Jonathan Demme filmography

Jonathan Demme in 2015

Jonathan Demme was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of film and television.

Film

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
		Director	Producer	Writer
1971	Angels Hard as They Come	No	Yes	Yes
1972	The Hot Box	Second Unit	Yes	Yes
1973	Fly Me	Second Unit	No	No
	Black Mama White Mama	No	No	Story
	Naughty Wives (aka Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman)	Yes	No	No	directed opening sequence
1974	Caged Heat	Yes	No	Yes
1975	Crazy Mama	Yes	No	No
1976	Fighting Mad	Yes	No	Yes
1977	Handle with Care	Yes	No	No	originally titled Citizens Band
1979	Last Embrace	Yes	No	No
1980	Melvin and Howard	Yes	No	No
1984	Swing Shift	Yes	No	No
1986	Something Wild	Yes	Yes	No
1988	Married to the Mob	Yes	No	No
1990	Miami Blues	No	Yes	No
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Yes	No	No
	Women & Men 2	No	Yes	No
1993	Philadelphia	Yes	Yes	No
	Amos & Andrew	No	Executive	No
	Household Saints	No	Executive	No
1994	Roy Cohn/Jack Smith	No	Executive	No
1995	Devil in a Blue Dress	No	Executive	No
1996	That Thing You Do!	No	Yes	No
1997	Ulee's Gold	No	Yes	No
1998	Beloved	Yes	Yes	No
	Shadrach	No	Executive	No
1999	The Opportunists	No	Executive	No
2001	Maangamizi: The Ancient One	No	Executive	No
2002	The Truth About Charlie	Yes	Yes	Yes
	The Manchurian Candidate	Yes	Yes	No
	Adaptation.	No	Yes	No
2006	The Goodbye Kiss	No	Yes	No
2008	Rachel Getting Married	Yes	Yes	No
2009	Crude Independence	No	Executive	No
2013	A Master Builder	Yes	No	No
2012	Gimme the Loot	No	Yes	No
2014	Song One	No	Yes	No
2015	Ricki and the Flash	Yes	No	No
	The Center	No	Executive	No

Documentary

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
		Director	Producer	Writer
1984	Stop Making Sense	Yes	No	Yes	Concert film; also re-recording supervisor
1987	Haiti: Dreams of Democracy	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Swimming to Cambodia	Yes	No	No	Concert film
1992	Cousin Bobby	Yes	No	No
1994	The Complex Sessions	Yes	No	No	Concert film
	One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room 1994	No	Yes	No
1996	Mandela	No	Yes	No
1998	Storefront Hitchcock	Yes	No	No	Concert film
	The Uttmost	No	Yes	No
2003	The Agronomist	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also cinematographer
	Beah: A Black Woman Speaks	No	Yes	No
2006	Neil Young: Heart of Gold	Yes	No	No	Concert-documentary film; also camera operator
2007	Man from Plains	Yes	Yes	No	Also camera operator
	Right to Return: New Home Movies From the Lower 9th Ward	Yes	Yes	No
2009	Neil Young Trunk Show	Yes	No	No	Concert-documentary film
	Joe and Linda Flooded Out of Holy Cross	Yes	No	No	released in Issue #10 of Wholphin
2010	Foul Deeds	Yes	No	No	Pegi Young concert film
2011	I'm Carolyn Parker	Yes	Yes	No	Also cinematographer
	Neil Young Journeys	Yes	Yes	No	Concert-documentary film
2012	Kenny Chesney: Unstaged	Yes	No	No	Concert film
	Enzo Avitabile Music Life	Yes	Yes	No
2013	Everett Ruess Wilderness Song	No	Yes	No
2014	Brothers of the Black List	No	Yes	No	Presenter
2015	Deep Time	No	Yes	No
	What's Motivating Hayes	Yes	No	No	Short film; segment in The New Yorker Presents
	Another Telepathic Thing	Yes	No	No	Concert film
2016	Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids	Yes	No	No	Concert film
	Protection Not Protest: The People of Standing Rock	Yes	No	No	Short film
2017	The Power of Rock	Yes	Yes	No	Compilation film made of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performances
2019	Last Disintegrated School	No	Yes	No
2022	Her Magnum Opus	No	Yes	No	Presenter

Television

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
		Director	Writer	Producer
1978	Columbo	Yes	No	No	Episode "Murder Under Glass"
1980–86	Saturday Night Live	Yes	Yes	No	3 episodes
1982	American Playhouse	Yes	No	No	Episode "Who Am I This Time?"
1986	Alive from Off Center	Yes	No	No	Episode "Trisha Brown's Accumulation with Talking Plus Watermotor"
1987	Trying Times	Yes	No	No	Episode "A Family Tree"
1997	Subway Stories	Yes	No	Yes	Segment "Subway Car from Hell"
1998	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Yes	No	No	Episode "The Cast of Beloved"
2010	Tavis Smiley Reports	Yes	No	No	News program; segment "Been In The Storm Too Long"
2011	Enlightened	Yes	No	No	2 episodes
	A Gifted Man	Yes	No	Yes	Episode "Pilot"
2013–14	The Killing	Yes	No	No	2 episodes
2014	Line of Sight	Yes	No	Yes	Unaired pilot
2017	Shots Fired	Yes	No	No	Episode "Hour Six: The Fire This Time"
2018	Seven Seconds	Yes	No	No	Episode "Brenton's Breath" (Posthumous release)

Music video

Year	Title	Artist
1979	"Gidget Goes to Hell"	Suburban Lawns
1985	"Sun City" (with Godley & Creme)	Artists United Against Apartheid
	"Everybody's Young"	Sandra Bernhard
	"The Perfect Kiss"	New Order
	"I Got You Babe"	UB40 and Chrissie Hynde
1987	"Solitude Standing"	Suzanne Vega
1988	"Away"	The Feelies
1989	"Sister Rosa"	The Neville Brothers
1990	"In the Still of the Night" (segment in Red Hot + Blue)
1991	"Heal Yourself" (executive director; directed with Ted Demme, Fab 5 Freddy, and Pamm Jenkins)	H.E.A.L.
1993	"Streets of Philadelphia" (with Ted Demme)	Bruce Springsteen
1995	"Murder Incorporated"
2000	"If I Should Fall Behind"
2004	"Rich Man's War"	Steve Earle

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	The Incredible Melting Man	Matt Winters
1979	Last Embrace	Man on Train
1985	Into the Night	Federal Agent
1996	That Thing You Do!	Producer of That Thing You Do! Director of Weekend At Party Pier
2000	Oz	Commercial Director
2015	I Thought I Told You to Shut Up	Narrator	Short documentary

External links

• Jonathan Demme at IMDb