Trevor Jones Filmography

Born:: March 23, 1949 in Cape Town, South Africa
Occupation:: Composer (Music Score)
Biography:: Trevor Jones is perhaps one of the most diverse film composers of modern cinema. In his years scoring films, Jones has worked on everything from remarkably intimate, personal dramas (Dominick and Eugene [1988]) to large-scale action blockbusters that only Hollywood can produce (Cliffhanger...Read More

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3 and Out

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Imelda Staunton, Gemma Arterton, Antony Sher

Synopsis: Death gives two men a new lease on life in this dark comedy from the UK. Paul Callow (Mackenzie Crook) makes his living driving a subway train in London, though he'd like nothing more than to be able to quit his job, move to Scotland and devote his time to writing a novel. Paul isn't an especially Read More

2008
The Tudors [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

2007
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sarah Bolger, Alex Pettyfer, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Damian Lewis, Ewan McGregor

Synopsis: An outwardly ordinary teenager finds himself suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances upon discovering that his entire youth was part of an elaborate plan to create the perfect super spy in director Geoffrey Sax's action-packed adaptation of author Anthony Horowitz's best-selling series of Read More

7/21/06
Chaos

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe, Wesley Snipes, Justine Waddell

Synopsis: Two mismatched lawmen are on the trail of an unusually talented criminal in this crime thriller. Quentin Conners (Jason Statham) is a veteran police detective who is less than pleased when he's assigned a new partner, Shane Dekker (Ryan Phillippe). While Conners has been with the force for years Read More

2006
Around the World in 80 Days

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent, Robert Fyfe, Cécile De France

Synopsis: Jules Verne's famous novel of a daring man of science who takes on the greatest voyage in history is once again adapted for the big screen in this adventure comedy. In 1872, eccentric British inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) has come up with any number of gadgets to help people travel with Read More

6/16/04
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sean Connery, Shane West, Stuart Townsend, Richard Roxburgh, Peta Wilson

Synopsis: Based on the comic book miniseries by Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen takes place in an alternate universe where the characters of several literary classics exist in reality. As if that weren't enough, they've been assembled together in 1900 by Queen Victoria as a team of Read More

7/11/03
I'll Be There

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Craig Ferguson, Jemma Redgrave, Charlotte Church, Joss Ackland, Ralph Brown

Synopsis: A has-been '80s pop star whose phone stopped ringing some time ago, Paul Kerr (Craig Ferguson) is an alcoholic on a downward spiral. After crashing his motorcycle through a window and into a fountain in his estate, Paul is sent to a mental hospital on the assumption that he has become suicidal. Read More

2003
Crossroads

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana, Anson Mount, Taryn Manning

Synopsis: Multimillion-selling recording artist Britney Spears makes the transition to the big screen with this teen road trip romantic comedy, co-produced by the film branch of the entity that first brought her pop stardom, MTV. Crossroads casts Spears as Lucy, the shy valedictorian of her high school Read More

2/15/02
Dinotopia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Based on the children's books by author/illustrator James Gurney, the three-part, six-hour ABC miniseries Dinotopia got under way when a pair of teenaged half brothers, Karl and David Scott, took over the controls of their father Frank's (Stuart Wilson) private plane. Not surprisingly, the boys Read More

2002
From Hell

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: The true-life horror story of Jack the Ripper gets a new spin in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. In 1888, a ruthless and cold-blooded killer begins hunting prostitutes in East London, and while the murderer's work is savage, the mutilation of Read More

10/19/01
The Long Run

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Nthati Moshesh

Synopsis: An elderly man tries to achieve one of his greatest ambitions by turning a rank amateur into a champion in this drama. German-born Bertold Bohmer (Armin Mueller-Stahl) was a competitive distance runner in his youth who had one great dream -- to win the Comrades Marathon, a punishing 54-mile race Read More

5/4/01
Thirteen Days

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, Michael Fairman

Synopsis: Director Roger Donaldson teams up with star Kevin Costner for another political thriller (after their 1987 pairing, No Way Out), only this time with a film based on the actual events surrounding the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, taking place during the titular thirteen days wherein the U.S. and Read More

12/25/00
Titanic Town

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Julie Walters, Ciarán Hinds, Nuala O'Neill, James Loughran, Barry Loughran

Synopsis: Roger Michell directed this British drama based on Mary Costello's autobiographical novel about a Belfast housewife and peace activist. During early '70s conflicts in Northern Ireland, Bernie McPhelimy (Julie Walters) and her family move into a Catholic neighborhood in a West Belfast town famed as Read More

9/1/00
Molly

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Elisabeth Shue, Aaron Eckhart, Jill Hennessy, Thomas Jane, D.W. Moffett

