Ennio Morricone

1928–2020 · Rome, Italy

Biography

Ennio Morricone OMRI (Italian: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; November 10, 1928 – July 6, 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. He has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven Nastro d'Argento, two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and the Polar Music Prize in 2010.

Sound 462

2020s

2026
D Is for Distance
Music
One Hero, The People
Sound
2025
Stardust Future: Stars and Scars
Music
Back On The Train
Music
The Veiled Lady
Music
Hear My Train A-Comin'
Music
Guys' Night in The Thing
Original Music Composer
Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
Music
2024
Wolf Awakened
Music
2023
Jonas Kaufmann: Arena di Verona 2023
Music
Eastwood Symphonic
Music
The House of Forgotten Souls
Music
2022
Piano Cinéma
Original Music Composer
Concerto commemorativo del Maestro Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer
2020
Devotion
Music

2010s

2019
The Hateful Eight
Music
2018
The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever
Music
2016
Black and White Stripes: The Juventus Story
Music
Il sole è buio
Music
Correspondence
Original Music Composer
48
2015
The Hateful Eight
Original Music Composer
75
Come What May
Original Music Composer
56
2013
The Best Offer
Original Music Composer
67
Ennio Morricone dirige l'OSN
Conductor
2010
Filumena Marturano
Music Director
Miral
Songs
Memories of Anne Frank
Original Music Composer
62

2000s

2009
Baaria
Original Music Composer
66
Pane e libertà
Original Music Composer
2008
The Demons of St. Petersburg
Original Music Composer
2007
Tutte le donne della mia vita
Music
Men of Corleone
Original Music Composer
2006
The Unknown Woman
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
68
A Crime
Original Music Composer
56
Karol: The Pope, The Man
Music
La provinciale
Original Music Composer
Bartali: The Iron Man
Music
Bartali: The Iron Man
Music
Karol: The Pope, The Man
Music, Original Music Composer
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Music
2005
Cefalonia
Original Music Composer
Lucia
Music
Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
Original Music Composer
Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
Music
E ridendo l'uccise
Original Music Composer
Cefalonia
Music
Fateless
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
The Heart in the Well
Music
2004
72 Meters
Original Music Composer
Guardians of the Clouds
Sound
2003
Al cuore si comanda
Music
Railroad: Revolutionising the West
Music
Maria Goretti
Original Music Composer
The End of a Mystery
Original Music Composer
The Good Pope
Original Music Composer
67
Il Papa buono
Original Music Composer
Musashi
Original Music Composer
2002
Ripley's Game
Original Music Composer
72
Family Flaw
Music
Black Angel
Original Music Composer, Music
51
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
Original Music Composer
2001
Aida of the Trees
Original Music Composer
La ragion pura
Music
2000
Lasso
Original Music Composer
Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
Original Music Composer
Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Malena
Original Music Composer
66
Vatel
Original Music Composer
53
Mission to Mars
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
52
Making Love
Music, Original Music Composer
70

