Peter Buck
Acting • Born 1956-12-06
Biography
Peter Lawrence Buck (born December 6, 1956) is an American musician and songwriter. He was a co-founder and the lead guitarist of the alternative rock band R.E.M. He also plays the banjo and mandolin on several R.E.M. songs. Throughout his career with R.E.M. (1980–2011), as well as during his subsequent solo career, Buck has also been at various times an official member of numerous 'side project' groups. These groups included Arthur Buck (with Joseph Arthur), Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara, The Baseball Project, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Tired Pony, The No-Ones and Filthy Friends, each of which have released at least one full-length studio album. Additionally, the experimental combo Slow Music (which also features Fred Chalenor, Hector Zazou, Matt Chamberlain, Robert Fripp, and Bill Rieflin) have released an official live concert CD. Another side project group called Full Time Men released an EP while Buck was a member. As well, ad hoc "supergroups" Bingo Hand Job (Billy Bragg and R.E.M.), Musical Kings (Michelle Malone, Peter Buck, John Keane) and Nigel & The Crosses (Robyn Hitchcock, Peter Buck, Glenn Tilbrook and others) have each commercially released one track. "Richard M. Nixon", a band Buck founded in 2012 to support the release of his solo album with live gigs, has never issued an official recording. Richard M. Nixon consists of Buck, Scott McCaughey and Bill Rieflin, the same three musicians who comprise The Venus 3.[2] Buck also has a career as a record producer including releases by Uncle Tupelo, Vigilantes of Love, Dreams So Real, The Fleshtones, The Feelies, and The Jayhawks, as well as a session musician (for the likes of The Replacements, Billy Bragg, Decemberists and Eels).
Filmography
56 credits
R.E.M.: Live at The Capitol Theater
Movie • 1985
Slacker Uprising
Movie • 2007
Self
R.E.M. Live
Movie • 2007
Guitarist
R.E.M. Tourfilm
Movie • 1990
Himself
R.E.M.: Road Movie
Movie • 1996
The Fleshtones: Pardon Us for Living But the Graveyard Is Full
Movie • 2009
Himself
R.E.M. - This Film Is On
Movie • 1991
Himself
Left of Reckoning
Movie • 1984
Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton
Movie • 2012
Self
Athens, GA Inside/Out
Movie • 1987
Himself
Do It Again
Movie • 2010
Self
Fallen Angel: Gram Parsons
Movie • 2004
Self - R.E.M.
R.E.M.: Succumbs
Movie • 1987
Self
R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
Movie • 2003
Himself
R.E.M. by MTV
Movie • 2014
Himself
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
Movie • 1991
Self
R.E.M.: Parallel
Movie • 1995
Himself
R.E.M. : Perfect Square
Movie • 2004
Guitar
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
Movie • 2016
Gitarre
Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death... and Insects
Movie • 2008
Himself
6 Days
Movie • 2008
R.E.M. - Automatic Unearthed
Movie • 2017
R.E.M. at the BBC
Movie • 2012
Performer
R.E.M.
Movie • 2002
Himself
R.E.M. - Falls to Climb
Movie • 1999
Himself
R.E.M. Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
Movie • 2014
R.E.M.: Rough Cut
Movie • 1995
Himself
R.E.M.: When the Light is Mine
Movie • 2006
R.E.M. - Monster
Movie • 2019
Himself
R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX
Movie • 2010
R.E.M.: Pop Screen
Movie • 1990
R.E.M.: A Stirling Performance
Movie • 2000
Himself
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Movie • 2017
Electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, dulcimer, bouzouki
R.E.M.: This Way Up
Movie • 1999
Himself
R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
Movie • 2001
R.E.M. at Rockpalast
Movie • 1985
Weirdo: The Story of Five Eight
Movie • 2024
Self
R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged
Movie • 1991
New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film
Movie • 1996
Self
R.E.M.: This Is Not a Show - Live at the Olympia in Dublin
Movie • 2009
R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/18
Movie • 1998
R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/17
Movie • 1998
R.E.M: Shocking Club, Milan, Italy
Movie • 1991
R.E.M.: Live at the Raleigh Underground
Movie • 1982
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Movie
Self
Boston Public
TV • 2000
Self
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Peter Buck (voice)
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
Self
MTV Unplugged
TV • 1989
Self
Austin City Limits
TV • 1975
Self
MTV Video Music Awards
TV • 1984
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Musical Guest
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
Rockpalast
TV • 1974
Self (guitar)
Singing Earth
TV • 2025
Himself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Musical Guest