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Dave Grohl

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

Jan 14, 1969 (57 years old)

Place of Birth

Warren, Ohio, USA

Biography

David Eric "Dave" Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for the Foo Fighters; the former drummer for Nirvana and Scream; the drummer for Them Crooked Vultures; and wrote all the music for his short-lived side projects Late! and Probot. He has also been involved with Queens of the Stone Age, and has performed session work for a variety of musicians, including Killing Joke, Tenacious D, Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, Slash and Juliette Lewis. Dave Grohl has performed in over 30 bands since becoming a musician. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dave Grohl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

Acting
2026Other Voices Presents: Foo FightersHimself
2025Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing ButtSelf
2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL MusicSelf
2025FireAid Benefit ConcertSelf
2025SNL50: The Homecoming ConcertSelf
2025Amazon Music Live: Foo FightersHimself
2025SNL50: Beyond Saturday NightSelf
2023Foo Fighters: Preparing Music for ConcertsSelf
2023Foo Fighters - Live at Rock am Ring 2023Self
2023The TeacherSelf
2023Ego: The Michael Gudinski StorySelf
2023Foo Fighters - Austin City Limitsself
2023Warren Haynes Presents: The Benefit Concert Volume 20Self
2023Foo Fighters - Live At The Town 2023Self
2023I Hate Myself and I Want to DieSelf (archive footage)
2023WINO: The Documentary
2022Studio 666Dave Grohl
2022Foo Fighters: One Less HeroSelf
2022Foo Fighters-Superbowl LVI Aftershow in Virtual RealitySelf
2022ABBA V QueenSelf (archive footage)
2022Taylor Hawkins Tribute ConcertSelf
2022Gary Numan: ResurrectionSelf
2022Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The DocumentarySelf (archive footage)
20222022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction CeremonySelf - Performer
2021When Nirvana Came to BritainSelf (archive footage)
20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction CeremonySelf
2021Foo Fighters Live at Madison Square Garden (June 20, 2021)Self
2021Foo Fighters-Live From Lollapalooza 2021Self
2021I'm in the Band
2021Celebrating AmericaSelf
2021Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the WorldSelf - Performer
2021Grunge: A Story of Music and RageSelf (archive footage)
2021From Cradle to StageSelf
2021Biography: KISStorySelf
2021Watch the Sound with Mark RonsonSelf
2020Amazon Music Holiday Plays: Foo FightersSelf
2020FOX Presents the iHeart Living Room Concert for AmericaSelf - Performer
2020Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to PrinceSelf
2020Ringo Starr’s Big Birthday ShowSelf - Performer
2020Bill & Ted Face the MusicDave Grohl
2020Times Like Those: Foo Fighters 25th Anniversary
2020The Big Night InSelf
2020DuncanvilleRonnie D (voice)
2019Liam Gallagher: As It WasSelf
2019Foo Fighters: Hurricane Festival 2019Self
2019Foo Fighters: Southside Festival 2019Self
2019Foo Fighters - Reading FestivalSelf
2019Foo Fighters: Rock In RioSelf
2019The Morning ShowDave Grohl
2019The Kelly Clarkson ShowSelf
2019PunkSelf
2019Ryan's Mystery Playdate: Level UpSelf
2018Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! RecordsSelf
2018PlaySelf
2018Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017Self
2018Reel StoriesSelf - Guest Star
2017Foo Fighters - NOS Alive 2017Self
2017Foo Fighters - Cheese and Grain, Frome, UKSelf
2017Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances SpecialSelf
2016The Road to ACLSelf
2016The Smart Studios Story
2016Desert Age: A Rock and Roll Scene HistorySelf
2016SoundbreakingSelf
2015CássiaSelf (archive footage)
2015Cobain: Montage of HeckSelf (archive footage)
2015All Things Must PassSelf
2015Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)Self
2015Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction CeremonySelf
2015Foo Fighters - Rock am RingSelf - Vocals, Guitar
2015Foo Fighters - BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015Self
2015Foo Fighters - Rio De JaneiroSelf - Vocals, Guitars
2015Sex&Drugs&Rock&RollDave Grohl
2015The MuppetsSelf
2015The Late Late Show with James CordenSelf
2015Hot OnesSelf
2015The Late Late Show with James CordenSelf - Guest
2014Led Zeppelin Played HereSelf (archive footage)
2014The Concert for ValorSelf - Performer
2014Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction CeremonySelf
2014Making Of The Grohl Sessions Vol. 1Himself
2014The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the BeatlesSelf
2014Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 YearsSelf - Performer
2014Slash: Raised On the Sunset StripSelf
2014Foo Fighters Sonic HighwaysSelf
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf
2014Off Camera with Sam JonesSelf
2013Filmage: The Story of Descendents/AllSelf
2013Sound CitySelf
2013Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2013 Induction CeremonySelf
2013Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11Self - Nirvana
2013Drunk HistoryMemphis Mafia Member
2012Bad Brains: A Band in DCSelf
2012See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob MouldSelf
2012Foo Fighters - Reading FestivalSelf
2012Foo Fighters - Global Citizen FestivalSelf
201212-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy ReliefSelf
2011Foo Fighters: Back and ForthSelf