1990s

1999
Esther
Original Music Composer
67
The eye
Music
1998
The Phantom of the Opera
Original Music Composer
The Legend of 1900
Original Music Composer
71
Tower of the First Born
Original Music Composer
La casa bruciata
Music
Bulworth
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
70
1997
The Fourth King
Music
59
Solomon
Original Music Composer
66
U Turn
Original Music Composer
62
Lolita
Original Music Composer
64
Con rabbia e con amore
Music
David
Original Music Composer
68
Nostromo
Original Music Composer
Cartoni animati
Original Music Composer
1996
We Free Kings
Original Music Composer
Samson and Delilah
Music
La lupa
Original Music Composer
The Nymph
Original Music Composer
Strangled Lives
Original Music Composer
The Stendhal Syndrome
Original Music Composer
58
1995
The Star Maker
Original Music Composer
Who Killed Pasolini?
Original Music Composer
The Night and the Moment
Original Music Composer
Joseph
Original Music Composer
78
Pereira Declares
Original Music Composer
L'uomo proiettile
Music
1994
Disclosure
Original Music Composer
60
Jacob
Original Music Composer
Love Affair
Original Music Composer
51
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood
Original Music Composer
58
Wolf
Original Music Composer
62
A Pure Formality
Original Music Composer
76
1993
Abraham
Original Music Composer
Abraham
Original Music Composer
In the Line of Fire
Original Music Composer
77
The Escort
Original Music Composer
Look to the Sky
Original Music Composer
The Long Silence
Original Music Composer
1992
Beyond Justice
Original Music Composer
City of Joy
Original Music Composer
63
The Rapture of Deceit
Music
1991
Bugsy
Original Music Composer
73
La thune
Music
Husbands and Lovers
Original Music Composer
Time of Indifference
Music
Money
Original Music Composer
The Law of the Desert
Original Music Composer
Ilona & Kurti
Music
1990
Hamlet
Original Music Composer
66
Only One Survived
Music
Everybody's Fine
Original Music Composer
73
State of Grace
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
72
The Big Man
Original Music Composer
52
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Music
The Bachelor
Music Director, Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
Tre colonne in cronaca
Original Music Composer
The Palermo Connection
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Original Music Composer
66

1980s

1989
I promessi sposi
Original Music Composer
Fat Man and Little Boy
Original Music Composer
58
Time to Kill
Original Music Composer
50
The Endless Game
Original Music Composer
The Endless Game
Original Music Composer
Casualties of War
Original Music Composer
74
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Original Music Composer
1988
Cinema Paradiso
Original Music Composer
85
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
Original Music Composer
A Time of Destiny
Original Music Composer
Frantic
Original Music Composer
69
The Secret of the Sahara
Original Music Composer
1987
Quartiere
Music
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
Original Music Composer
68
Rampage
Original Music Composer
The Untouchables
Original Music Composer, Conductor
79
Control
Original Music Composer
Farewell Moscow
Original Music Composer
1986
The Mission
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
68
C.A.T. Squad
Original Music Composer
The Venetian Woman
Original Music Composer
49
1985
La Cage aux Folles 3
Original Music Composer
The Repenter
Original Music Composer
Commando Leopard
Music
The Trap
Original Music Composer
47
Via Mala
Original Music Composer
Wo ist der Bahnhof?
Music
Red Sonja
Original Music Composer
42
1984
Die Försterbuben
Original Music Composer
Once Upon a Time in America
Original Music Composer, Music Director
82
Who Was Edgar Allan?
Original Music Composer
The Octopus
Original Music Composer
82
Thieves After Dark
Original Music Composer
1983
Sahara
Original Music Composer
52
The Outsider
Original Music Composer
65
The Key
Original Music Composer, Music Director
56
Pelota
Original Music Composer
Hundra
Original Music Composer
47
Nana
Original Music Composer
57
Copkiller
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
56
The Scarlet and the Black
Original Music Composer
74
Treasure of the Four Crowns
Original Music Composer
42
The Ruffian
Original Music Composer
1982
Marco Polo
Original Music Composer
74
The Man Who Saved the World
Music
Blood Link
Original Music Composer
White Dog
Original Music Composer
75
The Thing
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
77
A Time to Die
Original Music Composer
Butterfly
Original Music Composer
46
Spy, Stand Up
Music
Vampirismus
Music
1981
The Professional
Original Music Composer
73
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Original Music Composer
So Fine
Original Music Composer
53
Disobedience
Music
49
Venetian Lies
Original Music Composer
Buddy Goes West
Original Music Composer
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Music
Lady of the Camelias
Original Music Composer
La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
Music
Bianco, rosso e Verdone
Original Music Composer
1980
La Cage aux Folles II
Original Music Composer
58
Men or Not Men
Original Music Composer
The Lady Banker
Original Music Composer
59
The Blue-Eyed Bandit
Original Music Composer
The Island
Original Music Composer
Si salvi chi vuole
Music
Stark System
Music
The Good Thief
Original Music Composer
Fun Is Beautiful
Music Director, Music
Windows
Original Music Composer

