David Johansen
Known for: Acting
Born: January 9, 1950
Died: February 28, 2025
David Roger Johansen (January 9, 1950 – February 28, 2025) was an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls. He is also known for his work under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter. David has appeared in several films including Car 54, Where Are You? and Scrooged with Bill Murray.
Known for
New York Dolls: Live From The Bowery
2011
New York Dolls: All Dolled Up
2005
New York Dolls: TV Treasures
2000
The Return of the New York Dolls
2006
Car 54, Where Are You?
1994
Personality Crisis: One Night Only
2022
God Is On Their Side
2002
New York Dolls: Lookin' Fine on Television
2011
The Harry Smith Project Live
2006
Mr. Nanny
1993
Let It Ride
1989
Clockwork Orange County
2012
Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past
2017
New York Doll
2005
Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
1992
Burnzy's Last Call
1995
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007
Motherfucker: A Movie
2006
New York Rock at the BBC
2008
The Weinerville Chanukah Special
1995
Nick and Jane
1997
Freejack
1992
Campfire Stories
2001
Scrooged
1988
A Very Murray Christmas
2015
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
2004
Above the Shadows
2019
Crooked Lines
2003
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
1994
Glass Chin
2014
The Deli
1997
The Ventures: 30 Years of Rock 'n' Roll (30th Anniversary Super Session)
1989
Candy Mountain
1988
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1990
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
2003
Night Lunch
1975
Lightning in a Bottle
2004
The Filth and the Fury
2000
Cats Don't Dance
1997
Naked in New York
1993
Married to the Mob
1988
Punk: Attitude
2005
25 Years of Punk
2001
The Tic Code
1998
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
2003
200 Cigarettes
1999
Always at The Carlyle
2018
Teen Titans
2003
Miami Vice
1984
Deadline
2000
Oz
1997
The Equalizer
1985
Saturday Night Live
1975
Centaurworld
2021
The Jim Henson Hour
1989