David Johansen

David Johansen

David Roger Johansen (born January 9, 1950) is 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.

  • Title : David Johansen
  • Popularity : 2.237
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1950-01-09
  • Place of Birth : Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
  • Homepage :
  • Also Known As : David Roger Johansen, David JoHansen, David Jo Hansen, Buster Poindexter, The New York City Dolls, The New York Dolls, New York Dolls
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David Johansen Movies

  • 1990
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    Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

    Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

    6.2 1990 HD

    A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.

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  • 1992
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    Freejack

    Freejack

    5.4 1992 HD

    Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of...

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  • 1988
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    Scrooged

    Scrooged

    6.8 1988 HD

    Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after...

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  • 2005
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    New York Doll

    New York Doll

    6.6 2005 HD

    A recovering alcoholic and recently converted Mormon, Arthur "Killer" Kane, of the rock band The New York Dolls, is given a chance at reuniting with...

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  • 1992
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    Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel

    Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel

    4.8 1992 HD

    Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to...

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  • 1993
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    Mr. Nanny

    Mr. Nanny

    5.1 1993 HD

    A former pro-wrestler is hired to be the bodyguard/nanny for a couple of bratty kids whose inventor father is being stalked by a rival.

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  • 1989
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    Let It Ride

    Let It Ride

    6.289 1989 HD

    An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he...

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  • 2001
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    Campfire Stories

    Campfire Stories

    2.3 2001 HD

    Two teens on their way to a backwoods party come across a beautiful young woman having car trouble. Their search for help only gets them lost, deep...

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  • 1994
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    September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill

    September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill

    1 1994 HD

    Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill.

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  • 2018
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    Always at The Carlyle

    Always at The Carlyle

    6.9 2018 HD

    The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New...

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  • 2011
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    New York Dolls: Live From The Bowery

    New York Dolls: Live From The Bowery

    1 2011 HD

    On March 16th, 2011, to kick off the release of their album "Dancing Backward in High Heels," the New York Dolls, the godfathers of punk and glam...

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  • 2005
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    New York Dolls: All Dolled Up

    New York Dolls: All Dolled Up

    8.5 2005 HD

    In the early 70’s, Rock photographer Bob Gruen and his wife Nadya purchased a portable Video Recorder. In a period of three years they shot...

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  • 2000
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    New York Dolls: TV Treasures

    New York Dolls: TV Treasures

    3.8 2000 HD

    Compilation of extremely rare footage of the legendary New York Dolls. Live material, interviews, radio adverts, mentions on TV News programmes, it's...

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  • 2006
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    The Return of the New York Dolls

    The Return of the New York Dolls

    4.8 2006 HD

    After 27 years apart, the three surviving members of the New York Dolls, David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain & Arthur 'Killer' Kane, re-united at...

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  • 1995
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    Burnzy's Last Call

    Burnzy's Last Call

    1 1995 HD

    A downtown Manahattan gin mill plays host to a series of comic vignettes.

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  • 1999
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    200 Cigarettes

    200 Cigarettes

    5.903 1999 HD

    In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years...

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  • 1988
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    Married to the Mob

    Married to the Mob

    5.92 1988 HD

    Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an...

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  • 1994
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    Car 54, Where Are You?

    Car 54, Where Are You?

    3.4 1994 HD

    Brash NYC policeman Officer Gunther Toody is partnered with stiff, by-the-book Officer Francis Muldoon to protect an important mafia witness prior to...

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  • 1997
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    Cats Don't Dance

    Cats Don't Dance

    7.2 1997 HD

    An ambitious singing and dancing cat goes to Hollywood and overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.

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  • 2022
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    Personality Crisis: One Night Only

    Personality Crisis: One Night Only

    5 2022 HD

    A portrait of musician David Johansen from Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi featuring a live performance at Café Carlyle in New York City,...

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  • 1995
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    The Weinerville Chanukah Special

    The Weinerville Chanukah Special

    1 1995 HD

    The Weinerville Gang is throwing a Hanukkah party at the Weinerville Ski Lodge. Upon preparations on the decorations, two aliens crash landed their...

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  • 2014
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    Glass Chin

    Glass Chin

    4.8 2014 HD

    After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his...

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  • 1997
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    The Deli

    The Deli

    3.5 1997 HD

    An enchanting slice-of-life comedy about a hard luck gambler who gets in over his head when he starts putting his store's profits on the line.

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  • 2015
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    A Very Murray Christmas

    A Very Murray Christmas

    5.3 2015 HD

    Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a massive snowstorm in New York City. Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at...

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  • 1975
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    Night Lunch

    Night Lunch

    5 1975 HD

    This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavor The Blank Generation (1976) came to be....

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  • 2003
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    Crooked Lines

    Crooked Lines

    4.5 2003 HD

    Johnny, Chris, Sal, and Joe are four petty crooks thrown together for the job of a lifetime. $1 million in mob money being held at a delicatessen for...