2011Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Live From 606Self
2011The MuppetsAnimool
2011Foo Fighters The Roundhouse ConcertSelf - Lead vocal
2011Nirvana: Live at the ParamountSelf - Drums, Backing Vocals
2011Man With the Midas TouchSelf
2011Foo Fighters - Garage TourSelf
2011Foo Fighters: Live At Pinkpop FestivalSelf - Vocals
2011Nirvana: Taking Punk to the MassesSelf
2011Foo Fighters -T in The ParkSelf
2011Foo Fighters: A Hard Day's LightSelf
2011The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees SongSelf
2011Foo Fighters - Live in LondonSelf
2010Them Crooked Vultures: Teenage Cancer Trust
2010LemmySelf
2010Tenacious D Live at BlizzCon 2010Self
2010Them Crooked Vultures - Live at Rock am Ring 2010Self
2010Nirvana: Live On AirSelf
2009Nirvana: Live at ReadingSelf - Drums
2009Them Crooked Vultures - Live at RockpalastSelf
2009Them Crooked Vultures - Live at Canal+ StudioSelf
2009Foo Fighters - Live Performance from Studio 606Self
2009Foo Fighters - Greatest HitsSelf
2009SkavlanSelf - Guest
2008Paul McCartney: The Liverpool SoundSelf
2008Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley StadiumSelf - Vocals, Guitars
2008VH1 Rock Honors: The WhoSelf
2007Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a DreamSelf
2007Lil' Bush
2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf
2007Seven Ages of RockSelf
2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf - Performer
2006Tenacious D in The Pick of DestinySatan
2006Foo Fighters: Hyde ParkSelf
2006Nirvana - In Utero: Under ReviewSelf (archive footage)
2006Nirvana The Path from Incesticide to In UteroSelf
2006Juliette And The Licks - Four On The FloorSelf - Drums
2006Nirvana - the Definitive Critical ReviewSelf
2006All Apologies: Kurt Cobain 10 Years OnSelf
2006Foo Fighters: Skin and BonesSelf
2006VH1 Rock HonorsSelf
2006Metalocalypse
2005Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf CoastSelf
2005Classic Albums: Nirvana - NevermindSelf
2005The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'Self (archive footage)
2005I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny CashSelf
2005Ten Years LaterHimself
2005The Colbert ReportSelf - Guest
2004Nirvana: With the Lights Out
2004I've Been Twelve ForeverSelf
2004(This Is Known as) The Blues ScaleSelf
2004Lit: All AccessSelf
2004The Other Side of AIDSself - Foo Fighters
2004Supergrass: A Home MovieSelf
2003Foo Fighters - Everywhere But HomeSelf
2003Tenacious D: In the StudioSelf
2003The Work of Director Michel GondrySelf
2003Viva La BamSelf
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self - Musical Guest
2003The Ellen DeGeneres ShowSelf
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self - Guest
2002Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (Real #1)
200125 Years of PunkSelf
2001VH1 News Special: GrungeSelf (archive footage)
2000Daria in 'Is It Fall Yet?'Daniel (voice)
1999The Late Late Show with Craig KilbornSelf
1998Free TibetSelf - Foo Fighters
1997David Bowie: An Earthling at 50Self
1997David Bowie Birthday Celebration Live in NYCSelf
1997Classic AlbumsSelf - Interviewee
1997Leute heuteSelf
1996Hype!
1996The Daily ShowSelf
1995Foo Fighters - I'm OK, Eur OK - Live Brixton, UK 1995Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
1994Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!Self - Drums
1994Nirvana: Terminal 1, Munich
1994Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994MTV Europe Music AwardsSelf
1993Nirvana: Unplugged In New YorkSelf - Drums, Bass, Backing Vocals
1993Nirvana - Unplugged In New York (MTV Version)Self
1993Nirvana: Live And LoudSelf - Drums
1993Nirvana: Unplugged in New York - RehearsalSelf - Drums, Vocals
1993RuPaul's Christmas BallSelf
1993Nirvana: Veterans Memorial Coliseum Phoenix, Az
1993Nirvana: Live at Hollywood Rock FestivalSelf
1993The X-FilesLobby Passerby (uncredited)
1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest
1993Late Show with David LettermanSelf - Musical Guest
19921991: The Year Punk BrokeSelf
1991Nirvana: Live in Amsterdam 1991Self - Drums, Backing Vocals
1991Nirvana: Live at the ParadisoSelf
1991Nirvana: Live in DallasSelf
1991Nirvana: Teatro Castello, Rome, ItalySelf
1991Nirvana: Smells Like Teen SpiritDave Grohl
1991Sub Pop Video Network Program 1Self (archive footage)
1991Nirvana: Astoria Theater London
1990Nirvana - Live on Leeds Polytechnic, UK, 1990Self - Drums, Backing Vocals
1984MTV Video Music AwardsSelf
1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Musical Guest
1975Austin City LimitsSelf
1969Sesame StreetSelf
1959The GrammysSelf
-Are We Not Men?Self
-Them Crooked Vultures (2010) Live at BBC Radio 1, London, UK on March 24, 2010
-Foo Fighters Live at iTunes Festival LondonSelf
-Shouting Through The LetterholeSelf (archive footage)
-Foo Fighters - Music Video Collection
-Foo Fighters: Tibetan Freedom Concert
-Foo Fighters - Live Glastonbury 2023
-Live Earth: A Concert for a Climate in CrisisSelf
Production
2022Studio 666Executive Producer
2021From Cradle to StageExecutive Producer
2020Times Like Those: Foo Fighters 25th AnniversaryExecutive Producer
2014Foo Fighters Sonic HighwaysExecutive Producer
2013Sound CityProducer
Directing
2021What Drives UsDirector
2021From Cradle to StageDirector
2020Times Like Those: Foo Fighters 25th AnniversaryDirector
2014Foo Fighters Sonic HighwaysDirector
2013Sound CityDirector
Writing
2022Studio 666Story
2011Nirvana: Live at the ParamountAuthor
Crew
2013Sound CityActor's Assistant
2003Leprechaun: Back 2 tha HoodThanks