---
name: "DJ Jazzy Jeff"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dj-jazzy-jeff"
fi1m_id: "dj-jazzy-jeff"
imdb_id: "nm0870039"
tmdb_id: 1227697
wikidata_id: "Q553846"
roles: []
born: "15 January 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-25T10:00:30.274632+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."
---

# DJ Jazzy Jeff

## Identity

DJ Jazzy Jeff

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dj-jazzy-jeff
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dj-jazzy-jeff
- **IMDb ID:** nm0870039
- **TMDB ID:** 1227697
- **Wikidata ID:** Q553846
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Jazzy_Jeff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553846, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0870039/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1227697

Actor. Born 15 January 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 15 January 1965, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Also known as:** Jeffrey A. Townes, Jeff Townes, Jazzy Jeff Townes, DJ Jazzy Jeff Townes, Jazzy Jeff, Jeffrey Allen Townes
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Jazzy_Jeff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553846, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0870039/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1227697

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ali G: Who Iz I?* (2026), Fi1m 41, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/ali-g-who-iz-i.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *Aries Spears: Hollywood, Look I'm Smiling* (2011), Actor
- *I Love 1980's* (2001), series, Actor
- *The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air* (1990), series, as Jazz, Theme Song Performance

## Gallery

- ![DJ Jazzy Jeff](https://film.one/media/person/6972784/gallery-52afec648ba9.jpg) DJ Jazzy Jeff — Mika Väisänen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Dj_jazzy_jeff-02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![DJ Jazzy Jeff in Hamburg, Germany in March 2002.](https://film.one/media/person/6972784/gallery-85e8405ca8bb.jpg) DJ Jazzy Jeff in Hamburg, Germany in March 2002. — Mika-photography, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Dj_jazzy_jeff-mika.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![This is DJ Jazzy Jeff performing at the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas, TX as part of the "Duke Nukem Forever" launch party. (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/6972784/gallery-71472be67619.jpg) This is DJ Jazzy Jeff performing at the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas, TX as part of the "Duke Nukem Forever" launch party. (2011) — Dopefish, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Jazzyjeff_061111.jpg/1280px-Jazzyjeff_061111.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Richard Quitevis (DJ Q-Bert) and Jeffrey A. Townes (DJ Jazzy Jeff) pose before a spraypainted portrait at Vista Alegre bullring , at Bilbao Urban Musikaldia. (2006)](https://film.one/media/person/6972784/gallery-e8f16b8c4dde.jpg) Richard Quitevis (DJ Q-Bert) and Jeffrey A. Townes (DJ Jazzy Jeff) pose before a spraypainted portrait at Vista Alegre bullring , at Bilbao Urban Musikaldia. (2006) — Javier Mediavilla Ezquibela, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Bilbao_BUM_Qbert_Jazzy_Jeff.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![DJ Jazzy Jeff in Cambridge, England on May 25, 2005](https://film.one/media/person/6972784/gallery-23813284860f.jpg) DJ Jazzy Jeff in Cambridge, England on May 25, 2005 — Neil Rickards from London, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/DJ_Jazzy_Jeff.jpg/1280px-DJ_Jazzy_Jeff.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/dj-jazzy-jeff