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‘Silence of a Lambs’ executive Jonathan Demme dies of cancer
- Updated: April 26, 2017
Jonathan Demme. File Pic/AFP
Movie executive Jonathan Demme, best famous for “The Silence of a Lambs” has died during the age of 73, his publicist pronounced on Wednesday.
Demme, who also destined a Oscar winning film “Philadelphia,” was pang from esophageal cancer, publicist Annalee Paulo pronounced in a statement. She pronounced he died in New York on Wednesday morning surrounded by his family.
“Jonathan upheld divided early this morning in his Manhattan apartment, surrounded by his wife, Joanne Howard, and three children. He died from complications from esophageal cancer,” Paulo said.
Demme’s many new film was a 2015 comedy “Ricki and a Flash,” starring Meryl Streep as an ageing rocker.
New York-born Demme won a directing Oscar for a 1991 thriller “The Silence of a Lambs”, that also won Oscars for best design and for a stars Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster.
Demme’s work was far-reaching ranging, including comedy and thrillers to groundbreaking transport like 1993 film “Philadelphia,” which was one of a initial mainstream Hollywood cinema to tackle the AIDS crisis. The film brought an Oscar for Tom Hanks.
He also destined unison and song documentaries for a likes of Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Chesney and Neil Young, the Talking Heads, and some-more recently, “Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids.”
Other important films embody a 2008 eccentric play “Rachel Getting Married,” “The Manchurian Candidate” (2004) and 1988 comedy “Married to a Mob.”
Paulo pronounced a wake for Demme would be private and that in lieu of flowers a family had asked that donations be made to a organisation Americans For Immigrant Justice, in Miami, Florida.