Elmer Bernstein
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- April 4, 1922
- Died
- August 18, 2004 (aged 82)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, and The Rookies. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Bernstein wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames. In 1961 Bernstein co-founded Äva Records an American record label based in Los Angeles together with Fred Astaire, Jackie Mills and Tommy Wolf.
Known For
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Filmography
Taking The Wheel
Movie · Music
Cape Fear
TV · Music · 10 eps
Torrente 4: Lethal crisis
Movie · Music
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Movie · Original Music Composer
Far from Heaven
Movie · Original Music Composer
Keeping the Faith
Movie · Original Music Composer
Chinese Coffee
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Storm in Summer
Movie · Music Producer
Wild Wild West
Movie · Original Music Composer
Imagining 'Heavy Metal'
Movie · Music
Bringing Out the Dead
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Deep End of the Ocean
Movie · Original Music Composer
Twilight
Movie · Original Music Composer
Puppies for Sale
Movie · Music
The Rainmaker
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hoodlum
Movie · Original Music Composer
Buddy
Movie · Original Music Composer
Bulletproof
Movie · Original Music Composer
Devil in a Blue Dress
Movie · Original Music Composer
Frankie Starlight
Movie · Original Music Composer
Canadian Bacon
Movie · Original Music Composer
Roommates
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Search and Destroy
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
TV · Original Music Composer · 3 eps
Mad Dog and Glory
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Age of Innocence
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Good Son
Movie · Original Music Composer
Lost in Yonkers
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Cemetery Club
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fallen Angels
TV · Main Title Theme Composer · 15 eps
The Babe
Movie · Original Music Composer
Oscar
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cape Fear
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
A Rage in Harlem
Movie · Original Music Composer
Rambling Rose
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Grifters
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Field
Movie · Original Music Composer
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Movie · Original Music Composer
Slipstream
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Good Mother
Movie · Original Music Composer
Funny Farm
Movie · Original Music Composer
Da
Movie · Original Music Composer
Leonard Part 6
Movie · Original Music Composer
Amazing Grace and Chuck
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
¡Three Amigos!
Movie · Original Music Composer
Legal Eagles
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Black Cauldron
Movie · Original Music Composer
Spies Like Us
Movie · Original Music Composer
Gulag
Movie · Original Music Composer
Prince Jack
Movie · Original Music Composer
Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ghostbusters
Movie · Original Music Composer
Trading Places
Movie · Original Music Composer
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Movie · Original Music Composer
Class
Movie · Original Music Composer
Michael Jackson's Thriller
Movie · Music
Airplane II: The Sequel
Movie · Original Music Composer
Five Days One Summer
Movie · Original Music Composer
Genocide
Movie · Music, Conductor
An American Werewolf in London
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Stripes
Movie · Original Music Composer
Heavy Metal
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Chosen
Movie · Original Music Composer
Honky Tonk Freeway
Movie · Original Music Composer
Going Ape!
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Blues Brothers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Airplane!
Movie · Original Music Composer
This Year's Blonde
Movie · Original Music Composer
Saturn 3
Movie · Original Music Composer
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
TV · Music · 2 eps
The Great Santini
Movie · Original Music Composer
Zulu Dawn
Movie · Original Music Composer
Meatballs
Movie · Original Music Composer
Charleston
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cezanne
Movie · Music
Bloodbrothers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Animal House
Movie · Original Music Composer
Little Women
TV · Music · 2 eps
Powers of Ten
Movie · Music
Calypso's Search for the Britannic
Movie · Music
Billy Jack Goes to Washington
Movie · Original Music Composer
The 3,000 Mile Chase
Movie · Original Music Composer
From Noon Till Three
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Shootist
Movie · Original Music Composer
Serpico: The Deadly Game
Movie · Music
The Incredible Sarah
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Movie · Original Music Composer
Report to the Commissioner
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Old Curiosity Shop
Movie · Original Music Composer
Metropolitan Overview
Movie · Music
Gold
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
McQ
Movie · Original Music Composer
Nightmare Honeymoon
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Trial of Billy Jack
Movie · Original Music Composer
Men of the Dragon
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cahill: United States Marshal
Movie · Original Music Composer
Nicholas Copernicus
Movie · Music
Incident on a Dark Street
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Computer Perspective
Movie · Music
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Rookies
Movie · Music
Big Jake
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Music
See No Evil
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctors' Wives
Movie · Original Music Composer
Appointment With Destiny: The Last Days of John Dillinger
Movie · Music
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Movie · Music
Appointment With Destiny
TV · Original Music Composer · 1 ep
Cannon for Cordoba
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Walk in the Spring Rain
Movie · Original Music Composer
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
True Grit
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
Midas Run
Movie · Original Music Composer
Tops
Movie · Music
The Gypsy Moths
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Bridge at Remagen
Movie · Original Music Composer
Where's Jack?
