Sonny Terry

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-10-24 (75 years old)

Deathday

1986-03-11

Place of Birth

Mineola, New York, U.S.

Also known As

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

Saunders Terrell

Sonny Terry

Biography

Sonny Terry was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.

Acting

1979

The Jerk

as Blues Singer

2003

Red, White and Blues

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: Red River Blues 1948-1974

as Self

1947

To Hear Your Banjo Play

as Self

1964

American Folk-Blues Festival: The Blues and Gospel Train

1967

Festival

as Self

1985

The Color Purple

as Jook Joint Musician

1984

Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'

as Self

2003

The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1

as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

2003

The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 2

as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

2004

The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969, Vol. 3

as Self (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)

1988

BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1977

Stroszek

as Original Music Composer

1952

Color Cry

as Music

1952

Color Cry

as Musician

1986

Crossroads

as Musician