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Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 - 18 August, 2004) was an Academy and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
  composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

The Ten Commandments is a 1956 in film Film that dramatized the story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrews Slavery....
, The Man with the Golden Arm
The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a morphine addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world....
, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 in film American western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen protecting a Mexican village from bandits....
, and To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....
.

stein was born in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 on April 4, 1922. Although not in any way related to the celebrated composer and conductor, Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
, there was a slight facial similarity between the two men and, within the world of professional music, they were distinguished from each other by the use of the nicknames, Bernstein West (Elmer) and Bernstein East (Leonard).






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Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 - 18 August, 2004) was an Academy and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
  composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

The Ten Commandments is a 1956 in film Film that dramatized the story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrews Slavery....
, The Man with the Golden Arm
The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a morphine addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world....
, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 in film American western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen protecting a Mexican village from bandits....
, and To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....
.

Youth

Bernstein was born in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 on April 4, 1922. Although not in any way related to the celebrated composer and conductor, Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
, there was a slight facial similarity between the two men and, within the world of professional music, they were distinguished from each other by the use of the nicknames, Bernstein West (Elmer) and Bernstein East (Leonard). During his childhood he performed professionally as a dancer and an actor, in the latter case playing the part of Caliban in The Tempest on Broadway and he also won several prizes for his painting.Throughout his life, he demonstrated an enthusiasm for an even wider spectrum of the arts than his childhood interests would imply and, in 1959, when he was scoring The Story on Page One
The Story on Page One (film)

The Story on Page One is a 1959 in film Drama directed by Clifford Odets, starring Anthony Franciosa, Rita Hayworth and Gig Young. Josephine Morris is accused of murdering her husband Mike, in conspiracy with Larry Ellis ....
, he considered becoming a novelist and asked the film's screenwriter, Clifford Odets
Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets was an United States playwright, screenwriter, socialist, and social protester....
, to give him lessons in writing fiction. He gravitated toward music by his own choice at the age of twelve, at which time he was given a scholarship in piano by Henriette Michelson, a Juilliard teacher who guided him throughout his entire career as a pianist. She took him to play some of his improvisations for composer Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
. Copland was encouraging and selected Israel Citkowitz as a teacher for the young boy. Bernstein's music has some stylistic similarities to Copland's music, most notably in his western scores and in his spirited score for the 1958 film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's novel, God's Little Acre
God's Little Acre

God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell, which was made into God's Little Acre in 1958.The novel was so controversial that a literary board in New York attempted to censor it, leading to the author's arrest and trial for obscenity....
.

Background

He wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 in film American western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen protecting a Mexican village from bandits....
, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

The Ten Commandments is a 1956 in film Film that dramatized the story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrews Slavery....
 (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm
The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a morphine addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world....
, To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....
, Robot Monster
Robot Monster

Robot Monster is a 1953 in film science fiction B-movie made in 3-d film by Phil Tucker. Like the more famous "Plan 9 from Outer Space" it is known in bad-film fandom for being "so bad, it's good" and has the dubious honor of being considered one of the "Worst films ever"....
, Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is a 1984 in film comedy film about three eccentric New York City parapsychology-turned-ghost exterminators. The film was released in the United States on June 8, 1984....
 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
Marlboro (cigarette)

Marlboro is a brand of cigaretteMarlboro is a brand of cigarette made by Philip Morris USA within the US, and by Philip Morris International outside the US....
 cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames.

Broadway

In addition to his film music, Bernstein wrote the scores for two Broadway musicals: How Now, Dow Jones
How Now, Dow Jones

How Now, Dow Jones is a Broadway theatre Musical theatre comedy. From an original concept by Carolyn Leigh, the Libretto was written by Max Shulman, the lyrics by Leigh herself, and the music by Elmer Bernstein....
 in 1968 and Merlin
Merlin (musical)

Merlin was a musical theatre based on a concept by popular illusionist Doug Henning and Barbara De Angelis, written by Richard Levinson and William Link, with music written by Elmer Bernstein and lyrics by Don Black ....
 in 1983.

