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name: "Country Joe McDonald"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/country-joe-mcdonald"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1942"
died: "7 March 2026"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T04:47:25.079642+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."
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# Country Joe McDonald

Actor. Born 1 January 1942 in Washington, DC, USA. Died 7 March 2026.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1942, Washington, DC, USA
- **Died:** 7 March 2026
- **Also known as:** Country Joe and The Fish, Joseph Allen 'Country Joe' McDonald, Joseph Allen McDonald
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q722395, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567710/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1120068

## Biography

Country Joe McDonald was an American singer, songwriter and musician who appeared as himself with his band Country Joe and the Fish in the concert film *Woodstock* (1970). He was also credited in *More American Graffiti* (1979) and performed in other films including *Zachariah* (1971) and *Gas-s-s-s* (1970).

Born Joseph Allen McDonald on 1 January 1942 in Washington, DC, he co-founded the psychedelic folk-rock group Country Joe and the Fish in the mid-1960s. The band featured at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969. McDonald later worked as a solo artist, composer and occasional actor, with additional credits including the television series *Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City* (1993). He died on 7 March 2026 in Berkeley, California.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Woodstock* (1970), Fi1m 80, as Self - Country Joe and the Fish — [page](https://film.one/film/woodstock.md)

## Also known for

- *More American Graffiti* (1979), Country Joe and the Fish
- *Monterey Pop* (1968), Self - Country Joe and The Fish
- *Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation* (2019), Self

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