Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein ( BURN-steen; April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. For his work, he received an Academy Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and a Primetime Emmy Award. He also received seven Golden Globe Awards, five Grammy Awards, and two Tony Award nominations. He composed and arranged scores for over 100 film scores, including Sudden Fear (1952), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Ten Commandments (1956), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The World of Henry Orient (1964), The Great Escape (1963), Hud (1963), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), True Grit (1969), My Left Foot (1989), The Grifters (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Twilight (1998), and Far from Heaven (2002). He is known for his work on the comedic films Animal House (1978), Meatballs (1979), Airplane! (1980), The Blues Brothers (1980), Stripes (1981), Trading Places (1983), Ghostbusters (1984), Spies Like Us (1985), and Three Amigos (1986). He also worked on frequent collaborations with directors Martin Scorsese, Robert Mulligan, John Landis, Ivan Reitman, John Sturges, Bill Duke, George Roy Hill, Richard Fleischer, John Frankenheimer, and Henry Hathaway.
Genre: soundtrack, classic-soundtrack
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Top Tracks
- Main Title
- Main Title
- At First Glance
- Suite - From "Airplane!"
- Tonight We X
- Rooster Cogburn - From "True Grit"
- The Age Of Innocence: Zeit der Unschuld
- Finale
- At First Glance
- The Cast
- Home Again
- Hilts Captured
- The Chase
- On The Road
- At The Station
- Escape Time
- Various Troubles
- Cooler
- If At Once
- Premature Plans
Albums (41)
- The Golden Age of Science Fiction, Vol. 3 (2024)
- Remastered Classics: The Ten Commandments (2022)
- Elmer Bernstein - Two Original Soundtrack Albums; 'The Ten Commandmends' & 'Men At War' (2022)
- Elmer Bernstein - Two Original Soundtrack Albums; 'The General Electric Theatre' & 'Drango' (2022)
- Elmer Bernstein - Two Original Soundtrack Albums; 'The Buccaneer' & 'Kings Go Forth' (2022)
- Elmer Bernstein - Two Original Soundtrack Albums; 'Staccato' & 'Blues And Brass' (2022)
- Elmer Bernstein - Two Original Soundtrack Albums; 'God's Little Acre' & 'Film Music Singles' (2022)
- Elmer Bernstein - Two Original Soundtrack Albums; 'Desire Under The Elms' & 'Paris Swings' (2022)
- Two Original Soundtrack Albums; 'Summer and Smoke' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (2022)
- Two Original Soundtrack Albums; 'On the Wild Side' and 'The Man With the Golden Arm' (2022)
- Two Original Soundtrack Albums; 'Love Scene' and 'Movie And TV Themes' (2022)
- Stripes (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2021)
- Kings of the Sun - Original Soundtrack (2021)
- Wild Wild West (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / Deluxe Edition) (2021)
- The Great Escape (Complete Original Soundtrack, Vol. 1) (2021)
- The Legendary Elmer Bernstein (2021)
- Sweet Smell of Success (Original Soundtrack) (2021)
- Elmer Bernstein The Great Escape 1963 (2021)
- Music from the Motion Picture Composed and Conducted by Elmer Bernstein the Man with the Golden Arm (2020)
- Ghostbusters (Original Motion Picture Score) (2019)
- The Classic Soundtrack Collection (2018)
- The Ten Commandments (1956 Film Score) (2018)
- Spellbound by Miklos Rozsa (2018)
- Midas Run and House (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks) (2018)
- Themes from the General Electric Theatre (2018)
- The Comancheros (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2017)
- Sweet Smell of Success (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2017)
- Saddle the Wind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2017)
- Walk on the Wild Side (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2016)
- The Sweet Smell of Success (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2016)
- Zulu Dawn (2015)
- The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges's Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2015)
- The Rat Race (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2014)
- To Kill a Mocking Bird (2014)
- Desire under the Elms (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2014)
- Laurette (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2014)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Original Soundtrack Plus Bonus Tracks) (2014)
- The Tin Star (Original Soundtrack Plus Bonus Tracks 1957) (2014)
- The Ten Commandments (2014)
- The Magnificent Seven (Original Soundtrack Plus Bonus Tracks 1960) (2014)
- Saddle the Wind (1958 Film Score) (2013)
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