Date 26/04/2017 - News People
Jonathan Demme, the director behind 'The Silence of the Lambs' is dead.
Demme won an Oscar for helming 'Silence of the Lambs.'
He also directed 'Philadelphia,' and the 2004 remake of 'The Manchurian Candidate.'
He was 73. Demme died at his Manhattan apartment on Wednesday of complications related to esophageal cancer.
Demme was not averse to tackling strong subject matter: He directed Philadelphia, a mainstream film dealing with the AIDS crisis.
