David Hockney

Biography

David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He was an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, and he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.

Known For

Tim's Vermeer

Himself

My Generation

Self (voice)

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

A Bigger Splash

Self

The British Guide to Showing Off

Self (archive footage)

The Itch of the Golden Nit

The Painter (voice)

Queer as Art

Self

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	David Hockney: A Life in Art	Self
2025	Yuja Wang x David Hockney London Lightroom
2023	David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (Not Smaller & Further Away)	Himself
2023	David Hockney: In London	Self
2023	David Hockney: In Normandy	Self
2023	David Hockney: 50 Years on Film	Self (Archive footage)
2023	David Hockney: A Celebration	Self
2018	Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar	Self
2017	Queer as Art	Self
2017	David Hockney: Time Reclaimed	Himself
2017	David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts	Self
2017	Love, Cecil	Self
2017	My Generation	Self (voice)
2016	Portraits	Himself
2015	Artistry/Technology	Self
2014	Hockney	Himself
2013	Tim's Vermeer	Himself
2012	David Hockney: The Art of Seeing	Self
2012	Lucian Freud: Painted Life	Himself
2011	The Itch of the Golden Nit	The Painter (voice)
2011	The British Guide to Showing Off	Self (archive footage)
2009	Hockney on Photography and Other Matters	Self
2009	David Hockney: A Bigger Picture	himself
2006	Who Gets to Call It Art?	Self
2004	The NEW Shock of the New	Self
2003	Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)	Self
2003	David Hockney: Double Portrait	Self
2001	David Hockney: Secret Knowledge	Himself
1996	Tony Bennett's New York	Self
1995	Shotgun Freeway	self
1990	Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1988	Hockney at the Tate	Self
1988	A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth	Self
1983	David Hockney: Joiner Photographs	Self
1981	Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius	Himself
1978	Seeing Through Drawing	Self
1977	Fire in the Water
1973	A Bigger Splash	Self
1972	Portrait of David Hockney	Himself
1971	Beaton by Bailey	Self
1970	David Hockney's Diaries	Himself
1970	Genius
1969	Heads	Self
1968	Love's Presentation	Self
1967	Tonite Let's All Make Love in London	Self
1966	Go Go Go Said the Bird	Himself
1965	The Responsive Eye	Self

Year	TV Show	Role
1992	Behind the Scenes	himself