Cast & creator
Nick Cave
Best known for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The South Bank Show
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.
Also known as: Ніка Кейв, Nicholas Edward Cave
156
film credits
17
television credits
119
1953–2026 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (173)
Showing 173 of 173 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Musical Guest
1993
The South Bank Show
1978
Later... with Jools Holland
1992
Australian Story
Self
1996
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Original Music Composer
2022
The Oscars
Self
1953
Wind River
Original Music Composer
2017
Train Dreams
Songs
2025Train Dreams
Vocals
2025
Hell or High Water
Original Music Composer
2016
Memoir of a Snail
Bill Clarke (voice)
2024
Wings of Desire
Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
1987
The Road
Original Music Composer
2009
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Bowery Saloon Singer
2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Original Music Composer
2007
Lawless
Screenplay
2012Lawless
Original Music Composer
2012
Blonde
Original Music Composer
2022
War Machine
Original Music Composer
2017
Kylie
Self
2026
The Blues
Self
2003
Stranded
Self
2015
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
H.G. Wells
2021
Back to Black
Original Music Composer
2024
TAPE
Self
2018
The Death of Bunny Munro
Novel
2025The Death of Bunny Munro
Executive Producer
2025The Death of Bunny Munro
Original Music Composer
2025The Death of Bunny Munro
Creator
2025
Pixote In Memoriam
Self
2007
Winged Migration
Theme Song Performance
2001
The Proposition
Screenplay
2005The Proposition
Original Music Composer
2005The Proposition
Vocals
2005Artsnight
Self
2015
Why Are We Creative?
Self
2018Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
Self - Guest (archive footage)
2020
Far from Men
Original Music Composer
2015
Kings
Original Music Composer
2017
Nocturama
Thanks
2016
Popular Voices at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2017
One More Time with Feeling
Self
2016One More Time with Feeling
Music
2016One More Time with Feeling
Original Music Composer
2016
The Velvet Queen
Original Music Composer
2021
The New Boy
Original Music Composer
2023
20,000 Days on Earth
Self
201420,000 Days on Earth
Writer
201420,000 Days on Earth
Original Music Composer
2014
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
Self
1994
West of Memphis
Original Music Composer
2012
Fuse
Truck Driver (voice)
2018
The Song
Self
1991
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Self
2006
Broken English
Self
2026
365 Day Project
Self
2007
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
Self
2016
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
Self
1994
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
Self
2015
Johnny Suede
Freak Storm
1991
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Narrator
2025
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
Original Music Composer
2008
Seele Brennt
Nick Cave
2005
The Creative Brain
Self
2019
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Self
2023
Wilde Jahre West-Berlin
Self
2015
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Self
2021
This Much I Know to Be True
Self
2022This Much I Know to Be True
Original Music Composer
2022
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
Maynard
1988Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
Writer
1988Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
Original Music Composer
1988
Woyzeck
Music
Distant Sky
Self
2018
Days of Grace
Music
2012
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
Self
2025
The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
Self (segment "Straight to You")
2005
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
Self
2023
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House
Self
2007
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
Self
2023
A Few Hours of Spring
Original Music Composer
2012
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
Jerry
1997
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Self
2011
IDn4
Self
1991
Prophet's Prey
Narrator
2015Prophet's Prey
Music
2015
The Extraordinary Miss Flower
Self
2025No More Shall We Part: The Recording Sessions
Himself
2001
L7: Pretend We're Dead
Self (archive footage)
2017
All Tomorrow's Parties
Self
2009
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
Self
2021Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
Self
1996
Kylie at the BBC
Self
2022
The Harry Smith Project Live
Self
2006
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Self
1994
Tender
Original Music Composer
2014
Goth at the BBC
Self
2014
Love Eats Up Life
Self (archive footage)
2019Just Visiting This Planet
Music
1991
The Story of 'Fairytale of New York'
Self
2005
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
Self
2007
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
Self
2020Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
Director
2020
The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan
Self
1997Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Self
2004Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey
Self
1988
Dogs in Space
Thanks
1986
To Have and to Hold
Original Music Composer
1996Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call
Self
1997
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert
Self
2025Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity
Self
1984
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
Self
1998Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
Music
1998
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour
Self - vocals, piano
2007Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part
Self
2001
IDn2
Entry
1990Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Self
2008
Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party
Self
2008
The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal
Mr. Invisible
2020
Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Self
2017Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial
Self
1986Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In
Self
1994
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
Self
2025Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
Author
2025Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
Compositor
2025Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
Original Music Composer
2025Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama
Self
2003Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead
Self
1985No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
Self
2009
Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten
2001
Expelling the Demon
Music
1999
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso
Self
1992Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream
Self
1992
If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story
Self
2001
The Dirty Three
Self
2007Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks
Self
1986
IDn3
Self
1990
The English Surgeon
Original Music Composer
2007Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son
Self
1990
Before They Were Gods
(voice)
The Goddess: How I Fell in Love. Film about the film
Music
2004
Baby Trouble Hole
Singer
1996
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions
Self
2008
The Cat Piano
Narrator
2009
The Road to God Knows Where
Self
1990
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008
Self
2008
Millhaven
Author
2011
FeeLee. History of a Single Label
Self
2020
Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later
Self
2020Listen With Pain
Self
2001
Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock
Self
2023
Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues
Self
2008
The Making of Wild God
Nick Cave
2024
Die Haut - Sweat
Self
1994
Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land
Self
1987
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)
Self
Angel of the Wind
Music
2008
On/Off: Mark Stewart
2009
But We Had Music
(Voice)
2024
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre
Self
2013
The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn
Self
2003
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits
Self
2014
Dandy
1988Submission
Music
2011
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996
self
Do You Pray?
Narrator
2017
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
2022
Blixa Bargeld
Self
2008
Boredom
Self
2017
Kings of Independence
Self
1987The Circumventing Mind
Music
Snowman
Narrator
2017