
Robbie Robertson
Sound
🎂 1943-07-05
Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician. He was lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, guitarist and songwriter with the Band from their inception until 1978, and a solo artist. Robertson's work with the Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Band, and into Canada's Walk of Fame, with the Band and on his own. He is ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists. He wrote "The Weight", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", and "Up on Cripple Creek" with the Band and had solo hits with "Broken Arrow" and "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", and many others. He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Songwriters. Robertson collaborated on film and TV soundtracks, usually with director Martin Scorsese, beginning in the rockumentary film The Last Waltz (1978) and continuing through dramatic films including Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), The Color of Money (1986), Casino (1995), Gangs of New York (2002), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Silence (2016), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
Cast credits(48)

Self - Musical Guest
1975

Self
1997

Self - Narrator (voice)
2018

1989

Self
2018

2019

Roger
1995

Patch
1980

Self (voice)
2014

Self
1978

Self
2020

Self - DVD only
1987

Self - The Band
2003

Self
2007

Self
1990

Self
2017

Self
2010

Self
1990

Self
2020

Self (archive footage)
2003
Himself

Narrator (voice)
1999

Self
2013

Self
1972

Host
1991

Narrator
1997

Self
2002

Self (archive footage)
2021

2004

Self (archive footage)

Self
2006

Self
1988

1968

Self - The Band
1994

Self
2012

2021

Himself
1991

Self
1995

Narrator
2012

Guitar
2014

Self
2005

2002
Self
2001
Self - Mohawk/Cayuga
1999

Chitarra Solista voce
2013
Narrator
1996

Self
2022

Self (archive footage)
2010