---
name: "Jonathan Richman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jonathan-richman"
fi1m_id: "jonathan-richman"
imdb_id: "nm0725041"
tmdb_id: 139767
wikidata_id: "Q709470"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "16 May 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T22:21:22.091437+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jonathan Richman

## Identity

Jonathan Richman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jonathan-richman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jonathan-richman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0725041
- **TMDB ID:** 139767
- **Wikidata ID:** Q709470
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Richman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725041/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/139767

Composer. Born 16 May 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 16 May 1951, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Also known as:** Jonathan Michael Richman
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Richman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725041/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/139767

## Biography

Jonathan Richman is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1951, he formed the proto-punk band The Modern Lovers in 1970. The group released a self-titled album in 1976 featuring songs such as "Roadrunner".

Richman has worked solo and with acoustic backing since the mid-1970s, releasing numerous albums. He has also contributed music to films and made occasional acting appearances. He performed songs and appeared as a narrator figure in the Farrelly brothers' comedy *There's Something About Mary* (1998), for which he is credited as composer. He had an earlier cameo as a tavern band member in their film *Kingpin* (1996).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, mmone.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *There's Something About Mary* (1998), Fi1m 78, as Jonathan — [page](https://film.one/film/theres-something-about-mary.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Laundromat Off Malibu* (2021), Music Director
- *Baby Driver* (2017), as Theme Song Performance — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/baby-driver.md)
- *Revolution Summer* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *There's Something About Mary* (1998), as Jonathan · Original Music Composer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/theres-something-about-mary.md)
- *Kingpin* (1996), as Tavern band
- *Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - TopPop Special* (1978), Writer

## Gallery

- ![Jonathan Richman](https://film.one/media/person/88018/gallery-9df84c69440b.jpg) Jonathan Richman — alterna2, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Jonathan_Richman_of_the_Modern_Lovers%2C_2009.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![American musician Jonathan Richman, live in Tokyo, circa November 1990. "In November [1990] Jonathan went to Japan for the first time, where he was overjoyed at](https://film.one/media/person/88018/gallery-2261507b6798.jpg) American musician Jonathan Richman, live in Tokyo, circa November 1990. "In November [1990] Jonathan went to Japan for the first time, where he was overjoyed at — Masao Nakagami, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Jonathan-Richman.jpg/1280px-Jonathan-Richman.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran en:Jonathan Richman](https://film.one/media/person/88018/gallery-3bebb17c1c5c.jpg) photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran en:Jonathan Richman — Carptrash at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/JonathanRichman.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jonathan Richman live in Edmonton, Canada 2016](https://film.one/media/person/88018/gallery-5d55438a1aa7.jpg) Jonathan Richman live in Edmonton, Canada 2016 — Levi Manchak, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Jonathan_Richman_%2825323076343%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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