Brian May

Acting

1947-07-19 · Hampton, Middlesex, England, UK

Brian Harold May (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and astrophysicist. He is the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. He was the co-founder of Queen with lead singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor, having previously performed with Taylor in the band Smile, and bass player John Deacon. As a member of Queen, he became regarded as a virtuoso musician and he was identified with a distinctive sound created through his layered guitar work, often using a home-built electric guitar called the Red Special. He has a short cameo in Queen's biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).

Filmography

Andrea Bocelli - The Celebration：30th Anniversary

2025 · Movie

Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World

2025 · Series

Katy Perry: Night of a Lifetime

2024 · Movie

The Yardbirds: In Their Own Words

2024 · Movie

Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration

2024 · Movie

Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me

2024 · Movie

Queen: We Are the Champions – The Story of the Greatest Sports Anthem of All Time

2024 · Movie

Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud

2024 · Movie

The Rory Gallagher Story

2024 · Movie

Rory Gallagher: Calling Card

2024 · Movie

Jean-Michel Jarre - Starmus: Bridge from the Future

2024 · Movie

Jean-Michel Jarre - Bridge from the Future

2024 · Movie

60 Songs: BBC Two at 60

2024 · Movie

Queen Rock Montreal

2024 · Movie

Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari

2023 · Movie

Rock: the origin

2023 · Movie

Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life

2022 · Movie

Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

2022 · Movie

Rhapsody Over London

2022 · Movie

ABBA V Queen

2022 · Movie

Platinum Party at the Palace

2022 · Movie

Freddie Mercury: The Final Act

2022 · Movie

Queen at the BBC

2021 · Movie

Der Echte Freddie Mercury - Die Münchner Jahre

2021 · Movie

Die Helene Fischer Show - Meine schönsten Momente

2020 · Movie

Queen: The Band that Rocked the World

2020 · Movie

Queen + Adam Lambert: Live Around The World

2020 · Movie

Queen + Adam Lambert: Tour Watch Party

2020 · Movie

The Shadows At Sixty

2020 · Movie

Reunited Apart

2020 · Series

We are the Champions - 50 Jahre Queen

2020 · Movie

Queen + Adam Lambert: Fire Fight Australia

2020 · Movie

Newscast

2020 · Series

Queen + Adam Lambert - Great Lawn in Central Park

2019 · Movie

13 Moments That Made Freddie Mercury and Queen

2019 · Movie

The Day We Walked on the Moon

2019 · Movie

Liam Gallagher: As It Was

2019 · Movie

The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story

2019 · Movie

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2019 Induction Ceremony

2019 · Movie

Bohemian Rhapsody: Recreating Live Aid

2019 · Movie

The Look and Sound of Queen

2019 · Movie

Bohemian Rhapsody

2018 · Movie

Freddie Mercury: The King of Queen

2018 · Movie

Queen : The American Dream

2017 · Movie

QUEEN - News Of The World [40th Anniversary]

2017 · Movie

Life After Flash

2017 · Movie

Queen: Rock the World

2017 · Movie

Buddy Holly: Rave On

2017 · Movie

Freedom : La Story de George Michael

2016 · Movie

Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World

2016 · Movie

Queen & Adam Lambert: Rock in Rio (Lisboa)

