Biography
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Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 — June 11, 2025) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group. He originally functioned as the band's songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader.
Wilson was considered a major innovator in the field of music production, the principal originator of the California Sound, one of the first music producer auteurs, and the first rock producer to use the studio as its own instrument. The unusual creative control Capitol gave him over his own records effectively set a precedent that allowed other bands and artists to act as their own producers or co-producers. He was a major influence on the retrospectively-termed "sunshine pop" and Flower Power music that proceeded.
Filmography
Cast Credits
The Beach Boys
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2024
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2023
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2023
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's "American Pie"
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2022
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2021
Streetlight Harmonies
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2020
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Character: Self - The Beach Boys (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2019
The Beach Boys: Making Pet Sounds
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2017
Brian Wilson at la Baloise Session
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2016
The Beach Boys: A Long Promised Road - Volume 1 & 2 - 1962-1971
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2016
I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2015
Brian Wilson and Friends - A Soundstage Special Event
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Character: Self
TV • 2015
Love & Mercy
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
MOVIE • 2015
Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1969-1982
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2014
The Beach Boys - Live in Concert 50th Anniversary
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2012
The Beach Boys: Doin' It Again
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2012
…Sings Musicals
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2012
Endless Syncopation: The Rising Fall of The Beach Boys and The California Myth
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 2012
Classic Albums: The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Character: Self - The Beach Boys
MOVIE • 2010
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