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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

‘Silence of the Lambs,’ ‘Philadelphia’ Director Jonathan Demme Dies at 73

Director Jonathan Demme attends Tribeca Talks After The Movie: By Sidney Lumet during the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theatre on April 22, 2016 in New York City. (Credit: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)

Jonathan Demme, director of the Academy Award-winning film “The Silence of the Lambs,” died Wednesday in New York. He was 73.

Demme, who also directed the AIDS drama “Philadelphia” and the David Byrne documentary “Stop Making Sense,” died from complications of esophageal cancer, representatives for the filmmaker’s family said.

Read the full story on LATimes.com.



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