---
name: "Chaz Jankel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chaz-jankel"
fi1m_id: "chaz-jankel"
imdb_id: "nm0417709"
tmdb_id: 58864
wikidata_id: "Q359791"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "16 April 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T21:02:16.329050+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."
---

# Chaz Jankel

## Identity

Chaz Jankel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/chaz-jankel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** chaz-jankel
- **IMDb ID:** nm0417709
- **TMDB ID:** 58864
- **Wikidata ID:** Q359791
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaz_Jankel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q359791, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417709/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58864

Composer. Born 16 April 1952 in Stanmore, Middlesex, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 16 April 1952, Stanmore, Middlesex, England, UK
- **Also known as:** Charles Jeremy Jankel, Chas Jankel, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Blockheads
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaz_Jankel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q359791, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417709/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58864

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll*](https://film.one/film/sex-and-drugs-and-rock-and-roll.md) (65)

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## Biography

Chaz Jankel (also credited as Chas Jankel or Charles Jeremy Jankel) is an English musician, songwriter and composer. Born in 1952 in Stanmore, Middlesex, he trained at Mill Hill School and St Martin's School of Art. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as guitarist and keyboardist with Ian Dury and the Blockheads, co-writing hits including "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll", "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" and "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3".

Jankel has released several solo albums and continued performing with the Blockheads after Dury's death in 2000. His film composing credits include *Making Mr. Right* (1987), *D.O.A.* (1988, co-directed by his sister Annabel Jankel), *Tales from the Darkside: The Movie* (1990), *K2* (1991) and *Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll* (2010), for which he received a BAFTA nomination.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll* (2010), Fi1m 65, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/sex-and-drugs-and-rock-and-roll.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *Then Barbara Met Alan* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *From the Ashes* (2011), Music
- *Ian Dury: Rare and Unseen* (2010), Actor
- *Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll* (2010), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/sex-and-drugs-and-rock-and-roll.md)
- *Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Hold On To Your Structure - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon* (2003), Actor
- *Ian Dury and the Blockheads: Live at Luton* (1999), as Guitar and Keyboards
- *K2* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Tales from the Darkside: The Movie* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Chillers* (1990), series, Original Music Composer
- *After Midnight* (1990), Music
- *Killing Dad* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *The Rachel Papers* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *D.O.A.* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Making Mr. Right* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *64 Day Hero* (1986), Music
- *An Unsuitable Job for a Woman* (1982), Music
- *Ian Dury and The Blockheads: Rock Goes to College* (1978), Actor

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