Sting
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Sting

Oct 2, 1951 - Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK

Sting (aka Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, activist, actor and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist of the rock band The Police.

Sting has varied his musical style throughout his career, incorporating distinct elements of jazz, reggae, classical, new age, and worldbeat into his music. As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, and an Oscar nomination for the best song. He is a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Credits

Cast

Media
Movie1998Lock, Stock and Two Smoking BarrelsJD
Movie1984DuneFeyd Rautha
Movie2004George Michael: A Different StorySelf
Movie2021Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.Self
Movie1979QuadropheniaAce Face
Movie2007Bee MovieSting (voice)
Movie2009The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ConcertsSelf
Movie1985Sting - Bring on the NightSelf
Movie1980Punk and Its AftershocksSelf
Movie1988Stormy MondayFinney
Movie2000The Filth and the FurySelf (archive footage)
Movie2008The Police: CertifiableSelf - Bass, Vocals
Movie2001America | A Tribute to HeroesSelf - Performer
Movie1985PlentyMick
Movie2006Herbie Hancock: PossibilitiesSelf
Movie1985The BrideFrankenstein
Movie1988The Adventures of Baron MunchausenHeroic Officer
Movie2016Attenborough at 90Self
Movie2005Live 8Self
Movie2021Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull StorySelf
Movie2004Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?Self
Movie2021Sting au Panthéon (50 ans de FIP)Self
Movie1981Artemis '81Helith
Movie2003Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred LoveSelf - Bass, Guitar, Lead Vocals
Movie1985Live AidSelf
Movie1999Sting: The Brand New Day Tour: Live From The Universal AmphitheatreSelf - Vocals, Bass
Movie2008The Police: Live In Concert TokyoSelf
Movie1979Radio OnJust Like Eddie
Movie1988Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos AiresSelf
Movie2002Chris Botti & Friends - Night Sessions: Live in ConcertSelf
Movie1995The GrotesqueFledge
Movie2010Sting: Live In BerlinSelf - Performer
Movie2020Herb Alpert Is...Self
Movie1985Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help BritainMachiavelli
Movie1982Brimstone & TreacleMartin Taylor
Movie2001Sting: All this TimeSelf - Lead Singer
Movie2011Sting Festival de Viña del MarSelf
Movie1988Julia and JuliaDaniel Hosler
Movie1982The Secret Policeman's Other BallSelf
MovieN/ACMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince GillSelf
Movie2007Everyone Stares: The Police Inside OutSelf - The Police Member (archive footage)
Movie2023WHAM!Self (archive footage)
Movie1998The MightyThe Balladeer
Movie2004Sting: The Journey & The Labyrinth: The Music of John DowlandSelf
Movie1991Sting UnpluggedSelf - Double Bass, Vocals
Movie1982The Police: Around The WorldSelf
Movie2010Hope for Haiti NowSelf
Movie2000The Beatles RevolutionSelf
Movie2021Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)Self
Movie201320 Feet from StardomSelf
Movie1993Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev FantasyNarrator (voice)
Movie2009The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in PetraSelf
Movie1990Resident AlienSinger
Movie1983Police in MontserratSelf
Movie2009Twin Spirits: Sting performs SchumannRobert Schumann
Movie2012Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The PoliceSelf
Movie2012RadiomanSelf
Movie2016Sting: 57th and 9th - The InterviewsSelf
Movie2023Ego: The Michael Gudinski StorySelf
Movie1995The Police - Outlandos To SynchronicitiesSelf
Movie2023The Book of SolutionsSting
Movie1990One World, One VoiceSelf
Movie1988Human Rights Now 25th AnniversarySelf - Musician
Movie2023Zucchero | Sugar FornaciariSelf
Movie2015Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icôneSelf
Movie2011Sting - 25 YearsSelf - Vocals, Bass
Movie2014Iain Goes Inside the Last ShipSelf
Movie2014Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares TributeSelf
Movie2023Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & RollSelf
Movie2018The Queen's Birthday PartySelf - Performer
Movie2014Sting: When the Last Ship Sails (Live at the Public Theater)Self - Host, Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bass
Movie2020GIMS: On the RecordSelf
Movie1991Sting: UnpluggedSelf
Movie1991Sting's 40th Birthday Celebration: Live from the Hollywood BowlSelf - Vocals, Bass, Guitar
Movie2006Chris Botti Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests
Movie2009Sting: A Winter's Night...Live From Durham CathedralSelf
Movie2009Bruce Springsteen - 32nd Annual of Kennedy Center HonorsSelf
Movie2010Still BillSelf
Movie2015JacoSelf
Movie1998Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil HartmanBilly Idol
