Released album “Heavy Metal 2 Disc Remastered Edition”.
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Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. For his work, he received an Academy Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and a Primetime Emmy Award. He also r…
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culture · American composer and conductor (1922–2004) · composer · conductor · music educator · painter · actor · teacher · pianist · dancer · songwriter · film score composer · also Elmer Bernstein, Bernstein
Born 4 April 1922 · Died 18 August 2004 · Q111436
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2024· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
Released album “The Magnificent Seven Collection”.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “To Kill a Mockingbird / Walk on the Wild Side”.
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “The AVA Collection”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “The Comancheros / North to Alaska / The Undefeated”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “The Eternal Sea / Make Haste To Live (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)”.
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2007· 3 entries
Released album “The Unforgiven: Classic Western Scores From United Artists”.
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Released album “The Bridge at Remagen / The Train”.
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Released album “Film Music by Elmer Bernstein”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Film Music Collection”.
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Released album “True Grit”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “The Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Collection”.
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2004· 1 entry
Died 2004-08-18.
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Never So Few / 7 Women”.
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When he was surprised by Michael Aspel at London's Royal Albert Hall, after conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as part of his 80th year celebrations
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Far From Heaven”.
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Released album “The Story On Page One / The Reward”.
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Released album “The Gypsy Moths”.
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “The View from Pompey's Head / Blue Denim”.
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Released album “The World of Henry Orient”.
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Released album “Big Jake”.
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And with the NARAS Governors Award in June 2004
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2000· 6 entries
Released album “From the Terrace”.
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Released album “Airplane!”.
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Released album “Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone in 3-D”.
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Released album “Concerto for Guitar”.
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Released album “Slipstream”.
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Released album “Music for the Films of Charles and Ray Eames”.
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1999· 5 entries
Released album “Great Composers: Elmer Bernstein”.
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Released album “The Comancheros”.
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Released album “Wild Wild West”.
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Released album “The Deep End of the Ocean”.
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Received an honorary Doctorate of Music from Five Towns College in New York and was honored by the American Film Institute in Los Angeles
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “Twilight”.
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Released album “The Magnificent Seven”.
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Released album “Ghostbusters: Original Motion Picture Score”.
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1997· 5 entries
Released album “Hoodlum”.
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Released album “John Grisham's The Rainmaker”.
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Released album “Buddy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”.
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Released album “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
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Released album “Rough Riders”.
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “Last Man Standing”.
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Bernstein was honored with a star on Hollywood Boulevard
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Released album “Bulletproof”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Frankie Starlight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”.
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Released album “Roommates”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “The Magnificent Seven / The Hallelujah Trail”.
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Released album “Birdman Of Alcatraz”.
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1993· 7 entries
Released album “The Age of Innocence”.
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Released album “The Good Son”.
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Released album “Bernard Herrmann Film Scores: From Citizen Kane to Taxi Driver”.
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Released album “Lost in Yonkers”.
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Released album “The Cemetery Club”.
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Released album “Elmer Bernstein by Elmer Bernstein”.
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Released album “Genocide”.
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1992· 4 entries
Released album “A Man and His Movies”.
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Released album “The Babe”.
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Released album “Mad Dog and Glory”.
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Released album “Kings Go Forth / Some Came Running”.
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1991· 5 entries
Released album “The Buccaneer”.
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Released album “Oscar”.
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Released album “Rambling Rose (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack To The Film)”.
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Released album “Baby the Rain Must Fall / The Caretakers”.
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Released album “Stars and Bars”.
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1990· 4 entries
Released album “The Grifters”.
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Released album “Digital Premiere Recordings From the Films of John Wayne: The Comancheros / True Grit”.
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Released album “A Rage in Harlem”.
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Released album “The Field”.
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “My Left Foot / Da”.
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Released album “Zulu Dawn”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “The Ten Commandments”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Amazing Grace and Chuck”.
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Released album “¡Three Amigos!”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Marie Ward”.
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1985· 4 entries
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score for Bolero (1985).
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Bernstein composed the dark, orchestral score for Disney's animated feature The Black Cauldron
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Released album “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”.
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Released album “The Black Cauldron”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Bande Originale Du Film "Bolero"”.
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1981· 3 entries
Released album “Stripes!”.
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Released album “Heavy Metal: The Score”.
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Released album “Themes from the General Electric Theatre”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Torn Curtain”.
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “The Trial of Billy Jack”.
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Released album “Gold”.
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1969· 2 entries
Released album “The Midas Run”.
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Released album “Where's Jack?”.
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1968· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Score for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1968).
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University of South Carolina football head coach Paul Dietzel wrote new lyrics to "Step to the Rear", from How Now, Dow Jones
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Released album “Soundtrack Music From "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas"”.
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1967· 2 entries
And Merlin, with lyricist Don Black, in 1983
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Released album “The Music From Marlboro Country”.
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1966· 5 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for Hawaii (1966).
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Released album “The Silencers”.
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Released album “Return of the Magnificant Seven”.
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Released album “Cast a Giant Shadow”.
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Released album “Hawaii”.
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1965· 2 entries
Bernstein married Eve Adamson
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Released album “The Sons of Katie Elder”.
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1963· 3 entries
Released album “The Great Escape”.
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Released album “The Caretakers”.
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Won the Primetime Emmy Award for his score of The Making of The President 1960
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1962· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).
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Released album “Walk on the Wild Side”.
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Released album “Summer and Smoke”.
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Released album “Movie and TV Themes Composed & Conducted by Elmer Bernstein”.
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1961· 1 entry
Bernstein co-founded Äva Records, an American record label based in Los Angeles together with Fred Astaire, Jackie Mills and Tommy Wolf
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1959· 2 entries
Released album “Staccato”.
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When he was scoring The Story on Page One, he considered becoming a novelist and asked the film's screenwriter, Clifford Odets, to give him lessons in writing fiction
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1958· 2 entries
Released album “Blues and Brass”.
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Released album “Kings Go Forth”.
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1957· 2 entries
Released album “Drango”.
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Released album “The Sweet Smell of Success”.
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-04-04.
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