Todd Rundgren

Todd Rundgren

composer, actor, music department

Todd Rundgren was born on Jun 22, 1948 in USA. Todd Rundgren's big-screen debut came with Cold Feet directed by Bruce Van Dusen in 1983. Todd Rundgren is known for Decker directed by Eric Notarnicola, Tim Heidecker stars as Jack Decker and Joe Estevez as President Jason Davidson. The most recent award Todd Rundgren achieved is BMI Film & TV Awards. The upcoming new movie Todd Rundgren plays is The 27 Club which will be released on Apr 23, 2019.

Considered by many to be the "Ultimate Rock Cult Hero", Todd Rundgren has maintained a legion of fans through four decades, rivaled only by Grateful Dead. Todd was raised in the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) area, and his first professional bands, Money and Woddy's Truckstop, achieved much regional success. It was in the late 1960s, however, that Todd's searing guitar work reached a nationwide audience, in his role as lead guitarist for the blues-psychedelic band Nazz. he wrote and arranged almost all of the work that went into the three albums the group produced. Their music ranged from Southern blues to hard rock to heavily orchestrated symphonies. Nazz broke up in the early 1970s and Todd released two solo albums under the name of Runt. His first big solo success was in 1971 with "We Gotta Get You a Woman" and in 1973 from the double album "Something/Anything?" he scored big on the charts with "I Saw the Light" and a revision of a Nazz song, "Hello, It's Me." Perhaps the superstardom that seemed imminent at this time eluded Rundgren due to his reluctance to be pigeonholed into any single type of music. He still released albums with great love ballads, but they were also laced with heavy guitar rock, and occasionally mini rock operas. Rundgren has scored huge as a music producer, most notably on Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" opus. In the late 1970s and through the 1980s Todd formed the group Utopia, each member an accomplished musician and vocalist. In recent years Rundgren has become a computer enthusiast, marketing many new innovations, some in conjunction with his music. He has also been called on by films and TV for his musical scores. Todd also maintains his own website.

  • Birthday

    Jun 22, 1948
  • Place of Birth

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Known For

Awards

1 wins & 0 nominations

BMI Film & TV Awards
1995
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Winner - BMI Film Music Award

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