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Mark Mothersbaugh
Born: 18th May 1950 Akron, Ohio, USA
Dept: Sound
Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (/ˈmʌðərzbɔː/; born May 18, 1950) is an American musician and composer. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, lead vocalist, and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, whose "Whip It" was a top 20 single in the US in 1980, peaking at No. 14, and which has since maintained a cult following. Mothersbaugh was one of the primary composers of Devo's music.
In addition to his work with Devo, Mothersbaugh has made music for television series, films, and video games via his production company, Mutato Muzika. He composed the music for the 13-year run of the animated series Rugrats and its three related theatrical films. He has created film scores for Wes Anderson and for Marvel Comics films. As a solo musician, Mothersbaugh has released four studio albums: Muzik for Insomniaks, Muzik for the Gallery, Joyeux Mutato, and The Most Powerful Healing Muzik in the Entire World.
In 2004, he received the Richard Kirk Award at the BMI Film and TV Awards for his contributions to film and television music. In 2008, Mothersbaugh received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Kent State University, his alma mater.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 44
Film: 37 (84%)
Television: 7 (16%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Action, Horror
Filmography
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A documentary about DEVO ... view
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Self
2025
Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup bringing together legendary Saturday Night Live hall-of- ... view
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Self
2024
Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and co ... view
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Self
2024
The students behind the mic and the bands they made famous tell the story of the youth and music culture that originated, and later flourished, on the ... view
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2024
Originally formed amidst the chaos of the 1970 Kent State anti-Vietnam War protest killings, the not quite new wave band Devo scored a hit with "Whip ... view
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Self
2021
Enter the minds of one of history's most misunderstood bands. With hits such as 'Whip It' & 'Freedom of Choice', they shared a trailblazing environmen ... view
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2020
The programme includes The Damned’s set-smashing performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test and the Sex Pistols' anarchic trip on the Thames. It also ... view
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2019
Members of pioneering New Wave band Devo and golfing legend Chi Chi Rodríguez recall how their paths crossed when Devo used an image of Chi Chi for t ... view
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Self
Aug 2018 (first aired)
Set in a ruined medieval city called Dreamland, Disenchantment follows the grubby adventures of a hard-drinking princess, her feisty elf companion and ... view
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(voice) (1 ep.)
Aug 2017 (first aired)
Celebrity pairings ride along in a car together as they sing tunes from their personal playlists and surprise fans who don't expect to see big stars b ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
2017
Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on t ... view
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Self
Nov 2016 (first aired)
Explore the art of music recording with a behind-the-scenes look at the birth of brand new sounds. Featuring more than 160 original interviews with so ... view
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Self (2 ep.)
2016
A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper. ... view
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Self
2015
A concert film capturing Devo at the Fox Theatre in Oakland on their 2014 "Hardcore Tour," in which they performed 21 songs written and recorded befor ... view
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Himself
2014
DEVO live at the Sundance Film Festival 1996. At the time it was billed as their last ever show but it actually ended up kickstarting a revival of the ... view
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2012
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-w ... view
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Self
2011
What happens when a generation's ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society's ultimate authorities — dads? With a large chorus ... view
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Self
2011
Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind visually documents the explosion of Grunge, the Seattle Sound, within the context of the undergr ... view
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Self
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2010
His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic music ... view
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Himself
2010
Whistler, BC, Canada - February 22nd 2010. DEVO live at the Winter Olympics 2010! Broadcast on MuchMusic in Canada ... view
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Self
2009
Live performance of DEVO's debut album, "Q:Are We Not Men? A:We Are DEVO" at the Forum, London in 2009. ... view
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Self
2008
Interviews with individuals involved in the making of Wes Anderson's 1996 film "Bottle Rocket." ... view
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Self
Aug 2007 (first aired)
Yo Gabba Gabba! is an American children's television show that airs on the Nick Jr. cable network in the United States and the Nick Jr. networks in th ... view
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Unknown/various (33 ep.)
2005
"This lone video artifact offers indisputable evidence that in 1980 Devo had reached a turning point. We were no longer just art monsters, we were mai ... view
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Self
2005
A documentary on the life and music of manic-depressive, paranoid-schizophrenic cult music icon Wild Man Fischer. ... view
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Self
2004
New wave geniuses who helped define an era with their quirky, futuristic, and revolutionary style are back, entertaining the Japanese crowds who love ... view
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Himself (as Devo)
2004
The film details an entire live performance from Devo's 1996 reunion tour with Lollapalooza, opening for Metallica. The band performs a stripped down ... view
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Self
1999
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superhe ... view
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Band Leader
Mar 1999 (first aired)
The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thous ... view
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Mark Mothersbaugh (voice) (1 ep.)
1996
William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", re-imagined in a child's vision of Hell. "Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space" is a festive yarn, comprised ... view
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Keeper of the Gate
1993
Now, the complete truth can be told...Devo, the seminal New Wave audio-visual concept band made a career out of setting to music video their Dada-gone ... view
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Self
1992
A brain-crushing collage of music and video presented in the form of a religious recruitment video. The topics covered (in deadpan narration) are basi ... view
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Aug 1991 (first aired)
Focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving common life ex ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Phonograph Singer (voice) (1 ep.)
1990
Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes t ... view
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Chevron-17
1983
Like The Men Who Make the Music, We're All Devo! has a storyline to tie the videos together. In it, the character of Rod Rooter (Michael W Schwartz) i ... view
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Self [DEVO]
1982
3-DEVO took place on October 30, 1982, at the Warner Beverly Hills Theater in Beverly Hills, California. It was filmed and transmitted live in 3-D to ... view
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Self
1982
The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. Ho ... view
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Nuclear Garbageperson / Booji Boy
1981
Urgh! A Music War is a British film released in 1982 featuring performances by punk rock, new wave, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980. Among the arti ... view
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Self
1980
A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which ... view
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Dove [DEVO]
Apr 1980 (first aired)
Fridays is the name of ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982. ... view
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Self - Musical Guest (3 ep.)
1979
Part concert film, music video collection, and propaganda piece, The Men Who Make the Music was DEVO's first home video release. Features live footage ... view
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Self
1977
Not to be confused with the longform video of the same name first released in 1981, this earlier film was filmed as a prototype for that later piece a ... view
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Self
1976
Several factory workers finish their day at work and get into a car. They drive to a club where they perform the song Secret Agent Man as a rock quart ... view
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Booji Boy / Professor