Gene Simmons Highlights

  • 2007: Appeared with his family in the A&E reality series, “Gene Simmons Family Jewels,” documenting their home life
  • 2005: Created and hosted “Mr. Romance” on the Oxygen cable television channel
  • 2004: Played a murderous crime on a three-episode arc of NBC’s rescue drama, “Third Watch”
  • 2004: Cast in the Channel 4/VH1 reality series, “Rock School,” teaching classically trained 13-14 year olds how to rock
  • 2003: Produced “My Dad the Rock Star,” a cartoon series about the mild mannered son of a Gene Simmons-like rock star
  • 2002: Acted in the comedy/thriller, “Wish You Were Dead” costarring Christopher Lloyd
  • 2002: Launched the magazine Tongue, a men's magazine named after his most famous attribute
  • 2001: Published his autobiography, KISS and Make-up
  • 1999: Appeared as himself in “Detroit Rock City” about four teenagers in a Kiss cover band; also produced
  • 1998: Boosted their album sales by putting their make-up back on for the album and accompanying tour Psycho Circus
  • 1996: Participated in a reunion tour with the original line up of Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss
  • 1992: Released the album Revenge, the band's first album since the death of long-time drummer Eric Carr
  • 1990: Played an aging surfer in “Red Surf” starring George Clooney and Doug Savant
  • 1987: Played a terrorist being tracked by Rutger Hauer in “Wanted Dead or Alive”
  • 1986: Portrayed multiple characters in “Never Too Young To Die”
  • 1985: Appeared as a drug dealer on the popular NBC crime drama, “Miami Vice”
  • 1984: Acted in "Runaway" with Tom Selleck
  • 1983: In a move to boost sales, removed their make-up for the release of Lick it Up
  • 1978: Appeared with the band in their own TV-movie, NBC’s “KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park”
  • 1976: Released their most successful album to date, "Destroyer"
  • 1975: Earned a nation-wide following with the release of Alive!
  • 1974: Released their first self-titled debut album, Kiss
  • 1973: With Eisen left Wicked Lester to form Kiss, adding guitarist Paul “Ace” Frehley and drummer Peter Crisscoula (later dubbed Peter Criss)
  • Established his own short-lived label, Simmons Records in the 1980s
  • Formed Wicked Lester in the early 1970s with childhood friend Steve Coronel and Stanley Eisen (also known as Paul Stanley); signed to Epic Records
  • Worked as a sixth grade teacher in New York’s Spanish Harlem during the bands early years

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