Known For
Sound
Born
Dec 04, 1910
Died
Sep 08, 1991
Place of Birth
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits
80 titles
Alex North
Biography
Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia page Alex North, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
North and the Music of the South
Self (archive footage)
Making 'The Misfits'
Self (archive footage)
The Last Butterfly
Original Music Composer
The Penitent
Original Music Composer
Good Morning, Vietnam
Original Music Composer
The Dead
Original Music Composer
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Music
Death of a Salesman
Original Music Composer
Prizzi's Honor
Original Music Composer
Under the Volcano
Original Music Composer
Sister, Sister
Original Music Composer
Dragonslayer
Original Music Composer
Carny
Original Music Composer
Wise Blood
Original Music Composer
The Word
Original Music Composer
Somebody Killed Her Husband
Original Music Composer
The Passover Plot
Original Music Composer
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Theme Song Performance
Rich Man, Poor Man
Original Music Composer
Bite the Bullet
Original Music Composer
Journey into Fear
Original Music Composer
Shanks
Original Music Composer
Once Upon a Scoundrel
Original Music Composer
Lost in the Stars
Music Director
Pocket Money
Original Music Composer
Willard
Original Music Composer
A Dream of Kings
Original Music Composer
Hard Contract
Original Music Composer
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Original Music Composer
The Devil's Brigade
Original Music Composer
Africa
Music
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Original Music Composer
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Original Music Composer
Cheyenne Autumn
Original Music Composer
The Outrage
Original Music Composer
Cleopatra
Original Music Composer
All Fall Down
Original Music Composer
The Children's Hour
Original Music Composer
Sanctuary
Original Music Composer
The Misfits
Original Music Composer
Spartacus
Original Music Composer
The Wonderful Country
Original Music Composer
The Sound and the Fury
Original Music Composer
South Seas Adventure
Original Music Composer
Hot Spell
Original Music Composer
The Long, Hot Summer
Original Music Composer
Stage Struck
Original Music Composer
The Edge of Innocence
Music
The Bachelor Party
Original Music Composer
Four Girls in Town
Original Music Composer