Politics

Along with many in Hollywood, Bernstein faced censure during the McCarthy era
Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an United States politician who served as a Republican Party United States Senate from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957....
 of the 1950s. He was "gray-listed" (not banned, but kept off major projects) due to sympathy with left-wing causes, and had to work on low-budget science fiction films such as Robot Monster
Robot Monster

Robot Monster is a 1953 in film science fiction B-movie made in 3-d film by Phil Tucker. Like the more famous "Plan 9 from Outer Space" it is known in bad-film fandom for being "so bad, it's good" and has the dubious honor of being considered one of the "Worst films ever"....
 and Cat-Women of the Moon
Cat-Women of the Moon

Cat-Women of the Moon is a 1953 science fiction film 3-D film directed by Arthur Hilton. It stars Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory and Marie Windsor....
.

Comedies

John Landis
John Landis

John David Landis is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and Film producer. He is widely known for his influential Comedy film and his music videos with singer Michael Jackson; Landis has also done many Horror film projects....
 grew up near Bernstein, and befriended him through his children. Years later, he requested Bernstein do the music for National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 in film comedy film directed by John Landis. The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine based on his experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College, as well as Ramis's e...
, over the studio's objections. He explained to Bernstein that he thought that Bernstein's score, playing it straight as if the comedic Delta frat characters were actual heroes, would emphasize the comedy further. Bernstein accepted the job, and it sparked a second wave in his career, where he continued to do high-profile comedies such as Airplane!
Airplane!

Airplane! is a Cinema of the United States comedy film directed and written by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson....
, as well as most of Landis's films for the next 15 years.

Cape Fear

When Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
 announced that he was re-making Cape Fear
Cape Fear (1962 film)

Cape Fear is a 1961 in film film about an attorney whose family is stalked by a criminal whom he helped to send to jail. It stars Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum as Max Cady, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas, Paul Comi and Barrie Chase....
, he requested Bernstein do the job of adapting Bernard Hermann's original score to the new film. Bernstein leapt at the opportunity to work with Scorsese, and to pay homage to Hermann; Scorsese and Bernstein subsequently worked together on two more films in the 1990s.

Awards

Bernstein was recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Hollywood Foreign Press Association is an organization comprising journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside of the United States....
 with Golden Globes for his scores for To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....
 and Hawaii
Hawaii (film)

Hawaii is a 1966 in film United States motion picture based on the novel of the Hawaii by James A. Michener. It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student who, along with his new bride , becomes a Calvinism missionary in the Hawaiian Islands....
. In 1963 he was awarded the Emmy for Excellence in Television for his score of The Making of The President, 1960. He is the recipient of Western Heritage Awards for The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 in film American western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen protecting a Mexican village from bandits....
 (1960) and The Hallelujah Trail
The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 Western spoof directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Brian Keith, Donald Pleasence, and Martin Landau, amongst others....
 (1965). He received five Grammy nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences

The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. is known variously as The Recording Academy or NARAS. Established in 1957, it is a U.S....
 and garnered two of Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
's coveted Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
 nominations for How Now Dow Jones and Merlin
Merlin (musical)

Merlin was a musical theatre based on a concept by popular illusionist Doug Henning and Barbara De Angelis, written by Richard Levinson and William Link, with music written by Elmer Bernstein and lyrics by Don Black ....
.

Additional honors included Lifetime achievement awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), The Society for the Preservation of Film Music, the USA, Woodstock, Santa Barbara, Newport Beach and Flanders International Film Festivals and the Foundation for a Creative America. In 1996, Bernstein was honored with a star on Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard is a boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, beginning at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue, where it straightens out and runs due west to Laurel Canyon Boulevard....
. In 1999, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Five Towns College
Five Towns College

Five Towns College is a for-profit colleges institution of higher learning located in Dix Hills, New York, Long Island, New York . Founded as a business school in 1972 by Stanley_G._Cohen, Ed.D....
 in New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 and was honored by the American Film Institute
American Film Institute

The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B....
 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
. Bernstein again was honored by ASCAP with its marquee Founders Award in 2001, and with the NARAS Governors Award in June 2004. He received 14 Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 nominations, nominated at least once per decade from the 1950s thru 2000s, but his only win was for Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie

This article is about the 1967 film. For the Broadway musical, see Thoroughly Modern Millie .Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 in film musical film comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, John Gavin, Carol Channing, Beatrice Lillie , Pat Morita and Jack Soo....
.

Death

Bernstein died of cancer in his sleep, at his home in Ojai, California
Ojai, California

For the airport in Amman, Jordan with the ICAO code: OJAI, see: Queen Alia International Airport.Ojai is a city in Ventura County, California, California, United States....
, on August 18, 2004.

