Michael Stipe
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." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
91 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 91
The Simpsons
1989
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
The Colbert Report
2005
The One Show
2006
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
Boston Public
2000
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Cleveland Show
2009
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994
Austin City Limits
1975
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
Anderson Cooper 360°
2003
MTV Unplugged
1989
Parkinson
1998
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show
2004
Iconoclasts
2005
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
Trailblazer Honors
2014
Rockpalast
1974
Seven Ages of Rock
2007
Al TV
1984
Beastie Boys Story
2020
Song Exploder
2020
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
2017
TFI Unplugged
2026
TV total
1999
Arena Brains
1987
Olive, the Other Reindeer
1999
Antiheroine
2026
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
1991
The Making of Olive, The Other Reindeer
2000
Anthem
1997
R.E.M. - This Film Is On
1991
Slacker Uprising
2007
Sesame Street: Singing with the Stars
2012
R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
2003
Athens, GA Inside/Out
1987
R.E.M. Tourfilm
1990
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
2016
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
1996
Louder Than You Think
2023
R.E.M. Live
2007
R.E.M.: Rough Cut
1995
1 Giant Leap
2002
R.E.M. : Perfect Square
2004
Mojica In The Snow: Tonight I Incarnate At Sundance!
2001
Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn
2009
R.E.M. - Falls to Climb
1999
R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
2001
R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/17
1998
Tibetan Freedom Concert
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R.E.M. - Out Of Time
2016
R.E.M. Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
2014
Hansa Studios: By the Wall 1976-90
2018
New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film
1996
R.E.M.: When the Light is Mine
2006
Weirdo: The Story of Five Eight
2024
R.E.M. at the BBC
2012
R.E.M.: Pop Screen
1990
R.E.M.: Succumbs
1987
R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged
1991
R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX
2010
R.E.M.: Live at The Capitol Theater
1985
R.E.M.: Live at the Raleigh Underground
1982
R.E.M.
2002
R.E.M.: Parallel
1995
R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/18
1998
R.E.M.: This Way Up
1999
R.E.M.: A Stirling Performance
2000
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
2017
R.E.M.: Road Movie
1996
R.E.M. by MTV
2014
Left of Reckoning
1984
R.E.M. at Rockpalast
1985
R.E.M: Shocking Club, Milan, Italy
1991
Speed Racer: Welcome to the World of Vic Chesnutt
1994
6 Days
2008
R.E.M. - Monster
2019
R.E.M. Live in Stockholm
1998
R.E.M.: This Is Not a Show - Live at the Olympia in Dublin
2009
R.E.M. - Automatic Unearthed
2017
Radiohead: Tibetan Freedom Concert
1998
R.E.M. - Live In Athens (MTV) 2008
2008
R.E.M. - Live At The Rock Am Ring
2005
Dashboard Confessional: MTV2 Album Covers
2004
R.E.M.
1989
