Biography
Michael Lee Aday (September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022) (height 6ft), better known as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor. He was noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of Hell trilogy—Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose—has sold more than 65 million albums worldwide. More than four decades after its release, the first album still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually and staye...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
A short film tribute about the musician Meat Loaf, released by his family in 2023 on the anniversary of his death.

McEnroe
2022
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Legendary "bad boy of tennis" John McEnroe finally tells his side of his storied career and famously hot-tempered performances on the court in this en...

Rocky Horror 45: The Movie
2021
as Self
Underground filmmaker Manny Velazquez dives into the immortal history and legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its lesser known sequel Shock Tr...

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the triumphs and hurdles of brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb, otherwise known as the Bee Gees. The iconic trio, who found early fa...

#NoJoke
2019
as Self
A musician's journey to create a song with some of the biggest stars in the industry. Along the way, he faces up to his painful past, while giving vie...
Meat Loaf - Die Rocklegende
2016
as Meat Loaf

Sausage Party
2016
as Meatloaf (voice) (uncredited)
Hot dog Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become ch...
Meat Loaf - Live In Bergen 2015
2015
as Himself
SETLIST: 01 Running for the Red Light 02 Life is a Lemon 03 Break It 04 You Took the Words 05 Dead Ringer 06 Los Angeloser 07 The Giving Tree ...

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015
as Self (archive footage)
A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring ...

Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell
2015
as Self
Documentary featuring an intimate profile of American rock legend Meat Loaf, spanning from his childhood of domestic violence, through a decade of rej...

Wishin' and Hopin'
2014
as Monsignor Muldoon
Felix Funicello is a Catholic school fifth-grader in 1964, whose claim to fame is his cousin Annette Funicello, the famous Mouseketeer and teen movie ...

Stage Fright
2014
as Roger McCall
A high-end musical theater camp is terrorized by a bloodthirsty killer who hates musical theater.

All American Christmas Carol
2013
as Ross
A white-trash mom is visited by three ghosts intent on showing her a path to a brighter future.

The Moment
2013
as Sergeant Goodman
Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover's (Martin Henderson) disappea...

Meat Loaf: Guilty Pleasure Tour - Live From Sydney
2012
as Himself
64-year-old Meat Loaf hits the stage in Sydney accompanied by an army of HD cameras filming what he announced to fans would be one of his final trips ...

Meat Loaf: Guilty Pleasure Tour - Live From Sydney
2012
Director
64-year-old Meat Loaf hits the stage in Sydney accompanied by an army of HD cameras filming what he announced to fans would be one of his final trips ...

Absolute Killers
2011
as Dan
Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his con...

Beautiful Boy
2011
as Motel Clerk
A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass-shooting at his college, then took his own ...

Burning Bright
2010
as Howie
After her lousy stepfather steals her savings to buy a vicious tiger, Kelly loses all hope of going to college. But Kelly's situation worsens when a h...

Polish Bar
2010
as Joe
Reuben is a young, middle-class Jew who is fed up with the family jewelry business. He looks for respect by trying to prove himself as a Hip Hop DJ an...

Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell - The Original Tour
2009
as Himself - Lead Vocals
This concert from the Stadthalle Offenbach in Germany was filmed on June 11th. 1978 for the German Rockpalast TV series and perfectly captures the raw...

Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell - The Original Tour
2009
Lyricist
This concert from the Stadthalle Offenbach in Germany was filmed on June 11th. 1978 for the German Rockpalast TV series and perfectly captures the raw...

Citizen Jane
2009
as Detective Jack Morris (as Meat Loaf Aday)
Jane Alexander's idyllic life in San Francisco is shattered when her beloved, elderly aunt is brutally murdered. But when her fiancé, Tom O'Donnell, b...

Meat Loaf: Three Bats Live
2007
as Himself
3 Bats Live is a music DVD by rock singer Meat Loaf. Recorded on March 18, 2007 at London, Ontario during his Seize the Night tour, it mainly features...

Meat Loaf: Three Bats Live
2007
Executive Producer
3 Bats Live is a music DVD by rock singer Meat Loaf. Recorded on March 18, 2007 at London, Ontario during his Seize the Night tour, it mainly features...

Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise
2007
as Self
Meat Loaf, the legendary rocker, reveals surprising shades of himself -- and his internal demons -- as he sets out on an ambitious world tour.

Urban Decay
2007
as Rick Zero
Cab driver Stan slams into a homeless man who gets up and walks away, leaving behind a scarf covered with writhing maggots. Obsessed with the mystery,...

Pelts
2006
as Jake Feldman
Jake Feldman is a furrier struggling to build a business while being tormented by his obsession with a stripper. When a sadistic backwoods trapper kil...

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
2006
as Bud Black (uncredited)
In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest...

The Pleasure Drivers
2006
as Dale
"The Pleasure Drivers" lays out three separate interconnected stories involving an adulterous therapist, a young sociopath call girl, a vicious lesbia...

Crazylove
2005
as John (as Meat Loaf Aday)
Letty Mayer, young and beautiful, has a cherished job as a teacher, a successful attorney boyfriend, and a tight knit family that is excited about her...

BloodRayne
2005
as Leonid
In 18th-century Romania, after spending much of her life in a traveling circus, human-vampire hybrid Rayne escapes and plots to take down her father, ...

Extreme Dating
2005
as Marshall Jackson
In this action-comedy, four twenty-something friends are looking for love and having no luck. While on a ski trip, one of them finds passion with a be...

Chasing Ghosts
2005
as Richard Valbruno
A serial killer targeting the city's mobsters taunts police with clues and photos left behind at the crime scenes. A veteran cop takes on a rookie par...

Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 1
2005
as self
Best of Night of the Proms 1 featuring John Miles, Joe Cocker, Simple Minds, Chrissie Hynde, Bryan ferry, UB40, Howard Jones, Toto, Rodger Hodgson, Th...

Meat Loaf: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
2004
as Himself - Artist
Recorded Live in Melbourne, Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra February 20 & 22, 2004.

Meat Loaf: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
2004
Executive Producer
Recorded Live in Melbourne, Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra February 20 & 22, 2004.

A Hole in One
2004
as Billy
A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy.

Let it Rock: Volume 1
2003
as Self
A collection of rare TV recordings by some of the biggest acts in rock history.
Learning Curves
2003
as Timmons
Brad, an art student hoping to win a prestigious fellowship, finds his life and career turned upside down when he falls for a faculty member at his co...

Wishcraft
2002
as Detective Sparky Shaw
Brett is a high-school outcast who doesn't run with the in crowd, unlike Samantha, the cheerleader he has a desperate crush on. Then one day, he gets ...

The Car Kid
2002
Two unlikely heroes become connected through their love of music, and on the day they meet, their lives are changed forever.

The Salton Sea
2002
as Bo
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriend...

The 51st State
2001
as The Lizard
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of decei...

Focus
2001
as Fred
In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the vict...

Trapped
2001
as Jim Hankins
Hotel guests become trapped by a raging fire.

Rustin
2001
as Coach Trellingsby
Rick Johnson directs and stars in this small town drama about a man who is forced to confront some uncomfortable issues when his past comes back to ha...

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
as Amos "Rattlesnake Jake" Frogge
The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.

Blacktop
2000
as Jack
After a fight with her boyfriend, a woman unknowingly accepts a ride from a psychopath.

Behind the Music: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1999
as Self

Crazy in Alabama
1999
as Sheriff John Doggett
An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a co...

Fight Club
1999
as Robert Paulson
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches o...

Meat Loaf VH1: Storytellers
1999
as Self
a live concert tour by Meat Loaf which one concert was played on the channel VH1. Meat Loaf told humorous stories of his career as a singer and how he...

Classic Albums: Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
1999
as Self
Never one for understatement, the aptly named singer known as Meat Loaf (aka Marvin Lee Aday) teamed with operatically-minded pianist-composer Jim Ste...

The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999
This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions.

Outside Ozona
1998
as Floyd Bibbs
A widowed trucker fends off isolation in the company of a dog named Girl, two bickering sisters try to reconcile their differences and a down-and-out ...

Chef Aid: Behind The Menu
1998
as Self
The fascinating life of South Park's musical cafeteria employee, Jerome "Chef" McElroy, is examined in this exclusive behind-the-scenes special. Chef'...

