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Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch

Director · Born January 22, 1953 · Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA

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Biography

James Robert "Jim" Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) is an American writer-director and musician. Jarmusch has been a major figure in American independent cinema since the 1980s. He is best known for his work on "Dead Man" (1995), "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" (1999), "Broken Flowers" (2005), and "Only Lovers Left Alive" (2013).

Directed 25

2000s

  1. 2009
  2. 2005
  3. 2004
  4. 2002

    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

    Director

  5. Int. Trailer. Night

    Director

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. 1997

    Year of the Horse

    Director

  3. Coffee and Cigarettes III

    Director

  4. 1995
  5. 1992

    BAD I+II

    Director

  6. 1991
  7. 1990

    Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

    Director

1980s

  1. 1989
  2. Coffee and Cigarettes II

    Director

  3. 1988

    Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant

    Director

  4. 1987

    Coffee and Cigarettes

    Director

  5. 1986
  6. 1984
  7. 1983

    Stranger Than Paradise

    Director

  8. 1981

Acted in 22

2020s

  1. 2025

    Adios

    Movie

2000s

  1. 2001

    Some Days in January, 1984

    Movie

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. 1998
  3. 1997

    R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman

    Movie

  4. 1996
  5. 1995

    Blue in the Face

    Bob

  6. Iron Horsemen

    Silver Rider

  7. 1994
  8. 1992
  9. 1991

    The Golden Boat

    Stranger

1980s

  1. 1989
  2. Leningrad Cowboys Go America

    Car Dealer | New York

  3. 1988

    Candy Mountain

    (uncredited)

  4. 1987

    Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

    Barkeeper #2

  5. Straight to Hell

    Amos Dade

  6. 1985

    The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

    Movie

  7. 1984

    Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch

    Interviewee

  8. American Autobahn

    Movie Producer

  9. 1982

    Vortex

    Voice Over

  10. 1981

    Only You

    Movie

Wrote 20

2000s

  1. 2009
  2. 2005
  3. 2004
  4. 2002

    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

    Writer

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. 1997

    Coffee and Cigarettes III

    Writer

  3. 1995
  4. 1991

1980s

  1. 1989
  2. Coffee and Cigarettes II

    Writer

  3. 1987

    Coffee and Cigarettes

    Writer

  4. 1986
  5. 1984
  6. 1981

    You Are Not I

    Writer

Sound 12

2020s

  1. 2026

    Nova '78

    Sound

  2. 2025
  3. Fathom

    Music

  4. 2024

    Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray

    Original Music Composer

  5. 2023

    Pre-Prom

    Music

2010s

  1. 2018

    Living the Light: Robby Müller

    Original Music Composer

  2. 2016
  3. 2013

1980s

  1. 1984

    Burroughs: The Movie

    Sound Recordist

  2. 1982

    The State of Things

    Music

  3. 1981
  4. 1980

    Underground U.S.A.

    Sound Recordist

Produced 9

2010s

  1. 2017

    Porto

    Executive Producer

  2. Uncle Howard

    Executive Producer

2000s

  1. 2008

    Explicit Ills

    Executive Producer

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. 1993

    When Pigs Fly

    Executive Producer

  3. 1991

1980s

  1. 1981

    You Are Not I

    Producer

Edited 3

Camera 3

1990s

  1. 1997

    Year of the Horse

    Director of Photography

1980s

  1. 1986

    Sleepwalk

    Camera Operator

  2. 1981

    You Are Not I

    Director of Photography

Appearances42

2020s

  1. 2024

    Scab Vendor: The Life and Times of Jonathan Shaw

    Self

  2. 2023
  3. 2022

    Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    Self

  4. Fragments of Paradise

    Self

  5. 2021

    Jim Jarmusch: I Love to Take the Subway by Myself

    Himself

  6. 2020

    The Raconteurs Live at Electric Lady

    Self

2010s

  1. 2018
  2. The Ravenite

    Himself

  3. Living the Light: Robby Müller

    Self

  4. Carmine Street Guitars

    Self

  5. 2017

    Uncle Howard

    Self

  6. 2016
  7. 2015

    Hot Sugar's Cold World

    Self

  8. 2014

    Song from the Forest

    Himself

  9. Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch

    Self

  10. 2013

    A Tribute To Ron Asheton

    Self

  11. 2011

    Don't Expect Too Much

    Himself

  12. Blank City

    Self

  13. 2010

2000s

  1. 2009
  2. Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

    Self

  3. 2007
  4. 2005

    Excavating Taylor Mead

    Self

  5. Punk: Attitude

    Self

  6. 2004

    Ramones: We're Outta Here!

    Self

  7. 2003

    Rockets Redglare!

    Self

  8. Chaplin Today: A King in New York

    Self

  9. 2001

    Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me

    Himself

  10. 2000

    Divine Trash

    Self

1990s

  1. 1999

    In Bad Taste

    Self

  2. 1998

    Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman

    Self

  3. 1997

    Year of the Horse

    Self

  4. 1996
  5. The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

    Self

  6. 1994

    Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

    Self

  7. 1993

    Made in the USA

    Self

  8. 1991

    Fishing with John

    Self · 1 episode

1980s

  1. 1988

    Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

    Self - Audience Member

  2. 1984

    Fräulein Berlin

    himself

  3. 1980

    Lightning Over Water

    Self (uncredited)

Thanked in the credits2

2010s

  1. 2019

1980s

  1. 1988

    Me

    Thanks