Alfred Newman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include Wuthering Heights, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Mark of Zorro, How Green Was My Valley, The Song of Bernadette, Captain from Castile, All About Eve, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Anastasia, The Diary of Anne Frank, How The West Was Won, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and his final score, Airport, all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards. Newman was also highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charlie Chaplin, and Irving Berlin. He also conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals (having worked on Broadway for ten years before coming to Hollywood), as well as many original Hollywood musicals. He was among the first musicians to compose and conduct original music during Hollywood's Golden Age of movies, later becoming a respected and powerful music director in the history of Hollywood. Newman and two of his fellow composers, Max Steiner and Dimitri Tiomkin, were considered the "three godfathers of film music"
Filmography (47)
Airport
Nevada Smith
The Greatest Story Ever Told
How the West Was Won
Flower Drum Song
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Best of Everything
The King and I
Bus Stop
The Seven Year Itch
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
There's No Business Like Show Business
How to Marry a Millionaire
The Robe
Viva Zapata!
David and Bathsheba
Fourteen Hours
All About Eve
Broken Arrow
No Way Out
Twelve O'Clock High
Cry of the City
Gentleman's Agreement
Miracle on 34th Street
My Darling Clementine
The Razor's Edge
Dragonwyck
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Leave Her to Heaven
The Song of Bernadette
The Black Swan
How Green Was My Valley
Blood and Sand
The Grapes of Wrath
Foreign Correspondent
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Wuthering Heights
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Rains Came
Stella Dallas
The Hurricane
History Is Made at Night
Modern Times
Dodsworth
Born to Dance
Broadway Melody of 1936
