Cast & creator
Thurston Moore
Best known for Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Gilmore Girls
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.
Also known as: Sonic Youth
124
film credits
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television credits
118
1984–2026 · acting roles
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Filmography (137)
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Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Musical Guest
1993
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Musical Guest
2003
Gilmore Girls
Cool Dad Troubadour
2000
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Musical Guest
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Musical Guest
1992
Later... with Jools Holland
1992
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Self - Musical Guest
2009
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Fred Cracklin
1994
Classic Albums
Self
1997
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Synthesizer Player
2026
Irma Vep
Original Music Composer
2022
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
Self
2021
Punk
Self
2019
The Sparks Brothers
Self
2021
Demonlover
Original Music Composer
2002
Hi Octane
Self (Host)
1994
Pavements
Self (uncredited)
2025
Things Behind the Sun
Original Music Composer
2001
Made in U.S.A.
Original Music Composer
1987
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Self
2006
The Best Summer
Self
2026
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Self
2026
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Self
2021
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Self
2010
The Public Image Is Rotten
Himself
2017
Broken English
Self
2026
Changing Fashions
1993
Black Lodge
Executive Producer
2022
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Self
1995
1991: The Year Punk Broke
Self
19921991: The Year Punk Broke
Title Designer
1992
25 Years of Punk
Self
2001
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Self
2009
365 Day Project
Self
2007
The Last Critic
2026
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
himself
2021
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Self
2011
Submit to Me Now
Music
1987
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013
Uncropped
Self
2024
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Music
2010
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
Self
2015
Lou Believers
Himself
1988
Heavy
Original Music Composer
1995
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Self
1995
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
Self - Sonic Youth
2019
Louder Than You Think
Self (archive footage)
2023
Free Tibet
Self - Sonic Youth
1998
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
New York Rock at the BBC
Self - Sonic Youth
2008
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
Self
2005
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Music
2007
Welcome to My Castle!
Self
2007
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Self
2012
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Self
1994
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Self
2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Self
2019
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Himself
2016
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Self
2005
Scala!!!
Self
2024
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Self
2004
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
Self
1995
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
Self - Narrator (voice)
2001
The Road to Ruane
Self
2024
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2024An Introduction to Harmolodics
1995
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Himself
2005No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
Self
2009
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Self
2000
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Self
2019
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
Turn of the Century
Himself
1999
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
Self
2007Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
Himself
2014
I Need That Record!
Himself
2008
Thick Air
Himself
2020
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
Himself
2007
Blank City
Self
2011
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
Kill Your Idols
Self
2004
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
From the Basement
Self - Sonic Youth
2009
Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement
Self
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Record Player: Christian Marclay
Himself
2000
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
From The Basement
Self - Sonic Youth
2009
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
Clean
Original Music Composer
2011
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Performer
2003
Put More Blood Into the Music
Himself
1988
The Hardcore Collection
2000
Punk: Attitude
Himself
2005
Fire Music
Executive Producer
2021
Cut Shorts
2006Kill Your Idols: More.
Self
2006
Station to Station
2014
Submit to Me
1985Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Self
2005
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Self
1996
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
David S. Ware
Himself
1999Don't Bring A Dog
Himself
1997
Noise
Self
2006
Hippy Porn
Original Music Composer
1991
Grunge Pedal
1993
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Goo
Self
1991Goo
Writer
1991Goo
Director
1991
Llik Your Idols
Himself
2007
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998
Pavement: Slow Century
Self
2002
Rock My Religion
Idea
1984Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2010
I Was Jack Goldstein
Music
2010
Lou Reed - Remembered
2013Ecstatic Peace Archives
2010
Teenage Superstars
Self
2017
Day Trip Maryanne
2005
Weatherman '69
Jeff Jones
1989
Rap Damage
1991
2020
Music
2021
Desolation Center
2018
Street
Music
2011