
Jello Biafra
Actor
Born: June 17, 1958 (67 years old)
Place of birth: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher; June 17, 1958) is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. After his time with the band concluded, he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray. Although now focused primarily on spoken word art, he has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations. Politically, Biafra is a member of the Green Party of the United States and actively supports various political causes. He ran for the party's Presidential nomination in 2000, finishing second to Ralph Nader. He is an anarchist who advocates direct action and pranksterism in the name of political causes. Biafra is known to use absurdist media tactics, in the leftist tradition of the Yippies, to highlight issues of civil rights and social justice. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jello Biafra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (29)
- The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead (2015, ★ 7.7)
- Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018, ★ 8.1)
- Punk: Attitude (2005, ★ 7)
- Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf (2024, ★ 7.6)
- Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore (1998, ★ 7.2)
- Urgh! A Music War (1981, ★ 7.2)
- Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk (2017, ★ 7.4)
- Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records (2018, ★ 7.9)
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019, ★ 7)
- Wesley Willis's Joyrides (2008, ★ 7)
- Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana (2018, ★ 7.6)
- Portlandia (2011, ★ 7)
- Punk (2019, ★ 7.8)
- Highway 61 (1991, ★ 6.8)
- Anarchism in America (1983, ★ 6.1)
- William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010, ★ 6.5)
- We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005, ★ 6.6)
- Punk's Not Dead (2007, ★ 6.1)
- American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007, ★ 6.8)
- Tapeheads (1988, ★ 5.4)
- Retardead (2008, ★ 5.6)
- X: The Unheard Music (1986, ★ 5.8)
- Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune (2011, ★ 6.6)
- This Is America Part 2 (1980, ★ 4.8)
- The Colossus of Destiny: A Melvins Tale (2016, ★ 5.6)
- An American in Texas (2017, ★ 5)
- Solvent (2024, ★ 5.1)
- Bikini Bandits (2002, ★ 3.5)
- Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band (2008, ★ 3.8)