Jonathan Demme filmography

Jonathan Demme in 2015

Jonathan Demme was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of film and television.

Film

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 Amos & Andrew (1993) (uncredited) Household Saints (1993) Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (1994) Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) Shadrach (1998) The Opportunists (1999) Maangamizi: The Ancient One (2001) Crude Independence (2009) The Center (2015)

Producer Miami Blues (1990) Women & Men 2 (1991) That Thing You Do! (1996) Ulee's Gold (1997) Adaptation. (2002) The Goodbye Kiss (2006) (presenter) Gimme the Loot (2012) Song One (2014)

Second unit director

• Fly Me (1972)
• The Hot Box (1972)

Documentary

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

Television

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)

Music video

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

Acting roles

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

References

1. Gilbey, Ryan. "Jonathan Demme obituary". The Guardian . Retrieved August 29, 2025.
2. Pristin, Terry (March 31, 1992). "'Silence of the Lambs' Sweeps 5 Major Oscars". Los Angeles Times . Tribune Company . Retrieved March 15, 2014.
3. "Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director of 'Silence of the Lambs,' Dies at 73" . Retrieved April 26, 2017.
4. "Jonathan Demme Biography & Filmography". Hollywood.com. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
5. Kapsis, Robert, ed. (January 1, 2001). "introduction". Jonathan Demme:Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. xiv. ISBN   978-1-60473-118-7.
6. "Music Review: Pegi Young – Foul Deeds (Limited Edition CD/DVD)". Blogcritics.org. Retrieved August 30, 2025.
7. "A Steely Fighter From the City That Care Forgot". New York Times. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
8. Freemen, Jon (April 26, 2017). "Kenny Chesney: 'Jonathan Demme Understood How to Capture Music on Film'". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on August 14, 2020. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
9. "Enzo Avitabile Music Life". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
10. . cultureunplugged.com https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/53538/everett-ruess-wilderness-song . Retrieved August 30, 2025.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
11. cite web|url=https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2017/4/28/farewell-my-brother-tribute-jonathan-demme%7Ctitle=Farewell, My Brother: A Tribute to Jonathan Demme|publisher=Advocate|access-date=August 30, 2025
12. . sxsw.com https://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/2015/events/event_FS18045 . Retrieved August 30, 2025.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
13. "What's Motivating Hayes". Mountainfilm.org. Archived from the original on April 28, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
14. "Another Telepathic Thing". burnsfilmcenter.org. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
15. Lang, Brent; Dagan, Carmel (April 26, 2017). "Jonathan Demme, Silence of the Lambs director, dies at 73". Variety . Archived from the original on April 26, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
16. "Protection Not Protest: The People of Standing Rock". rockhall.com. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
17. "Power of Rock Experience". rockhall.com. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
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20. "Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director of 'Silence of the Lambs,' Dies at 73". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
21. "YOU CAN STILL SEE HER: THE ART OF TRISHA BROWN". Artforum. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
22. "Smiley, Demme return for update on recovery". The Times . Retrieved August 29, 2025.
23. "The Killing gets it exactly right in season four, just in time to end". AV Club. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
24. "Jonathan Demme To Direct AMC Pilot 'Line Of Sight'". Deadline. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
25. "Jonathan Demme". BFI. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
26. "Jonathan Demme Directed One of the Greatest Live Music Videos of All-Time for New Order". Billboard. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
27. Lieberman, Josh. "The Feelies at Maxwell's". The Paris Review . Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
28. "A Comprehensive Guide to Jonathan Demme's Top Musical Moments" . Retrieved August 29, 2025.{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
29. "H.E.A.L.: HEAL YOURSELF [MV]" . Retrieved August 29, 2025.
30. . Discogs https://www.discogs.com/release/2294461-Bruce-Springsteen-The-Complete-Video-Anthology-1978-2000 . Retrieved August 30, 2025.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
31. "Oscar-Winning Director Jonathan Demme to Interview Grammy-Nominated Singer-Songwriter Steve Earle at The New York Public Library, January 14th". Top40-Charts. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
32. "Jonathan Demme Narrates I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!!," a Short Film About the Counterculture Cartoon Reid Fleming". Open Culture. April 26, 2017. Archived from the original on February 9, 2019. Retrieved February 6, 2019.

External links

• Jonathan Demme filmography at IMDb