Michael Lee Aday (September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022), 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 stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best-selling albums in history.
After the commercial success of Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, and earning a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the song “I’d Do Anything for Love”, Meat Loaf nevertheless experienced some difficulty establishing a steady career within the United States. This did not stop him from becoming one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records. The key to this success was his retention of iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the United Kingdom, where he received the 1994 Brit Award for best-selling album and single, appeared in the 1997 film Spice World, and ranks 23rd for the number of weeks spent on the UK charts, as of 2006. He ranks 96th on VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”.
Aday appeared in over 50 movies and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His film roles include Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Bob Paulson in Fight Club (1999). His early stage work included dual roles in the original Broadway cast of The Rocky Horror Show, and he also appeared in the musical Hair, both on- and off-Broadway.
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Meat Loaf Biography / Wiki
| Name | Meat Loaf |
| Also Know | Meat Loaf Aday, Marvin Lee Aday, Meatloaf, Michael Lee Aday |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Dallas, Texas, USA |
| Date of Birth | September 27, 1947 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 74 |
| Deathday | 2022-01-20 |
Meat Loaf Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Roadie | Travis W. Redfish | 1980-06-13 | 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… |
| Meat Loaf: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Himself – Artist | 2004-10-18 | Recorded Live in Melbourne, Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra February 20 & 22, 2004…. |
| Classic Albums: Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell | Self | 1999-01-01 | Never one for understatement, the aptly named singer known as Meat Loaf (aka Marvin Lee Aday) teamed with operatically-minded pianist-composer Jim Ste… |
| To Catch a Yeti | Big Jake Grizzly | 1995-01-12 | Big Jake’s after Bigfoot in the Big Apple. It’s the biggest chase this town has ever seen…. |
| Blacktop | Jack | 2000-10-20 | After a fight with her boyfriend, a woman unknowingly accepts a ride from a psychopath…. |
| Meat Loaf : Guilty Pleasure Tour – Live from Sydney | Himself | 2012-11-06 | 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 … |
| Pelts | Jake Feldman | 2006-12-01 | Meat Loaf Aday plays Jake Feldman, a furrier struggling to build a business while being tormented by his obsession for a stripper. When a sadistic bac… |
| Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell – The Original Tour | Himself – Lead Vocals | 2009-11-09 | 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 – Hits out of Hell | Himself | 1991-07-01 | 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… |
| Dead Ringer | Meat Loaf/Marvin | 1981-06-01 | 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 … |
| Meat Loaf – Live In Bergen 2015 | Himself | 2015-11-19 | 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 … |
| Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell | Himself | 2015-01-09 | Documentary featuring an intimate profile of American rock legend Meat Loaf, spanning from his childhood of domestic violence, through a decade of rej… |
| Meat Loaf – Die Rocklegende | Meat Loaf | 2016-11-30 | … |
| Meat Loaf: Three Bats Live | Himself | 2007-10-15 | 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 Live At Wembley 1982 | Himself | 1982-04-29 | 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… |
| Rockpalast – Meat Loaf | himself | 1978-06-11 | Rockpalast series featuring Meat Loaf… |
| Meat Loaf: Bad Attitude Live | 1985-05-01 | Meat Loaf and the Neverland Express, recorded live at London’s Brixton Academy, on the ‘Bad Attitude’ tour, 1985…. | |
| Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise | Self | 2007-01-01 | Meat Loaf, the legendary rocker, reveals surprising shades of himself — and his internal demons — as he sets out on an ambitious world tour…. |
| I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) | The Beast | 1993-09-11 | 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…. |
| Extreme Dating | Marshall Jackson | 2005-06-23 | 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… |
| Crazylove | John (as Meat Loaf Aday) | 2005-10-22 | 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… |
| Black Dog | Red | 1998-05-01 | 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… |
| The Car Kid | 2002-05-11 | Two unlikely heroes become connected through their love of music, and on the day they meet, their lives are changed forever…. | |
| Stage Fright | Roger McCall | 2014-04-03 | A snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical theater…. |
| Learning Curves | Timmons | 2003-08-02 | 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… |
| Rustin | Coach Trellingsby | 2001-06-18 | 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… |
| A Hole in One | Billy | 2004-05-02 | A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy…. |
| Vandemonium Plus | 1987-12-31 | 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… | |
| Absolute Killers | 2014-08-19 | 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… | |
| Psyched for Snuppa | Snuppa (voice) (as Meatloaf) | 1993-06-01 | Bianca is taken hostage while babysitting and Snuppa, Sniz and Fondue come to her rescue…. |
| Citizen Jane | Detective Jack Morris (as Meat Loaf Aday) | 2009-09-12 | 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, … |
| Let it Rock: Volume 1 | Himself | 2003-12-09 | A collection of rare TV recordings by some of the biggest acts in rock history…. |
| Kerrang! Video Kompilation 2 | 1987-01-01 | The second installment of Kerrang’s Video Kompilation series featuring: Iron Maiden – Stranger In A Strange Land, Gary Moore – Over The Hills And Fa… | |
| Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 1 | self | 2005-01-01 | 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… |
