John WilliamsFilmography

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Shia LaBeouf, Igor Jijikine

Synopsis: Everyone's favorite archeologist adventurer dusts off his hat and trusty whip for yet another globetrotting trek as Indiana Jones returns to the big screen nearly 20 years after racing for the Holy Grail alongside his father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Harrison Ford reprises his Read More

Broadway's Best at Pops

Crew: Conductor

Synopsis: Originally produced in 2007, Broadway's Best at Pops embodies a compilation of all-star clips culled from the first 35 years of the popular PBS variety show Evening at Pops, taped at the Boston Symphony Hall and backed by the Boston Pops orchestra. Featured artists include Gregory Hines, Carol Read More

Superman Returns

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Eva Marie Saint

Synopsis: The Man of Steel returns to the big screen with this continuation of the icon's film legacy that picks up after the events of the first two Christopher Reeve films. Some time has passed since the events of Superman II and the world has gotten used to life without Superman (Brandon Routh) ever Read More

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: Reconstructed using archival film and sound elements long thought to be extinct, this special cut of Superman II pieces together unseen footage shot by Richard Donner in order to present the most comprehensive version of what was to be the original cut of the blockbuster sequel. As initially Read More

The Shark Is Still Working

Munich

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful Read More

Memoirs of a Geisha

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh

Synopsis: This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of nine, is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto in the early 1930s. Here, she learns that becoming a geisha can be the single path to wealth and independence for a woman. The head Read More

War of the Worlds

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins

Synopsis: An ordinary man has to protect his children against alien invaders in this science fiction thriller, freely adapted from the classic story by H.G. Wells. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his first wife Mary Ann (Miranda Otto) and estranged from his two Read More

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Ian McDiarmid, Jimmy Smits, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor

Synopsis: George Lucas draws the Star Wars film series to a close with this dark sci-fi adventure which sets the stage for the events of the first film and brings the saga full circle. After a fierce battle in which Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin (Hayden Christensen) join Republic forces to help free Read More

Star Wars: A Musical Journey

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Specially included with the {^Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith} soundtrack, this collection of music videos highlights sixteen of John Williams' strongest pieces from the film series while setting them to footage from all six films. Glimpses of production drawings and paintings can Read More

The Terminal

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna

Synopsis: Shot almost entirely on a two-and-a-half-story recreation of a full-size operating airport terminal, this romantic comedy from director Steven Spielberg revolves around an Eastern European man by the name of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), whose plans of immigrating to New York were hastened by a Read More

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: After directing the first two movies in the Harry Potter franchise, Chris Columbus opted to serve as producer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and passed the baton to Y Tu Mamá También director Alfonso Cuarón. Though "immensely popular" is an understatement when it comes to Harry Potter Read More

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala, Angela Rodriguez, Michael Bales

Synopsis: Plenty of folks have a favorite movie they'll watch over and over again, but Jayson Lamb, Chris Strompolos, and Eric Zala enjoyed Steven Spielberg and George Lucas' freewheeling action picture Raiders of the Lost Ark a bit more than the average fan. The three friends were between the ages of 11 Read More

Catch Me If You Can

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: A gifted forger and confidence man attempts to stay one step ahead of the lawman determined to bring him to justice in this comedy-drama from Steven Spielberg, based on a true story. Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a 16-year-old high school student who finds himself emotionally cut Read More

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris

Synopsis: Youthful wizard Harry Potter returns to the screen in this, the second film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's wildly popular series of novels for young people. Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) return for a second year at Read More

Minority Report

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a Read More

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson

Synopsis: The second prequel to the original Star Wars trilogy takes place ten years after the events depicted in Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. Now 20, young Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is an apprentice to respected Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). Unusually powerful in Read More

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Richard Harris

Synopsis: The best-selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high-stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped-for franchise of Read More

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt

Synopsis: Based on the 1969 short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss, this science fiction fantasy bears similarities to Pinocchio (1940) and originated as a long-gestating project of director Stanley Kubrick that passed to his friend Steven Spielberg after Kubrick's death. Haley Joel Osment Read More

The Patriot

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper

Synopsis: Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, the director/producer team responsible for such sci-fi blockbusters as Independence Day, Stargate, and Godzilla, take a step back in time with this drama set during the American Revolution. Farmer Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) was born and raised in South Carolina Read More

