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