7.3Acting
Thurston Moore
- Born
- 1958-07-25
- Birthplace
- Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Biography
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.
Known For
Filmography
135 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits
Broken English
2026 · Movie
Self
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2026 · Movie
Self
The Best Summer
2026 · Movie
Self
The Last Critic
2026 · Movie
Cast
The One. For New York.
2026 · Movie
Cast
The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026 · Movie
Synthesizer Player
Pavements
2025 · Movie
Self (uncredited)
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025 · Movie
Cast
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024 · Movie
Cast
Scala!!!
2024 · Movie
Self
The Road to Ruane
2024 · Movie
Self
Uncropped
2024 · Movie
Self
Louder Than You Think
2023 · Movie
Self (archive footage)
Black Lodge
2022 · Movie
Executive Producer
Irma Vep
2022 · TV Show
Original Music Composer
2020
2021 · Movie
Music
Fire Music
2021 · Movie
Executive Producer
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021 · Movie
Self
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021 · Movie
Self
The Sparks Brothers
2021 · Movie
Self
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
2021 · TV Show
Self
Thick Air
2020 · Movie
Himself
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019 · Movie
Self - Sonic Youth
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
2019 · Movie
Self
Punk
2019 · TV Show
Self
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019 · Movie
Cast
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019 · Movie
Cast
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019 · Movie
Self
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019 · Movie
Self
Desolation Center
2018 · Movie
Cast
Teenage Superstars
2017 · Movie
Self
The Public Image Is Rotten
2017 · Movie
Himself
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
2016 · Movie
Self
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015 · Movie
Self
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
2014 · Movie
Self
Station to Station
2014 · Movie
Cast
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013 · Movie
Cast
Lou Reed - Remembered
2013 · Movie
Cast
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012 · Movie
Self
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011 · Movie
Self
Blank City
2011 · Movie
Self
Clean
2011 · Movie
Original Music Composer
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011 · Movie
Cast
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011 · Movie
Cast
Street
2011 · Movie
Music
Ecstatic Peace Archives
2010 · Movie
Cast
I Was Jack Goldstein
2010 · Movie
Music
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010 · Movie
Self
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2010 · Movie
Cast
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 · Movie
Music
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009 · Movie
Self
From the Basement
2009 · Movie
Self - Sonic Youth
From The Basement
2009 · Movie
Self - Sonic Youth
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · TV Show
Self - Musical Guest
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009 · Movie
Self
I Need That Record!
2008 · Movie
Himself
New York Rock at the BBC
2008 · Movie
Self - Sonic Youth
365 Day Project
2007 · Movie
Self
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
2007 · Movie
Self
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007 · Movie
Music
Llik Your Idols
2007 · Movie
Himself
Welcome to My Castle!
2007 · Movie
Self
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007 · Movie
Self
Cut Shorts
2006 · Movie
Cast
Kill Your Idols: More.
2006 · Movie
Self
Noise
2006 · Movie
Self
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006 · Movie
Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005 · Movie
Himself
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
2005 · Movie
Self
Day Trip Maryanne
2005 · Movie
Cast
Punk: Attitude
2005 · Movie
Self
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005 · Movie
Cast
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005 · Movie
Self
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005 · Movie
Self
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004 · Movie
Self
Kill Your Idols
2004 · Movie
Self
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004 · Movie
Cast
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV Show
Self - Musical Guest
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003 · Movie
Cast
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003 · Movie
Performer
Demonlover
2002 · Movie
Original Music Composer
Pavement: Slow Century
2002 · Movie
Self
25 Years of Punk
2001 · Movie
Self
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001 · Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Things Behind the Sun
2001 · Movie
Original Music Composer
Gilmore Girls
2000 · TV Show
Cool Dad Troubadour
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000 · Movie
Himself
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000 · Movie
Self
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000 · Movie
Cast
The Hardcore Collection
2000 · Movie
Cast
David S. Ware
1999 · Movie
Himself
Turn of the Century
1999 · Movie
Himself
Free Tibet
1998 · Movie
Self - Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998 · Movie
Cast
Classic Albums
1997 · TV Show
Self
Don't Bring A Dog
1997 · Movie
Himself
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996 · Movie
Cast
Tibetan Freedom Concert
1996 · Movie
Self
An Introduction to Harmolodics
1995 · Movie
Cast
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
1995 · Movie
Self
Heavy
1995 · Movie
Original Music Composer
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995 · Movie
Self
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995 · Movie
Cast
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995 · Movie
Self
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994 · Movie
Self
Hi Octane
1994 · TV Show
Self (Host)
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994 · Movie
Cast
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994 · TV Show
Fred Cracklin
Changing Fashions
1993 · Movie
Cast
Grunge Pedal
1993 · Movie
Cast
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · TV Show
Self - Musical Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · TV Show
Self - Musical Guest
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993 · Movie
Cast
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992 · Movie
Self · Title Designer
Later... with Jools Holland
1992 · TV Show
Cast
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · TV Show
Self - Musical Guest
Goo
1991 · Movie
Self · Writer · Director
Hippy Porn
1991 · Movie
Original Music Composer
Notebook
1991 · Movie
Cast
Rap Damage
1991 · Movie
Cast
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991 · Movie
Cast
Weatherman '69
1989 · Movie
Jeff Jones
Lou Believers
1988 · Movie
Himself
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988 · Movie
Himself
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988 · Movie
Cast
Made in U.S.A.
1987 · Movie
Original Music Composer
Submit to Me Now
1987 · Movie
Music
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986 · Movie
Cast
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986 · Movie
Cast
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985 · Movie
Cast
Submit to Me
1985 · Movie
Cast
Rock My Religion
1984 · Movie
Idea
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Date unknown · Movie
Cast
Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement
Date unknown · Movie
Self
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Date unknown · Movie
Cast