Known For
Sound
Born
Apr 28, 1957
Place of Birth
Redbank, New Jersey, USA
Credits
122 titles
Christopher Young
Biography
Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil, and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Young was honoured with the prestigious Richard Kirk Award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music and then completed his postgraduate work at the University of North Texas. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmann's works, he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Passenger
Original Music Composer
A Natural Selection
Original Music Composer
Tragic Tones: The Music of Hider in the House
Self
The Piper
Original Music Composer
Echo 3
Original Music Composer
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Original Music Composer
The Offering
Original Music Composer
The Empty Man
Original Music Composer
Pet Sematary
Original Music Composer
Fanboy
Music
Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
Self
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Self
Afterbirth: The Evolution of 'Species'
Self
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Self
The Monkey King 2
Original Music Composer
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Self
The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars'
Deliver Us from Evil
Original Music Composer
The Single Moms Club
Original Music Composer
The Monkey King
Original Music Composer
A Madea Christmas
Original Music Composer
Gods Behaving Badly
Original Music Composer
Killing Season
Original Music Composer
Love's Routine
Original Music Composer
The Smile Man
Original Music Composer
Saving Norman
Original Music Composer
The Black Tulip
Original Music Composer
Sinister
Original Music Composer
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Self
Scary or Die
Original Music Composer
The Baytown Outlaws
Original Music Composer
The Rum Diary
Original Music Composer
The Ghostmaker
Original Music Composer
Priest
Original Music Composer
When in Rome
Original Music Composer
Creation
Original Music Composer
Love Happens
Original Music Composer
Drag Me to Hell
Pedestrian with Cupcake
The Uninvited
Original Music Composer
The Informers
Original Music Composer
Sleepwalking
Original Music Composer
Untraceable
Original Music Composer
The Science of Sound
Self
Shortcut to Happiness
Original Music Composer
Spider-Man 3
Original Music Composer
Lucky You
Original Music Composer
Ghost Rider
Original Music Composer
The Grudge 2
Original Music Composer
Tales from The Grudge
Music
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Original Music Composer