Synopsis: Elisabeth Shue stars in this drama as Molly McKay, a mentally challenged woman who has suffered from autism since childhood. Institutionalized since the age of three, Molly is released at age 28 into the custody of her brother Buck (Aaron Eckhart), whom she hasn't seen since childhood. While Buck Read More

10/22/99
Notting Hill

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, James Dreyfus, Gina McKee

Synopsis: Can a beautiful and internationally famous American actress find happiness with a frumpy British bookstore clerk? She can -- at least for a while, it seems -- in Notting Hill. William Thacker (played by Hugh Grant) is a bookseller at a shop in the Notting Hill district in West London, who shares a Read More

5/28/99
Cleopatra

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leonor Varela, Timothy Dalton, Billy Zane, Rupert Graves, John Bowe

Synopsis: The epic saga of the Queen of Egypt gets yet another retelling in Cleopatra, a four-hour, two-part spectacular produced for television. Leonor Varela plays Cleopatra, the Egyptian monarch who uses her wisdom, charm, ruthlessness, and seductive powers to work her way into the heart (and bed) of Read More

1999
Talk of Angels

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Polly Walker, Vincent Perez, Franco Nero, Marisa Paredes, Leire Berrocal

Synopsis: Nick Hamm directed this historical romantic drama, rated PG-13 "for some politically motivated violence." The period prior to the Spanish Civil War provides the background setting for the arrival in Spain of young Irish governess Mary Lavelle (Polly Walker) who begins a year of employment with the Read More

10/30/98
The Mighty

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In the tradition of My Left Foot (1989), Peter Chelsom directed this emotional drama of outcasts, adapted from the Rodman Philbrick's popular young-adult novel Freak the Mighty. Although burly, slow-paced eight-grader Maxwell Kane (Elden Hensen), who narrates, is learning disabled, he Read More

10/23/98
Dark City

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Richard O'Brien

Synopsis: Alex Proyas (The Crow) directed this noir-styled futuristic thriller, scripted by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (Kafka), and David S. Goyer (The Puppet Masters). Separated from his wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly), amnesiac John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to learn he is wanted for a Read More

1998
Desperate Measures

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden, Erik King, Joseph Cross

Synopsis: Although he enjoyed great critical success with crime dramas and slice-of-life pictures, director Barbet Schroeder continued dabbling in the thriller genre with this action-oriented film. Andy Garcia stars as Frank Conner, a widowed San Francisco police officer whose young son Matt (Joseph Cross) Read More

1998
Merlin

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sam Neill, Isabella Rossellini, Miranda Richardson, Martin Short, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: This four-hour fantasy miniseries, elaborating on the Arthurian legend and filmed in England and Wales, offers a portrait of the wizard Merlin (Sam Neill), following his life as a youth (Daniel Brocklebank) to his later conflicts with the evil Queen Mab (Miranda Richardson) and his love for Nimue (Isabella Rossellini Read More

1998
For Roseanna

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jean Reno, Mercedes Ruehl, Polly Walker, Mark Frankel, Trevor Peacock, Giuseppe Cederna

Synopsis: A man trying to honor the last wish of his beloved wife has to keep an entire city alive in this bittersweet romantic comedy. Marcello (Jean Reno) is the owner of a restaurant in a small village in Italy. His wife Roseanna (Mercedes Ruehl) has received some awful news: she has learned that her Read More

1997
G.I. Jane

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: Ridley Scott directed this flawed but involving study of Lt. Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore), a Navy topographic analyst who is chosen as a test case for the presence of women in combat. Aware that she is making history and knowing that 60% of all male trainees will fail the rigorous training, Lt. Read More

1997
Brassed Off

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson, Jim Carter, Philip Jackson

Synopsis: Economics and music are the twin focal points of this comedy/drama about a community in crisis. The small British town of Grimley has long been dominated by the coal mine where most of the men work, and the town's greatest source of pride is the Grimley Colliery Band, a brass ensemble that's won a Read More

1996
Gulliver's Travels

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Originally aired on the NBC network as a two-part miniseries, this all-star adventure is perhaps one of the most complete and faithful retellings of 18th-century author Jonathan Swift's epic social satire on film. Nine years after he set sail from England, a bedraggled, disoriented Dr. Lemuel Read More

1996
Kiss of Death

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: David Caruso, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Helen Hunt, Kathryn Erbe

Synopsis: A convict agrees to go undercover and gather evidence on a notorious crime lord in order to win an early release from prison in this tough, gritty crime drama. Much of the tension develops from the inner conflict of Jimmy Kilmartin (David Caruso), who feels torn between his desire to win freedom Read More

1995
Hideaway

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Christine Lahti, Alicia Silverstone, Jeremy Sisto, Alfred Molina, Rae Dawn Chong

Synopsis: A man has a near-death experience and awakens to find himself spiritually attached to another who went through a similar experience in this horror movie. The story is based on a Dean Koontz novel. Hatch Harrison, an antique dealer, finds himself in an extraordinary position following the car wreck Read More