| Fight Club | Robert “Bob” Paulson | 1999-10-15 | 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… |
| The 51st State | The Lizard | 2001-12-07 | 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… |
| The Pleasure Drivers | Dale | 2006-06-28 | “The Pleasure Drivers” lays out three separate interconnected stories involving an adulterous therapist, a young sociopath call girl, a vicious lesbia… |
| Chasing Ghosts | Richard Valbruno | 2005-05-11 | 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… |
| Focus | Fred | 2001-10-19 | 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… |
| The Ballad of Lucy Whipple | Amos “Rattlesnake Jake” Frogge | 2001-01-20 | The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s…. |
| Everything That Rises | Red | 1998-07-12 | His son’s critical injury forces a Montana man (Dennis Quaid) to reconsider priorities as he struggles to retain family land…. |
| The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show | Self | 1995-08-14 | This short documentary, produced in celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, features interviews (most previously availab… |
| Crazy in Alabama | Sheriff John Doggett | 1999-10-22 | 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… |
| The Moment | Sergeant Goodman | 2013-04-21 | Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover’s (Martin Henderson) disappea… |
| The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man | 1999-01-01 | This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions…. | |
| Rocky Horror 45: The Movie | Self | 2021-05-24 | Underground filmmaker Manny Velazquez dives into the immortal history and legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its lesser known sequel Shock Tr… |
| Wishcraft | Detective Sparky Shaw | 2002-09-25 | 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 … |
| Leap of Faith | Hoover | 1992-12-18 | Jonas Nightengale is a fraudulent Christian faith healer who makes a living travelling around America holding revival meetings and conducting ‘miracle… |
| The Mighty | Iggy | 1998-06-01 | 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… |
| Beautiful Boy | Motel Clerk | 2010-09-12 | 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 … |
| Gunshy | Lew Collins | 1998-03-06 | 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 … |
| The Squeeze | Titus | 1987-07-10 | 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… |
| Wishin’ and Hopin’ | Monsignor Muldoon | 2014-11-23 | 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 … |
| Behind the Music: The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Self | 1999-10-31 | … |
| Feel the Motion | Himself | 1985-07-05 | … |
| Pavarotti & Friends 3 – Together for the Children of Bosnia | Himself | 1995-09-12 | Pavarotti And Friends Together For Children Of Bosnia… |
| Burning Bright | Howie | 2010-08-17 | 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… |
| Americathon | Oklahoma Daredevil, Roy Budnitz | 1979-08-10 | 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 … |
| Outside Ozona | Floyd Bibbs | 1998-12-18 | A drama revolving around a group of strangers brought together by a common occurrence as well as listening to the same radio station…. |
| All American Christmas Carol | Ross | 2013-11-05 | A white-trash mom is visited by three ghosts intent on showing her a path to a brighter future…. |
| #NoJoke | Himself | 2019-09-09 | 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… |
| One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage | Self (uncredited) | 1988-12-25 | The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special…. |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Eddie | 1975-08-14 | Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As thei… |
| BloodRayne | Leonid | 2005-10-22 | 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, … |
| State Fair | Boy in Stands (uncredited) | 1962-03-09 | 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…. |
| Wayne’s World | Tiny | 1992-02-14 | 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… |
| Trapped | Jim Hankins | 2001-07-24 | Hotel guests become trapped by a raging fire…. |
| Spice World | Dennis | 1997-12-18 | World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their … |
| McEnroe | Self (Archival Footage) | 2022-07-15 | 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… |
| Out of Bounds | Gil | 1986-07-25 | 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… |
| The Salton Sea | Bo | 2002-02-02 | 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… |
| Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon | Self (archive footage) | 2015-01-25 | A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring … |
| Scavenger Hunt | Scum | 1979-12-21 | 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… |
| The Grand Knockout Tournament | Self | 1987-06-19 | 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 … |
| Motorama | Vern | 1991-09-10 | 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… |
| The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag | Larry | 1992-08-21 | A Southern librarian puts excitement in her life with a found murder weapon and a false confession…. |
| Sausage Party | Meatloaf (voice) (uncredited) | 2016-07-11 | Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to … |
| Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | Bud Black (uncredited) | 2006-11-22 | 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… |
Meat Loaf Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Meat Loaf : Guilty Pleasure Tour – Live from Sydney | Director | 2012-11-06 | 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 Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Meat Loaf: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Executive Producer | 2004-10-18 | Recorded Live in Melbourne, Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra February 20 & 22, 2004…. |
| Meat Loaf: Three Bats Live | Executive Producer | 2007-10-15 | 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… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell – The Original Tour | Lyricist | 2009-11-09 | 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… |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Feel the Motion | Music | 1985-07-05 | … |
| Thrashin’ | Theme Song Performance | 1986-08-29 | 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… |
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