Angela's Ashes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge

Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir by Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes is an alternately funny and heartbreaking look at growing up in Ireland. Born in Brooklyn, NY, young Frank (Joe Breen) moves at an early age to Limerick, Ireland, with his parents Angela (Emily Watson) and Malachy (Robert Carlyle Read More

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Pernilla August

Synopsis: In 1977, George Lucas released Star Wars, the ultimate sci-fi popcorn flick-turned-pop-culture myth machine. It quickly became the biggest money-making film of all time and changed the shape of the film industry. After two successful sequels (1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's Return of the Read More

Stepmom

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris, Jena Malone, Liam Aiken

Synopsis: Mrs. Doubtfire director Chris Columbus continues to explore the family turmoil of divorce in the tearjerker Stepmom, a story that pits the birth mother against the new mother. Jackie (Susan Sarandon), a one-time book editor, is now the consummate soccer mom juggling the schedules of her two kids Read More

Saving Private Ryan

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesel

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a flashback then joins Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks) and GIs in a Read More

Waldbühne Berlin: 1998 - Latin American Night

Actors: John Williams

Synopsis: Though the Berlin Philharmonic typically adheres almost exclusively to classical music, this unique performance set finds the ensemble stretching itself beyond those boundaries to deliver a series of interpretations of Latinate works - conducted, appropriately enough, by the Argentine maestro Read More

In My Life

Actors: George Martin, Jim Carrey, Phil Collins, Celine Dion, Goldie Hawn

Synopsis: Before retiring, recording producer George Martin, famed for his for association with The Beatles, returned to The Beatles songbook, shaping performances by several artists not usually associated with The Beatles, and some not even recognized for their musical abilities. This documentary captures Read More

Amistad

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Arliss Howard, Jeremy Northam, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad and captures the complex political maneuverings set in motion by the event. Filmed in New England and Puerto Read More

Seven Years in Tibet

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Lhakpa Tsamchoe

Synopsis: Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of the memoir by Heinrich Harrer. Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to Read More

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Vince Vaughn, Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: Just when you'd think that scientists would realize dinosaurs and humans don't mix, along comes The Lost World: Jurassic Park to prove you wrong. In this sequel, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) summons chaos theorist and onetime colleague Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) to his home with some Read More

Rosewood

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Loren Dean

Synopsis: Rosewood is the true story of an almost unknown incident in a small Florida town, (fictionalized, but faithful to the known facts, as documented in a 1994 report by the Florida Legislature). The town was inhabited almost entirely by quiet, "middle-class" African- Americans (most of them home and Read More

Sleepers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Bruno Kirby, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this crime drama based on a controversial bestseller. Jason Patrick stars as Lorenzo, a New York reporter more commonly called "Shakes," a nickname courtesy of his three childhood pals from Hell's Kitchen -- Michael (Brad Pitt), John (Ron Eldard), and Tommy (Billy Crudup). Read More

Nixon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon Read More

Sabrina

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, John Wood, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: A remake of a 1954 Billy Wilder romance, this updated version of the play Sabrina Fair was directed by Sydney Pollack. Julia Ormond stars as Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of a kindly chauffeur (John Wood) at the Long Island estate of the upper-crust Larrabee family. Sabrina has grown up Read More

Jurassic Park

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg's phenomenally successful sci-fi adventure thriller is graced by state-of-the-art special effects from the team of Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri from George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic. The film follows two dinosaur experts -- Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Read More

Schindler's List

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military Read More

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard

Synopsis: John Hughes and Chris Columbus repeat their best-selling formula from the first Home Alone film with this sequel. Once again Kevin McCallister's (Macaulay Culkin) family leave him behind, only now he gets on a flight to New York instead of going with his family to Miami. Kevin manages to hail a Read More

Far and Away

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock

Synopsis: In this epic Ron Howard film, Joseph Donelly (Tom Cruise) is an impoverished 19th-century Irish tenant farmer who has recently lost both his father and his home to the agents of his unscrupulous landlord. On a mission to avenge his family's injustice at the hands of the ruthless land baron Joseph Read More

JFK

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. The brisk investigation of that murder conducted under the guidance of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren distressed many observers, even though subsequent careful investigations have been Read More

Hook

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Phil Collins

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of Read More

Home Alone

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard

Synopsis: Home Alone is the highly successful and beloved family comedy about a young boy named Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) who is accidentally left behind when his family takes off for a vacation in France over the holiday season. Once he realizes they've left him "home alone," he learns to fend for himself Read More