1995
Richard III

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey, Jr., Nigel Hawthorne

Synopsis: Richard Loncraine takes Shakespeare's classic tale of treachery, Richard III, and transplants it to the 1930s. Ian McKellen is Richard who, as the film opens, begins plotting against his brother Edward, who has just ascended to the throne after a bloody civil war. Richard begins by seducing and Read More

1995
Loch Ness

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ted Danson, Joely Richardson, Ian Holm, Kirsty Graham, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: A scientist finds himself walking a fine line between reason and fantasy in this family-oriented drama. Dr. Jonathan Dempsey (Ted Danson) is an American scientist who has devoted his career to searching out the truth behind contemporary legends and psudeo-scientific phenomena like Bigfoot, which Read More

1995
The Last Place on Earth, Episode 7: Rejoice

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Conductor

1994
In the Name of the Father

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave

Synopsis: The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing that killed five in Guildford, England in 1974. After a brutal Read More

1993
Cliffhanger

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner, Rex Linn, Paul Winfield, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: In Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone plays Gabe Walker, a member of a mountain-climbing rescue team. Gabe is haunted by an incident from his past when he couldn't save the girlfriend of his best friend, Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker), from falling to her death. As the story begins, Gabe has left Read More

1993
Detonator

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Christopher Lee, Alexandra Paul, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: "They're the toughest anti-terrorist strike force in the world. But they've never faced an enemy like this." The "they" mentioned in the ad copy for Death Train are headed by Pierce Brosnan. The enemy is rogue Russian general Christopher Lee, who has stolen two nuclear bombs, intending to hold the Read More

1993
The Last of the Mohicans

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Director Michael Mann based this lushly romantic version of the James Fenimore Cooper novel more on his memory of the 1936 film version (starring Randolph Scott) than on Cooper's novel (in fact, Philip Dunne's 1936 screenplay is cited as source material for this film). Set in the 1750s during the Read More

9/25/92
Crisscross

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Arliss Howard, James Gammon, David Arnott, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: Goldie Hawn makes a change of pace in this downbeat drama about a mother' sacrifice for her family, and her son's attempts to save her from herself. When John Cross (Keith Carradine) returns home to Key West, Florida in 1969 after a tour of duty as a fighter pilot in Viet Nam, he's an emotionally Read More

5/8/92
Blame It on the Bellboy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Andreas Katsulas, Patsy Kensit

Synopsis: Brevity may be the soul of wit, but that doesn't make the 79-minute Blame It on the Bellboy any funnier. Orton (Dudley Moore) is an ambitious real estate agent. Horton (Richard Griffiths) is a middle-aged married man looking for extracurricular activity via a dating service. And Lawton (Bryan Brown Read More

3/6/92
Freejack

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Anthony Hopkins, Rene Russo, David Johansen, Jonathan Banks

Synopsis: Geoff Murphy directed this time-travel chase movie. Emilio Estevez stars as Alex Furlong, a racecar driver from 1991, who is just about to experience a deadly crash in his Formula Atlantic. But at the last moment Alex finds himself transported to the streets of New York in 2009. He is saved from Read More

1/17/92
Chains of Gold

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Travolta

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable actioner a good-hearted social worker embarks upon a one-man crusade to save Miami teens from getting further involved with a gang of crack dealers. The social worker does this in large part to ease his own guilt at having been responsible for the death of his own son back Read More

1992
Defenseless

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh, Kellie Overbey

Synopsis: In this suspense drama, a lawyer finds out more than she wanted to know about her friends and lovers. T.K. Katwuller (Barbara Hershey) is a lawyer with a firm command of her career but an unstable hold on her private life; she's more single than she'd like to be, and she's become romantically Read More

8/23/91
True Colors

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs, Mandy Patinkin, Richard Widmark

Synopsis: John Cusack and James Spader play against type in Kevin Wade's morality play, directed by Herbert Ross. Spader plays Tim Gerrity, a well-heeled WASP blueblood, who has dedicated his life to justice and public service. Engaged to Diana Stiles (Imogene Stubbs), the daughter of a powerful senator (Richard Widmark Read More

3/15/91
Murder by Moonlight

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this futuristic sci-fi political drama, the minerals of the moon are being exploited by both Russian and American mining companies. When a terrorist threatens an American mining company, a KGB agent teams up with a NASA investigator to stop them. The two agents are attracted to each other and Read More

1991
Diamond's Edge

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dursley McLinden, Colin Dale, Susannah York, Patricia Hodge, Roy Kinnear

Synopsis: Nick Diamond (Colin Dale) is a private detective hired by a South American midget to guard a box containing a rare treasure. When Nick is jailed, his kid brother Tim (Dursley McLinden) is called on to take the case. Tim dodges bullets and escapes from being bound and gagged while battling Read More

