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name: "Julien Temple"
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fi1m_id: "julien-temple"
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tmdb_id: 22669
wikidata_id: "Q722023"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "26 November 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T20:51:30.416383+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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# Julien Temple

## Identity

Julien Temple

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/julien-temple
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** julien-temple
- **IMDb ID:** nm0854697
- **TMDB ID:** 22669
- **Wikidata ID:** Q722023
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Temple, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q722023, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0854697/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/22669

Director. Born 26 November 1953 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 26 November 1953, London, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Temple, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q722023, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0854697/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/22669

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Earth Girls Are Easy*](https://film.one/film/earth-girls-are-easy.md) (74)

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## Biography

Julien Temple is a British film, documentary and music video director. He was born on 26 November 1953 in Kensington, London, and educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, William Ellis School and King's College, Cambridge.

Temple began his career documenting the Sex Pistols, directing *The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle* (1980). His feature films include *Absolute Beginners* (1986), *Earth Girls Are Easy* (1988), *Bullet* (1996), *The Filth and the Fury* (2000) and *Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten* (2007). He has also directed music videos and the documentary *Glastonbury* (2006).

He is married to producer Amanda Temple and they have three children, including actress Juno Temple.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Earth Girls Are Easy* (1988), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/earth-girls-are-easy.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

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

- *I Am Curious Johnny* (2025), Director
- *Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan* (2020), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Ibiza: The Silent Movie* (2019), Director, Writer, Producer
- *My Life Story* (2018), Director
- *Habaneros* (2017), Director
- *Keith Richards - The Origin of the Species* (2016), Director
- *The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson* (2015), Director
- *The Clash: New Year's Day '77* (2015), Director
- *Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca* (2014), Director
- *Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 with the Sex Pistols* (2013), Director, Producer
- *Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols* (2012), Director
- *London: The Modern Babylon* (2012), as Spoken Quotations (voice) · Director, Writer, Producer
- *Glastopia* (2012), Producer, Camera Operator, Director
- *Punk Britannia* (2012), series, Actor
- *Ray Davies: Imaginary Man* (2010), Producer, Director
- *Requiem for Detroit?* (2010), Director
- *Oil City Confidential* (2009), Director
- *Madness: The Liberty of Norton Folgate* (2009), Director
- *The Eternity Man* (2008), Director
- *Sex Pistols: There'll Always Be an England* (2008), Director
- *Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten* (2007), Director
- *Glastonbury* (2006), Director, Director of Photography
- *Scissor Sisters: Return to Oz* (2004), Director
- *We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You* (2004), Director
- *David Bowie: Best of Bowie* (2002), Director
- *Pandaemonium* (2001), Director
- *Sade: Life Promise Pride Love* (2001), Director
- *blur | The Best Of* (2000), Director
- *The Filth and the Fury* (2000), Director, Writer
- *Vigo* (1998), Writer, Director
- *Bullet* (1996), Director
- *Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Take the Highway Live* (1992), Director
- *The Rolling Stones: Live at the Max* (1991), Director
- *Earth Girls Are Easy* (1988), Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/earth-girls-are-easy.md)
- *Aria* (1987), Writer, Director
- *Running Out of Luck* (1987), Director, Writer
- *Absolute Beginners* (1986), Director, Songs
- *Come Dancing with The Kinks* (1986), Director
- *David Bowie: Jazzin' for Blue Jean* (1984), Director, Writer
- *Mantrap* (1983), Director
- *The Secret Policeman's Other Ball* (1982), Director
- *The Comic Strip* (1981), Director
- *The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle* (1980), Director, Author, Writer
- *Biceps of Steel* (1980), Writer, Director
- *Punk Can Take It* (1979), Writer, Director
- *Where is Your Love* (1979), Director
- *The Tunnyng of Elinour Rummyng* (1976), Director
- *Sexual Healing*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Julien Temple](https://film.one/media/person/5553988/gallery-9ca22c89c961.jpg) Julien Temple — Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Julien_Temple.jpg/1280px-Julien_Temple.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Julien Temple](https://film.one/media/person/5553988/gallery-0c659f22c9ad.jpg) Julien Temple — Image via TMDB
- ![Julien Temple](https://film.one/media/person/5553988/gallery-63e9d72c3bc6.jpg) Julien Temple — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Documentary 2012: European Film Award for Best Documentary (nominated), for *London - The Modern Babylon*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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