Presumed Innocent

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Winfield

Synopsis: Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) is a bland, oppressed man who burns with a quiet, corrosive intensity that can flare uncontrollably. A Philadelphia prosecutor, Sabich's fire seems to have one outlet: his job. He loves prosecuting people. Otherwise, his life is dead-ended. He has a loveless marriage Read More

Stanley & Iris

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton, Harley Cross

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama with romantic overtones, Iris (Jane Fonda) is a working mother with a job at a large commercial bakery who is still getting over the death of her husband, though her circumstances don't give her much time to grieve. She's sharing her house with her two children Read More

Always

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn

Synopsis: For all its state-of-the-art special effects, Always is essentially a remake of the 1943 Spencer Tracy-Irene Dunne fantasy vehicle A Guy Named Joe--minus the wartime context. Richard Dreyfuss stars as a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Read More

Born on the Fourth of July

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Kyra Sedgwick, Brian Larkin, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: The second of three films by co-writer/director Oliver Stone to explore the effects of the Vietnam War (Platoon and Heaven and Earth are the others), Born On The Fourth Of July tells the true story of Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise), a patriotic, All-American small town athlete who shocks his family by Read More

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, River Phoenix

Synopsis: The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River Phoenix), who, through a fast-paced prologue, gives the audience insight into the roots of his taste for adventure, fear of snakes, and dogged Read More

The Accidental Tourist

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Amy Wright, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: Director Lawrence Kasdan and Frank Galati adapted their screenplay for The Accidental Tourist from Anne Tyler's novel. William Hurt plays Macon Leary, a well-known "travel advisor" headquartered in Baltimore. The tragic death of Leary's son causes him to withdraw from the world, which in turn Read More

Empire of the Sun

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a spoiled young British boy, living with his wealthy family in pre-World War II Shanghai. During the Japanese invasion, Bale is separated from his parents. With the help of soldier-of-fortune John Malkovich Read More

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer

Synopsis: Superman (Christopher Reeve) tries to save the world from nuclear destruction at the hands of Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) in this action film featuring the man of steel. In a speech to the United Nations, Superman declares he will rid the world of all nuclear weapons. Arch-villain Luthor emerges Read More

Jaws: The Revenge

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael Caine, Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young

Synopsis: This third sequel to the 1975 mega-hit Jaws returns Lorraine Gary to the role of Ellen Brody, widow of the Roy Scheider character from the first two films. When her son Sean, the current police chief of shark-plagued Amity Island, is killed by the beast, Ellen goes to the Bahamas to comfort her Read More

The Witches of Eastwick

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: The Witches of Eastwick, a memorable comedy with a dark edge, is based upon a novel by John Updike. On Thursday nights three female friends -- Alex (Cher), Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Jane (Susan Sarandon) -- meet to chug martinis, learn Chinese aphrodisiac cooking and lament the scarcity of Read More

The Secret of My Success

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan, Margaret Whitton, John Pankow

Synopsis: Released at the height of his popularity on Family Ties and in the wake of Back to the Future and Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox stars in this "country boy in the big city" comedy, directed by Herbert Ross. After making the move from Kansas to New York City, Brantley Foster (Fox) secures a job in the Read More

One Crazy Summer

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: John Cusack, Demi Moore, Joel Murray, Curtis Armstrong, Bobcat Goldthwait

Synopsis: In this madcap comedy, Demi Moore plays Cassandra and John Cusack is Hoops McCann, two people who eventually fall in love and help each other out. Hoops is a cartoonist working on a teen love story that he hopes will get him accepted into art school. Cassandra is a troubled young woman about to Read More

Spacecamp

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leaf Phoenix, Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: This is an eerily prescient family adventure starring Kate Capshaw as Andie, a frustrated NASA astronaut who's never actually been into outer space. Her husband, flight controller Zach (Tom Skerritt), is sympathetic, but he can't influence her place in the rotation. Andie is assigned to train a Read More

Emma's War

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lee Remick, Miranda Otto, Bridey Lee, Mark Lee

Synopsis: Laurel and Emma are sisters, two young women who are, for a change, extremely happy exactly where they are, which is in a college town in the Blue Mountains of Australia. Their happiness is rudely ended when their mother, Anna, decides to relocate them to the spare and (to the girls) grossly Read More

