Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh

Born: May 18, 1950
in Akron, Ohio, USA
Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950) is an American musician, composer, singer and painter. He is the co-founder of the new wave band Devo and has been its lead singer since 1972. His other musical projects include work for television series, films, and video games.

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Movies for Mark Mothersbaugh...

The World According to Allee Willis
Title: The World According to Allee Willis
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2024
Type: Movie
Songwriter/artist Allee Willis began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling with not fitting established gender and sexual norms until she found a path to love.
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Devolution: A Devo Theory
Title: Devolution: A Devo Theory
Released: March 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Enter the minds of one of history's most misunderstood bands. With hits such as 'Whip It' & 'Freedom of Choice', they shared a trailblazing environmental message but were often mocked. 40 years later, we ask: were Devo right?
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Punk and New Wave Years with Annie Nightingale
Title: Punk and New Wave Years with Annie Nightingale
Released: November 6, 2020
Type: Movie
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 features powerful live performances from Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Gang of Four, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tubeway Army, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soft Cell, The Selecter, Joy Division and the Au Pairs. In addition, there are gems from The New York Dolls, The Fall, Blondie, Pete Shelley, The Police, Devo, X-Ray Spex, Klaus Nomi, Laurie Anderson and many more.
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Chi Chi & Devo
Title: Chi Chi & Devo
Character: Self
Released: December 19, 2019
Type: Movie
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 their debut album.
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Title: Disenchantment
Character: (voice)
Released: August 17, 2018
Type: TV
Set in a ruined medieval city called Dreamland, Disenchantment follows the grubby adventures of a hard-drinking princess, her feisty elf companion and her personal demon.
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Title: Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Character: Self
Released: August 8, 2017
Type: TV
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 belting out tunes one lane over. Based on the segment on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
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Score: A Film Music Documentary
Title: Score: A Film Music Documentary
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2017
Type: Movie
Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on the overlooked craft of film composing, gathering many of the art form’s most influential practitioners, from Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman to Quincy Jones and Randy Newman, to uncover their creative process. Tracing key developments in the evolution of music in film, and exploring some of cinema’s most iconic soundtracks, 'Score' is an aural valentine for film lovers.
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Along for the Ride
Title: Along for the Ride
Character: Self
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.
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Devo: Hardcore Live!
Title: Devo: Hardcore Live!
Character: Himself
Released: February 24, 2015
Type: Movie
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 before they signed with a major record label, many of which had never been performed live. The set is intercut with stories and commentary from the band members, as well as Toni Basil and V. Vale.
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Devo: The Men Who Make The Music - Butch Devo & The Sundance Gig
Title: Devo: The Men Who Make The Music - Butch Devo & The Sundance Gig
Character: Performer
Released: August 12, 2014
Type: Movie
The Men Who Make the Music combines concert footage from DEVO's 1978 tour with music videos and interstitials featuring a vague story about DEVO's rocky relationship with ""Big Entertainment."" As for the bonus program, Butch Devo and the Sundance Gig, Jerry Casale says, ""In '96, we closed Sundance Film Festival. We wore 20s style prison suits, we did a special show with really old, hardcore Devo songs from the early 70s, before we ever had a deal.
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Butch DEVO And The Sundance Gig
Title: Butch DEVO And The Sundance Gig
Released: April 19, 2014
Type: Movie
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 band which resulted in many tours and a new studio album in 2010.
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Beauty Is Embarrassing
Title: Beauty Is Embarrassing
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
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-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.
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The Other F Word
Title: The Other F Word
Released: November 2, 2011
Type: Movie
What happens when a generation's ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society's ultimate authorities — dad's? With a large chorus of Punk Rock's leading men — Blink-182's Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Rise Against's Tim McIlrath — The Other F Word follows Jim Lindberg, 20-year veteran of skate punk band, Pennywise, on his hysterical and moving journey from belting his band's anthem, 'Fuck Authority', to embracing his ultimately pivotal authoritarian role in mid-life, fatherhood.
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DEVO Live In Benicàssim
Title: DEVO Live In Benicàssim
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Recorded live @ Benicassm Festival, July 2007.
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Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
Title: Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
Character: Himself
Released: September 17, 2010
Type: Movie
His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott.
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DEVO: Live in London
Title: DEVO: Live in London
Character: Performer
Released: May 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Live performance of DEVO's debut album, "Q:Are We Not Men? A:We Are DEVO" at the Forum, London in 2009.
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The Making of 'Bottle Rocket'
Title: The Making of 'Bottle Rocket'
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Interviews with individuals involved in the making of Wes Anderson's 1996 film "Bottle Rocket."
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Title: Yo Gabba Gabba!
Released: August 20, 2007
Type: TV
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 the United Kingdom & Ireland, Italy, France and Australia as well as Treehouse TV network in Canada and RTE2 on RTÉjr in Ireland. The show stars five costumed toys-come-to-life and their friend DJ Lance Rock, who explore a single topic in each episode through songs and short storylines in the half-hour program while teaching children life and social skills. It also encourages viewers to move along with and dance with the characters in the program. The show is noted for its indie-culture guest stars and bands, and for drawing visual inspiration from 8-bit video games and H. R. Pufnstuff. Created by Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz, the show is produced by The Magic Store Productions and Wild Brain. The series premiered August 20, 2007 on Nickelodeon as part of its Nick Jr. block, and began broadcasting in reruns on February 23, 2008 on the Nick Jr. TV Channel. On April 30, 2008 the television show received a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design/Styling.
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Devo Live 1980
Title: Devo Live 1980
Character: Himself
Released: August 30, 2005
Type: Movie
"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 mainstream performers too. " - Gerald V. Casale (from the back of the DVD case) August 17, 1980 Phoenix Theater, Petaluma
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Derailroaded
