Chad Smith

ActorSound Oct 25 (age 64) St. Paul, Minnesota, USA 1972–2025 (53 year career)

7.7 avg rating

Biography

Chad Gaylord Smith (born October 25, 1961) is an American musician who has been the drummer of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1988. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, formed in 2008, and of the all-instrumental outfit Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, formed in 2007. He worked with The Chicks on Taking the Long Way, an album that won 5 Grammy Awards in 2007. Smith has recorded with Glenn Hug…

Known For

Film

Top Gun: Maverick

Musician

Film

Love, Death & Robots

Music

Film

The Lego Batman Movie

Musician

Film

Song to Song

Chad Smith

Film

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Live at Slane Castle

Self - Drums

Film

Rammstein in Amerika

Self

Film

Ozzy: No Escape from Now

Self

Film

Beware of Mr. Baker

Self

Filmography

Acting (82)

Movies (70)

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

2025

as Self

6.4

Back to the Beginning: Ozzy's Final Bow

2025

as Self

Ozzy: No Escape from Now

2025

as Self

8.4

FireAid Benefit Concert

2025

as Self

8.7

An Evening with Elton John and Brandi Carlile

2025

as Self

7.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Tokyo Dome 2023

2024

8.0

Paris 2024 Olympic Closing Ceremony

2024

as Self (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

5.6

Phil Collins: Drummer First

2024

as Self

8.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Tokyo Dome

2023

9.7

Red Hot Chili Peppers live at Estadio River Plate, Buenos Aires, Argentina November 24, 2023

2023

as Self - Drums

10.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Austin City Limits Festival 2022

as Self

Let There Be Drums!

as Self

Count Me In

as Self

Eddie Vedder: Live at Ohana Festival 2021

2021

On Drums... Stewart Copeland!

2019

as Self

8.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers Live At The Pyramids

2019

as Himself

Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

2019

as Self - Red Hot Chili Peppers

6.7

In Your Face: The Neil Zlozower Story

2018

as Himself

Song to Song

2017

as Chad Smith

5.5

Alicia Keys - Landmarks Live in Concert

2017

as Self

8.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Rock in Rio

2017

as Drums

8.0

Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special

2017

as Self

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Lollapalooza, Chicago 2016

2016

as Drums

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live Reading Festival 2016

2016

as Drums

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Rock am Ring 2016

2016

as Drums

Rammstein in Amerika

2015

as Self

8.0

5 Seconds of Summer: How Did We End Up Here?

2015

as Self

8.2

Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II

2014

as Himself

7.4

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Circuito Banco Do Brasil Festival

2013

as Himself

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Bonnaroo 2012

2012

5.3

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Rock Im Pott

as Himself

Beware of Mr. Baker

as Self

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Live from the Basement

2012

as drums, percussion

9.5

Red Hot Chili Peppers Live: I'm with You

2011

as Himself

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live from The Roxy Theatre 2011

2011

as Himself

Chickenfoot - Get Your Buzz On

2010

as Drums

6.7

Buddy Rich Memorial Concert

2009

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Stadium Parisian" 2006

2009

as Self

Chickenfoot: The White Album

2009

as Himself

Red Hot Chili Peppers : Live in Poland

2007

as Self

9.7

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Live Earth Concert Wembley

2007

as Self

10.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers: A Dutch Connection

2007

Coachella

2006

as Self (with Red Hot Chili Peppers)

6.4

Red Hot Chili Peppers : Live at La Cigale

2006

as Self

10.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Fuji Rock Festival

2006

as Self

8.3

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live in Milan

2006

as Self - Drums

7.8

Chad Smith & Ian Paice

2005

as Himself

4.2

Glenn Hughes: Soulfully Live in the City of Angels

2004

as Drums

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Live in Japan

2004

as Self

9.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Live at Slane Castle

2003

as Self - Drums

8.6

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Slane Castle

2003

Red Hot Chili Peppers: [2001] Rock In Rio

2001

as Self

9.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Off the Map

2001

as Self

7.1

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Live At Budokan

2000

as Self

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Woodstock '99

1999

as Self - Drums

8.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Bizarre Festival

1999

as Self - Drums

Red Hot Chili Peppers: [1999] Moscow, Russia

1999

as Self

Free Tibet

1998

as Self - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Tibetan Freedom Concert

1996

Red Hot Chili Peppers Occupy the Garden

1996

as Himself

Red Hot Chili Peppers - What Hits!?

1992

as Self

7.5

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Funky Monks

as Self

Session Man

as Spider Moore

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Psychedelic Sexfunk Live from Heaven

1990

as Self

7.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers: [1990] Tokyo Tattoo

1990

as Self - Drums

Deep Purple: Made In Japan

1972

as Self

10.0

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Rock am Ring (Rockpalast 2004)

as Self - Drums

10.0

Ferocious Drummers

Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story

as Self

Tibetan Freedom Concert

Television (12)

Love, Death & Robots

2019

as Chad Smith (voice)

8.2

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

The Jonathan Ross Show

2011

as Self

5.3

MTV World Stage

2009

as Self

VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown

2003

as Self (archive footage)

CMT Crossroads

as Self

Les Nuls, l'émission

as Self

The Simpsons

as Chad Smith (voice)

8.0

MTV Rockumentary

1989

7.0

MTV Video Music Awards

1984

as Self

7.8

Saturday Night Live

1975

as Self - Musical Guest

7.0

The Grammys

1959

as Self

8.6

Crew (3)

Movies (2)

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

Musician

8.2

The Lego Batman Movie

2017

Musician

7.2

Television (1)

Love, Death & Robots

2019

Music

8.2