Jonathan Demme

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-02-22 (73 years old)

Deathday

2017-04-26

Place of Birth

Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA

Jonathan Demme

Biography

Robert Jonathan Demme (February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He was best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed the acclaimed films Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), Philadelphia (1993), and Rachel Getting Married (2008), as well as the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense (1984), which is widely considered to be one of the greatest concert films of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Demme, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

1988

2002

Adaptation.

as Producer

1997

Ulee's Gold

as Presenter

1986

Something Wild

as Director

1986

Something Wild

as Producer

1984

1984

1993

Philadelphia

as Director

1993

Philadelphia

as Producer

1996

2002

1971

1987

2004

The Agronomist

as Producer

1993

Amos & Andrew

as Executive Producer

2004

The Agronomist

as Cinematography

1972

The Hot Box

as Screenplay

1972

The Hot Box

as Producer

1972

The Hot Box

as Second Unit Director

2008

2008

1998

2000

The Opportunists

as Executive Producer

2015

Deep Time

as Executive Producer

2011

I'm Carolyn Parker

as Cinematography

2009

1998

Beloved

as Producer

2009

Crude Independence

as Executive Producer

2001

Maangamizi: The Ancient One

as Executive Producer

2011

2004

The Agronomist

as Director

1979

Last Embrace

as Director

1998

Beloved

as Director

1980

1974

Caged Heat

as Director

1974

Caged Heat

as Writer

1984

Swing Shift

as Director

1977

Citizens Band

as Director

1976

Fighting Mad

as Director

1975

Crazy Mama

as Director

1976

Fighting Mad

as Writer

2011

2012

2012

2009

1982

2014

Song One

as Producer

2014

A Master Builder

as Director

2015

1995

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

as Executive Producer

1973

Fly Me

as Second Unit

2010

Joe and Linda Flooded Out of Holy Cross

as Director of Photography

1997

Subway Stories

as Director

2015

The Center

as Executive Producer

1984

Stop Making Sense

as Sound Supervisor

1997

Subway Stories

as Executive Producer

1992

Cousin Bobby

as Director

1996

Mandela

as Producer

1990

Miami Blues

as Producer

2012

Gimme the Loot

as Presenter

2018

Vox Lux

as In Memory Of

2018

Suspiria

as In Memory Of

2017

Phantom Thread

as In Memory Of

1993

Household Saints

as Executive Producer

2017

1995

Devil in a Blue Dress

as Executive Producer

1998

Shadrach

as Executive Producer

1970

Eyewitness

as Music Coordinator

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