Known For
Sound
Born
Mar 17, 1901
Died
Feb 17, 1970
Place of Birth
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Credits
264 titles
Alfred Newman
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include Wuthering Heights, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Mark of Zorro, How Green Was My Valley, The Song of Bernadette, Captain from Castile, All About Eve, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Anastasia, The Diary of Anne Frank, How The West Was Won, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and his final score, Airport, all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards. Newman was also highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charlie Chaplin, and Irving Berlin. He also conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals (having worked on Broadway for ten years before coming to Hollywood), as well as many original Hollywood musicals. He was among the first musicians to compose and conduct original music during Hollywood's Golden Age of movies, later becoming a respected and powerful music director in the history of Hollywood. Newman and two of his fellow composers, Max Steiner and Dimitri Tiomkin, were considered the "three godfathers of film music"
Known For
Filmography
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
Songs
That's Entertainment, Part II
Thanks
Airport
Original Music Composer
Firecreek
Original Music Composer
Camelot
Music
Nevada Smith
Original Music Composer
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Original Music Composer
How the West Was Won
Original Music Composer
The Counterfeit Traitor
Original Music Composer
State Fair
Original Music Composer
Flower Drum Song
Original Music Composer
The Pleasure of His Company
Original Music Composer
The Best of Everything
Original Music Composer
The Diary of Anne Frank
Original Music Composer
A Certain Smile
Original Music Composer
South Pacific
Original Music Composer
The Gift of Love
Original Music Composer
Anastasia
Original Music Composer
Bus Stop
Original Music Composer
The King and I
Original Music Composer
Carousel
Music Supervisor
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Original Music Composer
The Seven Year Itch
Original Music Composer
Daddy Long Legs
Original Music Composer
A Man Called Peter
Original Music Composer
There's No Business Like Show Business
Music Supervisor
The Egyptian
Original Music Composer
The Miracle of Stereophonic Sound
Self - Conductor
Hell and High Water
Original Music Composer
How to Marry a Millionaire
Orchestra Conductor in Prologue (uncredited)
The Robe
Original Music Composer
Dangerous Crossing
Additional Music
The President's Lady
Original Music Composer
The Desert Rats
Music Director
Call Me Madam
Music Director
Treasure of the Golden Condor
Music Director
Stars and Stripes Forever
Music
The Prisoner of Zenda
Original Music Composer
O. Henry's Full House
Original Music Composer
What Price Glory
Original Music Composer
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Original Music Composer
With a Song in My Heart
Original Music Composer
Viva Zapata!
Original Music Composer
The CinemaScope Parade
Joseph Haydn
David and Bathsheba
Original Music Composer
Take Care of My Little Girl
Original Music Composer
The House on Telegraph Hill
Music Director
On the Riviera
Original Music Composer
Fourteen Hours
Original Music Composer
For Heaven's Sake
Original Music Composer