🎬James Hetfield

James Alan Hetfield is an American musician and songwriter best known for being the co-founder, lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist and main songwriter for the American heavy metal band Metallica. Hetfield is mainly known for his intricate rhythm playing, but occasionally performs lead guitar duties and solos, both live and in the studio. Hetfield co-founded Metallica in October 1981 after answering an advertisement by drummer Lars Ulrich in the Los Angeles newspaper The Recycler. Metallica has won nine Grammy Awards and released ten studio albums, three live albums, four extended plays and 24 singles.

In 2009, Hetfield was ranked at no. 8 in Joel McIver's book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists and no. 24 by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. In Guitar World's poll, Hetfield was placed as the 19th greatest guitarist of all time, as well as being placed second (along with Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett) in The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists poll of the same magazine. Rolling Stone placed Hetfield as the 87th greatest guitarist of all time.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	The Thicket (2024)	Simon Deasy	-	-
2	Metallica Presents: The Helping Hands Concert (2022)	Self	-	-
3	Ennio (2022)	Self		9
4	Flying V (2020)	Self	-	-
5	Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)	Officer Bob Hayward		7
6	Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2 (2019)	Self		10
7	Sad Hill Unearthed (2018)	Self - Musician		5.3
8	Addicted to Porn: Chasing the Cardboard Butterfly (2017)	Narrator	-	-
9	Cum On Feel The Noize (2017)	Self		7
10	Who the Fuck Is That Guy?: The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago (2017)	Self		5
11	Mission to Lars (2015)	Self		6.5
12	Metallica: Through the Never (2013)	Director / Writer		6.8
13	Lemmy (2010)	Self		7.7
14	The Big Four: Live in Sofia (2010)	Guitars		8.5
15	The Darwin Awards (2007)	Self		6
16	Heavy Metal: Louder Than Life (2006)	Self	-	-
17	Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 (2006)	Vocalist, Guitarrist		7
18	The Work of Director Anton Corbijn (2005)	Self (segments "Hero of the Day" and "Mama Said")		7
19	Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)	Self		7.3
20	Classic Albums: Metallica - Metallica (2001)	Self - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar		7
21	Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M (1999)	Director / Writer		8
22	Metallica: Cunning Stunts (1998)	Self		10
23	Metallica: Live Shit - Binge & Purge, San Diego 1992 (1992)	Self - Guitar, Vocals	-	-
24	The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (1992)	Self		10
25	Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica (1992)	Self		7
26	Metallica: Live Shit - Binge & Purge, Seattle 1989 (1989)	Lead Vocals/Rhythm Guitar	-	-
27	Metallica: Cliff 'Em All (1987)	Self - Guitarist / Vocalist	-	-