Nick Cave

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Biography

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 Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Bowery Saloon Singer

Wings of Desire

Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Memoir of a Snail

Bill Clarke (voice)

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

H.G. Wells

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self - Guest

20,000 Days on Earth

Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Musical Guest

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

Self

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Broken English MOVIE	Self
2025	Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough MOVIE	Narrator
2025	Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende MOVIE	Self
2025	The Extraordinary Miss Flower MOVIE	Self
2025	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour MOVIE	Self
2025	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert MOVIE	Self
2024	The Making of Wild God MOVIE	Nick Cave
2024	Memoir of a Snail MOVIE	Bill Clarke (voice)
2024	But We Had Music MOVIE	(Voice)
2023	Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh MOVIE	Self
2023	Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock MOVIE	Self
2023	Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party MOVIE	Self
2023	AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex MOVIE	Self
2022	Kylie at the BBC MOVIE	Self
2022	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022 MOVIE	Self
2022	This Much I Know to Be True MOVIE	Self
2021	The Electrical Life of Louis Wain MOVIE	H.G. Wells
2021	Karen Dalton: In My Own Time MOVIE	Self
2021	Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel MOVIE	Self
2020	FeeLee. History of a Single Label MOVIE	Self
2020	Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace MOVIE	Self
2020	Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later MOVIE	Self
2020	The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal MOVIE	Mr. Invisible
2019	Love Eats Up Life MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	The Creative Brain MOVIE	Self
2018	Why Are We Creative? MOVIE	Self
2018	Fuse MOVIE	Truck Driver (voice)
2018	TAPE TV	Self
2018	Distant Sky MOVIE	Self
2017	Popular Voices at the BBC TV	Self (archive footage)
2017	L7: Pretend We're Dead MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2017	Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds MOVIE	Self
2017	Snowman MOVIE	Narrator
2017	Boredom MOVIE	Self
2017	Do You Pray? MOVIE	Narrator
2016	The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez MOVIE	Self
2016	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling MOVIE	Self
2015	Stranded MOVIE	Self
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV	Self - Guest
2015	Prophet's Prey MOVIE	Narrator
2015	Artsnight TV	Self
2015	B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 MOVIE	Self
2015	Wilde Jahre West-Berlin MOVIE	Self
2014	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits MOVIE	Self
2014	Goth at the BBC MOVIE	Self
2014	20,000 Days on Earth MOVIE	Self
2013	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre MOVIE	Self
2011	Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard MOVIE	Self
2009	No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York MOVIE	Self
2009	On/Off: Mark Stewart MOVIE	Self
2009	All Tomorrow's Parties MOVIE	Self
2009	The Cat Piano MOVIE	Narrator
2008	Blixa Bargeld MOVIE	Self
2008	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008 MOVIE	Self
2008	Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues MOVIE	Self
2008	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions MOVIE	Self
2008	Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party MOVIE	Self
2008	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! MOVIE	Self
2007	365 Day Project MOVIE	Self
2007	Pixote In Memoriam MOVIE	Self
2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford MOVIE	Bowery Saloon Singer
2007	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House MOVIE	Self
2007	The Dirty Three MOVIE	Self
2007	The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music MOVIE	Self
2007	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour MOVIE	Self - vocals, piano
2006	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man MOVIE	Self
2006	The Harry Smith Project Live MOVIE	Self
2005	The Story of 'Fairytale of New York' MOVIE	Self
2005	Seele Brennt MOVIE	Nick Cave
2005	The Work of Director Anton Corbijn MOVIE	Self (segment "Straight to You")
2004	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus MOVIE	Self
2003	The Blues TV	Self
2003	The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn MOVIE	Self
2003	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama MOVIE	Self
2001	Listen With Pain MOVIE	Self
2001	Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten MOVIE	Self
2001	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part MOVIE	Self
2001	If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story MOVIE	Self
1998	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos MOVIE	Self
1997	The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan MOVIE	Self
1997	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call MOVIE	Self
1997	Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest MOVIE	Jerry
1996	Baby Trouble Hole MOVIE	Singer
1996	Australian Story TV	Self
1996	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads MOVIE	Self
1994	Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos MOVIE	Self
1994	Die Haut - Sweat MOVIE	Self
1994	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In MOVIE	Self
1994	September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill MOVIE	Self
1994	Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait MOVIE	Self
1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien TV	Self - Musical Guest
1992	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream MOVIE	Self
1992	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso MOVIE	Self
1991	The Song MOVIE	Self
1991	IDn4 MOVIE	Self
1991	Johnny Suede MOVIE	Freak Storm
1990	The Road to God Knows Where MOVIE	Self
1990	IDn3 MOVIE	Self
1990	IDn2 MOVIE	Entry
1990	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son MOVIE	Self
1988	Dandy MOVIE	Self
1988	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey MOVIE	Self
1988	Ghosts... of the Civil Dead MOVIE	Maynard
1987	Wings of Desire MOVIE	Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
1987	Kings of Independence MOVIE	Self
1987	Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land MOVIE	Self
1986	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial MOVIE	Self
1986	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks MOVIE	Self
1985	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead MOVIE	Self
1984	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity MOVIE	Self
1953	The Oscars TV	Self
	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996 MOVIE	self
	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998) MOVIE	Self
	Before They Were Gods MOVIE	(voice)

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