Jonathan Demme was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of film and television.
Jonathan Demme was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of film and television.
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Producer | Writer | |||
| 1971 | Angels Hard as They Come | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1972 | The Hot Box | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1973 | Black Mama White Mama | Story | |||
| Naughty Wives | directed opening sequence [1] | ||||
| 1974 | Caged Heat | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1975 | Crazy Mama | Yes | |||
| 1976 | Fighting Mad | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1977 | Handle with Care | Yes | originally titled Citizens Band | ||
| 1979 | Last Embrace | Yes | |||
| 1980 | Melvin and Howard | Yes | |||
| 1984 | Swing Shift | Yes | |||
| 1986 | Something Wild | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1987 | Swimming to Cambodia | Yes | Concert film | ||
| 1988 | Married to the Mob | Yes | |||
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Yes | [2] [3] | ||
| 1993 | Philadelphia | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1998 | Beloved | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2002 | The Truth About Charlie | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2008 | Rachel Getting Married | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2013 | A Master Builder | Yes | |||
| 2015 | Ricki and the Flash | Yes | |||
Executive producer
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Second unit director
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Producer | Writer | |||
| 1984 | Stop Making Sense | Yes | Yes | Concert film; also re-recording supervisor | |
| 1987 | Haiti: Dreams of Democracy | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1992 | Cousin Bobby | Yes | |||
| 1994 | The Complex Sessions | Yes | Concert film | ||
| One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room 1994 [4] | Yes | ||||
| 1996 | Mandela | Yes | |||
| 1998 | Storefront Hitchcock | Yes | Concert film | ||
| The Uttmost | Yes | ||||
| 2003 | The Agronomist | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also cinematographer |
| Beah: A Black Woman Speaks | Yes | ||||
| 2006 | Neil Young: Heart of Gold | Yes | Concert-documentary film; also camera operator | ||
| 2007 | Man from Plains | Yes | Yes | Also camera operator | |
| Right to Return: New Home Movies From the Lower 9th Ward [5] | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2009 | Neil Young Trunk Show | Yes | Concert-documentary film | ||
| Joe and Linda Flooded Out of Holy Cross | Yes | released in Issue #10 of Wholphin | |||
| 2010 | Foul Deeds | Yes | Pegi Young concert film [6] | ||
| 2011 | I'm Carolyn Parker [7] | Yes | Yes | Also cinematographer | |
| Neil Young Journeys | Yes | Yes | Concert-documentary film | ||
| 2012 | Kenny Chesney: Unstaged [8] | Yes | Concert film | ||
| Enzo Avitabile Music Life [9] | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2013 | Everett Ruess Wilderness Song [10] | Yes | |||
| 2014 | Brothers of the Black List [11] | Yes | Presenter | ||
| 2015 | Deep Time [12] | Yes | |||
| What's Motivating Hayes [13] | Yes | Short film; segment in The New Yorker Presents | |||
| Another Telepathic Thing [14] | Yes | Concert film | |||
| 2016 | Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids [15] | Yes | Concert film | ||
| Protection Not Protest: The People of Standing Rock [16] | Yes | Short film | |||
| 2017 | The Power of Rock [17] | Yes | Yes | Compilation film made of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performances | |
| 2019 | Last Disintegrated School [18] | Yes | |||
| 2022 | Her Magnum Opus [19] | Yes | Presenter | ||
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | |||
| 1978 | Columbo | Yes | Episode "Murder Under Glass" | ||
| 1980–86 | Saturday Night Live [20] | Yes | Yes | 3 episodes | |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Yes | Episode "Who Am I This Time?" | ||
| 1986 | Alive from Off Center | Yes | Episode "Trisha Brown's Accumulation with Talking Plus Watermotor" [21] | ||
| 1987 | Trying Times | Yes | Episode "A Family Tree" | ||
| 1997 | Subway Stories | Yes | Yes | Segment "Subway Car from Hell" | |
| 1998 | The Oprah Winfrey Show | Yes | Episode "The Cast of Beloved" | ||
| 2010 | Tavis Smiley Reports | Yes | News show; segment "Been In The Storm Too Long" [22] | ||
| 2011 | Enlightened [4] | Yes | 2 episodes | ||
| A Gifted Man [4] | Yes | Yes | Episode "Pilot" | ||
| 2013–14 | The Killing [23] | Yes | 2 episodes | ||
| 2014 | Line of Sight [24] | Yes | Yes | Unaired pilot | |
| 2017 | Shots Fired [15] | Yes | Episode "Hour Six: The Fire This Time" | ||
| 2018 | Seven Seconds | Yes | Episode "Brenton's Breath" (Posthumous release) | ||
| Year | Title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | "Gidget Goes to Hell" | Suburban Lawns |
| 1985 | "Sun City" (with Godley & Creme) | Artists United Against Apartheid |
| "Everybody's Young" | Sandra Bernhard | |
| "The Perfect Kiss" [25] | New Order | |
| "I Got You Babe" [26] | UB40 and Chrissie Hynde | |
| 1987 | "Solitude Standing" | Suzanne Vega |
| 1988 | "Away" | The Feelies [27] |
| 1989 | "Sister Rosa" [28] | The Neville Brothers |
| 1990 | "In the Still of the Night" (segment in Red Hot + Blue) | |
| 1991 | "Heal Yourself" (executive director; directed with Ted Demme, Fab 5 Freddy, and Pamm Jenkins) | H.E.A.L. [29] |
| 1993 | "Streets of Philadelphia" (with Ted Demme) | Bruce Springsteen |
| 1995 | "Murder Incorporated" [25] | |
| 2000 | "If I Should Fall Behind" [30] | |
| 2004 | "Rich Man's War" [31] | Steve Earle |
| Year | Title [25] | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | The Incredible Melting Man | Matt Winters | |
| 1979 | Last Embrace | Man on Train | |
| 1985 | Into the Night | Federal Agent | |
| 1996 | That Thing You Do! | Producer of That Thing You Do! Director of Weekend At Party Pier | |
| 2000 | Oz | Commercial Director [4] | |
| 2015 | I Thought I Told You to Shut Up | Narrator [32] | Short documentary |