Amazing Stories: Ghost Train

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Roberts Blossom, Scott Paulin, Gail Edwards, Lukas Haas, Renny Roker

Amazing Stories: The Mission

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kevin Costner, Casey Siemaszko, Kiefer Sutherland

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth

Synopsis: The second of the George Lucas/Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984). After a brief brouhaha involving a precious vial and a wild ride down a raging Himalyan river, Indy (Harrison Ford) gets down to the problem at hand Read More

The River

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Shane Bailey, Becky Jo Lynch, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: This socially conscious family farm drama from director Mark Rydell was his follow up to the Oscar-winning On Golden Pond (1981). Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek star as Tom and Mae Garvey, struggling Tennessee farmers constantly one step away from foreclosing. Their farm sits next to a river that Read More

The Ewok Adventure

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Warwick Davis

Synopsis: At this late date, it should hardly be necessary to inform viewers that The Ewok Adventure was inspired by those fuzzy little space muppets seen in the 1983 Star Wars sequel Return of the Jedi. This costly made-for-TV film was executive-produced by George Lucas, with special effects provided by Read More

Superman III

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annette O'Toole, Annie Ross

Synopsis: In a major departure from the tone of the preceding two Superman adventure films, this mix of vile deeds and fantasy heroics drops the "S" out of cosmic and goes for comic instead. Right at the starting gate, Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor) and a subsequent slapstick sequence upstage (Christopher Reeves Read More

Angelo My Love

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Angelo Evans, Steve "Patalay" Tsigonoff, Michael Evans, Ruthie Evans, Tony Evans

Synopsis: Directed by Robert Duvall -- though not his directorial debut, as has sometimes been reported -- Angelo My Love is a semidocumentary study of gypsy life in New York. Real-life gypsy lad Angelo Evans engagingly plays himself: a charming street hustler and con artist. The son of a fortune teller Read More

Return of the Jedi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels

Synopsis: In the final episode of the Star Wars saga, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) emerges intact from the carbonite casing in which he'd been sealed in The Empire Strikes Back. The bad news is that Solo, together with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), is prisoner to the grotesque Read More

Jaws 3

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Putch

Synopsis: An ocean-themed Florida amusement park comes under attack from an angry Great White shark in this third installment of the horror series. The film maintains only a loose relationship to the original Steven Spielberg hit, centering on Mike (Dennis Quaid) and Sean (John Putch), the sons of police Read More

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Debra Winger

Synopsis: Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by Read More

Monsignor

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller, Joe Cortese

Synopsis: An ambitious priest discovers that honoring the Ten Commandments isn't as easy as he imagined in this drama. Father John Flaherty (Christopher Reeve) is a Catholic priest who was ordained during World War II, and soon found himself forced to fight enemy forces while serving as a chaplain in the Read More

Yes, Giorgio

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Luciano Pavarotti, Kathryn Harrold, Eddie Albert, Paola Borboni, James Hong

Synopsis: When touring Italian opera star Giorgio Fini (Luciano Pavarotti in his screen debut) mysteriously loses his voice before a performance in Boston, he goes to see throat specialist Dr. Pamela Taylor (Kathryn Harrold), and the two fall madly in love. This film features a number of songs, including Read More

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Denholm Elliott, Paul Freeman, Wolf Kahler

Synopsis: Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French Read More

Heartbeeps

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan, Melanie Mayron

Synopsis: Heartbeeps stars Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as domestic robots who fall in love and run off together. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Monster Club

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, John Carradine, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: This quaint horror anthology is loosely based on the works of horror novelist R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- who is portrayed by John Carradine as an active participant in his own tales. The author is invited by a suave vampire (Vincent Price) to accompany him to the title establishment, where he observes Read More

Superman II

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: Between giving up his super powers, confronting criminals from outer space, and having problems with his girlfriend, it's a bad time to be the Man of Steel in this sequel to the 1978 blockbuster. When terrorists threaten to destroy Paris with a thermonuclear device as they hold reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder Read More

The Empire Strikes Back

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Kenny Baker

Synopsis: The second entry in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the green-as-grass hero from the first film, now a seasoned space warrior. Luke's Star Wars cohorts Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) are likewise more experienced in the ways and means Read More

1941

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee, Nancy Allen

Synopsis: It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend the country to virtual blind panic in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thus begin several story threads that comprise the "plot" of this strange period Read More

