Brian Eno
Brian Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.
Eno was a student of Roy Ascott on his Groundcourse at Ipswich Civic College. Then he studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist painting. He joined the band Roxy Music as synthesiser player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. It has also been extremely influential, pioneering ambient and generative music, innovating production techniques, and emphasising "theory over practice".
Eno pursues multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including art installations, a newspaper column in The Observer, a regular column on society and innovation in Prospect magazine, and "Oblique Strategies" (written with Peter Schmidt), a deck of cards in which cryptic remarks or random insights are intended to resolve dilemmas.
Acted in
Daedalus
2024
as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
Eno
2024
as Self
Devo
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Peter Gabriel - i/o
2023
as Bells, Synthesizer, Percussion
Brian Eno & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis, Athens
2023
as Self
CAN and Me
2022
as Self
Moonage Daydream
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC
2022
as Self (archive footage)
We Are As Gods
2022
as Self
2025: The Long Hot Winter
2019
as Radio presenter
Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams
2018
as Self
We Are Many
2014
as Self
What Difference Does It Make?
2014
as Self
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
as Self
The British Guide to Showing Off
2011
U2: From the Sky Down
2011
as Self
Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth
2011
Ride, Rise, Roar
2011
as Self
U2360° Tour: Squaring The Circle
2010
as Self
Brian Eno: Another Green World
2010
as Self
Roxy Music: More Than This - The Story of Roxy Music
2009
as Self
In The Ocean – A Film About the Classical Avant Garde
2009
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
2007
as Self
Roxy Music: Inside 1972-1974
2004
as Self (archive footage)
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
2003
as Self
Timeshift
2002
as self
1 Giant Leap
2002
as Self
Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story
2001
Roxy Music Musikladen 1973
2001
as Self - keyboards
Anton Corbijn: Geen Stil Leven
2000
as Self
Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree
1999
as Self
Classic Albums
1997
as Self
The Making of the 'Outside' Album
1995
as Self
Pavarotti & Friends 3 - Together for the Children of Bosnia
1995
as Self
Father Ted
1995
as Father Brian Eno
The History of Rock 'n' Roll
1995
as Self
One Eno
1993
as Self
Words for the Dying
1993
as Himself
Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes
1989
The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
1986
Oblique Strategist Too
1984
as Himself
Roxette
1978
as Self (archive footage)
Eno
1973
as Self