Nick Cave
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
1988
If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story
2001
Goth at the BBC
2014
Johnny Suede
1991
The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan
1997
L7: Pretend We're Dead
2017
This Much I Know to Be True
2022
The Cat Piano
2009
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
2006
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House
2007
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
1994
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
1998
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
2023
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
2023
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009
Fuse
2018
Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues
2008
20,000 Days on Earth
2014
The Road to God Knows Where
1990
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
Wings of Desire
1987
Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock
2023
Kylie at the BBC
2022
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour
2007
The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal
2020
IDn4
1991
IDn2
1990
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015
Prophet's Prey
2015
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso
1992
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling
2016
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
2016
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits
2014
365 Day Project
2007
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007
The Dirty Three
2007
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions
2008
Dandy
1988
Pixote In Memoriam
2007
All Tomorrow's Parties
2009
The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
2005
Blixa Bargeld
2008
Wilde Jahre West-Berlin
2015
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
1994
Stranded
2015
Distant Sky
2018
The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn
2003
IDn3
1990
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party
2008
Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land
1987
Boredom
2017
Do You Pray?
2017
Snowman
2017
The Creative Brain
2019
Baby Trouble Hole
1996
Kings of Independence
1987
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre
2013
The Song
1991
The Story of 'Fairytale of New York'
2005
The Harry Smith Project Live
2006
Love Eats Up Life
2019
Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later
2020
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
2020
FeeLee. History of a Single Label
2020
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
2021
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008
2008
Die Haut - Sweat
1994
Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2017
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
The Extraordinary Miss Flower
2025
On/Off: Mark Stewart
2009
Memoir of a Snail
2024
The Making of Wild God
2024
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
2022
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
2023
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
2025
Why Are We Creative?
2018
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert
2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
Broken English
2026
But We Had Music
2024
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025
Seele Brennt
2005
Before They Were Gods
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Listen With Pain
2001
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity
1984
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead
1985
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks
1986
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial
1986
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey
1988
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son
1990
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream
1992
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In
1994
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
1996
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call
1997
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part
2001
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama
2003
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
2004
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2008
Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten
2001
The Blues
2003
Artsnight
2015
Popular Voices at the BBC
2017
TAPE
2018
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Australian Story
1996
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Oscars
1953