Elmer Bernstein
Sound
Born: April 4, 1922 · New York City, New York, USA
Died: August 18, 2004 (aged 82)
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Biography
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, and The Rookies. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Bernstein wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames. In 1961 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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Self / Appearances (10)
The Oscars
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Making 'Taxi Driver'
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Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Self
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
Self - Composer
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
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Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
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Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
Self
The Bible According to Hollywood
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Fearful Symmetry
Self
Frank Sinatra Memorial
Self
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Cape Fear
Music
Cape Fear
Conductor
Cape Fear
Original Music Composer
The Ten Commandments
Original Music Composer
Wild Wild West
Original Music Composer
Airplane!
Original Music Composer
The Blues Brothers
Original Music Composer
Ghostbusters
Original Music Composer
The Great Escape
Original Music Composer
Fallen Angels
Main Title Theme Composer
Trading Places
Original Music Composer
Animal House
Original Music Composer
The Rainmaker
Original Music Composer
To Kill a Mockingbird
Original Music Composer
Airplane II: The Sequel
Original Music Composer
Bringing Out the Dead
Original Music Composer
Bringing Out the Dead
Conductor
Sweet Smell of Success
Original Music Composer
Sweet Smell of Success
Conductor
The Magnificent Seven
Original Music Composer
An American Werewolf in London
Original Music Composer
An American Werewolf in London
Conductor
True Grit
Original Music Composer
True Grit
Songs
The Age of Innocence
Original Music Composer
The Deep End of the Ocean
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The Black Cauldron
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The Bridge at Remagen
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Spies Like Us
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The Comancheros
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¡Three Amigos!
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Mad Dog and Glory
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Cast a Giant Shadow
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Stripes
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Keeping the Faith
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The Sons of Katie Elder
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The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Original Music Composer
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Conductor
Michael Jackson's Thriller
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The Shootist
Original Music Composer
Far from Heaven
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
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Oscar
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The Tin Star
Original Music Composer
Canadian Bacon
Original Music Composer
The Good Son
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Heavy Metal
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Meatballs
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Guns of the Magnificent Seven
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Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Conductor
The Hallelujah Trail
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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
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Cahill: United States Marshal
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Devil in a Blue Dress
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Zulu Dawn
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Torrente 4: Lethal crisis
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The Silencers
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Birdman of Alcatraz
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McQ
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Hud
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The Man with the Golden Arm
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Love with the Proper Stranger
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Hoodlum
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The Babe
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Kings of the Sun
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Class
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The Carpetbaggers
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The Gypsy Moths
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The Grifters
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Rambling Rose
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Return of the Seven
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Bulletproof
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Legal Eagles
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Legal Eagles
Conductor
Thoroughly Modern Millie
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From Noon Till Three
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General Electric Theater
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones
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The Scalphunters
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The Rat Race
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Big Jake
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Funny Farm
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The World of Henry Orient
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Saturn 3
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Gold
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Gold
Music
Gold
Songs
Sudden Fear
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Little Women
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A Rage in Harlem
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Kings Go Forth
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Twilight
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Buddy
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From the Terrace
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Some Came Running
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7 Women
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The Buccaneer
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Five Days One Summer
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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
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Make Haste to Live
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Robot Monster
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The Great Santini
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Desire Under the Elms
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
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Saddle the Wind
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Leonard Part 6
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Cat-Women of the Moon
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Fear Strikes Out
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Report to the Commissioner
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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
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Walk on the Wild Side
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Walk on the Wild Side
Conductor
Walk on the Wild Side
Songs
The 3,000 Mile Chase
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The Good Mother
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Honky Tonk Freeway
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Men in War
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Men in War
Conductor
Cannon for Cordoba
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See No Evil
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Hawaii
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The Chosen
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God's Little Acre
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Baby the Rain Must Fall
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Baby the Rain Must Fall
Conductor
Amazing Grace and Chuck
Conductor
Amazing Grace and Chuck
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Rampage
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The Field
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Roommates
Conductor
Roommates
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Gulag
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Anna Lucasta
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Anna Lucasta
Songs
Going Ape!
Original Music Composer
The Cemetery Club
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The Story on Page One
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The Reward
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The Eternal Sea
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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
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Search and Destroy
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Never Wave at a WAC
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A Girl Named Tamiko
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A Storm in Summer
Music Producer
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
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Where's Jack?
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Storm Fear
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By Love Possessed
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Billy Jack Goes to Washington
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It's a Dog's Life
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The View from Pompey's Head
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Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
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Silent Raiders
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Genocide
Conductor
Genocide
Music
Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
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Bloodbrothers
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Frankie Starlight
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Drango
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Slipstream
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Doctors' Wives
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Battles of Chief Pontiac
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The Trial of Billy Jack
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Men of the Dragon
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The Fabulous Fifties
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The Young Doctors
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The Incredible Sarah
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The Caretakers
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Lost in Yonkers
Conductor
Lost in Yonkers
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Prince Jack
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Summer and Smoke
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Four Days In November
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Charleston
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The Miracle
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A Walk in the Spring Rain
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Incident on a Dark Street
Original Music Composer
The Rookies
Music
Chinese Coffee
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Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Music
Imagining 'Heavy Metal'
Music
This Year's Blonde
Original Music Composer
Da
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Original Music Composer
Serpico: The Deadly Game
Music
Midas Run
Original Music Composer
The Bold Men
Music Supervisor
The Making of the President 1960
Music
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Original Music Composer
Return Of The Ghostbusters
Compositor
Boots Malone
Original Music Composer
Nightmare Honeymoon
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Saturday's Hero
Original Music Composer
The Tell-Tale Heart
Music
2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers
Original Music Composer
An Introduction to Feedback
Music
Appointment With Destiny: The Last Days of John Dillinger
Music
Powers of Ten
Music
Miss Robin Crusoe
Original Music Composer
House: After Five Years of Living
Music
A Computer Glossary
Music
Nicholas Copernicus
Music
The Naked Eye
Music
IBM at the Fair
Music
A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe
Music
Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem
Music
Toccata for Toy Trains
Music
Cezanne
Music
Calypso's Search for the Britannic
Music
A Communications Primer
Music
Computer Perspective
Music