---
name: "Dennis Wilson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dennis-wilson-23187"
fi1m_id: "dennis-wilson-23187"
imdb_id: "nm0933287"
tmdb_id: 23187
wikidata_id: "Q453611"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 December 1944"
died: "28 December 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:33:00.470234+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."
---

# Dennis Wilson

## Identity

Dennis Wilson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dennis-wilson-23187
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dennis-wilson-23187
- **IMDb ID:** nm0933287
- **TMDB ID:** 23187
- **Wikidata ID:** Q453611
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Wilson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933287/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23187

Actor. Born 4 December 1944 in Hawthorne, California, USA. Died 28 December 1983.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 December 1944, Hawthorne, California, USA
- **Died:** 28 December 1983
- **Also known as:** The Beach Boys
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Wilson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933287/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23187

## Biography

Dennis Wilson was an American actor and musician. A founding member and drummer of the Beach Boys, he made his only screen appearance as The Mechanic in the 1971 road film *Two-Lane Blacktop*, directed by Monte Hellman.

Wilson was born on 4 December 1944 in Hawthorne, California, and died on 28 December 1983. He starred opposite fellow musician James Taylor in the cult road movie, which follows two drivers racing across the United States.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Two-Lane Blacktop* (1971), Fi1m 81, as The Mechanic — [page](https://film.one/film/two-lane-blacktop.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *Mount Vernon and Fairway* (2024), Music
- *The Beach Boys: It's OK* (1976), Music
- *Two-Lane Blacktop* (1971), as The Mechanic — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/two-lane-blacktop.md)

## Gallery

- ![Publicity shot of Dennis Wilson, 1982](https://film.one/media/person/3917630/gallery-431e4c14e7fa.jpg) Publicity shot of Dennis Wilson, 1982 — Caribou records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Dennis_Wilson_1982.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Dennis Wilson](https://film.one/media/person/3917630/gallery-184d7da78e08.jpg) Dennis Wilson — Universal Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Dennis_Wilson_1971_cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Dennis Wilson drumming with the Beach Boys in 1965](https://film.one/media/person/3917630/gallery-0c92212fc3de.jpg) Dennis Wilson drumming with the Beach Boys in 1965 — Charlotte observer staff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Dennis_Wilson_1965.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Dennis Wilson](https://film.one/media/person/3917630/gallery-f490b342cc7e.jpg) Dennis Wilson — Image via TMDB

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