Dave Grohl
Known for: Acting
Born: January 14, 1969
Place of birth: Warren, Ohio, USA
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.
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Filmography
167 movies · 50 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Other Voices Presents: Foo Fighters
2026
4.7
Saturday Night Live UK
2026
NR
The Best Summer
2026
NR
Amazon Music Live: Foo Fighters
2025
NR
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025
6.8
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
8.5
FireAid Benefit Concert
2025
7.7
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
8.0
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
8.8
Hot Ones Versus
2024
NR
Warren Haynes Presents: The Benefit Concert Volume 20
2023
8.0
Foo Fighters - Austin City Limits
2023
NR
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
2023
NR
Foo Fighters - Live At The Town 2023
2023
8.0
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
2023
NR
Foo Fighters - Live at Rock am Ring 2023
2023
NR
The Teacher
2023
10.0
Foo Fighters: Preparing Music for Concerts
2023
NR
WINO: The Documentary
2023
8.2
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
8.5
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
2022
7.9
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
2022
7.3
Gary Numan: Resurrection
2022
NR
ABBA V Queen
2022
NR
Paul McCartney at Glastonbury Festival
2022
9.0
Foo Fighters: One Less Hero
2022
5.8
Studio 666
2022
NR
Foo Fighters-Superbowl LVI Aftershow in Virtual Reality
2022
10.0
Foo Fighters Live at Madison Square Garden (June 20, 2021)
2021
4.0
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
7.2
Grunge: A Story of Music and Rage
2021
7.4
When Nirvana Came to Britain
2021
NR
Foo Fighters-Live From Lollapalooza 2021
2021
7.4
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
2021
7.8
Biography: KISStory
2021
7.6
Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World
2021
5.8
From Cradle to Stage
2021
6.8
What Drives Us
2021
6.7
Celebrating America
2021
7.5
I'm in the Band
2021NR
Amazon Music Holiday Plays: Foo Fighters
2020
7.5
Times Like Those: Foo Fighters 25th Anniversary
2020
5.9
Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020
NR
Ringo Starr’s Big Birthday Show
2020
9.0
The Big Night In
2020
7.9
Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince
2020
4.0
FOX Presents the iHeart Living Room Concert for America
2020
7.7
Duncanville
2020
7.7
The Morning Show
2019
NR
Foo Fighters: Rock In Rio
2019
6.3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
NR
Foo Fighters - Reading Festival
2019
NR
Foo Fighters: Hurricane Festival 2019
2019
NR
Foo Fighters: Southside Festival 2019
2019
6.7
Liam Gallagher: As It Was
2019
6.0
Ryan's Mystery Playdate
2019
7.9
Punk
2019
7.0
Reel Stories
2018
7.9
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
2018
6.0
Play
2018
NR
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
2018
NR
Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special
2017
NR
Foo Fighters - NOS Alive 2017
2017
NR
Foo Fighters - Cheese and Grain, Frome, UK
2017
7.8
Soundbreaking
2016
6.0
Desert Age: A Rock and Roll Scene History
2016
8.0
The Smart Studios Story
2016
NR
The Road to ACL
2016
7.2
All Things Must Pass
2015
7.0
The Muppets
2015
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
5.9
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
20158.5
Foo Fighters - Rock am Ring
2015
7.3
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2015
NR
Foo Fighters - BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015
2015
6.9
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
2015
7.6
Cobain: Montage of Heck
2015
5.1
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
7.1
Hot Ones
2015
7.4
Cássia
2015
NR
Foo Fighters - Rio De Janeiro
2015
NR
Positive Force: More Than a Witness - 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action
2014
8.6
The Concert for Valor
2014
6.2
Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip
2014
8.0
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways
2014
8.0
Led Zeppelin Played Here
2014
NR
Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years
2014
5.9
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2014NR
Making Of The Grohl Sessions Vol. 1
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
7.1
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
2014
5.0
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
5.0
Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11
2013
8.0
Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All
2013
6.8
Drunk History
2013
8.5
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Ceremony
2013
7.4
Sound City
2013
NR
See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould
2012
6.9
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012
NR
Foo Fighters - Global Citizen Festival
2012
10.0
Foo Fighters - Reading Festival
2012
6.6
Bad Brains: A Band in DC
2012
8.0
A MusiCares Tribute To Paul McCartney
20126.0
The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song
2011
6.7
The Muppets
2011
8.1
Nirvana: Live at the Paramount
2011
NR
Foo Fighters The Roundhouse Concert
