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