Acting • AGE 70
Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on...


Peas and Carrots
Lee
2025

Salt Marsh
Music
2025

The System
Compositor
2025

Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025

Velvet Suite
himself
2023

Fragments of Paradise
Self
2022

Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Camera Operator
2021

We Still Have the Deep Black Night
Music Producer
2019

Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Self
2019

SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Self
2019

Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019

The Taxidermist
Original Music Composer
2019

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
Music
2018

Desolation Center
2018

Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
Self
2017

Omega
Self
2016

Sex and Broadcasting
Self
2014

The Hardcore Collection
(archive footage)
2012

Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011

Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Music
2010

Daddy Longlegs
Stepfather
2010

From the Basement
Self - Sonic Youth
2009

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Self - Musical Guest
2009

New York Rock at the BBC
Self - Sonic Youth
2008

365 Day Project
Self
2007

Noise
Self
2006

DRIFT
Music
2005

Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Self
2005

(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Self
2004

Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004

Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)
Director
2004

12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
2004

Kill Your Idols
Self
2004

Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Performer
2003

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Musical Guest
2003

Demonlover
Original Music Composer
2002

Things Behind the Sun
Original Music Composer
2001

Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000

Record Player: Christian Marclay
Himself
2000

Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Self
2000

Free Tibet
Self - Sonic Youth
1998

Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998

SubUrbia
Musician
1997

Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996

Tibetan Freedom Concert
Self
1996

Frisk
Original Music Composer
1996

The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Self
1995

Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995

Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
Self
1995

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Musical Guest
1993

Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Musical Guest
1993

Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993

1991: The Year Punk Broke
Self
1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Musical Guest
1992

Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991

Goo
Self
1991

Notebook
Director
1991

Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988

Put More Blood Into the Music
Himself
1988

Made in U.S.A.
Original Music Composer
1987

Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986

Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986

Submit to Me
1986

Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985

Vinyl: An Unlikely History
Himself

Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985

Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996

Sonic Youth Full Set From The Basement
Self