2011NR
Man With the Midas Touch
2011
7.0
Foo Fighters -T in The Park
2011NR
Foo Fighters: Live At Pinkpop Festival
2011
NR
Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses
2011
NR
Foo Fighters: A Hard Day's Light
2011
7.6
Foo Fighters: Back and Forth
2011
7.0
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Live From 606
2011
7.0
Foo Fighters - Garage Tour
2011
NR
Foo Fighters - Live in London
20116.0
Tenacious D Live at BlizzCon 2010
2010NR
Them Crooked Vultures - Live at Rock am Ring 2010
2010
NR
Nirvana: Live On Air
2010
NR
Them Crooked Vultures: Teenage Cancer Trust
2010
7.6
Lemmy
201010.0
Them Crooked Vultures - Live at Canal+ Studio
2009
7.3
Nirvana: Live at Reading
2009
6.0
Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits
2009NR
Foo Fighters - Live Performance from Studio 606
2009
5.0
Skavlan
2009
NR
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008
8.2
Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley Stadium
2008NR
Paul McCartney: The Liverpool Sound
2008
7.2
D Tour: A Tenacious Documentary
2008
7.7
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
2007
5.5
Lil' Bush
2007
9.2
Seven Ages of Rock
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007
7.3
Foo Fighters: Hyde Park
2006
8.0
Foo Fighters: Skin and Bones
2006
6.8
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
20068.0
Nirvana - In Utero: Under Review
2006
8.0
Nirvana The Path from Incesticide to In Utero
2006NR
Nirvana - the Definitive Critical Review
20061.0
Juliette And The Licks - Four On The Floor
2006
7.6
Metalocalypse
2006NR
VH1 Rock Honors
2006
6.4
All Apologies: Kurt Cobain 10 Years On
2006
7.0
The Colbert Report
2005
2.0
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
NR
The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'
2005
7.0
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
2005NR
Ten Years Later
2005NR
I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash
2005
7.4
Nirvana: With the Lights Out
2004
10.0
Lit: All Access
2004
6.8
I've Been Twelve Forever: The Work of Director Michel Gondry
2004
3.0
The Other Side of AIDS
2004
7.0
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004
NR
Supergrass: A Home Movie
2004
4.8
Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood
2003
7.4
Foo Fighters - Everywhere But Home
2003
10.0
Tenacious D: In the Studio
2003
6.6
Viva La Bam
2003
8.6
The Work of Director Michel Gondry
2003
5.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
NR
Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (Real #1)
2002
NR
VH1 News Special: Grunge
2001
7.0
25 Years of Punk
2001
7.4
Daria in 'Is It Fall Yet?'
2000
5.3
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999
8.0
Free Tibet
1998
5.2
Leute heute
1997
7.7
Classic Albums
1997
5.6
Touch
1997
NR
David Bowie Birthday Celebration Live in NYC
1997
8.5
David Bowie: An Earthling at 50
1997
7.4
Hype!
1996
6.4
The Daily Show
1996
7.1
TFI Friday
1996NR
Foo Fighters - I'm OK, Eur OK - Live Brixton, UK 1995
1995
10.0
MTV Europe Music Awards
1994
7.6
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
1994
7.8
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994
NR
Nirvana: Terminal 1, Munich
1994
10.0
RuPaul's Christmas Ball
1993
8.6
Nirvana: Unplugged In New York
1993
8.8
MTV Unplugged: Nirvana
1993
8.9
Nirvana: Live and Loud
1993
10.0
Nirvana: Unplugged in New York - Rehearsal
1993
NR
Nirvana: Veterans Memorial Coliseum Phoenix, Az
1993
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
8.4
The X-Files
1993
6.4
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
8.0
Nirvana: Live at Hollywood Rock Festival
1993
6.8
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
7.8
Nirvana: Live in Amsterdam 1991
1991
8.3
Nirvana: Live at the Paradiso
1991
7.0
Nirvana: Teatro Castello, Rome, Italy
1991
NR
Nirvana: Astoria Theater London
1991NR
Nirvana: Live in Dallas
1991
7.7
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
1991
9.0
Sub Pop Video Network Program 1
1991
NR
Nirvana - Live on Leeds Polytechnic, UK, 1990
1990
6.0
The Word
1990
7.9
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
6.3
Austin City Limits
1975
7.1
Sesame Street
1969
8.6
The Grammys
1959
NR
Are We Not Men?
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Them Crooked Vultures (2010) Live at BBC Radio 1, London, UK on March 24, 2010
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NR
Foo Fighters Live at iTunes Festival London
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8.0
Shouting Through The Letterhole
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NR
Foo Fighters - Music Video Collection
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NR
Foo Fighters: Tibetan Freedom Concert
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NR
Foo Fighters: Live at Pinkpop 2026
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Nirvana: Teen Spirit Interviews
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5.5
Live Earth: A Concert for a Climate in Crisis
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NR
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All
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