Actor
John Lee Hooker
Born August 22, 1912 in Tutwiler, Mississippi, USADied June 21, 20013 films
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues.
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First watchThe Blues Brothers19807.7as Street SlimJake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.View filmFilmography
3 films as actor- 1992John Lee Hooker and Friends 1984-1992
- 1980The Blues BrothersStreet Slim
- 1960Muddy Waters at Newport