Movie2004The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music EditionSelf
Movie1999Tina Turner : Celebrate!Self
Movie2022Sting : My Songs au château de ChambordSelf
Movie20222022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction CeremonySelf
Movie1988The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday ConcertSelf
Movie2010Sting - Fields Of Japan 1994Self
Movie2003Freedom BeatSelf
Movie2022Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul SimonSelf
Movie2009If on a Winter's Night ... Live from Durham CathedralSelf
Movie1985Dire Straits at Live Aid
Movie2023They All Came Out to MontreuxSelf
Movie2024Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square GardenSelf
Movie1988Peter Gabriel, Sting, & Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Now!Self - Musician
Movie1977Acceleration PunkSelf
Movie2007The Police - Greatest Video Hits
Movie2002The SweatboxSelf
Movie2016Sting Live At Irving PlazaSelf
Movie2016Zoolander 2Sting
Movie1999Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël CowardSelf
Movie2001The Police: Ghost in the Machine Tour - Live at GatesheadSelf
Movie2024Royal Opera House: Message in a BottleSelf - Lead Vocals
Movie2016Sonic SeaSelf
Movie1997Music for MontserratSelf
Movie2008The Police: Better Than TherapySelf
Movie2005An Intimate Evening with Mary J. Blige - Live from the House of BluesSelf
Movie2017The Dark Side of The SunNarrator
Movie2007The Police - Live in RioSelf
Movie1986U2 & The Police: A Conspiracy of HopeSelf
Movie2001Being MickSelf
Movie20102012: Time for ChangeSelf
Movie1981Urgh! A Music WarSelf
Movie2017Sting: Beyond The PoliceSelf - Musician
Movie2017Sting: Live at the Olympia ParisSelf - Vocals, Bass, Guitar
Movie2017Sting: A Free ManSelf
MovieN/ASting - Grenzgänger und FreigeistSelf
Movie2018Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard CohenSelf - Performer
Movie2018GurrumulSelf
Movie2018Ruben Blades Is Not My NameSelf
Movie1979Talking Pictures: QuadropheniaInterviewee
Movie2001All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!Self
Movie2016Sting au BataclanSelf
Movie2008The Police Rock in Rio - Live MadridSelf
Movie1994Sting ‎– Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting
Movie2007Scott Walker: 30 Century ManSelf
Movie2009BrünoSelf - 'Dove of Peace'
Movie2014John Mayer: Someday I'll FlySelf
Movie1979The Police - Live '79 at Hatfield Polytechnic
Movie2007STING: The Journey & The LabyrinthSelf
Movie1991Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie TaupinSelf - Guest
Movie2004Live AidSelf
Movie2009Chris Botti in BostonSelf
Movie2019I Want My MTVSelf
Movie1984The Police: Synchronicity ConcertSelf - Bass, Vocals
Movie2019Sting & Shaggy au Château d'HérouvilleSelf
Movie1993Take That Away!Self
Movie1991The Soul Cages ConcertSelf
Movie1997The Very Best of Sting & The Police
Movie1987Sting and Gil Evans: Strange FruitSelf - Vocals, Electric Bass
Movie2009Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGBSelf
Movie2019The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday CelebrationSelf
Movie1992Pavarotti & FriendsSelf
Movie2008Pavarotti The DuetsSelf
Movie2021Kaamelott: The First ChapterHorsa
Movie2016Rock'n'roll... Of Corse!Self
Movie1980The Police: Live At RockpalastSelf - Vocals, Bass
Movie1996The Police ‎– Live Ghost In The MachineSelf - Vocals, Bass
Movie1983The Police - Live In OaklandSelf - Vocals, Bass
Movie2020Space Songs: Through the DistanceSelf
Movie2005Live Aid: 20 Years Ago TodaySelf
Movie2020Have a Good Trip: Adventures in PsychedelicsSelf
Movie1988Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday TributeSelf
Movie2020Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown RatsSelf
Movie1991Branford Marsalis: SteepSelf
Movie2019Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll AnimalSelf
Movie1984'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid VideoSelf
Movie2003The Police - Every Breath You TakeSelf - Bass, Vocals
Movie1995The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween SpecialSelf
Movie2020Le Grand Concert Unis pour le LibanSelf
Movie1980The Police: Live in Essen - Rockpalast 1980Self
Movie1992Rolling Stone 25: The MTV SpecialSelf
Movie2017Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop StarSelf
Movie2015Biggest Band Break Ups and Make UpsSelf
Movie1997An Audience with Elton JohnSelf
Movie2021Under the VolcanoSelf
Movie2008VH1 Rock Honors: The WhoSelf
Movie2016Sting - Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2016Self
Movie2007Amazing Journey: The Story of The WhoSelf
Movie2009PoliWoodSelf
Movie2016Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to PeopleSelf
MovieN/ASting - Live at iHeartRadioSelf
Movie2024Sting and the Police at the BBCSelf
Movie2024Sting: Radio 2 in the Park
Movie2019Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le FilmSelf
