---
name: "Sly Stone"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sly-stone"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 March 1943"
died: "9 June 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
updated: "2026-09-17T05:47:26.969626+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."
---

# Sly Stone

Actor. Born 15 March 1943 in Denton, Texas, USA. Died 9 June 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 March 1943, Denton, Texas, USA
- **Died:** 9 June 2025
- **Active:** 1970–2021
- **Also known as:** Sly and the Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sylvester Stewart
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 80 (1), 2020s 87 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713829, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829854/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1972668

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)*](https://film.one/film/summer-of-soul-or-when-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised.md) (87)

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## Biography

Sly Stone, born Sylvester Stewart, was an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer best known as the frontman of Sly and the Family Stone. He appeared as himself in archive footage as a performer in the 2021 documentary *Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)*.

Stone was also credited in *Woodstock* (1970) and the 2019 documentary *Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation*. He died on 9 June 2025.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)* (2021), Fi1m 87, as Self - Performer (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/summer-of-soul-or-when-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised.md)
- *Woodstock* (1970), Fi1m 80, as Self - Sly & The Family Stone — [page](https://film.one/film/woodstock.md)

## Also known for

- *Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation* (2019), Self

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