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe
Movie · Music
The Scalphunters
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Computer Glossary
Movie · Music
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Movie · Original Music Composer
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cast a Giant Shadow
Movie · Original Music Composer
Return of the Seven
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Silencers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hawaii
Movie · Original Music Composer
View from the People Wall
Movie · Music
The Sons of Katie Elder
Movie · Original Music Composer
IBM at the Fair
Movie · Music
Baby the Rain Must Fall
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Bold Men
Movie · Music Supervisor
7 Women
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Reward
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Smithsonian Institution
Movie · Music
The Hallelujah Trail
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Carpetbaggers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Four Days In November
Movie · Original Music Composer
The World of Henry Orient
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Great Escape
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hud
Movie · Original Music Composer
Love with the Proper Stranger
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Caretakers
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Making of the President 1960
Movie · Music
Kings of the Sun
Movie · Original Music Composer
Rampage
Movie · Original Music Composer
To Kill a Mockingbird
Movie · Original Music Composer
Birdman of Alcatraz
Movie · Original Music Composer
Walk on the Wild Side
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Songs
A Girl Named Tamiko
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Comancheros
Movie · Original Music Composer
Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem
Movie · Music
Summer and Smoke
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Young Doctors
Movie · Original Music Composer
2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers
Movie · Original Music Composer
By Love Possessed
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Magnificent Seven
Movie · Original Music Composer
An Introduction to Feedback
Movie · Music
The Fabulous Fifties
Movie · Original Music Composer
From the Terrace
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Rat Race
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Story on Page One
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Miracle
Movie · Original Music Composer
Desire Under the Elms
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Buccaneer
Movie · Original Music Composer
God's Little Acre
Movie · Original Music Composer
Saddle the Wind
Movie · Original Music Composer
Anna Lucasta
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
Kings Go Forth
Movie · Original Music Composer
Some Came Running
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sweet Smell of Success
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Tin Star
Movie · Original Music Composer
Toccata for Toy Trains
Movie · Music
Drango
Movie · Original Music Composer
Men in War
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Fear Strikes Out
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Information Machine
Movie · Music
The Naked Eye
Movie · Music
The Ten Commandments
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Man with the Golden Arm
Movie · Original Music Composer
Storm Fear
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Eternal Sea
Movie · Original Music Composer
The View from Pompey's Head
Movie · Original Music Composer
House: After Five Years of Living
Movie · Music
It's a Dog's Life
Movie · Original Music Composer
Make Haste to Live
Movie · Original Music Composer
Silent Raiders
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cat-Women of the Moon
Movie · Original Music Composer
Robot Monster
Movie · Original Music Composer
Never Wave at a WAC
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Communications Primer
Movie · Music
Miss Robin Crusoe
Movie · Original Music Composer
General Electric Theater
TV · Original Music Composer · 1 ep
Battles of Chief Pontiac
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sudden Fear
Movie · Original Music Composer
Boots Malone
Movie · Original Music Composer
Saturday's Hero
Movie · Original Music Composer