global icons, have never stopped looking to the future while embracing their heritage. In the cosy intimacy of the Baloise Session, the band gets closer to the audience. An authentic concert without artifice.

Duran Duran - Live at Baloise Session 2025

2025

The Music of David Lynch poster
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The David Lynch Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exploration of the director's use of immersive and ambient sound in his films, "Twin Peaks," and his original albums. This tribute concert features performances by Duran Duran, Moby, Donovan and Zola Jesus, among others.

The Music of David Lynch

2016

As the Lights Go Down poster
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Duran Duran's Oakland, California concerts that were filmed for the Arena (An Absurd Notion) movie were also edited to form the one-hour As The Lights Go Down concert video. As The Lights Go Down is essentially the Arena video without the theatrical sequences, although the live footage for many songs was edited differently. This version was first aired on the Cinemax cable television channel, and later on MTV and other music channels.

As the Lights Go Down

1985