Nick Cave

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

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.

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

22 September 1957, 68 years old

Known For

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Wings of Desire

Memoir of a Snail

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

20,000 Days on Earth

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

Johnny Suede

Prophet's Prey

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock

Self

2023

Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party

Self

2023

AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex

Self

2023

Kylie at the BBC

Self

2022

This Much I Know to Be True

Self

2022

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

H.G. Wells

2021

The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal

Mr. Invisible

2020

Fuse

Truck Driver (voice)

2018

L7: Pretend We're Dead

Self (archive footage)

2017

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

Self

2016

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

Self

2016

Prophet's Prey

Narrator

2015

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

Self

2015

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits

Self

2014

Goth at the BBC

Self

2014

20,000 Days on Earth

Self

2014

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

Self

2011

No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

Self

2009

All Tomorrow's Parties

Self

2009

The Cat Piano

Narrator

2009

Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues

Self

2008

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions

Self

2008

365 Day Project

2007

Pixote In Memoriam

Self

2007

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Bowery Saloon Singer

2007

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House

Self

2007

The Dirty Three

Self

2007

The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

Self

2007

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour

Self - vocals, piano

2007

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

Self

2006

If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story

Self

2001

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos

Self

1998

The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan

Self

1997

Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

Self

1994

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill

Self

1994

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso

Self

1992

IDn4

Self

1991

Johnny Suede

Freak Storm

1991

The Road to God Knows Where

Self

1990

IDn2

Entry

1990

Dandy

1988

Ghosts... of the Civil Dead

Maynard

1988

Wings of Desire

Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

1987

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996

self

Unknown

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

Narrator

2025

Broken English

Self

2025

Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende

Self

2025

The Extraordinary Miss Flower

Self

2025

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour

Self

2025

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert

Self

2025

The Making of Wild God

Nick Cave

2024

Memoir of a Snail

Bill Clarke (voice)

2024

But We Had Music

(Voice)

2024

Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh

Self

2023

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022

2022

Karen Dalton: In My Own Time

Self

2021

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel

Self

2021

FeeLee. History of a Single Label

Self

2020

Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace

Self

2020

Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later

Self

2020

Love Eats Up Life

Self (archive footage)

2019

The Creative Brain

Self

2019

Why Are We Creative?

Self

2018

Distant Sky

Self

2018

Snowman

Narrator

2017

Boredom

Self

2017

Do You Pray?

Narrator

2017

Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Self

2016

Stranded

Self

2015

Wilde Jahre West-Berlin

Self

2015

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre

Self

2013

On/Off: Mark Stewart

2009

Blixa Bargeld

Self

2008

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008

Self

2008

Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party

Self

2008

The Harry Smith Project Live

Self

2006

The Story of ‘Fairytale of New York’

Self

2005

The Work of Director Anton Corbijn

Self (segment "Straight to You")

2005

The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn

Self

2003

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest

Jerry

1997

Baby Trouble Hole

Singer

1996

Die Haut - Sweat

Self

1994

Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait

Self

1994

The Song

Self

1991

IDn3

Self

1990

Kings of Independence

Self

1987

Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land

Self

1987

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)

Self

Unknown