Dracula

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Trevor Eve

Synopsis: In the late '70s, Frank Langella starred in the hit Broadway play Dracula, written by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. Langella's charisma and the surreal, black-and-white sets designed by cartoonist Edward Gorey were the chief outstanding features of the play, which was otherwise Read More

Jaws 2

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joe Mascolo, Jeffrey Kramer

Synopsis: Despite being a less well-regarded virtual remake of the original film, Jaws 2 earned a tidy sum at the box office by combining its predecessor's winning formula with the popular teen horror craze, helping to spawn the era of blockbuster sequels. Roy Scheider returns as Sheriff Martin Brody, whose Read More

Superman: The Movie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character. Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where Read More

The Fury

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, Amy Irving, Andrew Stevens

Synopsis: Brian De Palma returns to the mind-blowing potential of telekinesis in the follow-up to his 1976 horror hit Carrie. While vacationing with his psychic son, Robin (Andrew Stevens), and close associate Childress (John Cassavetes), government agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) survives a terrorist Read More

Hot Lead and Cold Feet

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jim Dale, Karen Valentine, Don Knotts, Jack Elam, John Williams

Synopsis: In this Disney western, Jim Dale plays Eli Bloodshy, and his twin sons Wild Billy and Jasper. The older man has founded the town of Bloodshy, and now that he has apparently died, his sons must battle for control of his legacy in a wild train race. One of them is a city-slicker, a mild-mannered Read More

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey, Bob Balaban

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975), his first major box-office success, with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an electrical lineman who, while sent out on emergency repairs, witnesses Read More

Star Wars

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: George Lucas' mythological popcorn movie is a two-hour roller-coaster ride that has passed into movie legend. The story, for the tiny number of people not familiar with it, concerns a farm boy named Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) who discovers that the used robot recently purchased by his family Read More

Black Sunday

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Steven Keats

Synopsis: Bruce Dern is ideally cast as Lander, a crazed Vietnam veteran, in Black Sunday. Lander joins terrorists Dahlia (Marthe Keller) and Fasil (Bekim Fehmu) in a plot to create a bloodbath at the annual Super Bowl. Piloting the ubiquitous Goodyear blimp, Lander is to ram the aircraft into the capacity Read More

Midway

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: An expensive war epic, Midway emulates The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora! in attempting to re-create a famous World War II battle from both the American and Japanese viewpoints. The 1942 battle of Midway was the turning point of the War in the Pacific; the Japanese invasion fleet was destroyed Read More

The Missouri Breaks

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Lloyd, Randy Quaid, Frederic Forrest

Synopsis: A rancher, a rustler, and a regulator face off in Arthur Penn's eccentric western. As a cover for their horse thievery, a gang of Montana rustlers, led by the laid-back Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson), buys a small farm adjacent to the ranch of their latest target/nemesis, Braxton (John McLiam). When Read More

No Deposit, No Return

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Herschel Bernardi, Barbara Feldon

Synopsis: In this Disney comedy, a pair of spoiled kids, bored by their filthy rich grandfather, decide they'd rather be with their mom who is in Hong Kong. In order to get her attention, they engineer their own kidnapping. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Family Plot

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the Read More

The Eiger Sanction

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Bruhl

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood both directed and starred in this thriller based on a novel by Trevanian. Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Eastwood) is a professor of art history who formerly had a deadly secret life; he was a hired assassin working with an international intelligence organization. Normally content to collect Read More

Jaws

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the New Hollywood popcorn blockbuster while frightening millions of moviegoers out of the water. One early summer night on fictional Atlantic resort Amity Island, Chrissie decides to take a Read More

Conrack

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews, Antonio Fargas

Synopsis: Jon Voight stars in this story, based on fact, about a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of his students. In the late 1960s, Pat Conroy (Jon Voight) is given a teaching position on a small island off the coast of South Carolina. Conroy discovers that the school is little more Read More

California Split

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles, Ed Walsh

Synopsis: The most narratively loose of Robert Altman's '70s films, California Split details the haphazard lives of two compulsive gamblers searching for that ever-elusive big score. Newly single and soon-to-be-unemployed Bill (George Segal) joins live-wire pal Charlie (Elliott Gould), as the pair moves Read More

The Sugarland Express

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: Based on an actual incident, Steven Spielberg's first theatrical feature follows the adventures of a Texas outlaw couple striving to keep their family together by any means necessary. Determined not to lose her child to the authorities, Lou Jean Poplin (Goldie Hawn) gets her obedient convict Read More

The Towering Inferno

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Carlena Gower, Carol McEvoy, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain

Synopsis: A skyscraper and an all-star cast go up in flames in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie. To celebrate the construction of the Glass Tower, the world's tallest building, architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) and builder James Duncan (William Holden) hold a gala bash on the highest floors. Trouble Read More

Earthquake

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: Los Angeles is the natural site for a film about earthquakes: they happen there frequently, and the landscape is familiar to moviegoers from thousands of films. A huge number of ongoing vignettes which include cameos from numerous celebrities and stars are tied together by the ongoing efforts of Read More

The Paper Chase

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: This filmization of John Jay Osborn Jr.'s novel Paper Chase ended up one of the surprise hits of the 1973-74 movie season. Timothy Bottoms stars as the Minnesotan Hart, a brilliant but naive first-year student at the Harvard Law School. Like most of his fellow aspiring attorneys, Hart is in Read More

The Long Goodbye

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Henry Gibson, Mark Rydell

Synopsis: "It's OK with me...." Applying his deconstructive eye to the "film noir" tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of Chandler's novel, The Long Goodbye. Smart-aleck, cat-loving private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton Read More

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Sarah Miles, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, George Hamilton

Synopsis: This romantic western drama, based on the best-selling novel by Marilyn Durham, stars Burt Reynolds as Jay Grobart, an outlaw married to an Indian woman named Cat Dancing. When Cat is raped and murdered, a distraught Grobart kills the man responsible for the crime; he soon pulls a robbery with the Read More

Tom Sawyer

Crew: Conductor, Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates, Jeff East, Jodie Foster

Synopsis: Mark Twain's classic tale is brought to the screen for the fourth time, this time with a tuneful score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, who also wrote the screen adaptation. Johnny Whitaker stars as Tom Sawyer, with Jeff East in his first film role as Huck Finn. Jodie Foster is also on Read More

Cinderella Liberty

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason, Eli Wallach, James Caan

Synopsis: A "Cinderella Liberty" is Navy jargon for a pass that runs out at midnight. Sailor John Baggs, Jr. (James Caan) has such a pass, and intends to make the most of it while his ship is docked in Seattle. He "wins" prostitute Maggie (Marsha Mason) in a pool game, but backs off at a "wham-bam-thank you Read More

The Poseidon Adventure

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: The Poseidon, an ocean liner larger than the Queens Elizabeth and Mary combined, is charting its course on New Year's Eve. Just after midnight, Captain Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) spots the mother of all tidal waves. It is the last thing that Harrison and practically everyone Read More

Images

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Cathryn Harrison

Synopsis: A woman walks a razor's edge between reality and madness in this impressionistic drama written and directed by Robert Altman. Cathryn (Susannah York) is a woman who begins to suspect that her marriage to Hugh (René Auberjonois) is falling apart after receiving a mysterious phone call from a friend Read More

The Cowboys

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sam O'Brien, Mike Pyeatt, John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: In one of John Wayne's more interesting late Westerns, "The Duke" plays Will Anderson, a crusty veteran cattleman preparing a 400-mile drive to get a herd of steers to market. Shortly before the trip is scheduled to begin, Will's crew quits when they get word of a nearby gold strike. With little Read More

Pete 'n' Tillie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: Based on Peter DeVries' novel Witch's Milk, Pete 'n' Tillie stars Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett in the title roles. Middle-aged when they first meet, eternally joking Pete and repressed "old maid" Tillie don't immediately hit it off. Gradually, their friendship deepens into love and culminates Read More

The Screaming Woman

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Olivia De Havilland plays a middle-aged woman who has recently been released from a mental institution after suffering a breakdown. She insists one evening that she can hear the muffled scream of a woman emanating from beneath the ground. Since no one else can hear these screams, De Havilland is Read More

Fiddler on the Roof

Crew: Conductor, Musical Arrangement

Actors: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann

Synopsis: Norman Jewison's adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical is set in the Ukranian ghetto village of Anatevka (the film was actually lensed in Yugoslavia). Israeli actor Topol repeats his London stage role as Tevye the milkman, whose equilibrium is constantly being challenged by his poverty Read More

Jane Eyre

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen, Jack Hawkins, Nyree Dawn Porter

Synopsis: Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian novel is once again put through the paces, this time by Delbert Mann, in this stodgy Masterpiece Theater style television adaptation. Susannah York is Jane Eyre, the orphan girl who secures a position as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester (George C. Scott Read More

Storia di una Donna

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Robert Stack, James Farentino, Annie Girardot, Didi Perego

Synopsis: This routine melodrama finds an Italian woman torn between her old lover and her husband. Karin (Bibi Andersson) is the resident of Rome who literally bumps into Bruno (James Farentino) after her piano lesson. The married man is immediately taken by her beauty and the two begin a passionate love Read More

The Reivers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Will Geer, Rupert Crosse, Mitch Vogel

Synopsis: Adapted from William Faulkner's final novel, The Reivers top-bills Steve McQueen, but the major character is feisty 11-year-old Lucius McCaslin, played by Mitch Vogel. Growing up in Mississippi in the early 1900s, Lucius finds himself (through a hectic series of circumstances) in a bordello, where Read More

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Carol White, Scott Hylands, Paul Burke, Mala Powers, Rachel Ames

Synopsis: Kenneth Daly (Scott Hylands) is the right-wing anti-abortion fanatic who snaps when his girlfriend has an abortion. The couple naturally breaks up, but Kenneth remains bent for revenge against Cathy (Carol White). She goes on to marry a politician, but the vengeful Kenneth returns and subjects her Read More

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, George Baker, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: While it might not have been the best idea on earth to remake the 1939 classic Goodbye Mr. Chips as a musical, the end result is not altogether displeasing. Peter O'Toole steps into the old Robert Donat role of Arthur Chipping (originally Charles Chipping), a young by-the-book schoolmaster at a Read More

Sergeant Ryker

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: It's 1951 in Korea, a time that the United States Army doesn't like to remember. The Communists, led by Chinese forces, are tearing up the battlefield and overrunning American and South Korean positions, and in the midst of it, Sgt. Paul William Ryker (Lee Marvin), decorated World War II hero Read More

Nightmare in Chicago

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Based on the novel Death on the Turnpike by William P. McGivern, Robert Altman's Nightmare in Chicago was expanded for theatrical release after it originally aired on NBC in 1964 on an episode of Kraft Suspense Theater. Filmed on-location in Chicago, this suspense thriller follows the story of a Read More

Heidi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: Made-for-television adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's tale about an orphaned girl who goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Fitzwilly

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon, Edith Evans, John McGiver, Harry Townes

Synopsis: When an aging philanthropist falls on hard times, her butler starts to rob the rich so that she can keep on giving to the poor in this comedy. Claude Fitzwilliam (Dick Van Dyke), known to his friends as "Fitzwilly," works as a butler for Victoria Woodworth (Edith Evans), who -- ever since the Read More

Valley of the Dolls

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Tony Scotti

Synopsis: A cinematic take on a 1960s best-seller, Valley of the Dolls traces the ups and downs of three young women as fame, booze, pills, and men consume their lives. Well-bred, small-town Anne Welles (Peyton Place star Barbara Parkins) arrives in New York eager for fame but settles for a job assisting Read More

A Guide for the Married Man

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Claire Kelly

Synopsis: Ed Stander (Robert Morse), with the help of an all-star cast, teaches Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) the fine art of philandering in A Guide for the Married Man. Paul, happily married to sexy Ruth (Inger Stevens), has no burning desire to cheat, but Ed makes the prospect sound very attractive. Read More

Penelope

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: Can armed robbery help save a marriage? These and other questions about modern relationships are pondered in this comedy. Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) married James (Ian Bannen) after a very brief courtship, and as his star has begun to rise in the banking business, he spends less and less time Read More

The Plainsman

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The Plainsman was a Technicolor remake of the 1936 Cecil B. DeMille film, all about the fictional romantic triangle of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill. DeMille had the advantage of a topnotch cast: Gary Cooper as Hickok, Jean Arthur as Calamity (complete with a Wally Westmore Read More

Not with My Wife, You Don't!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C. Scott, Carroll O'Connor, Richard Eastham

Synopsis: In the words of Hamlet, there's a plentiful lack of wit in Not with My Wife, You Don't! Korean war vet Tony Curtis is living in London, blissfully married (so he thinks) to Virna Lisi. In strolls old air force buddy George C. Scott, who has a history of stealing Curtis' ladies away from him. Read More

The Rare Breed

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Jack Elam, Don Galloway

Synopsis: Andrew V. McLaglen directs the Western drama The Rare Breed, based on the real-life introduction of English Hereford cattle to the American West in the 1880s. Maureen O'Hara plays Martha Price, an widowed Englishwoman who convinces rancher Alexander Bowen (Brian Keith) to use her new cattle breed. Read More

How to Steal a Million

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: In this elegant "caper" film, Audrey Hepburn stars as the daughter of a wealthy Parisian (Hugh Griffith), whose hobby is copying famous works of art. His replica of a famed Cellini sculpture is inadvertently displayed in an art museum, and he begins to worry that he'll lose his reputation once the Read More

Lost in Space [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: As originally conceived by executive producer Irwin Allen, the weekly, 60-minute Lost in Space was to have been a relatively serious sci-fi opus called The Space Family Robinson. Set in 1997, the series focused on astrophysicist Dr. John Robinson (Guy Williams), his wife, Maureen (June Lockhart); Read More

None But the Brave

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra took over the directors' chair for the first (and only) time in this unusual WWII drama. Lt. Kuroki (Tatsuya Mihashi) is the leader of a Japanese platoon stranded on a remote Pacific island, where with an iron hand he oversees the construction of a rescue ship. An American plane Read More

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik. John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna), a former football player, now pilot, sent on a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union, is lost and crash-lands in the Middle Eastern Read More

The Killers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan, Clu Gulager

Synopsis: Don Siegel directed this intensely pessimistic re-make of Robert Siodmak's 1946 film noir masterpiece The Killers, based upon a story by Ernest Hemingway. As the story opens two professional looking men in business suits -- Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager) -- push their way into a school Read More

Stark Fear

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: A marriage falls apart after a dutiful wife becomes the breadwinner after her husband loses his job. This angers him and after reveling in her humiliation, he leaves her. Fortunately, the wife lands on her feet, but not before she obtains closure with her brutish husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Gidget Goes to Rome

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Cindy Carol, James Darren, Jesse Royce Landis, Cesare Danova, Danielle de Metz

Synopsis: Gidget Goes to Rome was the third film to be inspired by the beach-happy characters created by Frederick Kohner back in the mid-1950s. This time, surfer gal Francie "Gidget" Lawrence is played by newcomer Cindy Carol. Per the title, the film finds Gidget vacationing in the Eternal City with Read More

Bachelor Flat

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Terry-Thomas, Celeste Holm, Francesca Bellini

Synopsis: Another in a series of American comedies of manners, this film was written and directed by Frank Tashlin with his usual grace and elegance. Terry-Thomas plays a meek archeology professor named Bruce Patterson who is attracted to bones. His salivating female college students are attracted to him. Read More

Diamond Head

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, France Nuyen, James Darren

Synopsis: Charlton Heston, portraying swaggering bigot land-baron Richard "King" Howland on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, does a spit take when his sister Sloan (Yvette Mimieux) announces that she plans to marry Paul Kahana, a 100% native Hawaiian (played by 100% native Philadelphian James Darren). But Read More

Flashing Spikes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

The Secret Ways

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Charles Regnier, Walter Rilia, Howard Vernon

Synopsis: Shortly after Soviet tanks crush the 1956 Hungarian uprising, adventurer for hire Mike Reynolds (Richard Widmark) goes to communist Budapest to rescue one of the revolt's leaders, Professor Jansci. There's just one big problem; the professor doesn't want to go. While the plot is minimal, this Read More

Because They're Young

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dick Clark, Michael Callan, Victoria Shaw, Roberta Shore

Synopsis: This fast-paced, entertaining drama set in a high school is directed by Paul Wendkos who has a talent for turning teen-oriented movies into hits, as proven just before this release (his 1959 Gidget). The ever-young Dick Clark plays Neil, a new, dedicated history teacher who becomes involved with Read More

Checkmate [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

I Passed for White

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sonya Wilde, James Franciscus, Pat Michon, Elizabeth Council, Griffin Crafts

Synopsis: In this romantic melodrama, a light-skinned black woman abandons her family to pretend that she is white. She soon marries a white wealthy man, but does not tell him the truth. Eventually the pressures caused by her deception cause her to breakdown. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Daddy-O

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dick Contino

Synopsis: A truck driver who dabbles in singing (Dick Contino) is convinced by several crooks to drive the getaway car in a robbery. While being tracked for the crime, he must also find the murderers of his best friend. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More