1970s

1979
I... for Icarus
Original Music Composer
Good News
Original Music Composer
Orient Express
Music
The Swap
Music
Operation Ogre
Original Music Composer
70
The Meadow
Original Music Composer
Luna
Original Music Composer
60
Bloodline
Original Music Composer
The Humanoid
Music
38
A Dangerous Toy
Original Music Composer
Lovers and Liars
Conductor, Original Music Composer
47
Dedicated to the Aegean Sea
Music
1978
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
Original Music Composer
L'immoralità
Music, Original Music Composer
57
Dirty Hands
Original Music Composer
Corleone
Original Music Composer
63
La Cage aux Folles
Original Music Composer
73
Stay as You Are
Original Music Composer
61
Days of Heaven
Original Music Composer, Conductor
84
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Original Music Composer
Reflections on a Political Cinema
Music
An Englishman's Castle
Original Music Composer
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Music
Germany in Autumn
Music
Il prigioniero
Music
1977
The Cat
Original Music Composer
Holocaust 2000
Original Music Composer
56
Bloodthirsty Hawk
Music
I Am the Law
Original Music Composer, Conductor
69
Stato interessante
Music
Orca
Original Music Composer
42
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
34
Hitch Hike
Original Music Composer
68
Rene the Cane
Music, Original Music Composer
The Monster
Original Music Composer
Forza Italia!
Music
1976
Origins of the Mafia
Orchestrator
The Desert of the Tartars
Original Music Composer
And Agnes Chose to Die
Music
1900
Original Music Composer
70
The Inheritance
Original Music Composer
68
A Sold Life
Music
San Babila-8 P.M.
Music Editor, Original Music Composer
One Way or Another
Conductor, Original Music Composer
Moses the Lawgiver
Music
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Music Consultant, Music
62
For Love
Music
1975
The Sunday Woman
Original Music Composer
66
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Original Music Composer
62
The Human Factor
Original Music Composer, Conductor
50
The Flower in His Mouth
Original Music Composer
Lips of Lurid Blue
Original Music Composer
Eye of the Cat
Music
Down the Ancient Stairs
Original Music Composer
The Divine Nymph
Original Music Composer
Leonor
Original Music Composer
The Teenage Prostitution Racket
Music, Original Music Composer
The Man from Chicago
Music
End of the Game
Original Music Composer
Late Night Trains
Original Music Composer
61
The Night Caller
Original Music Composer
70
Libera, My Love
Original Music Composer
Hanuman and the Five Kamen Riders
Music
Autopsy
Original Music Composer
Space: 1999
Music
Weak Spot
Music, Original Music Composer
1974
Moses the Lawgiver
Original Music Composer
The Tempter
Original Music Composer
The Antichrist
Original Music Composer
47
The Secret
Music, Original Music Composer
The Murri Affair
Original Music Composer
Allonsanfan
Original Music Composer
78
Almost Human
Original Music Composer
71
The Cousin
Original Music Composer
53
Arabian Nights
Original Music Composer
70
Peynet: The Journey of Love
Music
The Infernal Trio
Original Music Composer
59
Sex Advice
Music
The Last Four Days
Music
Spasmo
Original Music Composer
Sarah's Last Man
Music
1973
My Name Is Nobody
Original Music Composer, Music Director
78
Giordano Bruno
Original Music Composer
Here We Go Again, Eh Providence?
Original Music Composer
The Romantic Agony
Music
Massacre in Rome
Original Music Composer
