Roger Daltrey Movies

A charity officially registered in the UK circa 1997 as an arm of Great Britain's National Health Service, the Teenage Cancer Trust strives to raise funds and build treatment facilities for teenagers and young adults stricken by many types of cancer, particularly leukemia and Hodgkin's Disease. One of the Trust's key fund-raising activities, in turn, involves perennially staging a week of all-star concerts headlined by rock 'n' roll heavyweights. This release features, in a single collection, the best performances from the 2007 event; featured artists include The Who, The Cure, The View, Bloc Party, Paul Weller and The Kaiser Chiefs. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

Oscar-winning filmmaker Murray Lerner and co-director Paul Crowder draw on the essential themes of The Who's music and lyrics to craft a definitive audio-visual document of the influential band's timeless legacy. From their origins as a 1960s R&B cover band to their transformation into the band that changed the course of rock and roll history, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, and John Entwistle's unstoppable, arena shaking juggernaut is followed as the men behind the music experience triumph and tragedy over the course of the following decades. Authorized by the band, the film speaks with family and friends to explore the meteoric rise of The Who as unreleased performance footage from Monterey, Woodstock, The Concert for NYC and other landmark concerts show fans the scenes that, until this release, they have only been able to read about. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Rock and roll legends The Who come alive for a whole new generation of fans in this release that offers a collection of unforgettable live performances. In addition to a stunning live performance of Tommy featuring special guest stars Elton John, Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Patty Labelle, and Steve Winwood, this three-disc release also offers a live 1996 performance of Quadrophenia, and three more sets featuring such classics as "Boris the Spider", "Who Are You?", and "The Acid Queen". ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

The family friendly program Wheels on the Bus: Mango's Animal Adventure concerns friends Mango and Papaya who, while attempting to find their way home, learn lessons about the many different kinds of homes there are for animals. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Only cable's History Channel would be able to persuade Roger Daltrey, lead singer for the Who, to be the central figure in a reality series which arduously retraced famous historical journeys. On each week's episode, the grousing but game Daltrey linked up with a team of experts "on location" at places throughout the U.S. (and in later episodes, the world), where hardy souls of earlier ages had taken on and conquered various expeditions and explorations. Using the techniques and tools of the periods being recreated, Daltrey and company followed in the footsteps of John Wesley Powell along the Colorado River, Lewis and Clark westward from St. Louis to the Pacific, and 18th century pioneers along the Chisholm Trail. Peppered with Daltrey's bawdy humor, expletive-laden commentary, and iconoclastic wit (we learn from his lips that beaver meat is just as "bloody awful" as we always suspected it to be), Extreme History With Roger Daltrey premiered October 5, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Written and directed by Nico Mastorakis, .com for Murder centers around Sondra Brummel (Nastassja Kinski), who bedridden after a skiing accident, unwittingly chats it up online with a potential murderer. Along with Misty (Nicollette Sheridan), her sister, Sondra is determined to thwart her would-be killer's efforts. Guest stars include rockers Huey Lewis and Roger Daltrey, who play an FBI agent and Sondra's boyfriend, respectively. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Four tales of music and the unknown come together in this made-for-TV anthology feature. Strange Frequency 2 features the story "Soul Man," in which a hapless guitar roadie (James Marsters) makes the discovery of a lifetime when he finds a final, unrecorded song by Jimi Hendrix in a pawn shop, but is warned that there will be a terrible price for presenting it to the public. "Cold Turkey" concerns a songwriter (John Hawkes) whose struggle with sobriety becomes a living hell when he meets a beautiful journalist (Patsy Kensit). A politician (Peter Strauss) finds his career taking a nose dive after his mistress dies in a car crash in "Don't Stop Believing," but his real troubles begin every time he hears the song he embraced as his theme song. And "Instant Karma" concerns a jaded rock star (Jason Gedrick) who, after taking advantage of a beautiful young fan (Lindsay Sloane), finds she's taken revenge against him by using a magic spell to swap their bodies. The four segments in Strange Frequency 2 were originally produced and aired as part of the short-lived VH1 series Strange Frequency. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

This unique British rock collection features a full orchestra, gospel choir, and a very unlikely group of vocalists -- namely, Roger Daltry, Alice Cooper, Paul Young, and Darlene Love. Among the songs featured are "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Imagine," "Blackbird," "Come Together," "Kashmir," "Let It Be," "Ruby Tuesday," "Start Me Up," "A Little Help From My Friends," "Stairway to Heaven," and more. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Charles Band has been making horror movies in Rumania for several years, so it should come as no surprise to find his local collaborators, associate producer Vlad Paunescu and costume designer Oana Paunescu, among the crew of this ambitious historical epic from The Kushner-Locke Company and director Joe Chappelle (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers). It's an impressive attempt at rehabilitating the image of Vlad Tepes (Rudolf Martin), the famous Transylvanian prince who inspired Bram Stoker as the model for his vampiric count in the novel Dracula. That's part of the problem with Chappelle's film, because Martin plays Vlad as a sultry, pouting romantic figure in the Frank Langella mode rather than as a man who might have been capable of such astonishing savagery and physical strength on a battlefield. He pouts for money from the King of Hungary (Roger Daltrey being out-pouted for once), romances Jane March, speaks in a petulant growl, and generally looks like he'd be more at home on the dancefloor of a chic discotheque than on a corpse-strewn battlefield. Only the unavoidable feeling that he might be a vampire (he isn't) makes him seem even remotely threatening or dangerous. The rest of the film is better, with authentic-looking locations, some surprising gore, and nicely-handled battle scenes. Peter Weller comes off the best among the cast, playing the creepy Father Stefan with a suitable gravity and authority. It is very difficult to take the historical Dracula away from the vampire legends after over a century of Stoker-inspired over 150 films, but Chappelle and his cast make a game effort, and if they don't exactly succeed in removing the shadow of the vampire from their heroic prince, they have at least produced a rousing entertainment which is far better than anyone had a right to expect. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

An American businessman rents a cottage in Ireland, only to find the cottage is also inhabited by leprechauns as well. Soon, the American finds himself embroiled in a fierce dispute between the leprechauns and their enemies, the fairies, that only he can help settle. ~ Rovi

The beautiful vampire from space who starred in her own successful comic book series comes to the screen in this adaptation produced in part by Roger Corman and Forrest J. Ackerman. The planet Drakulon is populate by a race of vampires who are able to feed on the rivers of blood that flow naturally from Drakulon's oceans. But Vlad (Roger Daltrey) is an especially vicious blood-drinker who prefers to attack and kill others in order to satisfy his appetites. Vlad's appetite for violence leads him to kill the High Elder of Drakulon (Angus Scrimm), and Vlad, realizing he may have gone to far, flees to Earth to avoid capture by the authorities. The High Elder's daughter, sultry Vampirella (Talisa Soto), travels to Earth to capture Vlad and bring him back to Drakulon to face justice. On Earth, Vlad has become well-known rock singer Johnny Blood while slaking his thirst with a growing number of unfortunate victims in his spare time. Vampirella finds tracking him down harder than she expected and she soon enlists the help of modern-day vampire hunter Adam Van Helsing (Richard Joseph Paul). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

In this humorous Western, Aussie Paul Hogan plays a cowboy running from the law. Lightning Jack Kane is a member of the notorious Younger Brother gang. He is the only member to survive their last shoot-out. Fortunately, he was only a minor member of the gang and escapes notice. Jack decides to rob a bank. He gets away with a small amount of cash and a mute, Ben, as a hostage. Unfortunately for Jack, Ben wants to be an outlaw so Jack is stuck with him. Eventually the two become grudging friends. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi