Alex North
Sound · Original Music Composer · Music · Music Director
Born Dec 4, 1910 · Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Active 1937–1991
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,…
Filmography
Spartacus (1960) — Original Music ComposerGood Morning, Vietnam (1987) — Original Music ComposerA Streetcar Named Desire (1951) — Original Music ComposerWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) — Original Music ComposerCleopatra (1963) — Original Music ComposerThe Children's Hour (1961) — Original Music Composer · ConductorThe Misfits (1961) — Original Music Composer · ConductorThe Bad Seed (1956) — Original Music ComposerPrizzi's Honor (1985) — Original Music ComposerThe Long, Hot Summer (1958) — Original Music Composer · SongsDragonslayer (1981) — Original Music ComposerViva Zapata! (1952) — Original Music ComposerThe Dead (1987) — Original Music ComposerDeath of a Salesman (1985) — Original Music ComposerThe Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) — Original Music ComposerCheyenne Autumn (1964) — Original Music Composer · Conductor · Music ArrangerBite the Bullet (1975) — Original Music ComposerThe Rose Tattoo (1955) — Music Director · Original Music ComposerThe Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) — Original Music ComposerUnder the Volcano (1984) — Original Music ComposerWillard (1971) — Original Music Composer · ConductorWise Blood (1979) — Original Music ComposerDaddy Long Legs (1955) — MusicRich Man, Poor Man (1976) — Original Music Composer