Steve Strange was born on May 28, 1959 in Porthcawl, South Wales, UK as Steven John Harrington. He was an actor, known for The Punk Rock Movie from England (1978), Bowie: The Video Collection (1993) and Urban Cowboy (1980). He died on February 12, 2015 in Sharm El Sheikh International Hospital, Sharm el-Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt.
Gillian Harrington, John Harrington, Fade To Grey, The Damned Don't Cry, Mind of a Toy
Siblings
Tanya Harrington
Awards
UK Festival Award for Agency Of The Year
Music Groups
Visage, The Moors Murderers, Strange Cruise, Fade To Grey, The Damned Don't Cry, Mind of a Toy
TV Shows
Celebrity Scissorhands
Star Sign
Gemini
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Quote
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[Wearing lipstick, rouge, and eye-liner] One bloke recently said to me, 'Cor, mate you're not on the stage now!' - So I turned round and said to him ' My dear, I'm on stage 24 hours a day'... and I am. - 1981
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Fact
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Simon Le Bon called him "the leading edge of New Romantic".
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London, England: Currently working with a new line-up of Visage. Released the band's fourth album "Hearts and Knives" in May 2013, the first new Visage album in 29 years. [August 2013]
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The single "Fade To Grey" reached no.8 in the UK charts, and no.1 in Germany.
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Is the lead vocalist of the 80s band Visage", who had hits with "Fade To Grey", "Mind Of A Toy", "Visage", "The Damned Don't Cry" and "Night Train".
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His autobiography, "Blitzed!: The Autobiography of Steve Strange" was published in 2002.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Goldenpop: The New Romantics
2010
TV Movie
Performing Music Artist
What to Do in a Zombie Attack
2006
Video short
Wrench Zombie
A Mind to Kill
2001
TV Series
Drug Dealer
Urban Cowboy
1980
Sam Strange
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Laurence Anyways
2012
performer: "Fade to Grey"
Welcome to the 80's
2009
TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode
Top of the Pops
1981
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Untitled Stephen Jones Documentary
Documentary post-production
Himself
Red Bull Revolutions in Sound
2014
TV Movie
Himself
Oh! You Pretty Things: The Story of British Music and Fashion
2014
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The Railway: First Great Western
2013
TV Series documentary
Himself - Passenger
Big Brother's Bit on the Side
2011-2013
TV Series
Himself
The Nation's Favourite Number 1 Single
2012
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
God Save the Queens
2012
Documentary
Himself
Loose Women
2012
TV Series
Himself
Great Lives
2011
TV Series documentary
Himself
Ashes to Ashes
2008
TV Series
Himself
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2001-2006
TV Series
Himself
Children in Need
2006
TV Series
Himself
Celebrity Scissorhands
2006
TV Series
Himself
Now That's Embarrassing: The 80s
2006
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop
2005
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Whatever Happened to the Gender Benders?
2005
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Big Brother's Efourum
2005
TV Series
Himself - Guest Panelist
Musikprogrammet - programmet om musik
2004
TV Series documentary
Himself - Visage
25 Years of Smash Hits
2003
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Bad Hair Days
2001
TV Movie documentary
Himself
This Way Up
2001
TV Series
Himself
After They Were Famous
2000
TV Series documentary
Himself
Top Ten
1999
TV Series documentary
Himself
Bowie: The Video Collection
1993
Video
Himself ("Ashes to Ashes")
Riverside
1982
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1980
TV Series
Himself
Steppin' Out
1979
Short documentary
The Punk Rock Movie from England
1978
Documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Top of the Pops: The Story of 1981
2016
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Soul Boys of the Western World
2014
Documentary
Himself / Founder The Blitz Club
Welcome to the 80's
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself / Themselves
Buzzcocks... Imagine a Mildly Amusing Panel Show
2007
TV Special
Himself
Ich will Spaß - Die 80er-Jahre-Pop-und-Schlagernacht mit Perlen aus Ost und West
2004
TV Special documentary
Himself - Visage (uncredited)
Best of Bowie
2002
Video documentary
Himself (segment "Ashes to Ashes")
Top of the Pops
1981-1982
TV Series
Himself - Visage
Known for movies
The Punk Rock Movie from England (1978) as Himself
Laurence Anyways (2012) as Soundtrack
Bowie: The Video Collection (1993) as Himself ("Ashes to Ashes")
Whatever Happened to the Gender Benders? (2005) as Himself
$1.9 Million