Partial filmography

  • Gangs of New York
    Gangs of New York

    Gangs of New York is a 2002 in film USA historical film crime film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points, Manhattan district of New York City....
     (rejected) (2002)
  • Far from Heaven
    Far from Heaven

    Far from Heaven is a 2002 film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Ryan Ward, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson....
     (2002)
  • Rat Race
    Rat Race

    A rat race is a term used for an endless, self-defeating or pointless pursuit. It conjures up the image of the futile efforts of a lab rat trying to escape whilst running around a maze or in a wheel....
     (rejected) (2001)
  • Bringing out the Dead
    Bringing Out the Dead

    Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 in film English language film directed by Martin Scorsese, and based on the novel by Joe Connelly . The film stars Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, Tom Sizemore and Patricia Arquette....
     (1999)
  • Wild Wild West
    Wild Wild West

    Wild Wild West is a science fiction Action_film#Sub-genres directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline , Kenneth Branagh and Salma Hayek....
     (1999)
  • The Deep End of the Ocean
    The Deep End of the Ocean (film)

    The Deep End of the Ocean is a 1999 in film film adaption of the The Deep End of the Ocean written by Jacquelyn Mitchard, which stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Treat Williams with Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Jackson and Ryan Merriman in his first feature film role....
     (1999)
  • Hoodlum (1997)
  • The Rainmaker
    The Rainmaker (1997 film)

    The Rainmaker is a 1997 in film American motion picture directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the 1995 in literature The Rainmaker by John Grisham....
     (1997)
  • Last Man Standing
    Last Man Standing (film)

    Last Man Standing is a 1996 in film action film written and directed by Walter Hill , starring Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, and Bruce Dern....
     (rejected) (1996)
  • Frankie Starlight (1995)
  • The Scarlet Letter
    The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)

    The Scarlet Letter is the 1995 film version of the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, The Scarlet Letter. It was directed by Roland Joff? and stars Gary Oldman and Demi Moore....
     (rejected) (1997)
  • Devil in a Blue Dress
    Devil in a Blue Dress (film)

    Devil in a Blue Dress is an United States neo-noir film directed by Carl Franklin and cinematography by Tak Fujimoto.The motion picture was based on the novel of the same name written by Walter Mosley, who was brought in to help produce the film....
     (1995)
  • Canadian Bacon
    Canadian Bacon (film)

    Canadian Bacon is a 1995 comedy/satire, and the only fictional film written, directed and produced by Michael Moore. It was the last film released to star John Candy, although it was filmed before Wagons East!....
     (1995)
  • I Love Trouble
    I Love Trouble

    I Love Trouble is a 1994 romantic comedy film starring Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts. It was written by husband-and-wife team Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, and directed by Shyer....
     (rejected) (1994)
  • The Age of Innocence
    The Age of Innocence (film)

    The Age of Innocence is a 1993 in film film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder, released by Columbia Pictures....
     (1993)
  • Lost in Yonkers
    Lost in Yonkers

    Lost in Yonkers is a 1991 play by Neil Simon. After eleven Preview , the Broadway theatre production, directed by Gene Saks, opened on February 21 1991 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 780 performances....
     (1993)
  • Mad Dog and Glory
    Mad Dog and Glory

    Mad Dog and Glory is a 1993 in film written by Richard Price and directed by John McNaughton. It stars Robert De Niro as a Chicago, Illinois Forensics , Uma Thurman as bartender "Glory" , and Bill Murray as Glory's boss, who identifies himself as both an "expediter of dreams" and a member of Cosa Nostra....
     (1993)
  • A River Runs Through It
    A River Runs Through It (film)

    A River Runs Through It is a 1992 in film United States of America film directed by Robert Redford and starring Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, and Emily Lloyd....
     (rejected) (1992)
  • Cape Fear
    Cape Fear (1991 film)

    Cape Fear is a 1991 in film thriller film, directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a remake of the Cape Fear and tells the story of a family man, a former public defender, whose family is threatened by a convicted rapist who wants vengeance for having been imprisoned for 14 years because of the lawyer's purposefully faulty legal defense tact...
     (adaptation) (1991)
  • Rambling Rose
    Rambling Rose (film)

    Rambling Rose is a 1991 film set in 1930s Georgia starring Laura Dern and Diane Ladd. Ladd and Dern in real life are mother and daughter, and both earned Academy Award nominations for their performances in this film....
     (1991)
  • A Rage in Harlem (1991)
  • Oscar
    Oscar (1991 film)