Movie2024The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?Self
Movie1983Destination DuneSelf
Movie2021The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making DuneSelf (voice) (archive footage)
Movie2025FireAid Benefit ConcertSelf
Movie1987The Best of Max HeadroomSelf
Movie2025When Bruce Springsteen Came to BritainSelf
TV Show1989The SimpsonsSting (voice)1
TV Show1997Ally McBealSting1
TV Show2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self1
TV Show2006The One ShowSelf1
TV Show2006Studio 60 on the Sunset StripSelf1
TV Show1952TodaySelf1
TV Show1988LIVE with Kelly and MarkSelf1
TV Show1996TFI FridaySelf1
TV Show2008Markus LanzSelf1
TV Show1976The Secret Policeman's BallSelf15
TV Show1979CBS News Sunday Morning0
TV Show2012Finding Your RootsSelf2
TV Show1995MADtvSelf1
TV Show1989MTV UnpluggedSelf1
TV Show1982Late Night with David LettermanSelf1
TV Show1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest1
TV Show1984Al TVSelf (archive footage)1
TV Show1994TOTP2Self1
TV Show1953The OscarsSelf2
TV Show1999The Late Late Show with Craig KilbornSelf - Guest1
TV Show1993GMTVSelf1
TV Show2006Salut les Terriens !Self - Guest1
TV Show1992The Larry Sanders ShowSting1
TV Show1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host1
TV Show1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host & Musical Guest1
TV Show1963Viña del Mar International Song FestivalSelf - The Police2
TV Show2021Only Murders in the BuildingSting2
TV Show1974American Music AwardsSelf - Musical Guest1
TV Show1978The Kenny Everett Video Show1
TV Show1985Victoires de la musiqueSelf1
TV Show2004Miley's New Year's Eve PartySelf - Musical Guest1
TV Show2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf3
TV Show1989Under the SunSelf1
TV Show1999RoveSelf1
TV Show2008Little Britain USA1
TV Show2018Reel StoriesSelf - Guest Star1
TV Show1971The Old Grey Whistle TestSelf1
TV Show1978An Audience with...Self2
TV Show2016Catherine et LilianeSting1
TV Show1984MTV Video Music AwardsSelf1
TV Show1990Captain Planet and the PlaneteersZarm (voice)4
TV Show1997Leute heuteSelf2
TV Show1978Bio’s BahnhofSelf1
TV Show2003The Ellen DeGeneres ShowSelf1
TV Show2013The Michael J. Fox ShowSting1
TV Show2016Michael McIntyre's Big ShowSelf - Performer1
TV Show1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Musical Guest4
TV Show2011Life's Too ShortSting1
TV Show2017Brian Johnson's A Life on the RoadSelf1
TV Show2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest3
TV Show1948Bambi-VerleihungSelf1
TV Show2002CMT CrossroadsSelf1
TV Show2008NPR Tiny Desk ConcertsSelf2
TV Show2007Inas NachtSelf1
TV Show1975Les Rendez-vous du dimancheSelf1
TV Show2006LegendsSelf1
TV Show1999TV totalSelf1
TV Show1982Champs-ElyséesSelf2
TV Show2022Il était une fois Champs-ÉlyséesSelf (archive footage)1
TV Show2004On Air with Ryan SeacrestSelf1
TV Show1967Titel, Thesen, TemperamenteSelf1
TV Show2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf1
TV Show2015Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterSelf1
TV Show1982Champs-ElyséesSelf - The Police1
TV Show1963Viña del Mar International Song FestivalSelf - Musical Guest1
TV Show1995Lo + plusSelf - Guest1
TV Show2004KulturplatzSelf1
TV Show2001Star AcademySelf3
TV Show1987Le monde est à vousSelf1
TV Show1981De TV ShowSelf1
TV Show2020Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime CréationSelf3
TV Show1997Behind the MusicSelf1
TV Show1998Vivement dimancheSelf2
TV Show2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf2
TV Show1998ParkinsonSelf3
TV Show1989MTV Rockumentary1
TV Show1987Sacrée soiréeSelf4
TV Show1985The Max Headroom ShowSelf2
TV Show1959The GrammysSelf2
TV Show1974Rockpalast2
TV Show2025Lubach2
TV Show2025Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the WorldSelf3
TV Show2025Billy Joel: And So It GoesSelf2

Crew

Media
Movie2005AshuraTheme Song PerformanceSound
Movie2010Sting: Live In BerlinMusicSound
Movie2021Footsteps on the WindMusicSound
Movie2023Dolly Parton Rockstar Global First Listen EventMusicSound
Movie1995The Living SeaOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie2022Sting : My Songs au château de ChambordSongsSound
Movie2000The Emperor's New GrooveLyricistWriting
Movie2000The Emperor's New GrooveSongsSound
Movie2024Royal Opera House: Message in a BottleMusicSound
Movie2024Royal Opera House: Message in a BottleLyricistWriting
Movie1995Leaving Las VegasVocalsSound
Movie1995Leaving Las VegasThanksCrew
Movie2006A Guide to Recognizing Your SaintsExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie1995Leaving Las VegasSongsSound
Movie1987Someone to Watch Over MeTheme Song PerformanceSound
Movie1992Lethal Weapon 3Theme Song PerformanceSound
Movie2007The Trial of Tony BlairThanksCrew
Movie2007The Police - Greatest Video HitsDirectorDirecting
Movie1982Brimstone & TreacleOriginal Music ComposerSound