Nick Cave
Actor · Director · WriterNicholas 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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KNOWN FOR
FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR107
Broken English
2026
Self
The Extraordinary Miss Flower
2025
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
2025
Self
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert
2025
Self
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
Narrator
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025
Self
Memoir of a Snail
2024
Bill Clarke (voice)
The Making of Wild God
2024
Nick Cave
But We Had Music
2024
(Voice)
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
2023
Self
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
2023
Self
Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock
2023
Self
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
2023
Self
This Much I Know to Be True
2022
Self
Kylie at the BBC
2022
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
2022
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
H.G. Wells
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
2021
Self
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
Self
The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal
2020
Mr. Invisible
Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later
2020
Self
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
2020
Self
FeeLee. History of a Single Label
2020
Self
The Creative Brain
2019
Self
Love Eats Up Life
2019
Self (archive footage)
Kylie Minogue: Summer 2019 - Live At Glastonbury
2019
Self
Fuse
2018
Truck Driver (voice)
Distant Sky
2018
Self
Why Are We Creative?
2018
Self
L7: Pretend We're Dead
2017
Self (archive footage)
Snowman
2017
Narrator
Boredom
2017
Self
Do You Pray?
2017
Narrator
Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2017
Self
One More Time with Feeling
2016
Self
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
2016
Self
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015
Self
Prophet's Prey
2015
Narrator
Wilde Jahre West-Berlin
2015
Self
Stranded
2015
Self
Goth at the BBC
2014
Self
20,000 Days on Earth
2014
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits
2014
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre
2013
Self
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
Self
The Cat Piano
2009
Narrator
- No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009
Self
All Tomorrow's Parties
2009
Self
On/Off: Mark Stewart
2009
Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues
2008
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions
2008
Self
Blixa Bargeld
2008
Self
Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party
2008
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008
2008
Self
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2008
Self
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House
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
Self - vocals, piano
365 Day Project
2007
Self
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007
Self
The Dirty Three
2007
Self
Pixote In Memoriam
2007
Self
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
2006
Self
The Harry Smith Project Live
2006
Self
The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
2005
Self (segment "Straight to You")
The Story of 'Fairytale of New York'
2005
Self
Seele Brennt
2005
Nick Cave
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
2004
Self
The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn
2003
Self
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama
2003
Self
If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story
2001
Self
- Listen With Pain
Listen With Pain
2001
Self
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part
2001
Self
Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten
2001
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
1998
Self
The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan
1997
Self
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
Jerry
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call
1997
Self
Baby Trouble Hole
1996
Singer
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
1996
Self
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
1994
Self
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994
Self
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
1994
Self
Die Haut - Sweat
1994
Self
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In
1994
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso
1992
Self
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream
1992
Self
Johnny Suede
1991
Freak Storm
IDn4
1991
Self
The Song
1991
Self
The Road to God Knows Where
1990
Self
IDn2
1990
Entry
IDn3
1990
Self
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son
1990
Self
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
1988
Maynard
Dandy
1988
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey
1988
Self
Wings of Desire
1987
Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land
1987
Self
Kings of Independence
1987
Self
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks
1986
Self
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial
1986
Self
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead
1985
Self
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity
1984
Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996
self
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)
Self
Before They Were Gods
(voice)
WRITER6
SOUND35
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
2025
Original Music Composer
Train Dreams
2025
Songs, Vocals
Back to Black
2024
Original Music Composer
The New Boy
2023
Original Music Composer
Blonde
2022
Original Music Composer
This Much I Know to Be True
2022
Original Music Composer
The Velvet Queen
2021
Original Music Composer
War Machine
2017
Original Music Composer
Wind River
2017
Original Music Composer
Kings
2017
Original Music Composer
One More Time with Feeling
2016
Music, Original Music Composer
Hell or High Water
2016
Original Music Composer
Prophet's Prey
2015
Music
Far from Men
2015
Original Music Composer
Tender
2014
Original Music Composer
20,000 Days on Earth
2014
Original Music Composer
A Few Hours of Spring
2012
Original Music Composer
West of Memphis
2012
Original Music Composer
Lawless
2012
Original Music Composer
- Submission
Submission
2011
Music
The Road
2009
Original Music Composer
- Angel of the Wind
Angel of the Wind
2008
Music
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
2008
Original Music Composer
The English Surgeon
2007
Original Music Composer
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
Original Music Composer
The Proposition
2005
Original Music Composer, Vocals
The Goddess: How I Fell in Love. Film about the film
2004
Music
Winged Migration
2001
Theme Song Performance
Expelling the Demon
1999
Music
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
1998
Music
To Have and to Hold
1996
Original Music Composer
- Just Visiting This Planet
Just Visiting This Planet
1991
Music
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
1988
Original Music Composer
- The Circumventing Mind
The Circumventing Mind
Music
Woyzeck
Music
