- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- March 15, 1940
- Place of Birth
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Died
- October 25, 2024
Phil Lesh
Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of Grateful Dead family music with side project Phil Lesh and Friends, which paid homage to the Dead's music by playing their originals, common covers, and the songs of the members of his band. Lesh operated a music venue called Terrapin Crossroads. He scaled back his touring regimen in 2014 but continues to perform with Phil Lesh & Friends at select venues. From 2009 to 2014, he performed in Furthur alongside former Grateful Dead bandmate Bob Weir. Lesh was born in Berkeley, California, United States, and started out as a violin player. While enrolled at Berkeley High School he switched to trumpet and participated in all of the school's music-relat…
Filmography
movieInside Scofield
2022
movieGrateful Dead Meet-Up 2022
2022 · Self
movieBob Dylan & Phil Lesh & Friends – Baltimore Arena 1999
2020 · Self
movieGrateful Dead - Giants Stadium 1991
2019 · Self
tvBasketball: A Love Story
2018 · Self (archive footage)
tvLong Strange Trip
2017 · Self
movieLong Strange Trip
2017 · Self
movieDear Jerry - Celebrating The Music of Jerry Garcia
2016 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: Fare Thee Well - 50 Years of Grateful Dead (Santa Clara)
2015 · Self - Performer
movieGrateful Dead: Fare Thee Well - 50 Years of Grateful Dead (Chicago)
2015 · Self - Performer
movieGrateful Dead: 2015.07.05 - Chicago, IL
2015 · Self
Grateful Dead: Fare Thee Well - Rainbows Are Real, Chicago, IL
movieGrateful Dead: Fare Thee Well - Rainbows Are Real, Chicago, IL
2015 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: 2015.07.04 - Chicago, IL
2015 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: 2015.07.03 - Chicago, IL
2015 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: 2015.06.27 - Santa Clara, CA
2015 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: 2015.06.28 - Santa Clara, CA
2015 · Self
movieMove Me Brightly - Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday
2013 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: Sunshine Daydream
2013 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: All The Years Combine - The DVD Collection
2012 · Self
movieMagic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011 · Self (archive footage)
movieGrateful Dead: Crimson, White & Indigo
2011 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: Rocking The Cradle - Egypt 1978
2008 · Self
moviePhil Lesh and Friends: Live at the Warfield
2006 · Self
Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show
movieTom Snyder's Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show
2006 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: Bird Song
2005 · Self
movieFestival Express
2003 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: View from the Vault IV
2003 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: View from the Vault III
2002 · Self
movieRising Low
2002 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: View from the Vault II
2001 · Self
movieThe End of the Road
2001 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: View from the Vault
2000 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: View from the Vault
2000 · Self
tvClassic Albums
1997 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: Anthem to Beauty
1997 · Self
tvNash Bridges
1996 · Phil Lesh
movieGrateful Dead
1995 · Self
movieInfrared Sightings
1995 · Music
movieTruckin' With The Dead
1993 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: Live at Foxboro
1989 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: Truckin Up to Buffalo
1989 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: The Making of "Built to Last"
1989 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: Downhill from Here
1989 · Self - Performer
movieGrateful Dead: Ticket to New Year's Eve Concert
1987 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: So Far
1987 · Self - Bass
movieGrateful Dead: Dead Ahead
1981 · Self - Grateful Dead
movieApocalypse Now
1979 · Musician
movieGrateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland
1978 · Self
tvThe Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self - Honoree
movieThe Grateful Dead Movie
1977 · Self
movieGrateful Dead: New Jersey Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo - Live at The Capitol Theater
1977 · Self - Performer
tvApostrophes
1975 · Self - Grateful Dead
movieGimme Shelter
1970 · Self
movieSan Francisco Rock: A Night at the Family Dog
1970
movieThe Acid Test
1966 · Self
Grateful Dead: Bits And Pieces About...
movieGrateful Dead: Bits And Pieces About...
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Untitled Grateful Dead Film
movieUntitled Grateful Dead Film
— · Executive Producer