11/30/90
Arachnophobia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman, Julian Sands, Stuart Pankin

Synopsis: Referring to the fear of spiders, Arachnophobia features a particularly deadly species of spider that manages to make its way from the Venezuelan rain forest to a small California town, thanks to the many oversights of entomologist Julian Sands. Yuppie doctor Jeff Daniels, fed up with the dangers Read More

8/10/90
Bad Influence

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane, Christian Clemenson, Kathleen Wilhoite

Synopsis: Successful LA marketing analyst Michael Boll (James Spader) seemingly has it all-except a sense of self-confidence. Enigmatic drifter Alex (Rob Lowe) enters Michael's life and immediately begins to exert a negative influence. As Michael's self-esteem zooms (aided by generous dollops of sex and Read More

3/9/90
Sea of Love

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker, William Hickey

Synopsis: Sea of Love is a sexy, atmospheric thriller, very much in the style of Alfred Hitchcock, with involving characters, steamy love scenes, and surprising plot twists. Frank Keller (Al Pacino), is a lonely, tired, disillusioned, police detective, who has a problem with alcohol. Frank is investigating Read More

9/15/89
By Dawn's Early Light

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Soviet radicals upset with the thawing of the Cold War explode a nuclear weapon in Russia, setting off a series of events that may very well trigger World War III. The president (Martin Landau) has been isolated after a helicopter accident and must outwit government and military officials who are Read More

1989
Mississippi Burning

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the mysterious disappearances of the three activists are FBI agents Gene Hackman (older, wiser) and Willem Dafoe (younger, idealistic). A Southerner himself Read More

12/9/88
Dominick and Eugene

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Todd Graff, Mimi Cecchini

Synopsis: Dominick Luciano (Thomas Hulce) is the moderately retarded twin brother of highly intelligent young intern Eugene (Ray Liotta). Anxious to become a successful doctor, Eugene finds he must devote most of his time to caring for Dominick. For his part, Dominick has been contributing to the family Read More

3/18/88
Sweet Lies

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Treat Williams, Joanna Pacula, Julianne Phillips, Laura Manszky, Norbert Weisser

Synopsis: In this comedy, an American insurance investigator goes to Paris to prove that a crippled client's claim is utterly bogus. While there, the detective finds himself seduced by a pair of beautiful women. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
A Private Life

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bill Flynn, Jana Cilliers, Kevin Smith, Embeth Davidtz

Synopsis: This moving family drama is set in South Africa. It concerns an "interracial" marriage between a white policeman and a white-looking woman who is unable to document her racial heritage, and under apartheid this earns her the classification "colored." Since interracial marriages are illegal, the Read More

1988
Angel Heart

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu

Synopsis: The time is the 1950s: seedy Brooklyn private eye Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by shady Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to locate a pop singer who reneged on a debt. Harry ventures into Harlem, the first step of a Heart of Darkness-inspired odyssey. Each time Harry makes contact with someone Read More

3/6/87
Labyrinth

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Brian Henson, Shelley Thompson, Christopher Malcolm

Synopsis: George Lucas produced and Jim Henson directed this gothic fantasy which pits living and breathing actors Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie (who, along with Trevor Jones, provides the film's music) against a motley collection of Muppet monsters. The film centers upon teenage Sarah (Connelly), who Read More

6/27/86
Those Glory, Glory Days

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Zoe Nathenson, Julia Goodman, Julia McKenzie, Peter Tilbury, Sara Sugarman

Synopsis: This weak, self-conscious, made-for-TV comedy (one of producer David Puttnam's "First Love" series) is about four girlfriends who play soccer during their teen years and cheer on their favorite soccer players as well. The story begins with one of the four, the sports reporter Julia (Julia Read More

1/22/86
Runaway Train

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle Heffner, John Ryan

Synopsis: Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's second American film may well be the only existential adventure flick in Hollywood history. Two prisoners, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts), escape from a desolate Alaskan maximum-security facility. They hop aboard a speeding train, making a clean Read More

12/6/85
The Last Days of Pompeii

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This three-part, seven-hour TV adaptation of Edgar Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 best-seller The Last Days of Pompeii was arguably more faithful to its source than any of the earlier film versions -- and inarguably the most expensive version of all, boasting a 19,000,000-dollar budget and a truly Read More

1984
Aderyn Papur

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Love, Iola Gregory, John Ogwen, Robert E. Roberts, Llewelyn Jones

Synopsis: Robert Ginty plays an avaricious British lawyer who uses his wiles to keep a crooked union leader out of jail. For his trouble, Ginty is awarded one million pounds. It soon becomes obvious, however, that the union fully intends to get its money back by any means possible. Ginty must now do battle Read More

1984
... And Pigs Might Fly

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1984