Mark Orton

Mark Orton

Known for
Sound
Born
January 1, 1968 (age 58)
Birthplace
USA

Biography

Mark Orton is a composer working in the mediums of film scoring, concert music, and radio drama. He is both a multi-instrumentalist and a collector of antique and unusual instruments, performing on all manner (and era) of guitars, keyboards, and percussion. Mark is the co-founder of Tin Hat, an internationally renowned composer/improviser collective with seven critically acclaimed albums. He has written scores for dozens of films – documentary, narrative feature, and fine art – and has composed music for modern dance, theater, experimental radio, video/art installation, the circus, and the concert hall.

Known For

Filmography

2026
A Simple Machine poster

A Simple Machine

Movie · Music

2026
Miss You, Love You poster

Miss You, Love You

Movie · Original Music Composer

2026
All We Do Is Watch Movies poster

All We Do Is Watch Movies

Movie · Music

2025
On Swift Horses poster

On Swift Horses

Movie · Original Music Composer

2025
Fields of Devotion

Fields of Devotion

Movie · Music

2023
The Holdovers poster

The Holdovers

Movie · Original Music Composer

2023
Somewhere in Queens poster

Somewhere in Queens

Movie · Original Music Composer

2023
Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators poster

Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators

TV · Original Music Composer · 5 eps

2022
Ninety-Five Senses poster

Ninety-Five Senses

Movie · Music

2022
Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp poster

Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp

Movie · Original Music Composer

2021
12 Mighty Orphans poster

12 Mighty Orphans

Movie · Original Music Composer

2021
Love Hard poster

Love Hard

Movie · Original Music Composer

2020
Jump the Fence poster

Jump the Fence

Movie · Music

2020
The 11th Green poster

The 11th Green

Movie · Original Music Composer

2020
Elsewhere poster

Elsewhere

Movie · Music

2020
The Last Shift poster

The Last Shift

Movie · Music

2020
Loop poster

Loop

Movie · Music

2019
Sunset over Mulholland Drive poster

Sunset over Mulholland Drive

Movie · Music

2019
Use Me poster

Use Me

Movie · Music

2018
A Place in Hell poster

A Place in Hell

Movie · Original Music Composer

2017
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train poster

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

Movie · Original Music Composer

2017
Unleashed poster

Unleashed

Movie · Original Music Composer

2017
The Lears poster

The Lears

Movie · Original Music Composer

2017
So Much Yellow poster

So Much Yellow

Movie · Original Music Composer

2016
Heartland poster

Heartland

Movie · Music

2015
People, Places, Things poster

People, Places, Things

Movie · Original Music Composer

2015
Pawn Sacrifice poster

Pawn Sacrifice

Movie · Orchestrator

2014
La sedia della felicità poster

La sedia della felicità

Movie · Music

2014
My Old Lady poster

My Old Lady

Movie · Music, Original Music Composer

2014
Drunktown's Finest poster

Drunktown's Finest

Movie · Original Music Composer

2013
A Tangled Tale poster

A Tangled Tale

Movie · Music

2013
Nebraska poster

Nebraska

Movie · Original Music Composer

2013
Felix Austria! poster

Felix Austria!

Movie · Music

2012
The Revisionaries poster

The Revisionaries

Movie · Music

2012
360 poster

360

Movie · Original Music Composer

2011
Flat Daddy

Flat Daddy

Movie · Music

2008
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond poster

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

Movie · Music

2006
Comrades in Dreams

Comrades in Dreams

Movie · Music

2005
Sweet Land poster

Sweet Land

Movie · Music

2002
The Good Girl poster

The Good Girl

Movie · Original Music Composer