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Jonathan Demme
22 February 1944
Jonathan Demme played in 1 and created 10 movies in the Sci-Fi, Horror, Music, Action, Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller, Mystery genres.
Jonathan Demme got succeed with average imdb rating 6.7.
Awarded honorary somewhat alongside Wesleyan University (June 3, 1990).
He co-directed Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia" music video.
Uncle of Ted Demme.
Has 3 children, with wife Joanne Howard.
Directed Bruce Springsteen's " Incorporated" music video (1995).
Frequently uses Pablo Ferro suited for his Tenure Sequences and montages.
Was voted the 45th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editorial writer. "On cloud nine Obscure Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 255-258. New York: The H.W. Wilson Concern, 1988.
... Invent of Josephine Demme.
He many a time casts the same actors in most of his films, including Paul Lazar, Ted Levine, Harry Northup, Charles Napier, Dean Stockwell, Robert W. Fortress, Denzel Washington, Jude Ciccolella, and Tracey Walter. He also tends to take advantage of non-actor friends or musicians he likes, as hunger as they are "interesting".
Directed 8 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Christine Lahti, Dean Stockwell, Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Tom Hanks, and Anne Hathaway. Steenburgen, Hopkins, Foster and Hanks won Oscars for their performances in one of Demme's movies.
He and Michael Mann acquire both directed a Hannibal Lecter and have also both been active in a mistiness about Howard Hughes. Mann directed Manhunter (1986) and produced The Aviator (2004), which he was originally to have directed. In unison of Demme's earliest films was Melvin and Howard (1980), and he later went on to direct _Quietness of the Lambs, The (1991)_.
Colleague of jury at the Cannes Film Celebration in 2000.
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