---
name: "Jim Morrison"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jim-morrison-152"
fi1m_id: "jim-morrison-152"
imdb_id: "nm0607186"
tmdb_id: 152
wikidata_id: "Q44301"
roles: []
born: "8 December 1943"
died: "3 July 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T22:46:47.260854+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."
---

# Jim Morrison

## Identity

Jim Morrison

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jim-morrison-152
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jim-morrison-152
- **IMDb ID:** nm0607186
- **TMDB ID:** 152
- **Wikidata ID:** Q44301
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44301, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607186/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/152

Actor. Born 8 December 1943 in Melbourne, Florida, USA. Died 3 July 1971.

## Details

- **Born:** 8 December 1943, Melbourne, Florida, USA
- **Died:** 3 July 1971
- **Also known as:** The Lizard King, Mr. Mojo Risin', The Doors
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44301, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607186/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/152

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*When You're Strange*](https://film.one/film/when-youre-strange.md) (55)

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

## Biography

Jim Morrison (8 December 1943 – 3 July 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, poet and actor. He served as lead singer of the rock band The Doors from its formation in 1965 until his death.

Morrison appeared uncredited as himself in Agnès Varda's *Lions Love* (... and Lies) (1969). Archive footage of him features in the documentary *When You're Strange* (2010), as well as *The Beaches of Agnès* (2008), *Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold* (2017), *27: Gone Too Soon* (2018) and *Val* (2021).

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *When You're Strange* (2010), Fi1m 55, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/when-youre-strange.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Espace Projeté* (2023), as Shown in Archive Video
- *The Best Of The Doors* (2017), Actor
- *The Summer of Love* (2017), Actor
- *The Story of the Doors* (2016), Actor
- *The Doors - Feast of Friends: Encore* (2014), Actor
- *You Had to Be There* (2012), Actor
- *Reworking The Doors* (2012), Actor
- *Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics: Rockin' the Sixties* (2005), Actor
- *The Doors - Soundstage Performances* (2002), Actor
- *Love Her Madly* (2000), Story
- *Nico Icon* (1995), Actor
- *A Spy: Hester Reeve Does the Doors* (1992), Music
- *Rock My Religion* (1984), Actor
- *The Doors vs Led Zeppelin* (1973), Actor
- *HWY: An American Pastoral* (1970), as The Hitchhiker · Director, Producer, Writer
- *Feast of Friends* (1969), Producer
- *Patient 411: A Progress Report* (1965), Director of Photography, Assistant Director
- *Induction* (1965), as Partygoer (uncredited)
- *First Love* (1964), Director, Writer, Production Director
- *Five Situations for Camera, Recorder and People*, Sound

## Gallery

- ![Jim Morrison](https://film.one/media/person/5397028/gallery-91d1e3212278.jpg) Jim Morrison — Elektra Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Jim_Morrison_1969.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Newspaper clipping of Jim Morrison's Miami trial, The Ithaca Journal, September 21, 1970.](https://film.one/media/person/5397028/gallery-0158ec780e7d.jpg) Newspaper clipping of Jim Morrison's Miami trial, The Ithaca Journal, September 21, 1970. — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Arrest_of_Jim_Morrison.jpg/1280px-Arrest_of_Jim_Morrison.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Impressions from BrickCon 2018.](https://film.one/media/person/5397028/gallery-f71dc30130c3.jpg) Impressions from BrickCon 2018. — Pascal from Heidelberg, Germany, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/BrickCon_2018_%2830250290607%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Newspaper article in the wake of Elvis' passing referencing Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. (1977)](https://film.one/media/person/5397028/gallery-e906a7a8140e.jpg) Newspaper article in the wake of Elvis' passing referencing Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. (1977) — The Atlanta Constitution, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Hendrix%2C_Joplin_and_Morrison_-_The_Atlanta_Constitution_%281977%29.jpg/1280px-Hendrix%2C_Joplin_and_Morrison_-_The_Atlanta_Constitution_%281977%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Newspaper article in the wake of Elvis' passing referencing Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. (1977)](https://film.one/media/person/5397028/gallery-474600369a39.jpg) Newspaper article in the wake of Elvis' passing referencing Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. (1977) — The Atlanta Constitution, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Hendrix%2C_Joplin_and_Morrison_-_The_Atlanta_Constitution_%281977%29_%28HendrixAgeFix%29.jpg/1280px-Hendrix%2C_Joplin_and_Morrison_-_The_Atlanta_Constitution_%281977%29_%28HendrixAgeFix%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Newspaper article in the wake of Elvis' passing referencing Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. (1977)](https://film.one/media/person/5397028/gallery-9b4008c12093.jpg) Newspaper article in the wake of Elvis' passing referencing Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. (1977) — The Atlanta Constitution, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Hendrix%2C_Joplin_and_Morrison_-_The_Atlanta_Constitution_%281977%29_%28Morrison%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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