Fav Composers
by haz-20 | created - 08 Jun 2018 | updated - 08 Jun 2018 | Public
1. Angelo Badalamenti
Composer | Mulholland Dr.
Angelo Badalamenti was born on March 22, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Mulholland Drive (2001), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) and Lost Highway (1997). He was married to Lonny Irgens. He died on December 11, 2022 in Lincoln Park, New ...
2. Helge Schneider
Actor | 00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter
Helge Schneider was born on August 30, 1955 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. He is an actor and composer, known for 00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter (1994), 00 Schneider - Im Wendekreis der Eidechse (2013) and Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem (1993).
3. Popol Vuh
Composer | Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
Popol Vuh is known for Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Sightseers (2012) and A Bigger Splash (2015).
4. Prince
Soundtrack | Under the Cherry Moon
Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Mattie Shaw, a jazz singer and social worker, and John L. Nelson, a lyricist and pianist. His father's stage name was "Prince Rogers". His parents were both from African-American families from Louisiana. They separated during his youth, ...
5. Tangerine Dream
Composer | Thief
The pioneering German collective Tangerine Dream has been delivering their distinctive style of ambient music for nearly three decades, laying down a foundation of sound textures and sonic imagery that has influenced many of today's electronic musicians. Founded in 1967 by fine art aficinado Edgar ...
6. Vanilla Ice
Soundtrack | Cool as Ice
Vanilla Ice was born Robert Matthew Van Winkle on October 31, 1967 in South Dallas, Texas. He was raised by his mother, Camilla Beth (Dickerson). His father left when he was four years old and since then, he has had many stepfathers. He has German and English ancestry on his mother's side.
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7. Harold Faltermeyer
Soundtrack | Top Gun
Harold Faltermeyer was born on October 5, 1952 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. He is a composer, known for Top Gun (1986), Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). He was previously married to Karin Faltermeyer.
8. Ennio Morricone
Composer | The Hateful Eight
A classmate of director Sergio Leone with whom he would form one of the great director/composer partnerships (right up there with Eisenstein & Prokofiev, Hitchcock & Herrmann, Fellini & Rota), Ennio Morricone studied at Rome's Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he specialized in trumpet. His first ...
9. Quentin Dupieux
Writer | Rubber
Quentin Dupieux was born on April 14, 1974 in Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is a writer and director, known for Rubber (2010), Le daim (2019) and Reality (2014).
10. Geir Jenssen
Soundtrack | Knight of Cups
Geir Jenssen was born in 1962 in Tromsø, Norway. He is a composer, known for Knight of Cups (2015), The Mothman Prophecies (2002) and Insomnia (1997).
11. John Carpenter
Writer | The Fog
John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky ...
12. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
13. Vangelis
Composer | Blade Runner
Vangelis was a composer and performer who worked almost exclusively with electronic instruments. With Jean-Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield in the 1970s, Vangelis was a pioneer in the instrumental music and a main influence in the creation of the musical genre "new age," a style related to spiritual,...
14. Philip Glass
Soundtrack | The Truman Show
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Glass worked in his father's radio store and discovered music listening to the offbeat Western classical records customers didn't seem to want. He studied the violin and flute, and obtained early admission to the University of Chicago. After graduating in mathematics ...
15. Giorgio Moroder
Soundtrack | Top Gun
Giorgio Moroder was born on April 26, 1940 in Urtijëi, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. He is a composer and actor, known for Top Gun (1986), Flashdance (1983) and Over the Top (1987).
16. Wendy Carlos
Soundtrack | Ready Player One
Wendy Carlos, one of the great innovators in synthesized and electronic music, was born as Walter Carlos in Rhode Island on November 14, 1939. She underwent a sex-change operation in 1972, details of which she revealed during a surprise Playboy interview in 1979. Walter's last credited release is "...
17. Thomas Bangalter
Composer | Tron: Legacy
Thomas Bangalter was born on January 3, 1975 in Paris, France. He is a composer and actor, known for Tron: Legacy (2010), Electroma (2006) and The Saint (1997). He is married to Élodie Bouchez. They have two children.
18. Les Baxter
Soundtrack | Wild at Heart
Born March 14, 1922, at Mexia, Texas. He learned to play the piano at five years of age and studied at the Detroit Conservatory and at Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, California (his uncle was the college's first president). He began his career as a concert pianist but later joined Mel Tormé's "...
19. David Bowie
Soundtrack | Labyrinth
David Bowie was one of the most influential and prolific writers and performers of popular music, but he was much more than that; he was also an accomplished actor, a mime and an intellectual, as well as an art lover whose appreciation and knowledge of it had led to him amassing one of the biggest ...
20. Alec Empire
Soundtrack | The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Before Empire's internationally successful group, Atari Teenage Riot released a record, Alec had recorded and released twenty or so twelve inches on Force Inc, and three albums on Mille Plateaux under his own name. Mille Plateaux had been formed in 1993 by the visionary Achim Szepanski who took the...
21. James Brown
Actor | The Blues Brothers
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 - December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer, musician, record producer, and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th century music, he is often referred to by the honorific nicknames "Godfather of Soul", "Mr. Dynamite", and ...
22. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
23. Thomas Dolby
Soundtrack | Howard the Duck
Thomas Dolby was born on October 14, 1958 in London, England, UK. He is a composer and actor, known for Howard the Duck (1986), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997). He has been married to Kathleen Beller since July 2, 1988. They have three children.
24. Erik Satie
Soundtrack | Badlands
Erik Satie was born on May 17, 1866 in Honfleur, Calvados, France. He was a composer and actor, known for Badlands (1973), The November Man (2014) and Mr. Nobody (2009). He died on July 1, 1925 in Paris, France.
25. Walter Schumann
Composer | The Night of the Hunter
Walter Schumann was born on October 8, 1913 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for The Night of the Hunter (1955), Inspector Gadget (1999) and Sixteen Candles (1984). He died on August 21, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
26. Yello
Soundtrack | Spider-Man: Homecoming
Yello is known for Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) and The Pink Panther (2006).
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