RECENT CREDITS
Funny People (FILM)  Jul. 31, 2009
Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV)  Nov. 16, 2007
West Wing (TV)  Dec. 1, 2004
Last Call With Carson Daly (TV)  Nov. 30, 2002
Tonight Show With Jay Leno (TV)  Oct. 29, 2002
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HIGHLIGHTS
Learned how to play the guitar when he was 12 years old after studying cello as a child.
Dropped out of school at 16 to form his first band.
In his late teens, checked himself into McLean Psychiatric Hospital in Massachusetts after a brief relocation to New York.
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

Jumpin' Jack Flash  1986
Featured Music
Film


Smooth Talk  1986
Musical Direction/Supervision
Film


In Our Hands  1983
Actor
Film


Two-Lane Blacktop  1971 -Driver
Actor
Film


Funny People  2009 -Himself
Actor
Film




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Highlights

Learned how to play the guitar when he was 12 years old after studying cello as a child.
Dropped out of school at 16 to form his first band.
In his late teens, checked himself into McLean Psychiatric Hospital in Massachusetts after a brief relocation to New York.
Formed a new group called The Flying Machine with Kortchmar and Joel O'Brien in 1966.
Recorded his first debut solo album, entitled James Taylor, which was released in the U.K. at the end of 1968, and in the U.S. in February of 1969.
Released second album, Sweet Baby James, in February of 1970, which garnered much critical acclaim and spawned the poignant hit "Fire and Rain," a song that chronicled his experience in an asyl
Appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in 1971.
Forayed into acting with Beach Boy Dennis Wilson in the unsuccessful but well-reviewed movie about drag racing, Two-Lane Blacktop (1971).
Honored by Billboard Magazine with the Century Award, their highest accolade, in October of 1998.


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