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Film music contributor

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The Film Music Contributor type includes people who have composed music for a film. This may also include people who composed works long before the film was made (such as classical composers.) more

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Timothy Fitzpatrick   Topic .45    
Film music contributor
John Robert Wood   Topic .45    
Film music contributor
Marco Beltrami   Film music contributor 54  
Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an Academy-Award nominated Italian-American film composer. Beltrami was born in Long Island, New York, USA. (His father, born in Italy, taught mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; his mother was Greek-American.) He graduated from Brown University and studied at the Yale School of Music, and then moved west to the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied under Jerry Goldsmith. A few classical commissions...
Musical Artist Blade II
Topic Blinky Bill
Person Cursed
Halloween Resurrection
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Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone at the United Nations Headquarters. Film music contributor 1900  
Ennio Morricone OMRI (born November 10, 1928), is an award-winning Italian composer. He composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions. Morricone wrote the characteristic soundtracks of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). His more recent compositions include the scores for The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Cinema...
Musical Artist A Fistful of Dynamite
Topic Casualties of War
Person Disclosure
Composer Fists in the Pocket
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John Williams Johnwilliams2006 Film music contributor 1941  
John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in history, including those for Jaws, ''Star Wars'', Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Hook, Schindler's List, and the Harry Potter film series. In addition, he has composed theme music for four Olympic Games, NBC Nightly News, numerous television series and concert...
Musical Artist A.I.
Topic Always
Person Amistad
Musical Group Member Black Sunday
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Michael Small   Topic 1969  
Michael Small (May 30, 1939 – November 24, 2003) was an American film score composer best known for his scores to thriller movies such as The Parallax View, Marathon Man, and The Star Chamber. Relatively few of his scores are available on compact disc.
Person Audrey Rose
Film music contributor Firstborn
Deceased Person Klute
Composer The Driver
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Dominic Muldowney   Topic 1984  
Dominic Muldowney (born 1952 in Southampton) is a British composer. He studied at the universities of Southampton (with Jonathan Harvey) and York (with Bernard Rands and David Blake), and took private lessons with Harrison Birtwistle. From 1974 to 1976 he was composer-in-residence to the Southern Arts Association. From 1976 he worked with the Royal National Theatre in London, and succeeded Birtwistle as its music director, a post he held from 1981 to 1997. Muldowney is perhaps best known for...
Person Bloody Sunday
Film music contributor
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Eurythmics Annie Lennox, a member of Eurythmics Film music contributor 1984  
Eurythmics (often incorrectly referred to as "The Eurythmics") is a British music duo, formed in 1982 by Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. The pair have achieved significant global, commercial and critical success, selling 75 million records worldwide, winning numerous awards, and have undertaken several successful world tours. They are noted for their intelligent pop songs, which showcase Lennox's powerful and expressive alto voice, and Stewart's innovative production techniques. They are also...
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Dave Grusin   Film music contributor ...And Justice for All  
David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many scores for feature film and television, and he has won numerous awards for his soundtrack work. Although he has worked in many musical styles, Grusin is often thought of as a jazz artist. Born in Littleton, Colorado, Grusin has a filmography of about 100 titles. His many awards include an Oscar for best original score for The Milagro Beanfield War, as well as Oscar...
Musical Artist Absence of Malice
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Person Ishtar
Musical Group Member Mulholland Falls
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James Horner James Horner Film music contributor *batteries not included  
James Roy Horner (born August 14 1953) is an American composer of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film score, and for frequent use of Celtic musical elements. Horner won two Academy Award for his score and song compositions for the film Titanic in 1997. James Horner was born in Los Angeles, California. His father, Harry Horner, was a production designer, set designer and occasional film director. Horner's early years...
Film actor 48 Hrs.
Musical Artist A Beautiful Mind
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Person All the King's Men
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Ilayaraaja   Topic 16 Vayathinile  
Ilayaraaja ( இளையராஜா in Tamil) (born June 2, 1943) is an Indian film composer. He has composed over 5000 songs and provided background music for more than 840 Indian films in various languages in a career spanning more than 30 years. He has won the Indian National Film Awards for best music composition thrice. He had completed a course in classical guitar (higher local) with the Trinity College of Music in London. Ilaiyaraja was born in a rural family in Pannaipuram near Madurai, Tamil Nadu,...
Person Agni Natchathiram
Film music contributor Anjali
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Mischa Bakaleinikoff   Topic 20 Million Miles to Earth    
Film music contributor Feet First
Have Rocket, Will Travel
Arthur Lange   Topic 99 River Street  
Arthur Lange (April 16, 1889 - December 7, 1956) was a United States bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music. He composed music for over 120 films, including Grand Canary and Woman on the Run. Lange shared an Oscar nomination with Hugo Friedhofer for the film The Woman in the Window. All in all he was nominated four times for Oscars but did not win any. During the first half of the 1920s Lange recorded copiously for Cameo Records. His 1923 orchestra, which also played the...