    Oscar is a 1991 in film comedy film directed by John Landis. A remake of the Oscar , the story is set in Great Depression New York and centers around a mob boss trying to go straight....
     (1991)
  • Murder in Mississippi
    Murder in Mississippi

    Murder in Mississippi was a 1990 television movie which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder in the Freedom Summer....
     (rejected) (1990)
  • The Grifters
    The Grifters (film)

    The Grifters is a 1990 neo-noir film directed by Stephen Frears and produced by Martin Scorsese. It is based upon The Grifters, a pulp novel by Jim Thompson ....
     (1990)
  • My Left Foot
    My Left Foot (film)

    My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 in film drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It tells the story of Christy Brown, an Ireland born with cerebral palsy, who could only control his left foot....
     (1989)
  • Trust Me
    Trust Me (film)

    Trust Me is a 2006 film written and directed by Andrew Kazamia.Trust Me is produced by Quadriga Productions and stars Enn Reitel, Tony Curran, Craig Ferguson, and Shelley Long....
     (rejected) (1989)
  • Slipstream
    Slipstream (1989 film)

    Slipstream is a 1989 in film Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction science fiction film adventure film film. The plot has an emphasis on aviation and contains many common sci-fi themes, such as taking place in a dystopian future in which the landscape of the Earth itself has been changed and is windswept by storms of great power....
     (1989)
  • Stars and Bars
    Stars and Bars (film)

    Stars and Bars is an United States comedy film released in 1988 in film, directed by Pat O'Connor and based on a book by William Boyd . The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Henderson Dores....
     (rejected) (1988)
  • A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
    A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon

    A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon is a 1988 in film film about a high school graduate who must find out if he wants to go to business school at the request of his father or go his own way and get a full time job....
     (rejected) (1988)
  • Funny Farm
    Funny Farm (film)

    Funny Farm is a 1988 film directed by George Roy Hill, starring Chevy Chase and Madolyn Smith Osborne. The film was Film adaptation from a 1985 Funny Farm by Jay Cronley....
     (1988)
  • Good Mother (1988)
  • Da
    Da (film)

    Da is a film directed by Matt Clark and starring Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes, reprising his Tony Award-winning Broadway performance, and William Hickey ....
     (1988)
  • ˇThree Amigos! (1986)
  • Legal Eagles
    Legal Eagles

    Legal Eagles is a 1986 in film crime film comedy-drama written and directed by Ivan Reitman, and starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger, and Daryl Hannah....
     (1986)
  • National Geographic Explorer
    National Geographic Society

    The National Geographic Society , headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world....
     (1985) TV series (theme)
  • The Black Cauldron
    The Black Cauldron (film)

    The Black Cauldron is the twenty-fifth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and originally released to theatres on July 24, 1985 by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution....
     (1985) Disney Animation
  • The Journey of Natty Gann
    The Journey of Natty Gann

    The Journey of Natty Gann is an United States movie that was released in 1985 and directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan.Set in 1935, the movie tells the story of a young woman, Natty Gann ....
     (rejected) (1985)
  • Spies Like Us
    Spies Like Us

    Spies Like Us is the name of a 1985 in film comedy film directed by John Landis, starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest , and Donna Dixon....
     (1985)
  • Bolero
    Bolero (1984 film)

    Bolero is a 1984 in film film starring Bo Derek, and written and directed by her husband John Derek. The film centers on the protagonist's sexual awakening and her journey around the world to pursue an ideal first lover who will take her virginity....
     (1984)
  • Ghostbusters
    Ghostbusters

    Ghostbusters is a 1984 in film comedy film about three eccentric New York City parapsychology-turned-ghost exterminators. The film was released in the United States on June 8, 1984....
     (1984)
  • Thriller
    Thriller (music video)

    Michael Jackson's Thriller is a 14-minute music video for Thriller released on December 2, 1983 and directed by John Landis who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jackson....
     (1983) (music video)
  • Class
    Class (film)

    Class is a 1983 United States film that was directed by Lewis Carlino....
     (1983)
  • Trading Places
    Trading Places

    Trading Places is an Academy Award-nominated 1983 in film comedy film starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. It was directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod....
     (1983)
  • Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
    Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

    Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone is a 1983 pulp, action-comedy, science fiction film. The movie stars Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Andrea Marcovicci, and Michael Ironside....
     (1983)
  • Airplane II: The Sequel
    Airplane II: The Sequel

    Airplane II: The Sequel is an United States comedy film sequel to the 1980 in film film Airplane! First released on December 10, 1982, the film was written and directed by Ken Finkleman and stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, William Shatner, Rip Torn, and Sonny Bono....
     (Themes) (1982)
  • Heavy Metal
    Heavy Metal (film)

    Heavy Metal is a Canada animated film from executive producer Leonard Mogel, who was also the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine. With Ivan Reitman producing and Gerald Potterton directing, the work was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments, including Cin?Groupe and Atkinson Film-Ar...
     (1981)
  • Honky Tonk Freeway
    Honky Tonk Freeway

    Honky Tonk Freeway is a comedy film, released in August 1981 by Universal Studios. The film's plot centers around the residents of a small, fictional Florida tourist town named Ticlaw, as they react to news that a new highway being constructed near their town will not include an exit for them ....
     (1981)
  • The Chosen (1981)
  • An American Werewolf in London
    An American Werewolf in London

    An American Werewolf in London is a Cinema of the United States-Cinema of the United Kingdom comedy film/horror film, screenwriter and film director by John Landis....
     (1981)
  • Stripes
    Stripes (film)

    Stripes is a 1981 in film United States comedy film film starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, and P.J. Soles. The film director was Ivan Reitman....
     (1981)
  • Airplane!
    Airplane!

    Airplane! is a Cinema of the United States comedy film directed and written by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson....
     (1980)
  • The Blues Brothers
    The Blues Brothers (film)

    The Blues Brothers is a 1980 in film musical film comedy film directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a "Saturday Night Live" musical sketch....
     (1980)
  • Saturn 3
    Saturn 3

    Saturn 3 is a 1980 science fiction film starring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel. Direction is credited to Stanley Donen but the project was conceived by John Barry who was due to direct until a dispute with Douglas led to his being fired....
     (1980)
  • Zulu Dawn
    Zulu Dawn

    Zulu Dawn is a 1979 1979 in literature and war film about the Battle of Isandlwana between British Empire and Zulu military units in 1879 in South Africa....
     (1979)
  • The Great Santini
    The Great Santini

    The Great Santini is a 1979 film which tells the story of a highly successful United States Marine Corps officer whose success as a military aviator contrasts with his shortcomings as a husband and father....
     (1979)
  • Meatballs
    Meatballs (film)

    Meatballs is a 1979 in film Cinema of Canada comedy film. It was the first film appearance of Bill Murray in a starring role and, though not his first film, launched Ivan Reitman into a career of light comedies....
     (1979)
  • Casey's Shadow (rejected) (1978)
  • National Lampoon's Animal House
    National Lampoon's Animal House

    National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 in film comedy film directed by John Landis. The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine based on his experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College, as well as Ramis's e...
     (1978)
  • Powers of Ten
    Powers of Ten

    Powers of Ten is a 1977 short documentary film written and directed by Ray Eames and her husband, Charles Eames. The film depicts the relative Scale of the Universe in factors of ten ....
     (1977)
  • Once an Eagle
    Once an Eagle

    Once an Eagle is a nine hour United States television mini-series directed by Richard Michaels and E.W. Swackhamer.The picture was written by Peter S....
     (1976) TV miniseries (theme)
  • The Shootist
    The Shootist

    The Shootist is a novel written by Glendon Swarthout and published in 1975 in literature.The book was made into a 1976 in film Western film directed by Don Siegel and is noted as being the final film role of actor John Wayne....
     (1976)
  • Ellery Queen
    Ellery Queen (TV series)

    Ellery Queen was an American television Mystery fiction series that ran for one season from 1975 to 1976 on NBC. It starred Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, and David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen....
     (1975) TV series
  • McQ
    McQ

    McQ is a 1974 in film crime film starring John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, and Colleen Dewhurst. The film made extensive use of actual Seattle, Washington locations....
     (1974)
  • Cahill U.S. Marshal
    Cahill U.S. Marshal

    Cahill U.S. Marshal is a 1973 American Western film starring John Wayne as a driven lawman in a black hat. The movie was directed by Andrew V....
     (1973)
  • The Rookies
    The Rookies

    The Rookies is an United States Police procedural that aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department ....
     (1972) (TV)
  • The Liberation of L.B. Jones
    The Liberation of L.B. Jones

