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
Wings of Desire
(1987)
Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(2007)
Bowery Saloon Singer
Johnny Suede
(1991)
Freak Storm
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
(2021)
H.G. Wells
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
(2015)
Self
20,000 Days on Earth
(2014)
Self
Full Filmography
Acting
Wings of Desire
(1987)
Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land
(1987)
Self
Kings of Independence
(1987)
Self
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
(1988)
Maynard
Dandy
(1988)
The Road to God Knows Where
(1990)
Self
IDn2
(1990)
IDn3
(1990)
Self
Johnny Suede
(1991)
Freak Storm
IDn4
(1991)
The Song
(1991)
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live at The Paradiso
(1992)
Self
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
(1994)
Self
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
(1994)
Self
Die Haut - Sweat
(1994)
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
(1994)
Self
Baby Trouble Hole
(1996)
Singer
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
(1997)
Jerry
The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan
(1997)
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
(1998)
Self
If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story
(2001)
Self
The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn
(2003)
Self
The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
(2005)
Self (segment "Straight to You")
The Story of ‘Fairytale of New York’
(2005)
Self
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
(2006)
Self
The Harry Smith Project Live
(2006)
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour
(2007)
vocals, piano
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(2007)
Bowery Saloon Singer
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House
(2007)
Self
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
(2007)
Self
The Dirty Three
(2007)
Self
Pixote In Memoriam
(2007)
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions
(2008)
Self
Blixa Bargeld
(2008)
Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party
(2008)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008
(2008)
Self
Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues
(2008)
Self
The Cat Piano
(2009)
Narrator
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
(2009)
Self
All Tomorrow's Parties
(2009)
Self
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
(2011)
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre
(2013)
Self
20,000 Days on Earth
(2014)
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits
(2014)
Self
Goth at the BBC
(2014)
Self
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
(2015)
Self
Prophet's Prey
(2015)
Narrator
Wilde Jahre West-Berlin
(2015)
Self
Stranded
(2015)
Self
One More Time with Feeling
(2016)
Self
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
(2016)
Nick Cave
Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
(2016)
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 'The Jam' (One More Time With Feeling)
(2016)
Boredom
(2017)
Self
Do You Pray?
(2017)
Narrator
Snowman
(2017)
Narrator
L7: Pretend We're Dead
(2017)
Self (archive footage)
Distant Sky
(2018)
Self
Fuse
(2018)
Truck Driver (voice)
The Creative Brain
(2019)
Self
Kylie Minogue - Live at Glastonbury 2019
(2019)
Self
Love Eats Up Life
(2019)
Self (archive footage)
Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later
(2020)
Self
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
(2020)
Self
FeeLee. History of a Single Label
(2020)
Self
The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal
(2020)
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
(2021)
Self
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
(2021)
Self
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
(2021)
H.G. Wells
This Much I Know to Be True
(2022)
Self
Kylie at the BBC
(2022)
Self
Vortex
(2022)
Self
Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
(2023)
Self
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
(2023)
Self
Crew
Writing
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
(1988)
Writer
The Proposition
(2005)
Screenplay
Millhaven
(2010)
Writer
Lawless
(2012)
Screenplay
20,000 Days on Earth
(2014)
Writer
Sound
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
(1988)
Original Music Composer
Just Visiting This Planet
(1991)
Music
To Have & To Hold
(1996)
Music
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
(1998)
Music
Expelling the Demon
(1999)
Music
Winged Migration
(2001)
Theme Song Performance
The Proposition
(2005)
Original Music Composer and Vocals
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(2007)
Music
The English Surgeon
(2007)
Original Music Composer
Angel of the Wind
(2008)
Music
The Road
(2009)
Music
Submission
(2011)
Music
Lawless
(2012)
Music
A Few Hours of Spring
(2012)
Original Music Composer
Far from Men
(2015)
Music
Prophet's Prey
(2015)
Music
Hell or High Water
(2016)
Original Music Composer
One More Time with Feeling
(2016)
Music and Original Music Composer
Wind River
(2017)
Original Music Composer
Kings
(2017)
Original Music Composer
War Machine
(2017)
Original Music Composer
The Velvet Queen
(2021)
Original Music Composer
Blonde
(2022)
Original Music Composer
This Much I Know to Be True
(2022)
Original Music Composer
The New Boy
(2023)
Original Music Composer
Back to Black
(2024)
Original Music Composer
Directing