Person Cavalcade
Film music contributor The Dancing Masters
Musical Artist The Woman in the Window
Deceased Person Woman on the Run
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Emil Newman   Topic 99 River Street  
Emil Newman (January 20, 1911—August 30, 1984) was an American composer and conductor who worked on over 200 films and TV shows. He was nominated for an Oscar for musical direction on the classic Sun Valley Serenade (1941). A native of Connecticut, Emil Newman entered films in 1940 as the musical director on thirteen films. He received credit on twenty-five films in 1941 and twenty-eight films in 1942, one of which, Whispering Ghosts, contained his first (uncredited) contribution as a composer...
Person Island in the Sky
Film music contributor Rancho Notorious
Composer Woman on the Run
Deceased Person Big Jim McLain
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Gabriel Yared   Film music contributor 37°2 le matin  
Gabriel Yared (Arabic: جبرائيل يارد) (born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on English language films, winning an Oscar for his score for The English Patient and a nomination for The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain. At the age of 7, his father sent Yared to an accordion teacher. Two years later he stopped...
Musical Artist Breaking and Entering
Topic City of Angels
Person The English Patient
Musical Group Member The Talented Mr. Ripley
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D.H. Doane   Topic 5 Card Stud    
Film music contributor
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Maurice Jarre Maurice Jarre Topic 5 Card Stud  
Maurice Jarre (born in Lyon, France, 13 September 1924) is a French composer and conductor. Although he has composed several concert works, he is best known for his film score for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984). All three of these scores won Academy Awards. Other notable scores of his include The Message (1976), Dead Poets Society (1989) and Ghost (1990). He has had a star in Hollywood since 2001...
Person A Passage to India
Film music contributor After Dark, My Sweet
Film cinematographer Dead Poets Society
Record Producer Doctor Zhivago
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F.C. Van Al Styne   Topic 5 Card Stud    
Film music contributor
Yuvan Shankar Raja   Topic 7G Rainbow Colony  
Yuvan Shankar Raja (Tamil: யுவன் சங்கர் ராஜா)is one of top film music composers from Tamil Nadu. He is one of the most successful composers in South India. The first film he composed for was the Tamil film Aravindhan. Hailing from a musical family, much of Yuvan’s inspiration is said to come from the several genres he grew up listening to such as Western classical music and jazz, in addition to urban Hip Hop and other styles and sounds. His father Ilaiyaraaja is also an inspiration. Yuvan...
Film music contributor Aalvar
Person Aethiree
Composer Arinthum Ariyamalum
Musical Artist Happy
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George Duning   Topic 3:10 to Yuma  
George Duning (February 25, 1908 – February 27, 2000) was an American musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco. During his early 20s played trumpet and piano for the Kay Kyser band, later arranging most of the music for Kyser's popular Kollege of Musical Knowledge radio program. It was during the Kyser band's appearance in Carolina Moon (1944) that Duning...
Film music contributor Bell, Book and Candle
Musical Artist Brainstorm
Person Child of Glass
Houseboat
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Al Hoffman   Topic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea  
Al Hoffman (September 25 1902–July 21 1960), a member of the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for many number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today. The popularity of Hoffman's song, "Mairzy Doats", co-written with Jerry Livingston and Milton Drake, was such that newspapers and magazines wrote about the craze. Time magazine titled one article "Our...
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Paul Smith   Topic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea  
Paul J. Smith (October 30, 1906 Calumet, Michigan - January 25, 1985) was an American music composer. He spent much of his life working at Disney as composer for many of its films' scores, animated and live-action alike, movie and television alike (from 1962 to 63, he also composed music for Leave It to Beaver). In Fantasia, he is one of the studio employees in the orchestra. He also composed the scores for several of the True-Life Adventures episodes. He also did the stock music for the...
Person Victory Through Air Power
Film music contributor Song of the South
Composer The Shaggy Dog
Deceased Person Susie the Little Blue Coupe
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David Shire Topic 2010: The Year We Make Contact  
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals and film and television scores. Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg) and Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher Irving Daniel Shire. He met his long-time theater collaborator lyricist/director Richard Maltby, Jr. at Yale University, where they wrote two musicals, Cyrano and Grand Tour, which were produced by the Yale Dramat. Shire also co-fronted a...
Person All the President's Men
Film music contributor Class of '44
Musical Artist Only When I Laugh
Composer Raid on Entebbe
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György Ligeti György Ligeti Film music contributor 2010: The Year We Make Contact  
György Sándor Ligeti (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a Romania born 20th century composer. Born to a Hungarian-speaking Jewish family, he briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austria citizen. Many of his works are well known in classical music circles, but to the general public, he is best known for the various pieces featured in the Stanley Kubrick films 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut. Ligeti was born in Dicsőszentmárton (Romanian Diciosânmartin, now...
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