Nick Cave

Actor · Director · Writer· 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.

Known For

The roles that explain the career.

Full credits

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007

Memoir of a Snail

Bill Clarke (voice) · 2024

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

H.G. Wells · 2021

Johnny Suede

Freak Storm · 1991

Filmography

35 credits across 5 departments.

Year	Title	Role	Type
2026	Broken English	Self	Film
2025	The Death of Bunny Munro	Executive Producer	TV
2024	Memoir of a Snail	Bill Clarke (voice)	Film
2023	Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party	Self	Film
2021	The Electrical Life of Louis Wain	H.G. Wells	Film
2021	Black Art: In the Absence of Light	Self	Film
2020	Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace	Self	Film
2020	Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace	Director	Film
2019	The Creative Brain	Self	Film
2019	Kylie Minogue: Summer 2019 - Live At Glastonbury	Self	Film
2019	Love Eats Up Life	Self (archive footage)	Film
2018	Distant Sky	Self	Film
2016	One More Time with Feeling	Self	Film
2016	The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez	Self	Film
2015	Prophet's Prey	Narrator	Film
2015	Stranded	Self	Film
2014	20,000 Days on Earth	Self	Film
2014	20,000 Days on Earth	Writer	Film
2011	Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard	Self	Film
2009	The Cat Piano	Narrator	Film
2009	No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York	Self	Film
2009	All Tomorrow's Parties	Self	Film
2007	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House	Self	Film
2007	The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music	Self	Film
2006	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man	Self	Film
2001	If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story	Self	Film
2001	Listen With Pain	Self	Film
1998	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos	Self	Film
1992	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso	Self	Film
1991	Johnny Suede	Freak Storm	Film
1990	The Road to God Knows Where	Self	Film
1988	Ghosts... of the Civil Dead	Maynard	Film
1988	Dandy		Film
1988	Ghosts... of the Civil Dead	Writer	Film
1987	Wings of Desire	Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds	Film

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