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Robert Jonathan Demme (born in Baldwin, New York, February 22, 1944, died April 26, 2017) directed movies like Melvin and Howard(1980), Swing Shift (1984) with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob(1988) with Michelle Pfeiffer, The Silence of the Lambs (1991) with Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins from the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris, Philadelphia (1993) an AIDS legal drama with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, Beloved (1998) from the 1987 novel by Toni Morrison, The Truth About Charlie (2002), The Manchurian Candidate (2004) with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep, Rachel Getting Married (2008) with Anne Hathaway, Ricki and the Flash (2015) with Meryl Streep. He helmed concert documentaries such as Stop Making Sense (1984) about Talking Heads, Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006).

Jonathan Demme began his career as a writer and producer with Roger Corman in 1971 and has directed and produced more than 40 movies since. His films have been nominated for 20 Academy Awards, including Beloved, Melvin and Howard, Philadelphia, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Who Am I This Time?, Rachel Getting Married, The Manchurian Candidate, and Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Oscar for Best Director in 1991. His documentaries and performance films include Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids, Cousin Bobby, The Agronomist, Haiti Dreams of Democracy, Stop Making Sense, Swimming to Cambodia, Neil Young Heart of Gold, Neil Young Trunk Show, Neil Young Journeys, Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains, I’m Carolyn Parker, The Good the Mad and the Beautiful, New Home Moves from the Lower 9th Ward, Tavis Smiley’s Been In the Storm Too Long and Enzo Avitabile Music Life. 

[Biography from 2016]

American filmmaker (1944–2017)

Robert Jonathan Demme (DEM-ee;^[1] February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker, whose career directing, producing, and screenwriting spanned more than 30 years and 70 feature films, documentaries, and television productions. He was an Academy Award and a Directors Guild of America Award winner, and received nominations for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Independent Spirit Awards.

Beginning his career under B-movie producer Roger Corman, Demme made his directorial debut with the 19