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Nick Cave

Acting · Born 1957-09-22 · Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia

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.

Credits · 95

The Death of Bunny Munro

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

2025 · Narrator

Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende

The Extraordinary Miss Flower

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour

Memoir of a Snail

2024 · Bill Clarke (voice)

2024 · Original Music Composer

Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party

AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex

2023 · Original Music Composer

Kylie at the BBC

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

2022 · Original Music Composer

2022 · Original Music Composer

This Much I Know to Be True

The Velvet Queen

2021 · Original Music Composer

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

2021 · H.G. Wells

Karen Dalton: In My Own Time

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel

Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments

Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments

2020 · Self - Guest (archive footage)

Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace

Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later

The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal

2020 · Mr. Invisible

The Creative Brain

Why Are We Creative?

2018 · Truck Driver (voice)

Popular Voices at the BBC

2017 · Self (archive footage)

2017 · Original Music Composer

L7: Pretend We're Dead

2017 · Self (archive footage)

2017 · Original Music Composer

2017 · Original Music Composer

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

One More Time with Feeling

Hell or High Water

2016 · Original Music Composer

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015 · Self - Guest

2015 · Narrator

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

2015 · Original Music Composer

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits

Goth at the BBC

20,000 Days on Earth

West of Memphis

2012 · Original Music Composer

A Few Hours of Spring

2012 · Original Music Composer

2012 · Screenplay

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

2009 · Original Music Composer

No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

All Tomorrow's Parties

2009 · Narrator

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions

Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party

The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw

2008 · Original Music Composer

365 Day Project

Pixote In Memoriam

The English Surgeon

2007 · Original Music Composer

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007 · Bowery Saloon Singer

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House

The Dirty Three

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

The Story of 'Fairytale of New York'

The Proposition

2005 · Screenplay

The Work of Director Anton Corbijn

2005 · Self (segment "Straight to You")

The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn

Winged Migration

2001 · Theme Song Performance

Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten

If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story

Expelling the Demon

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest

To Have and to Hold

1996 · Original Music Composer

Australian Story

Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill

Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993 · Self - Musical Guest

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso

Just Visiting This Planet

Just Visiting This Planet

1991 · Freak Storm

The Road to God Knows Where

Ghosts... of the Civil Dead

1988 · Maynard

Wings of Desire

1987 · Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land

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