David Bowie: Cracked Actor (1975)

David Bowie: Cracked Actor

1975

Documentary Music

Synopsis

The documentary depicts Bowie on tour in Los Angeles, using a mixture of vérité sequences filmed in limousines and hotels, and concert footage. Most of the concert footage was taken from a show at the Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre on 2 September 1974 (Also featured are excerpts from D.A. Pennebaker's concert film shot at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973). Cracked Actor is notable for being a source for footage of Bowie's ambitious Diamond Dogs tour, and also for showing Bowie's fragile mental state during this period.

Credits

Director

Alan Yentob

Cast

David Bowie as Self

Crew

Carol Bell (Associate Producer)

David Myers (Director of Photography)

Michael D. Murphy (Director of Photography)

Tony Woollard (Editor)

Alan Yentob (Producer)

Pat Darrin (Sound)