Property Is No Longer a Theft
Original Music Composer
Revolver
Original Music Composer
69
The Serpent
Original Music Composer
62
Increase and Multiply
Original Music Composer
When Love Is Lust
Music
53
Woman Buried Alive
Original Music Composer
1972
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
Music
A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity
Original Music Composer
The Master Touch
Original Music Composer
59
The Fugitive
Music
Why
Music
La cosa buffa
Original Music Composer
Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?
Original Music Composer
55
Guttuso e... Il "Marat morto" di David
Music
The Assassination
Original Music Composer
69
Fiorina the Cow
Original Music Composer
47
The Canterbury Tales
Original Music Composer
62
Bluebeard
Original Music Composer
Sonny and Jed
Original Music Composer
62
The Master and Margarita
Original Music Composer
Who Saw Her Die?
Music Arranger, Original Music Composer
64
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Original Music Composer
Devil in the Brain
Original Music Composer
What Have You Done to Solange?
Original Music Composer
69
When Women Lost Their Tails
Music
This Kind of Love
Original Music Composer
Chronicle of a Homicide
Original Music Composer
Winged Devils
Original Music Composer
My Dear Killer
Original Music Composer
64
The Sicilian Checkmate
Original Music Composer
1870
Original Music Composer
For Love One Dies
Music
When Man Is the Prey
Music
1971
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Original Music Composer
66
Maddalena
Music
53
Oceano
Music
Duck, You Sucker
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
79
Romance
Original Music Composer
Short Night of Glass Dolls
Original Music Composer
66
The Burglars
Original Music Composer
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
Original Music Composer
The Automobile
Original Music Composer
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Music
Tre donne - La sciantosa
Original Music Composer
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Original Music Composer
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Original Music Composer
77
Without Apparent Motive
Original Music Composer
The Decameron
Original Music Composer
72
The Fifth Cord
Original Music Composer
66
The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Original Music Composer
Cold Eyes of Fear
Music
52
Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman
Music
Sacco & Vanzetti
Original Music Composer
75
Tre nel mille
Music
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Original Music Composer
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Original Music Composer
69
1970
Lady Caliph
Original Music Composer
Compañeros
Original Music Composer
70
The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
Original Music Composer
The Voyeur
Original Music Composer
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Original Music Composer
86
When Women Had Tails
Original Music Composer
39
Violent City
Original Music Composer
56
Hornets' Nest
Original Music Composer
57
The Fifth Day of Peace
Original Music Composer
61
The Most Beautiful Wife
Original Music Composer
71
Metello
Original Music Composer
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Original Music Composer
69
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Original Music Composer
75
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
Original Music Composer
Giovanni ed Elviruccia
Music

