TV & Movie Appearances

Television Appearances | Movie Appearances


Television Appearances:

  • 1976 – Austin City Limits
  • 5/13/1978 – Saturday Night Live – performs “Son of a Son of a Sailor”
  • 5/8/1981 – Fridays – performs “Margaritaville” and “Its My Job”
  • 1981 – Fridays performed “Stars Fell on Alabama” and “Volcano”
  • 1982 – ABC’s All My Children – has a role on the soap as the character Chainsaw McGregor
  • 10/15/1982 – SCTV Network – performs “Slow Boat to China”
  • 1983 – Austin City Limits
  • 1983 – Late Night with David Letterman – sang “Come Monday” and “Distantly in Love”
  • 1985 – The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
  • 11/16/1990 – The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson – sang “In the City” and “Jamaica Farewell”
  • 1992 – The Whoopi Goldberg show – performs “That’s What Living Is to Me”
  • 5/5/1992 – The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson – performed “Money Back Guarantee”
  • 4/30/1994 – Entertainment This Week did a French Quarter expose and interview with Jimmy at Margaritaville New Orleans during Jazz Fest.
  • 5/23/1994 – Late Night with David Letterman – performs “Apacalypso”
  • 5/24/1994 – The Today Show – performs “Frenchmen for the Night”
  • 1994 – In Concert Series- performs “Fruitcakes”, “Margaritaville”, “Changes in Latitudes”, “Vampires, Mummies, and the Holy Ghost”
  • 1995 – Late Night with David Letterman – performs “Don’t Chu Know”
  • 10/1995 – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – performs “Barometer Soup”
  • 6/25/1996 – Late Night with David Letterman – performs “Schoolboy Heart”
  • 1996 – Late Night with David Letterman – performs “Ho Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum”
  • 10/29/1998 – CNN – discussed John Glenn’s space flight along with Walter Cronkite
  • 5/28/1999 – The Today Show’s Summer Concert Series
  • 12/30/1999 – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – performs “Fruitcakes”
  • 7/20/2001 – The Today Show’s Summer Concert Series
  • 5/23/2002 – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – performs “Far Side of the World”
  • 4/28/2003 – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – performs “Knees of My Heart”
  • 7/11/2003 – The Today Show’s Summer Concert Series
  • 11/05/2003 – Country Music Awards – performs It’s Five o’clock Somewhere w/Alan Jackson
  • 2/13/2004 – The Today Show – “Where in the World is Matt Segment”
  • 6/25/2004 – The Today Show’s Summer Concert Series
  • 10/6/2004 – Jimmy appears on a segment on “60 Minutes” Wednesday
  • 11/30/2004 – The Today Show – promotes his book and sing a couple of songs
  • 12/2/2004 – Regis & Kelly – promote his new book
  • 1/10/2005 – The Ellen DeGeneres Show – performs “Margaritaville”
  • 5/2/2006 – The Today Show – talked about the movie “Hoot”
  • 5/5/2006 – Live with Regis & Kelly – talked about the movie “Hoot”
  • 5/26/2006 – The Today Show’s Summer Concert Series
  • 09/02/2006 – CMT Insider – Jimmy talks about the new album and the “Bama Breeze” video
  • 10/8/2006 – Jimmy appears on Emeril Live
  • 10/12/2006 – The Today Show – talked about the new album and performed “Bama Breeze” and “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
  • 11/12/2006 – 60 Minutes special remembering Ed Bradley. Jimmy is inteviewd by Steve Kroft
  • 5/13/2008 – The Today Show – promoted his new book Swine Not?
  • 5/13/2008 – Live with Regis & Kelly – promoted Swine Not?
  • 5/21/2008 – Late Show with Letterman – promoted Swine Not?



Movie Appearances:

  • 1974 – “Rancho Deluxe” – performs “Livingston Saturday Night” on stage in a bar scene with Tom McGuane playing mandolin and Warren Oates playing harmonica (miming Fingers’s part)
  • 1978 – “FM” – performs the song “Livingston Saturday Night”
  • 1984 – “Repo Man” – a blond agent
  • 1991 – “Hook” – shoe-stealing pirate
  • 1994 – “Cobb” – the armless guy
  • 1995 – “Congo” – a 727 Pilot
  • 1988 – “From the Earth to the Moon” HBO Mini Series – role as a journalist
  • 2006 – “Hoot” plays Mr. Ryan a Marine Science Teacher
  • 2015 – “Jurassic World” cameo role saving a couple of margaritas

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