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Kid Creole
Actor, ComposerBorn August 12, 1950 (75 years)
Thomas August Darnell Browder, aka August Darnell--who goes by the stage name Kid Creole--is an American singer, musician and songwriter. He co-founded Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band with his half-brother Stony Browder Jr., then went on to form and lead Kid Creole and the Coconuts. The latter band, with its trio of backing female singers (dubbed the Coconuts), draw upon musical influences as disparate as salsa, no wave, jazz, disco, pop music and big band. Darnell has written and produced for other artists and bands, such as Machine and Gichy Dan's Beachwood No. 9. He and the Coconuts have also contributed songs to numerous motion picture soundtracks, including "My Male Curiosity" for Against All Odds (1984).
Kid Creole Filmography
| 2013 | Mood Indigo · as Duke Ellington |
| 2008 | Be Kind Rewind · as West Coast Video Employee Passaic |
| 1989 | Identity Crisis · as Thrift Shop Man |
| 1987 | Obsession: A Taste for Fear · as Bookmaker |
| 1982 | Na sowas! (TV Series) · as Themselves |
| 2011 | Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 5 · as Self |
| 2008 | Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 3 · as Self |
| 2001 | Lorraine (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2000 | Downtown 81 · as Self - Vocals And Guitar, Kid Creole & The Coconuts |
| 2000 | BBC Breakfast (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | Light Lunch (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | The Big Breakfast (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | Only You · as Self |
| 1992 | Bad Girls · as Self |
| 1990 | The Forbidden Dance · as Kid Creole |
| 1984 | Against All Odds · as Kid Creole |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1973 | Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1971 | The Generation Game (TV Series) · as Self - Guest Star |
| 1964 | Top of the Pops (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2024 | Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | New York Stories · as Original Music Composer |