Thurston Moore
Acting • Born 1958-07-25
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.
Filmography
109 credits
Punk: Attitude
Movie • 2005
Himself
Notebook
Movie • 1991
1991: The Year Punk Broke
Movie • 1992
Self
Kill Your Idols
Movie • 2004
Self
David S. Ware
Movie • 1999
Himself
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Movie • 2004
25 Years of Punk
Movie • 2001
Self
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Movie • 2019
Self
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Movie • 2000
Self
I Need That Record!
Movie • 2008
Himself
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
Movie • 1995
Self
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Movie • 2003
Louder Than You Think
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Day Trip Maryanne
Movie • 2005
Record Player: Christian Marclay
Movie • 2000
Himself
Cut Shorts
Movie • 2006
Ecstatic Peace Archives
Movie • 2010
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
Movie • 2009
Self
Kill Your Idols: More.
Movie • 2006
Himself
Llik Your Idols
Movie • 2007
Himself
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Movie • 1996
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Movie • 2005
Scala!!!
Movie • 2024
Self
Weatherman '69
Movie • 1989
Jeff Jones
Turn of the Century
Movie • 1999
Himself
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
Movie • 2024
An Introduction to Harmolodics
Movie • 1995
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
Movie • 2007
Himself
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Movie • 2012
Self
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Movie • 2025
Self
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Movie • 2005
Self
From the Basement
Movie • 2009
Self - Sonic Youth
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
Movie • 2015
Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Movie • 2005
Himself
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Movie • 2016
Himself
The Road to Ruane
Movie • 2024
Self
Don't Bring A Dog
Movie • 1997
Himself
Rap Damage
Movie • 1991
Grunge Pedal
Movie • 1993
Goo
Movie • 1991
Self
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
Movie • 2019
Self - Sonic Youth
The Hardcore Collection
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Sublapse Video Mag 1
Movie • 1986
365 Day Project
Movie • 2007
Self
Blank City
Movie • 2011
Self
Changing Fashions
Movie • 1993
The Public Image Is Rotten
Movie • 2017
Himself
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Movie • 1994
Self
Teenage Superstars
Movie • 2017
Himself
Pavement: Slow Century
Movie • 2002
Self
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Movie • 2011
Self
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
Movie • 2014
Himself
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Movie • 2004
Self
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
Movie • 2013
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Movie • 2006
Self
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
Movie • 2007
Self
Desolation Center
Movie • 2018
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Movie • 2003
Performer
Put More Blood Into the Music
Movie • 1988
Himself
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Movie • 2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Movie • 2019
Self
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Movie • 2009
Self
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
Movie • 2019
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Movie • 2010
Self
Lou Believers
Movie • 1988
Himself
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Movie • 2019
Self
Noise
Movie • 2006
Self
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Movie
Thick Air
Movie • 2020
Himself
Welcome to My Castle!
Movie • 2007
Self
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Movie • 1995
Self
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Movie • 2021
himself
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Movie • 2021
Self
The Sparks Brothers
Movie • 2021
Self
Submit to Me
Movie • 1986
New York Rock at the BBC
Movie • 2008
Self - Sonic Youth
Skeeno H.C. Rules
Movie • 1991
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
Movie • 2011
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
Movie • 2000
Free Tibet
Movie • 1998
Self - Sonic Youth
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Movie • 1995
Self
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Movie • 2005
Self
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
Movie • 2010
Pavements
Movie • 2025
Self (uncredited)
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
Movie • 1985
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
Movie • 1998
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
Movie • 2002
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
Movie • 2001
Self - Narrator (voice)
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
Movie • 2025
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
Movie • 1993
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
Movie • 1998
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
Movie • 2011
Uncropped
Movie • 2024
Self
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
Movie • 1995
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
Movie • 1988
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
Movie • 1986
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
Movie • 2005
Self
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
Movie • 1994
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Movie
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Movie
Self
Broken English
Movie • 2026
Self
Station to Station
Movie • 2014
The Last Critic
Movie • 2026
Gilmore Girls
TV • 2000
Cool Dad Troubadour
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
TV • 1994
Fred Cracklin
Punk
TV • 2019
Self
Classic Albums
TV • 1997
Self
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
TV • 2021
Self
Hi Octane
TV • 1994
Self (Host)