Biography
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.
Sound 76
1990s
- 1991
1980s
- 1988
The Penitent
Original Music Composer
- 1987
- 1986
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Music
- 1985
Death of a Salesman
Original Music Composer
- 1984
- 1982
Sister, Sister
Original Music Composer
- 1981
- 1980
Carny
Original Music Composer
1970s
- 1979
- 1978
The Word
Original Music Composer
- 1976
- 1975
Journey into Fear
Original Music Composer
- 1974
Shanks
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Once Upon a Scoundrel
Original Music Composer
Lost in the Stars
Music Director
- 1972
- 1971
1960s
- 1969
Hard Contract
Original Music Composer
- 1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Original Music Composer
- 1966
- 1965
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Original Music Composer
- 1964
Cheyenne Autumn
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Music Arranger
The Outrage
Original Music Composer, Conductor
- 1963
- 1962
- 1961
- 1960
1950s
- 1959
The Sound and the Fury
Original Music Composer
- 1958
South Seas Adventure
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
Hot Spell
Original Music Composer
Stage Struck
Original Music Composer
- 1957
The Edge of Innocence
Music
The Bachelor Party
Original Music Composer
Four Girls in Town
Original Music Composer
- 1956
The Rainmaker
Original Music Composer
Heritage of Anger
Music
The Big Slide
Music
The Country Husband
Music
Rendezvous in Black
Music
Sizeman and Son
Sound
- 1955
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Original Music Composer
The Rose Tattoo
Music Director, Original Music Composer
Unchained
Original Music Composer
- 1954
Decision for Chemistry
Original Music Composer
Go Man Go
Original Music Composer
- 1952
The Member of the Wedding
Original Music Composer
Les Miserables
Original Music Composer
- 1951
The 13th Letter
Original Music Composer
- 1950
The Murder Club
Music
1940s
- 1945
Library of Congress
Music
1930s
- 1937
People of the Cumberland
Music
China Strikes Back
Music
Heart of Spain
Music
Appearances2
2000s
- 2006
North and the Music of the South
Self (archive footage)
- 2002
Making 'The Misfits'
Self (archive footage)