1960s

1969
The Red Tent
Original Music Composer
71
Burn!
Original Music Composer
73
The Sicilian Clan
Original Music Composer
75
A Brief Season
Music
Unknown Woman
Original Music Composer
Season of the Senses
Music
The 5-Man Army
Original Music Composer
66
What Did Stalin Do to Women?
Original Music Composer
He and She
Original Music Composer
H2S
Original Music Composer
The Invisible Woman
Music
The Year of the Cannibals
Original Music Composer
Love Circle
Original Music Composer
That Splendid November
Original Music Composer
59
Machine Gun McCain
Original Music Composer
66
Dirty Angels
Music
The Lady of Monza
Music
Alibi
Original Music Composer
Tepepa
Original Music Composer
66
Mother's Heart
Music
Fraulein Doktor
Original Music Composer
Behold Man - The Survivors
Music
The Magnificent Tony Carrera
Original Music Composer
1968
Once Upon a Time in the West
Conductor, Original Music Composer
86
The Mercenary
Original Music Composer
73
Orgy
Sound
The Great Silence
Original Music Composer
83
Bandits in Rome
Original Music Composer
A Quiet Place in the Country
Original Music Composer
73
Partner
Original Music Composer
A Fine Pair
Original Music Composer
Listen, Let's Make Love
Original Music Composer
Theorem
Original Music Composer
73
Galileo
Original Music Composer
Notes for a Film in India
Original Music Composer
A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof
Original Music Composer
59
Commandments for a Gangster
Original Music Composer
Come Play With Me
Original Music Composer
58
Escalation
Original Music Composer
Danger: Diabolik
Original Music Composer
65
Eat It
Music
1967
Garden of Delights
Original Music Composer
Sugar Colt
Music
62
Face to Face
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
71
The Harem
Original Music Composer
The Girl and the General
Music
Grand Slam
Original Music Composer
The Rover
Music
China Is Near
Original Music Composer
Dirty Heroes
Music
Death Rides a Horse
Original Music Composer
59
Matchless
Original Music Composer
Guns for San Sebastian
Music, Original Music Composer
67
Operation Kid Brother
Original Music Composer
38
The Big Gundown
Original Music Composer
Up the MacGregors
Original Music Composer
Long Days of Vengeance
Original Music Composer
62
The Witches
Original Music Composer
60
The Hellbenders
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
66
A Bullet for the General
Music Supervisor
69
1966
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Original Music Composer
90
Navajo Joe
Original Music Composer
55
Fort Yuma Gold
Original Music Composer
61
How I Learned to Love Women
Original Music Composer
Almost a Man
Original Music Composer
The Hills Run Red
Original Music Composer, Conductor
59
The Battle of Algiers
Original Music Composer
88
El Greco
Music
You'll See Me Returning
Original Music Composer
The Hawks and the Sparrows
Original Music Composer
Agent 505 - Death Trap Beirut
Music
Wake Up and Die
Original Music Composer
Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Original Music Composer
54
1965
Menage Italian Style
Original Music Composer
For a Few Dollars More
Original Music Composer, Conductor
82
The Return of Ringo
Original Music Composer
Idoli controluce
Music
Fists in the Pocket
Original Music Composer
Thrilling
Original Music Composer
Snow Job
Original Music Composer
High Pressure
Original Music Composer
Nightmare Castle
Original Music Composer, Conductor
56
Don't Ever Leave Me
Original Music Composer
A Pistol for Ringo
Original Music Composer
64
I'm Not Worthy of You
Original Music Composer
1964
So In Love
Original Music Composer
65
A Fistful of Dollars
Original Music Composer, Conductor
80
Two Escape from Sing Sing
Original Music Composer
Bullets Don't Argue
Original Music Composer
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Original Music Composer
Before the Revolution
Original Music Composer
Malamondo
Music
The Maniacs
Original Music Composer
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
Music
1963
Il successo
Original Music Composer
Gunfight at Red Sands
Original Music Composer
The Basilisks
Original Music Composer
The Little Nuns
Original Music Composer
Everything is Music
Original Music Composer
1962
I motorizzati
Original Music Composer
La cuccagna
Original Music Composer
Eighteen in the Sun
Original Music Composer
Crazy Desire
Original Music Composer
1961
The Fascist
Original Music Composer

Acted in 6

2020s

2022
Concerto commemorativo del Maestro Ennio Morricone
Movie

2010s

2018
The Legal Death
Movie
2013
Ennio Morricone dirige l'OSN
Movie

2000s

2009
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Movie

1990s

1990
Everybody's Fine
Conductor
73

1970s

1971
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Operaio (uncredited)
77

Other crew 3

2020s

2025
Pour une poignée de sauces
Compositor
2021
Luca
In Memory Of
78

1960s

1966
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Additional Music
57

Appearances32

2020s

2024
In Between Stars and Scars: Masters of Cinema
Self
2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
Ennio
Self
83
2021
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)

2010s

2018
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
Self (archive footage)
Sad Hill Unearthed
Self - Film Composer (1966)
2016
Morricone & Tarantino at Abbey Road Studios
Self
Emigratis
Self · 1 episode
75
2014
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
Self
Ennio Morricone et les cinéastes
Self
2012
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Self
2010
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Self
Ennio Morricone: Music in His Blood
Self - Interviewee

2000s

2008
Il falso bugiardo
Self
2007
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
Self
Ennio Morricone: Peace Notes - Live in Venice
Self
2006
Morricone Conducts Morricone
Self - Conductor
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Self
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Self
2005
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Self
The Spaghetti West
Self
Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film
Self
2004
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
Self
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Self
2003
Ennio Morricone: Arena concerto
Self
2002
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
2001
In the Company of Compañeros
Self
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Musician

1990s

1995
Ennio Morricone
Self
1992
Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
Self

1970s

1972
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · 1 episode
1971
Cadet Rousselle
Self · 1 episode