Jonathan Demme

Directing · Born 1944-02-22 in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA

Biography

Robert Jonathan Demme (February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He was best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed the acclaimed films Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), Philadelphia (1993), and Rachel Getting Married (2008), as well as the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense (1984), which is widely considered to be one of the greatest concert films of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Demme, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• Into the Night as Federal Agent
• The Incredible Melting Man as Matt Winters
• Pablo as Self
• Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
• Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel as Self
• The Many Miracles of Household Saints as Self
• That Thing You Do! as Major Motion Picture Director
• I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! as Narrator (voice)
• Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius as Self
• Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self