Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Jonathan Demme
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Early life== Demme was born on February 22, 1944, in [[Baldwin (hamlet), New York|Baldwin]], New York, the son of Dorothy Louise ({{nΓ©e}} Rogers)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-09-mn-12147-story.html|title=Dorothy Demme; Character Actress in Son's Movies|date=December 9, 1995|access-date=April 26, 2017|newspaper=LA Times|archive-date=April 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427102429/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-12-09/news/mn-12147_1_dorothy-demme|url-status=live}}</ref> and Robert Eugene Demme, a public relations executive.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/l/Bonnie-B-Allen/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0067.html | title= Bonnie-B-Allen - User Trees - Genealogy.com | website= Familytreemaker.genealogy.com | access-date= April 1, 2017 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141222222839/http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/l/Bonnie-B-Allen/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0067.html | archive-date= December 22, 2014 | url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Jonathan-Demme.html |title=Jonathan Demme Biography (1944β) |access-date=March 19, 2009 |work=Film Reference |archive-date=March 23, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090323023108/http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Jonathan-Demme.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He was raised in [[Rockville Centre, New York]] and [[Miami]],<ref name="Demme"/> where he graduated from [[Southwest Miami High School]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti-archive-new/msg14850.html |title=14902: The silenced voice of Radio Haiti speaks again on film (fwd) |access-date=February 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301191312/http://www2.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti-archive-new/msg14850.html |archive-date=March 1, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> before attending the [[University of Florida]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/26/jonathan-demme-obituary|title=Jonathan Demme obituary|first=Ryan|last=Gilbey|date=April 26, 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=April 26, 2017|archive-date=July 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724100612/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/26/jonathan-demme-obituary|url-status=live}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)