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- Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who observed emphatically American characters with a discerning eye, a social conscience and a rock ’n’ roll heart, achieving especially wide acclaim with “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Philadelphia,” died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 73. His publicist, Leslee Dart, confirmed the death.
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Demme died at his home in Manhattan on April 26, 2017, from complications from esophageal cancer and heart disease; he was 73. [ 49 ] [ 1 ] "I am heart-broken to lose a friend, a mentor, a guy so singular and dynamic you'd have to design a hurricane to contain him.
Jonathan Demme, American film director who was known for his eclectic body of work, which ranged from feature films to concert movies to documentaries. His most widely known movie was The Silence of the Lambs.
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Apr 26, 2017 · Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who observed emphatically American characters with a discerning eye, a social conscience and a rock ’n’ roll heart, achieving especially wide acclaim...
Apr 28, 2017 · Jonathan Demme, one of the American cinema’s finest, most insistently humanist directors, has died at the absurdly young age of 73, from complications of throat cancer and heart disease. It’s...
- Senior Movie Critic
Jonathan Demme was born on 22 February 1944 in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Rachel Getting Married (2008) and Philadelphia (1993).
- February 22, 1944
- April 26, 2017
Apr 26, 2017 · Jonathan Demme, the Academy Award-winning director of “The Silence of the Lambs,” died Wednesday at age 73. In 1991, Demme spoke to The Times about his early films, the struggle to make both...
Apr 27, 2017 · Demme soaked up every artist, painter, musician, athlete, worker or writer he ever met and returned that emphatic and abundant love. NILES SCHWARTZ Few directors had a sense of expressing hope as vivaciously as Jonathan Demme.
