Michael Stipe
Acting
Born 1960-01-04
Decatur, Georgia, USA
111 credits
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John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter and artist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of alternative rock band R.E.M. He is known for his vocal quality, poetic lyrics and unique stage presence.
Possessing a distinctive voice, Stipe has been noted for the "mumbling" style of his early career. Since the mid-1980s, Stipe has sung in "wailing, keening, arching vocal figures" that R.E.M. biographer David Buckley compared to Celtic folk artists and Muslim muezzin. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual aspect, often selecting album artwork and directing many of the band's music videos. Outside the music industry, he owns and runs two film production studios, C-00 and Single Cell Pictures.
As a member of R.E.M., Stipe was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. As a singer-songwriter, Stipe influenced a wide range of artists, including Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Bono of U2 has described his voice as "extraordinary", and Yorke told The Guardian that Stipe is his favorite lyricist, saying "I loved the way he would take an emotion and then take a step back from it and in doing so make it so much more powerful."
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Filmography
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Acting
43 credits
The Simpsons
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Saturday Night Live
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Colbert Report
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The One Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
MTV Video Music Awards
Boston Public
Rockpalast
Parkinson
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Austin City Limits
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
MTV Unplugged
TFI Unplugged
Trailblazer Honors
The Frank Skinner Show
Seven Ages of Rock
Iconoclasts
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show
Beastie Boys Story
Song Exploder
Al TV
Antiheroine
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
Sesame Street: Singing with the Stars
Olive, the Other Reindeer
Slacker Uprising
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
R.E.M.: Rough Cut
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
TV total
R.E.M. - Monster
The Making of Olive, The Other Reindeer
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
Arena Brains
1 Giant Leap
R.E.M. Live
R.E.M. : Perfect Square
Producing
12 credits
Being John Malkovich
Velvet Goldmine
American Movie
Saved!
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Olive, the Other Reindeer
Our Song
Everyday People
Spring Forward
The Sleepy Time Gal
Stranger Inside
Little, Big, and Far
Other credits
6 credits
The Cleveland Show
Anderson Cooper 360°
TFI Friday
Man on the Moon
R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
R.E.M.: This Is Not a Show - Live at the Olympia in Dublin
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