Title: Derailroaded
Character: Self
Released: March 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary on the life and music of manic-depressive, paranoid-schizophrenic cult music icon Wild Man Fischer.
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Devo Live in the Land of the Rising Sun
Title: Devo Live in the Land of the Rising Sun
Character: Himself (as Devo)
Released: October 5, 2004
Type: Movie
New wave geniuses who helped define an era with their quirky, futuristic, and revolutionary style are back, entertaining the Japanese crowds who love them as much today as they did 25 years ago. Devo have been through a lot over the years, developing their parody of humankind's plight of conformity in their theory of devolution after member Gerald Casale witnessed the Kent State killings of student protesters in 1970, but they haven't wavered in their innovative sounds and pioneering visuals.
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Devo Live
Title: Devo Live
Character: Himself
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: Movie
The film details an entire live performance from Devo's 1996 reunion tour with Lollapalooza, opening for Metallica. The band performs a stripped down set consisting of songs from their first three albums, filmed at Irvine Meadows, California.
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Mystery Men
Title: Mystery Men
Character: Band Leader
Released: August 6, 1999
Type: Movie
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save him.
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Title: Futurama
Character: Mark Mothersbaugh (voice)
Released: March 28, 1999
Type: TV
The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
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Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space
Title: Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space
Character: Keeper of the Gate
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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 of the most homely and vulgar materials, while shamelessly thwarted buy the Bard's coarsest of jokes and grossest buffoonery.
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Devo: The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
Title: Devo: The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
Character: Himself
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
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-camp theory of de-evolution and its riotous rebuke of corporate culture. Punk/New Wave mad scientists Devo were among the few bands to understand the music video's potential as art form during its infancy in the eighties. Their brilliant and bizarre videos were compiled on VHS and then on laser disc; that long out-of-print disc, The Complete Truth About De-Evolution, has finally arrived on DVD, which should please longtime fans of this eclectic outfit.
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Arise! SubGenius Recruitment Film #16
Title: Arise! SubGenius Recruitment Film #16
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A brain-crushing collage of music and video presented in the form of a religious recruitment video. The topics covered (in deadpan narration) are basic psychology, the origin of the human race, spiritualism, religious dogma, UFO's, the end of the world, and the group's figurehead, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.
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Title: Rugrats
Character: Phonograph Singer (voice)
Released: August 11, 1991
Type: TV
Focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving common life experiences that become adventures in the babies' imaginations. Adults in the series are almost always unaware of what the children are up to; however, this only provides more room for the babies to explore and discover their surroundings.
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Title: Rugrats
Released: August 11, 1991
Type: TV
Focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving common life experiences that become adventures in the babies' imaginations. Adults in the series are almost always unaware of what the children are up to; however, this only provides more room for the babies to explore and discover their surroundings.
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The Spirit of '76
Title: The Spirit of '76
Character: Chevron-17
Released: October 12, 1990
Type: Movie
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 their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this "ideal" civilization. 70's jokes, props and stars abound.
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Elvira's MTV Halloween Party
Title: Elvira's MTV Halloween Party
Released: October 31, 1984
Type: Movie
MTV Halloween special, hosted by Elvira, featuring skits and music videos.
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We're All Devo
Title: We're All Devo
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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) is reviewing Devo's music videos for Big Entertainment. Much to his chagrin, his daughter Donut Rooter (Laraine Newman) is a fan of the band. Donut discovers the videos after asking her father for money to get an abortion (though this is not explicitly stated). Two excerpts from the storyline were included in the "Complete Truth About De-Evolution" laserdisc and DVD (both out of sequence) but the rest is exclusive to this videocassette. "Theme from Doctor Detroit" was also not included, and is unique to this tape. (Wikipedia)
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3-DEVO
Title: 3-DEVO
Released: October 30, 1982
Type: Movie
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 college campuses around the country. This is the original broadcast, not the late rebroadcast that was edited significantly.
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Human Highway
Title: Human Highway
Character: Nuclear Garbageperson / Booji Boy
Released: September 10, 1982
Type: Movie
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. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
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Devo: The Men Who Make the Music
Title: Devo: The Men Who Make the Music
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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 from the band's 1978 "Duty Now for the Future" tour.
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Pray TV
Title: Pray TV
Character: Dove band member
Released: May 23, 1980
Type: Movie
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 is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise.
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De-evolution: The Men Who Make The Music
Title: De-evolution: The Men Who Make The Music
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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 and features DEVO in greyish-blue janitor uniforms. It includes songs such as Huboon Stomp, The Words Get Stuck In My Throat and Too Much Paranoias.
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In the Beginning Was the End: The Truth About De-Evolution
Title: In the Beginning Was the End: The Truth About De-Evolution
Character: Booji Boy / Professor
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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 quartet. A man with a mask of a child named Booji Boy runs into a building where his father, a man named General Boy is waiting. Subsequently, a man gives a lecture by song on the subject of devolution.
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Are We Not Men?
Title: Are We Not Men?
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A documentary about DEVO
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Devo - Full Concert 1978
Title: Devo - Full Concert 1978
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Part of Chorus (La Première Émission Rock D'Antoine De Caunes), a broadcast series operating 1978-1981 in France covering live appearances mainly by American and English bands.
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DEVO - Whistler Medals Plaza
Title: DEVO - Whistler Medals Plaza
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Whistler, BC, Canada - February 22nd 2010. DEVO live at the Winter Olympics 2010! Broadcast on MuchMusic in Canada