2016 · Movie

Queen: A Night in Bohemia

2016 · Movie

Queen: From Rags to Rhapsody

2015 · Movie

The Ritchie Blackmore Story

2015 · Movie

Queen and Adam Lambert: Rock in Rio 2015

2015 · Movie

51 Degrees North

2015 · Movie

Queen + Adam Lambert: Rock Big Ben Live

2014 · Movie

Die Helene Fischer Show 2014

2014 · Movie

The Nation's Favourite Queen Song

2014 · Movie

One Night in Hell

2014 · Movie

The Joy of the Guitar Riff

2014 · Movie

Brian May & Kerry Ellis - The Candlelight Concerts Live at Montreux

2014 · Movie

Bad Company | The Official Authorized 40th Anniversary Documentary

2014 · Movie

Queen: Will Rock You

2014 · Movie

Queen + Adam Lambert: iHeart Radio Music Festival

2013 · Movie

The Sunflower Superjam 2012

2013 · Movie

Queen: Live at the Prince's Trust Rock Gala 2010

2013 · Movie

London 2012 Olympic Games

2012 · Series

Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender

2012 · Movie

Queen Budapest

2012 · Movie

Queen: A Magic Year

2012 · Movie

London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music

2012 · Movie

Queen + Adam Lambert: Live in Kyiv, Ukraine

2012 · Movie

Foxes Live: Wild in the City

2012 · Series

Evening Urgant

2012 · Series

The Story of Musicals

2012 · Series

Story Of Queen: Mercury Rising

2011 · Movie

Foo Fighters The Roundhouse Concert

2011 · Movie

My Chemical Romance: Reading Festival 2011

2011 · Movie

Brian May's Brief History of 3D

2011 · Movie

Queen: Days of Our Lives

2011 · Movie

Top of the Pops, 1964 to 1975 - Big Hits

2011 · Movie

I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern

2011 · Movie

Vox Pop: How Dartford Powered the British Beat Boom

2011 · Movie

The Michael Ball Show

2010 · Series

BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge

2010 · Series

Queen + Paul Rodgers: Live in Ukraine

2009 · Movie

The Story of the Yardbirds

2008 · Movie

Queen: Rock Montreal & Live Aid

2007 · Movie

Queen Under Review: 1973-1980

2007 · Movie

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

2007 · Series

Queen: Rock Case Studies

2007 · Movie

Seven Ages of Rock

2007 · Series

Queen: We Are The Champions - Live In Europe

2007 · Movie

Foo Fighters: Hyde Park

2006 · Movie

The Very Best of Freddie Mercury and Queen

2006 · Movie

Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic

2006 · Movie

Queen: Bohemian Champions - Interviews

2006 · Movie

VH1 Rock Honors

2006 · Movie

Queen: On the Rock Trail

2006 · Movie

Queen + Paul Rodgers: Super Live In Japan

2006 · Movie

Classic Albums: Queen - The Making of A Night at the Opera

2006 · Movie

Queen: Music Video Box Documentary

2006 · Movie

Queen + Paul Rodgers: Return of the Champions

2005 · Movie

Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today

2005 · Movie

Live Aid Against All Odds

2005 · Movie

Dancing with the Stars

2005 · Series

The Strat Pack: Live in Concert

2005 · Movie

The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody

2004 · Movie

Live Aid

2004 · Movie

Zucchero | Zu and co.: Live at Royal Albert Hall

2004 · Movie

Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl

2004 · Movie

Queen: Greatest Video Hits 2

2003 · Movie

Pavarotti & Friends for SOS Iraq

2003 · Movie

Inside the Rhapsody

2002 · Movie

Queen: Greatest Video Hits

2002 · Movie

American Idol

2002 · Series

Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace

2002 · Movie

Killer Queen!

2002 · Movie

Jerry Lee Lewis and Friends

2002 · Movie

Queen - The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert 10th Anniversary Documentary

2002 · Movie

Queen: Live at the Museum Square Amsterdam

2002 · Movie

Queen - Heaven

2001 · Movie

Motörhead: 25 & Alive Boneshaker

2001 · Movie

Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story

2000 · Movie

Queen: Is This the Real Life?

1999 · Movie

Furia

1999 · Movie

Parkinson

1998 · Series

Classic Albums

1997 · Series

Queen: Made in Heaven

1997 · Movie

The Queen Phenomenon

1995 · Movie

Queen: Champions of the World

1995 · Movie

Paul Rodgers And Friends - Live At Montreux

1994 · Movie

The Brian May Band - Live at the Brixton Academy

1994 · Movie

Brian May - Live in Barcelona 1993

1993 · Movie

A Life of Extravaganza - The Genius Frank Zappa

1993 · Movie

Pavarotti & Friends

1992 · Movie

Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica

1992 · Movie

ECHO-Verleihung

1992 · Series

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

1992 · Movie

Queen - We Are The Champions - Final Live In Japan 1985

1992 · Movie

Guitar Legends EXPO '92 at Sevilla - The Hard Rock Night

1991 · Movie

Queen: Days of Our Lives

1991 · Movie

Queen: Greatest Flix II

1991 · Movie

Queen: Greatest Flix I and II

1991 · Movie

Guitar

1991 · Movie

Bon Jovi | Access All Areas: A Rock & Roll Odyssey

1990 · Movie

Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3

1989 · Movie

Queen : Rare Live – A Concert Through Time and Space

1989 · Movie

This Morning

1988 · Series

Téléthon

1987 · Series

Queen: Magic Years - A Visual Anthology

1987 · Movie

Queen: The Magic Years vol. 3

1987 · Movie

Queen: The Magic Years vol. 1

1987 · Movie

Queen: The Magic Years vol. 2

1987 · Movie

Daytime Live

1987 · Series

Queen: Live in Japan 1982

1986 · Movie

Queen: Live at Wembley Stadium

1986 · Movie

Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 1

1986 · Movie

Highlander

1986 · Movie

Live Aid

1985 · Movie

Queen: Live Aid

1985 · Movie

Queen: Live In Rio

1985 · Movie

MTV Video Music Awards

1984 · Series

Red Hot Rock

1984 · Movie

The Man Who Saved the World

1982 · Movie

We Will Rock You

1982 · Movie

QUEEN - The Hot Space Box

1982 · Movie

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea

1981 · Movie

Queen: Live in Argentina

1981 · Movie

Queen: Greatest Flix

1981 · Movie

Flash Gordon

1980 · Movie

The Queen Special

1980 · Movie

Question Time

1979 · Series

Queen: Live in Tokyo

1979 · Movie

Queen: Live At Budokan

1979 · Movie

Live Killers

1979 · Movie

Young Music Show

1978 · Series

Queen: Definitive Houston

1977 · Movie

The BRIT Awards

1977 · Series

Queen: Live at Earl's Court Arena

1977 · Movie

Queen: An Evening At The Concert Hall

1977 · Movie

Domenica In

1976 · Series

Queen: Live in Hyde Park

1976 · Movie

Queen: A Night at the Odeon

1975 · Movie

Numéro un

1975 · Series

Queen: Live at the Rainbow '74

1974 · Movie

Queen: Queen I

1973 · Movie

Great Performances

1971 · Series

NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen

1951 · Series

Midnight Dreamers

Movie