Everything That Rises
1998
as Red
His son's critical injury forces a Montana man (Dennis Quaid) to reconsider priorities as he struggles to retain family land.

The Mighty
1998
as Iggy
Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not autho...

Black Dog
1998
as Red
An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to su...

Gunshy
1998
as Lew Collins
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved ...

Spice World
1997
as Dennis
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their ...

Pavarotti & Friends 3 - Together for the Children of Bosnia
1995
as Self
Pavarotti & Friends was a series of benefit concerts hosted by Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti between 1992 and 2003 in his home town of Mode...

The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show
1995
as Self
This short documentary, produced in celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, features interviews (most previously availab...

To Catch a Yeti
1995
as Big Jake Grizzly
Big Jake's after Bigfoot in the Big Apple. It's the biggest chase this town has ever seen.

I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
1993
as The Beast
A take on "Beauty and The Beast" and "Phantom of the Opera" in which Meatloaf pursues a beautiful woman as he's chased by the cops.

Psyched for Snuppa
1993
as Snuppa (voice) (as Meatloaf)
Bianca is taken hostage while babysitting and Snuppa, Sniz and Fondue come to her rescue.

Leap of Faith
1992
as Hoover
Jonas Nightengale is a fraudulent Christian faith healer who makes a living travelling around America holding revival meetings and conducting 'miracle...

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
as Larry
A Southern librarian puts excitement in her life with a found murder weapon and a false confession.

Wayne's World
1992
as Tiny
The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World...

Motorama
1991
as Vern
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America play...

Meat Loaf - Hits out of Hell
1991
as Himself
Though Hits out of Hell shares the title of Meat Loaf's 1984 greatest hits album, the tracklisting is not quite the same: curiously, the DVD omits "De...

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1988
as Self (uncredited)
The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special.

Vandemonium Plus
1987
Ann Magnuson is launched off the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle while doing a bong rip, and into a strange fantasy world airbrushed on the side of...

The Squeeze
1987
as Titus
Harry Berg is both a con artist and an actual artist -- he constructs large sculptures out of television sets -- but he is not particularly successful...
The Grand Knockout Tournament
1987
as Self
The Grand Knockout Tournament (colloquially also known as It's a Royal Knockout) was a one-off charity event which was shown on British television on ...

Kerrang! Video Kompilation 2
1987
The second installment of Kerrang's Video Kompilation series featuring: Iron Maiden - Stranger In A Strange Land, Gary Moore - Over The Hills And Fa...

Thrashin'
1986
Theme Song Performance
Corey and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they're more interested in girls and having fun on their boards than in getting into...

Out of Bounds
1986
as Gil
Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at...

Feel the Motion
1985
as Meat Loaf
Young Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries her luck in the music show 'Formel Eins'. There she meet...

Feel the Motion
1985
Music
Young Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries her luck in the music show 'Formel Eins'. There she meet...

Meat Loaf: Bad Attitude Live
1985
Meat Loaf and the Neverland Express, recorded live at London's Brixton Academy, on the 'Bad Attitude' tour, 1985.

Meat Loaf Live At Wembley 1982
1982
as Himself
Live is a live video of Meat Loaf, recorded at the Wembley Arena in London, on April 29, 1982. According to a misprint on some versions, the songs "Pa...

Dead Ringer
1981
as Meat Loaf/Marvin
Part fiction, part documentary. Dead Ringer was created as a promotional tie-in to Meat Loaf's album of the same name, which was his follow-up to the ...

Roadie
1980
as Travis W. Redfish
A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll sh...

Scavenger Hunt
1979
as Scum
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or te...

Americathon
1979
as Oklahoma Daredevil, Roy Budnitz
In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent ...

Rockpalast - Meat Loaf
1978
as himself
Rockpalast series featuring Meat Loaf

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975
as Eddie
After getting a flat tire, two sweethearts discover the eerie mansion of a flamboyant scientist and houseful of wild characters. Through elaborate dan...

State Fair
1962
as Boy in Stands (uncredited)
Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. The parents are focused on winning the competitions for livestock and cooking....