Nick Cave

Known for: Acting
Born: September 22, 1957, Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
Movies: 110

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He has appeared in some 15 feature films and video shorts, plus a heap of documentaries. Nick Cave has also composed a large number of scores, some of them with his musical partner Warren Ellis.

Upcoming Nick Cave Movies

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)

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Before They Were Gods

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Best-Known Movies

7.1

Lawless

2012

7.1

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007

7.8

Wings of Desire

1987

8.1

Memoir of a Snail

2024

7.0

The Proposition

2005

6.9

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

2021

7.1

20,000 Days on Earth

2014

7.8

One More Time with Feeling

2016

5.2

Johnny Suede

1991

7.7

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

2015

Filmography

2026	Broken English	Self
2025	Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough	Narrator
2025	Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende	Self
2025	The Extraordinary Miss Flower	Self
2025	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour	Self
2025	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert	Self
2024	The Making of Wild God	Nick Cave
2024	Memoir of a Snail	Bill Clarke (voice)
2024	But We Had Music	(Voice)
2023	Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh	Self
2023	Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock	Self
2023	Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party	Self
2023	AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex	Self
2022	Kylie at the BBC	Self
2022	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
2022	This Much I Know to Be True	Self
2021	The Electrical Life of Louis Wain	H.G. Wells
2021	Karen Dalton: In My Own Time	Self
2021	Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel	Self
2020	FeeLee. History of a Single Label	Self
2020	Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace	Self
2020	Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later	Self
2020	The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal	Mr. Invisible
2019	Love Eats Up Life	Self (archive footage)
2019	The Creative Brain	Self
2018	Why Are We Creative?	Self
2018	Fuse	Truck Driver (voice)
2018	Distant Sky	Self
2017	L7: Pretend We're Dead	Self (archive footage)
2017	Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Self
2017	Boredom	Self
2017	Do You Pray?	Narrator
2017	Snowman	Narrator
2016	The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez	Self
2016	One More Time with Feeling	Self
2015	Stranded	Self
2015	Prophet's Prey	Narrator
2015	B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989	Self
2015	Wilde Jahre West-Berlin	Self
2014	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits	Self
2014	Goth at the BBC	Self
2014	20,000 Days on Earth	Self
2013	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre	Self
2011	Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard	Self
2009	No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York	Self
2009	On/Off: Mark Stewart
2009	All Tomorrow's Parties	Self
2009	The Cat Piano	Narrator
2008	Blixa Bargeld	Self
2008	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008	Self
2008	Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues	Self
2008	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions	Self
2008	Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party	Self
2008	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!	Self
2007	365 Day Project	Self
2007	Pixote In Memoriam	Self
2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Bowery Saloon Singer
2007	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House	Self
2007	The Dirty Three	Self
2007	The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music	Self
2007	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour	Self - vocals, piano
2006	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man	Self
2006	The Harry Smith Project Live	Self
2005	The Story of 'Fairytale of New York'	Self
2005	Seele Brennt	Nick Cave
2005	The Work of Director Anton Corbijn	Self (segment "Straight to You")
2004	Hoping For Palestine
2004	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus	Self
2003	The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn	Self
2003	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama	Self
2001	Listen With Pain	Self
2001	Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten
2001	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part	Self
2001	No More Shall We Part: The Recording Sessions	Himself
2001	If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story	Self
1998	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos	Self
1997	The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan	Self
1997	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call	Self
1997	Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest	Jerry
1996	Baby Trouble Hole	Singer
1996	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads	Self
1994	Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos	Self
1994	Die Haut - Sweat	Self
1994	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In	Self
1994	September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill	Self
1994	Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait	Self
1992	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream	Self
1992	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso	Self
1991	The Song	Self
1991	IDn4	Self
1991	Johnny Suede	Freak Storm
1990	The Road to God Knows Where	Self
1990	IDn3	Self
1990	IDn2	Entry
1990	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son	Self
1988	Dandy
1988	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey	Self
1988	Ghosts... of the Civil Dead	Maynard
1987	Wings of Desire	Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
1987	Kings of Independence	Self
1987	Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land	Self
1986	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial	Self
1986	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks	Self
1985	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead	Self
1984	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity	Self

Directing, Writing & Producing

2020	Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace	Director
2014	20,000 Days on Earth	Writer
2012	Lawless	Screenplay
2005	The Proposition	Screenplay
1988	Ghosts... of the Civil Dead	Writer

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