Person

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.

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  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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  Australian Story

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  Late Night with Conan O'Brien

  Self - Musical Guest

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  The Oscars

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  DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

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  Wind River

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  Train Dreams

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  Kylie

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  Hell or High Water

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  Memoir of a Snail

  Bill Clarke (voice)

• 2026KylieSelf
• 2026Broken EnglishSelf
• 2025The Death of Bunny MunroNovel
• 2025Train DreamsSongs
• 2025Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not EnoughNarrator
• 2025Wim Wenders: Der ewig SuchendeSelf
• 2025The Extraordinary Miss FlowerSelf
• 2025Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God TourSelf
• 2025Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE ConcertSelf
• 2024The Making of Wild GodNick Cave
• 2024Memoir of a SnailBill Clarke (voice)
• 2024But We Had Music(Voice)
• 2024Back to BlackOriginal Music Composer
• 2023Barry Humphries: The Last LaughSelf
• 2023Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging RockSelf
• 2023Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday PartySelf
• 2023AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. RexSelf
• 2023The New BoyOriginal Music Composer
• 2022Kylie at the BBCSelf
• 2022DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer StoryOriginal Music Composer
• 2022BlondeOriginal Music Composer
• 2022Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
• 2022This Much I Know to Be TrueSelf
• 2021The Velvet QueenOriginal Music Composer
• 2021The Electrical Life of Louis WainH.G. Wells
• 2021Karen Dalton: In My Own TimeSelf
• 2021Letters Live from the Archive: Union ChapelSelf
• 2020FeeLee. History of a Single LabelSelf
• 2020Gay Byrne's Late Late MomentsSelf
• 2020Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra PalaceSelf
• 2020Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years LaterSelf
• 2020The Private Death of Lizzy SiddalMr. Invisible
• 2019Love Eats Up LifeSelf (archive footage)
• 2019Kylie Minogue: Summer 2019 - Live At GlastonburySelf
• 2019The Creative BrainSelf
• 2018Why Are We Creative?Self
• 2018FuseTruck Driver (voice)
• 2018TAPESelf
• 2018Distant SkySelf
• 2017Popular Voices at the BBCSelf (archive footage)
• 2017KingsOriginal Music Composer
• 2017L7: Pretend We're DeadSelf (archive footage)
• 2017Wind RiverOriginal Music Composer
• 2017War MachineOriginal Music Composer
• 2017Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad SeedsSelf
• 2017BoredomSelf
• 2017Do You Pray?Narrator
• 2017SnowmanNarrator
• 2016The Beautiful Days of AranjuezSelf
• 2016One More Time with FeelingSelf
• 2016NocturamaThanks
• 2016Hell or High WaterOriginal Music Composer
• 2015StrandedSelf
• 2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf - Guest
• 2015Prophet's PreyNarrator
• 2015ArtsnightSelf
• 2015B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989Self
• 2015Far from MenOriginal Music Composer
• 2015Wilde Jahre West-BerlinSelf
• 2014Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City LimitsSelf
• 2014Goth at the BBCSelf
• 201420,000 Days on EarthSelf
• 2014TenderOriginal Music Composer
• 2013Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda TheatreSelf
• 2012West of MemphisOriginal Music Composer
• 2012A Few Hours of SpringOriginal Music Composer
• 2012LawlessScreenplay
• 2011Autoluminescent: Rowland S. HowardSelf
• 2011SubmissionMusic
• 2011MillhavenAuthor
• 2009The RoadOriginal Music Composer
• 2009No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New YorkSelf
• 2009On/Off: Mark Stewart
• 2009All Tomorrow's PartiesSelf
• 2009The Cat PianoNarrator
• 2008Blixa BargeldSelf
• 2008Angel of the WindMusic
• 2008Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008Self
• 2008Hardtimes Killin' Floor BluesSelf
• 2008Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four SessionsSelf
• 2008Mutiny! The Last Birthday PartySelf
• 2008The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an OutlawOriginal Music Composer
• 2008Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!Self
• 2007365 Day ProjectSelf
• 2007Pixote In MemoriamSelf
• 2007The English SurgeonOriginal Music Composer
• 2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert FordBowery Saloon Singer
• 2007Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the HouseSelf
• 2007The Dirty ThreeSelf
• 2007The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk MusicSelf
• 2007Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues TourSelf - vocals, piano
• 2006Leonard Cohen: I'm Your ManSelf
• 2006The Harry Smith Project LiveSelf
• 2005The Story of 'Fairytale of New York'Self
• 2005Seele BrenntNick Cave
• 2005The PropositionScreenplay
• 2005The Work of Director Anton CorbijnSelf (segment "Straight to You")
• 2004The Goddess: How I Fell in Love. Film about the filmMusic
• 2004Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of OrpheusSelf
• 2003The BluesSelf
• 2003The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must BurnSelf
• 2003Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: NocturamaSelf
• 2001Winged MigrationTheme Song Performance
• 2001Listen With PainSelf
• 2001Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten
• 2001Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We PartSelf
• 2001If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan StorySelf
• 1999Expelling the DemonMusic
• 1998Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The VideosSelf
• 1997The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowanSelf
• 1997Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's CallSelf
• 1997Rhinoceros Hunting in BudapestJerry
• 1996To Have and to HoldOriginal Music Composer
• 1996Baby Trouble HoleSinger
• 1996Australian StorySelf
• 1996Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder BalladsSelf
• 1994Freaks, Nerds & WeirdosSelf
• 1994Die Haut - SweatSelf
• 1994Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love InSelf
• 1994September Songs: The Music of Kurt WeillSelf
• 1994Nick Cave: Straight To You - A PortraitSelf
• 1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Musical Guest
• 1992Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's DreamSelf
• 1992Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The ParadisoSelf
• 1991The SongSelf
• 1991IDn4Self
• 1991Just Visiting This PlanetMusic
• 1991Johnny SuedeFreak Storm
• 1990The Road to God Knows WhereSelf
• 1990IDn3Self
• 1990IDn2Entry
• 1990Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good SonSelf
• 1988Dandy
• 1988Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender PreySelf
• 1988Ghosts... of the Civil DeadMaynard
• 1987Wings of DesireSelf - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
• 1987Kings of IndependenceSelf
• 1987Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange LandSelf
• 1986Dogs in SpaceThanks
• 1986Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My TrialSelf
• 1986Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the PricksSelf
• 1985Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is DeadSelf
• 1984Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to EternitySelf
• 1953The OscarsSelf
• —Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996self
• —Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)Self
• —Before They Were Gods(voice)
• —The Circumventing MindMusic
• —WoyzeckMusic