Alex North
Sound · Born Dec 4, 1910 · Died Sep 8, 1991 (80) · Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia page Alex North, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Good Morning, Vietnam
19877.3
Spartacus
19607.5
A Streetcar Named Desire
19517.6
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
19667.7
Cleopatra
19637.1
The Misfits
19617.0
Prizzi's Honor
19856.4
The Children's Hour
19617.7
Dragonslayer
19816.6
The Bad Seed
19567.1
Viva Zapata!
19526.8
The Long, Hot Summer
19587.0
The Dead
19876.9
Death of a Salesman
19856.9
The Agony and the Ecstasy
19657.0
Cheyenne Autumn
19646.7
Willard
19716.1
Bite the Bullet
19756.4
Wise Blood
19796.4
Under the Volcano
19846.6
