My favorite TV/Movie composers
by Ocean_Breeze | created - 03 Dec 2011 | updated - 03 Dec 2011 | PublicTheir compositions are simply beautiful
1. Thomas Newman
Music_department | Skyfall
Thomas Newman is an American film score composer. He was born in Los Angeles. His father was notable film score composer Alfred Newman (1900-1970). The Newman family is of Russian-Jewish descent, and includes several other well-known musicians. Thomas' mother Martha Louis Montgomery (1920-2005) ...
2. Vince Guaraldi
Soundtrack | Cast Away
Born in San Francisco on July 17, 1928, Vince Guaraldi graduated from Lincoln High School and then San Francisco State College. Guaraldi was already performing while in college in such venues as the Black Hawk and Jackson's Nook, sometimes with the Chubby Jackson/Bill Harris band, other times in ...
3. Danny Elfman
Music_department | The Nightmare Before Christmas
As Danny Elfman was growing up in the Los Angeles area, he was largely unaware of his talent for composing. It wasn't until the early 1970s that Danny and his older brother Richard Elfman started a musical troupe while in Paris; the group "Mystic Knights of Oingo-Boingo" was created for Richard's ...
4. Mike Post
Composer | NYPD Blue
Mike Post - musician, composer, arranger and producer - has long been considered the most successful composer in television history. His career in television started in 1970. Over the years, he's written the music for seven thousand hours of TV including: Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & ...
5. Pete Carpenter
Music_department | Vanishing Point
Pete Carpenter was born on April 1, 1914 in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA. He was a composer, known for Vanishing Point (1971), The A-Team (2010) and Blue Ruin (2013). He was married to Maybeth Carr. He died on October 15, 1987 in Valley Village, Los Angeles, California, USA.
6. Jan Hammer
Soundtrack | Charlie's Angels
Jan Hammer's musical career is as firmly rooted in the fundamentals of classical, jazz and rock as it is committed to the future of electronics, synthesized sound, the possibilities of interactive media, television, film and animation. His walls are lined with Grammy awards and gold and platinum ...
7. John Williams
Composer | Jurassic Park
As one of the best known, awarded, and financially successful composers in US history, John Williams is as easy to recall as John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland or Leonard Bernstein, illustrating why he is "America's composer" time and again. With a massive list of awards that includes over 52 Oscar ...
8. Henry Mancini
Soundtrack | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, but brought up in Pennsylvania, where he played the flute in a local band, as a youth, before sending some arrangements to Benny Goodman. Goodman offered him a job and, after serving in WWII, he joined the rearranged Glenn Miller band. In 1952, he was given a two-week ...
9. Bruce Faulconer
Music_department | Dragonball Evolution
Bruce Faulconer was born on September 10, 1951 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is a composer, known for Dragonball Evolution (2009), Dragon Ball Z (1996) and Cloak & Dagger (2018). He is married to Lisa Faulconer. They have two children.
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