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  • 2002
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    God Is On Their Side

    God Is On Their Side

    1 2002 HD

    The American Army holds a mass prayer offensive in order to convince God (David Johansen) to support their country in a major war. With God...

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  • 2011
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    New York Dolls: Lookin' Fine on Television

    New York Dolls: Lookin' Fine on Television

    1 2011 HD

    The legendary and infamous New York Dolls at their best! Amazing rare live clips and interviews filmed by Bob Gruen and Nadya Beck in the heady days...

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  • 2007
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    The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

    The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

    1 2007 HD

    The Old, Weird America tracks the history of the Anthology of American Folk Music from its initial compilation of 78 records from rural Americana to...

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  • 2000
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    The Filth and the Fury

    The Filth and the Fury

    7 2000 HD

    Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk...

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  • 2017
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    Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past

    Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past

    1 2017 HD

    Bandleader Vince Giordano keeps the Jazz Age alive with his 11-member band The Nighthawks, vintage musical instruments, and a collection of more than...

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  • 2012
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    Clockwork Orange County

    Clockwork Orange County

    6 2012 HD

    Many objected to leather-jacket, spike-hair kids with tattoos. But, that did not dissuade a generation... No one realized that a little club in Costa...

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  • 2003
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    End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

    End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

    7.6 2003 HD

    A years-in-the-making documentary on the legendary punk band the Ramones. Through a mixture of archival footage, archival and new interviews with all...

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  • 2003
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    Mayor of the Sunset Strip

    Mayor of the Sunset Strip

    6.9 2003 HD

    A look at the history of fame in the world through the eyes of pop star impresario, Rodney Bingenheimer

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  • 2004
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    Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus

    Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus

    7.3 2004 HD

    A stunningly-photographed, thought-provoking road trip into the heart of the poor white American South. Singer Jim White takes his 1970 Chevy Impala...

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  • 2005
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    Punk: Attitude

    Punk: Attitude

    7 2005 HD

    A documentary on the music, performers, attitude and distinctive look that made up punk rock.

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  • 2004
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    Lightning in a Bottle

    Lightning in a Bottle

    7.3 2004 HD

    On February 7th, 2003, renowned artists across multiple music genres and generations commandeered the stage at New York City's Radio City Music Hall...

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  • 1997
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    Nick and Jane

    Nick and Jane

    4 1997 HD

    N.Y. corporate Jane discovers her boyfriend John in bed with another woman, leaves building enraged and jumps into cab. Her driver is Nick. Jane and...

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  • 1988
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    Candy Mountain

    Candy Mountain

    5.8 1988 HD

    A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker

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  • 2006
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    MOFO NYC

    MOFO NYC

    1 2006 HD

    MOFO NYC is the party brainchild of DJ Singer Glam Bitch Mother Michael T. Along with partners the lovely & talented DJ Justine D, club owner &...

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  • 2001
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    25 Years of Punk

    25 Years of Punk

    6 2001 HD

    Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock movements in New York & England, the underground...

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  • 1993
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    Naked in New York

    Naked in New York

    4.7 1993 HD

    Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while...

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  • 2019
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    Above the Shadows

    Above the Shadows

    6.8 2019 HD

    A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.

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  • 1989
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    The Ventures: 30 Years of Rock 'n' Roll (30th Anniversary Super Session)

    The Ventures: 30 Years of Rock 'n' Roll (30th Anniversary Super Session)

    1 1989 HD

    The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington. Founded by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, the group in its...

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  • 2006
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    The Harry Smith Project Live

    The Harry Smith Project Live

    1 2006 HD

    Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project concerts in London, New York and Los Angeles celebrated the eccentric collector genius and his influential...

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  • 2008
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    New York Rock at the BBC

    New York Rock at the BBC

    6.5 2008 HD

    Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and...

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  • 1993
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    Mr. Nanny

    Mr. Nanny

    5.1 1993 HD

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  • 2003
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    Teen Titans

    Teen Titans

    8.3 2003 HD

    Fighting for truth, justice and the last slice of pizza, these five superheroes are living proof you're never too young to save the planet....

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  • 1984
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    Miami Vice

    Miami Vice

    7.5 1984 HD

    The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership...

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  • 2000
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    Deadline

    Deadline

    1 2000 HD

    Deadline is a television series which was shown on NBC in the 2000–2001 season. It starred Oliver Platt as Wallace Benton, who worked for the...

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  • 1997
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    Oz

    Oz

    8 1997 HD

    The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians,...

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  • 1985
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    The Equalizer

    The Equalizer

    7.1 1985 HD

    Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself...

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  • 1975
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    Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

    6.9 1975 HD

    A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture...

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  • 2021
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    Centaurworld

    Centaurworld

    7.4 2021 HD

    Centaurworld follows a war horse who is transported from her embattled world to a strange land inhabited by silly, singing centaurs of all species,...

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  • 1989
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    The Jim Henson Hour

    The Jim Henson Hour

    9.2 1989 HD

    The Jim Henson Hour was developed as a showcase for the Jim Henson Company's various puppet creations, including the popular Muppet characters. This...

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