    The Liberation of L.B. Jones is a 1970 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler, his final project in a career that spanned forty-five years....
     (1970)
  • The Gypsy Moths
    The Gypsy Moths

    The Gypsy Moths is a 1969 American film starring Burt Lancaster, based on the novel of the same name by James Drought. It is the story of three barnstorming skydivers and their effect on a Midwestern United States town....
     (1969)
  • The Bridge at Remagen
    The Bridge at Remagen

    The Bridge at Remagen is a war film released in 1969, directed by John Guillerminand starring George Segal, Ben Gazzara and Robert Vaughn. The film is based on the book...
     (1969)
  • Guns of the Magnificent Seven
    Guns of the Magnificent Seven

    Guns of the Magnificent Seven is the second sequel to the 1960 Western film, The Magnificent Seven .It was directed by Paul Wendkos and stars George Kennedy as Chris Adams, the character Yul Brynner portrayed in the first two films....
     (1969)
  • True Grit
    True Grit

    True Grit is a 1969 in film Western directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne as United States Marshals Service Rooster Cogburn . The film is adapted from the 1968 novel, True Grit , by Charles Portis....
     (1969)
  • I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
    I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

    I Love You, Alice B. Toklas is a 1968 comedy film starring Peter Sellers, directed by Hy Averback and featuring music by Harpers Bizarre. The film is set in the counterculture of the 1960s....
     (1968)
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie
    Thoroughly Modern Millie

    This article is about the 1967 film. For the Broadway musical, see Thoroughly Modern Millie .Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 in film musical film comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, John Gavin, Carol Channing, Beatrice Lillie , Pat Morita and Jack Soo....
     (1967)
  • Return of the Seven
    Return of the Seven

    Return of the Seven , is the first sequel to the 1960 Western , The Magnificent Seven. Made in 1966, Yul Brynner is the sole returning cast member from the first film, portraying Chris Adams....
     (1966)
  • Hawaii (film)
    Hawaii (film)

    Hawaii is a 1966 in film United States motion picture based on the novel of the Hawaii by James A. Michener. It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student who, along with his new bride , becomes a Calvinism missionary in the Hawaiian Islands....
     (1966)
  • The Silencers (film)
    The Silencers (film)

    The Silencers is the title of an United States secret agent comedy motion picture produced in 1966 and starring Dean Martin as agent Matt Helm....
     (1966)
  • The Big Valley
    The Big Valley

    The Big Valley is an American television series Western fiction which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1965 to 1969. It was created by A.I....
     (1965) TV Series
  • The Sons of Katie Elder
    The Sons of Katie Elder

    The Sons of Katie Elder is a 1965 in film Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne and Dean Martin. The film was released by Paramount Pictures....
     (1965)
  • The Hallelujah Trail
    The Hallelujah Trail

    The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 Western spoof directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Brian Keith, Donald Pleasence, and Martin Landau, amongst others....
  • Baby the Rain Must Fall
    Baby the Rain Must Fall

    Baby the Rain Must Fall is a 1965 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Horton Foote is based on his play The Travelling Lady....
     (1965)
  • National Geographic Specials
    National Geographic Society

    The National Geographic Society , headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world....
     (1964) TV series
  • The Carpetbaggers
    The Carpetbaggers

    The Carpetbaggers is the title of a 1961 bestselling novel by Harold Robbins, which was adapted into a The Carpetbaggers .The term "carpetbagger" has the generic meaning of a presumptuous newcomer who enters a new territory seeking success....
     (1964)
  • The World of Henry Orient
    The World of Henry Orient

    The World of Henry Orient is a 1964 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Nora Johnson. It was directed by George Roy Hill and stars Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth, Phyllis Thaxter, Bibi Osterwald, and Tom Bosley....
     (1964)
  • The Great Escape (1963)
  • Hud
    Hud (film)

    Hud is a 1963 film which tells the story of a self-centered, modern-day cowboy. It stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde and Whit Bissell....
     (1963)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
    To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

    To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....
     (1962)
  • Walk on the Wild Side
    Walk on the Wild Side

    "Walk on the Wild Side" is a Lou Reed song from his 1972 second solo album Transformer . It was produced by David Bowie, who also sang backing vocals....
     (1962)
  • Birdman of Alcatraz
    Birdman of Alcatraz (film)

    Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a fictionalized version of the life of Robert Stroud, a federal prison inmate known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" because of his life with birds....
     (1962)
  • The Comancheros
    The Comancheros

    The Comancheros is a 1961 in film western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring John Wayne and Stuart Whitman. When health troubles prevented Curtiz from finishing the film, Wayne directed the remainder of the movie, though his role remained uncredited....
     (1961)
  • The Young Doctors
    The Young Doctors (film)

    The Young Doctors is a 1961 film starring Ben Gazzara, Fredric March, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert, Phyllis Love, Aline MacMahon, George Segal and Dolph Sweet....
     (1961)
  • Summer and Smoke
    Summer and Smoke (film)

    Summer and Smoke is a drama film directed by Peter Glenville and was based on the play of the Summer and Smoke.It starred Laurence Harvey and Geraldine Page with Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire, Thomas Gomez, Pamela Tiffin, Malcolm Atterbury, Lee Patrick and Earl Holliman....
     (1961)
  • The Magnificent Seven
    The Magnificent Seven

    The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 in film American western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen protecting a Mexican village from bandits....
     (1960)
  • The Rat Race
    The Rat Race

    The Rat Race is a 1960 film directed by Robert Mulligan starring Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds. Filming took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
     (1960)
  • Johnny Staccato
    Johnny Staccato

    Johnny Staccato is a private detective television program which ran on NBC from 1959 to 1960 for 27 episodes. Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes, is a jazz pianist/private detective....
     (1959) (TV)
  • God's Little Acre
    God's Little Acre (film)

    God's Little Acre is a film of a novel of the same name by director Anthony Mann and lensed in black and white by master cameraman Ernie Haller....
     (1958)
  • Men In War (film) (1957)
  • The Tin Star
    The Tin Star

    The Tin Star is a 1957 in film United States western directed by Anthony Mann and starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, in one of Perkins' first roles....
     (1957)
  • Sweet Smell of Success
    Sweet Smell of Success

    Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 in film Cinema of the United States film noir made by Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists....
     (1957)
  • The Ten Commandments
    The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

    The Ten Commandments is a 1956 in film Film that dramatized the story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrews Slavery....
     (1956)
  • The Man with the Golden Arm
    The Man with the Golden Arm

    The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a morphine addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world....
     (1955)
  • Gunsmoke
    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
     (1955) TV series
  • Cat-Women of the Moon
    Cat-Women of the Moon

    Cat-Women of the Moon is a 1953 science fiction film 3-D film directed by Arthur Hilton. It stars Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory and Marie Windsor....
     (1953)
  • Robot Monster
    Robot Monster

    Robot Monster is a 1953 in film science fiction B-movie made in 3-d film by Phil Tucker. Like the more famous "Plan 9 from Outer Space" it is known in bad-film fandom for being "so bad, it's good" and has the dubious honor of being considered one of the "Worst films ever"....
     (1953)
  • Sudden Fear
    Sudden Fear

    Sudden Fear is an RKO Radio Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance in a film noir tale about a successful woman who marries a murderous man....
     (1952)


Works for Broadway theater

  • Peter Pan
    Peter Pan

    Peter Pan is a character created by Scotland novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to aging, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys , interacting with Mermaid, Native_Americans_in_the_United_States, f...
     (1954) - Incidental music
    Incidental music

    Incidental music is music in a Play , television program, radio program, video game, film or some other form not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the "film score" or "soundtrack."...
     composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
  • How Now, Dow Jones
    How Now, Dow Jones

    How Now, Dow Jones is a Broadway theatre Musical theatre comedy. From an original concept by Carolyn Leigh, the Libretto was written by Max Shulman, the lyrics by Leigh herself, and the music by Elmer Bernstein....
     (1967) - Composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
     - Tony Co-Nomination for Best Musical
    Tony Award for Best Musical

    This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....
    , Tony Co-Nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist
  • Merlin
    Merlin (musical)

    Merlin was a musical theatre based on a concept by popular illusionist Doug Henning and Barbara De Angelis, written by Richard Levinson and William Link, with music written by Elmer Bernstein and lyrics by Don Black ....
     (1982) - Composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
     and Incidental music
    Incidental music

    Incidental music is music in a Play , television program, radio program, video game, film or some other form not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the "film score" or "soundtrack."...
     composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
     - Tony Co-Nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist


External links

  • Fan Website http://filmmusic.homestead.com/elmer.html