Rudi Dolezal

Rudi Dolezal (Slovene: Doležal, born 5 February 1958) is an Austrian film producer and film director best known for his music videos. He has directed and produced videos for artists such as Tom Waits, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Sandra Cretu and Whitney Houston.

For his work in the music industry, he was nominated for two Grammy Awards. He is the recipient of three Romy Awards and two Rose d'Ors. Among his best known works are the documentary Freddie Mercury – The Untold Story (2000), which earned him his second Grammy Award nomination, the documentary TV series Weltberühmt in Österreich – 50 Jahre Austropop (2006), and Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017), a documentary film co-directed by Dolezal and created from more than one hundred hours of footage filmed by Dolezal in 1999.