---
name: "Brian Setzer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brian-setzer"
fi1m_id: "brian-setzer"
imdb_id: "nm0005410"
tmdb_id: 106290
wikidata_id: "Q453074"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 April 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T20:18:59.816174+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Brian Setzer

## Identity

Brian Setzer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brian-setzer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brian-setzer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005410
- **TMDB ID:** 106290
- **Wikidata ID:** Q453074
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Setzer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453074, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005410/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106290

Actor. Born 10 April 1959 in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 April 1959, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** Stray Cats, Brian Robert Setzer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Setzer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453074, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005410/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106290

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*La Bamba*](https://film.one/film/la-bamba.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Brian Setzer is an American guitarist, singer and actor. Born on 10 April 1959 in Massapequa, New York, he achieved success in the early 1980s as the frontman of the rockabilly band Stray Cats before forming the Brian Setzer Orchestra in the 1990s.

In 1987 he made a cameo appearance as Eddie Cochran in the biographical film *La Bamba*, performing 'Summertime Blues'. He has also appeared as himself in *The Great White Hype* (1996) and *The Country Bears* (2002), voiced a character in an episode of *The Simpsons* (2002), and guest-starred on series including *The Nanny* and *Beverly Hills, 90210*.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *La Bamba* (1987), Fi1m 72, as Eddie Cochran — [page](https://film.one/film/la-bamba.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Disney's House of Mouse* (2001), series, as Theme Song Performance
- *The Nanny* (1993), series, as Brian Setzer
- *Beverly Hills, 90210* (1990), series, as Brian Setzer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/beverly-hills-90210.md)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as Brian Setzer (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *La Bamba* (1987), as Eddie Cochran — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/la-bamba.md)

## Gallery

- ![Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats in concert at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Florida, February 28, 1983. (1982)](https://film.one/media/person/5551230/gallery-81dc3fea12ab.jpg) Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats in concert at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Florida, February 28, 1983. (1982) — Cherie Diez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Brian_Setzer_1983.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Brian Setzer](https://film.one/media/person/5551230/gallery-09179fcd2a39.jpg) Brian Setzer — Marcos C., CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Brian_Salzburg_2006.JPG/1280px-Brian_Salzburg_2006.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brian Setzer at HoB (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/5551230/gallery-a8d5fcdce6b1.jpg) Brian Setzer at HoB (2017) — swimfinfan from Chicago, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Brian_Setzer_at_HoB%2C_Chicago_6-17-2017_%2835380972250%29.jpg/1280px-Brian_Setzer_at_HoB%2C_Chicago_6-17-2017_%2835380972250%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![2009 Ottawa, ON (1998)](https://film.one/media/person/5551230/gallery-911e64070f2c.jpg) 2009 Ottawa, ON (1998) — ceedub13, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Brian_Setzer_Orchestra_%40_Bluesfest_%283722079175%29.jpg/1280px-Brian_Setzer_Orchestra_%40_Bluesfest_%283722079175%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![BSO Live at NYCB Theatre at Westbury (LI) November 27, 2012.](https://film.one/media/person/5551230/gallery-88956b528e0f.jpg) BSO Live at NYCB Theatre at Westbury (LI) November 27, 2012. — Barry Graubart, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Brian_Setzer_Orchestra_-_Brian_with_Leslie_Spencer%2C_Westbury_2012.jpg/1280px-Brian_Setzer_Orchestra_-_Brian_with_Leslie_Spencer%2C_Westbury_2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![2009 Ottawa, ON (1998)](https://film.one/media/person/5551230/gallery-e6ec815bf80c.jpg) 2009 Ottawa, ON (1998) — ceedub13, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Brian_Setzer_Orchestra_%40_Bluesfest_%283722079179%29.jpg/1280px-Brian_Setzer_Orchestra_%40_Bluesfest_%283722079179%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/brian-setzer