John Barry
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- November 3, 1933
- Died
- January 30, 2011 (aged 77)
- Birthplace
- York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography
John Barry Prendergast OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music. He composed the scores for eleven of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, as well as arranging and performing the "James Bond Theme" for the first film in the series, 1962's Dr. No. He wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, as well as the scores of The Scarlet Letter; Chaplin; The Cotton Club; The Tamarind Seed; Mary, Queen of Scots; Game of Death; and the theme for the television series The Persuaders!, in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999, he was appointed with an OBE for services to music. Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his national service with the British Army in Cyprus, Barry began performing as a musician after learning to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed a band in 1957, the John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music, making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Noel Rogers, the head of music at United Artists, approached Barry. This started a successful association between Barry and the Bond series that lasted for 25 years. Barry received awards including five Academy Awards: two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter (for which he also won the first BAFTA Award for Best Film Music), Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa (both of which also won him Grammy Awards). He also received ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Original Score for Out of Africa in 1986. Barry completed his last film score, Enigma, in 2001 and recorded the successful album Eternal Echoes the same year. He then concentrated chiefly on live performances and co-wrote the music to the musical Brighton Rock in 2004 alongside Don Black. In 2001, Barry became a Fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and, in 2005, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Barry was married four times and had four children. He moved to the United States in 1975 and lived there until his death in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia page John Barry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
The Final Game of Death
Movie · Original Music Composer
Game of Death Redux
Movie · Music
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
Movie · Music
Enigma
Movie · Original Music Composer
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
Movie · Music
Playing by Heart
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
Swept from the Sea
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mercury Rising
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Scarlet Letter
Movie · Original Music Composer
Across the Sea of Time
Movie · Music
Cry, the Beloved Country
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Specialist
Movie · Original Music Composer
Indecent Proposal
Movie · Original Music Composer
My Life
Movie · Original Music Composer
Chaplin
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ruby Cairo
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dances with Wolves
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
Movie · Music
Masquerade
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Living Daylights
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hearts of Fire
Movie · Original Music Composer
Peggy Sue Got Married
Movie · Original Music Composer
Howard the Duck
Movie · Original Music Composer
Out of Africa
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
A View to a Kill
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Killing Affair
Movie · Original Music Composer
Jagged Edge
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Cotton Club
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mike's Murder
Movie · Original Music Composer
Until September
Movie · Original Music Composer
Octopussy
Movie · Original Music Composer
High Road to China
Movie · Original Music Composer
Svengali
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Golden Seal
Movie · Original Music Composer
Frances
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Murder by Phone
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hammett
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Man Who Saved the World
Movie · Music
Body Heat
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Movie · Original Music Composer
Somewhere in Time
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Touched by Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
Inside Moves
Movie · Original Music Composer
Night Games
Movie · Original Music Composer
Raise the Titanic
Movie · Original Music Composer
Moonraker
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Black Hole
Movie · Original Music Composer
Willa
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Corn Is Green
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hanover Street
Movie · Original Music Composer
Game of Death
Movie · Original Music Composer
Starcrash
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
The Betsy
Movie · Original Music Composer
The White Buffalo
Movie · Original Music Composer
First Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Deep
Movie · Original Music Composer
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Movie · Original Music Composer
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Movie · Original Music Composer
The War Between the Tates
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Gathering
Movie · Original Music Composer
King Kong
Movie · Original Music Composer
Robin and Marian
Movie · Original Music Composer
Love Among the Ruins
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Eleanor and Franklin
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
The Day of the Locust
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Man with the Golden Gun
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Dove
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Tamarind Seed
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mission: Monte Carlo
Movie · Theme Song Performance
Born Free
TV · Music · 13 eps
The Glass Menagerie
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Doll's House
Movie · Original Music Composer
Follow Me!
Movie · Original Music Composer
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
UFO: Annihilate SHADO... Kill Straker...
Movie · Music
Diamonds Are Forever
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Last Valley
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mary, Queen of Scots
Movie · Original Music Composer
Walkabout
Movie · Music, Conductor, Original Music Composer
They Might Be Giants
Movie · Original Music Composer
UFO: Red alert... Attack on Earth!
Movie · Music
UFO: Destroy Luna Base!
Movie · Music
Murphy's War
Movie · Music Supervisor
Monte Walsh
Movie · Original Music Composer
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Movie · Original Music Composer
Midnight Cowboy
Movie · Original Music Composer, Music Supervisor
The Appointment
Movie · Original Music Composer
Deadfall
Movie · Original Music Composer
Boom!
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Lion in Winter
Movie · Original Music Composer
Petulia
Movie · Original Music Composer
You Only Live Twice
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Whisperers
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Chase
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dutchman
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Quiller Memorandum
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
Born Free
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
The Wrong Box
Movie · Conductor, Music Arranger, Original Music Composer
Thunderball
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Ipcress File
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
King Rat
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Party's Over
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mister Moses
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Knack... and How to Get It
Movie · Original Music Composer
Four in the Morning
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Boy and Bicycle
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Newcomers
TV · Original Music Composer · 50 eps
Goldfinger
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Zulu
Movie · Original Music Composer
Man in the Middle
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Jolly Bad Fellow
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sophia Loren in Rome
Movie · Original Music Composer
From Russia with Love
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Elizabeth Taylor in London
Movie · Music
The Cool Mikado
Movie · Music Arranger
Dr. No
Movie · Music Arranger
The Amorous Prawn
Movie · Original Music Composer
The L-Shaped Room
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mix Me a Person
Movie · Original Music Composer
Never Let Go
Movie · Original Music Composer
Beat Girl
Movie · Original Music Composer