Known For
Sound
Known Credits
2
Gender
Male
Birthday
December 4, 1910 (115 years old)
Place of Birth
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations.
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| 1991 | The Last Butterfly...Original Music Composer | |
| 1988 | The Penitent...Original Music Composer | |
| 1987 | Good Morning, Vietnam...Original Music Composer | |
| 1987 | The Dead...Original Music Composer | |
| 1986 | Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’...Music | |
| 1985 | Death of a Salesman...Original Music Composer | |
| 1985 | Prizzi's Honor...Original Music Composer | |
| 1984 | Under the Volcano...Original Music Composer | |
| 1982 | Sister, Sister...Original Music Composer | |
| 1981 | Dragonslayer...Original Music Composer | |
| 1980 | Carny...Original Music Composer | |
| 1979 | Wise Blood...Original Music Composer | |
| 1978 | The Word...Original Music Composer | |
| 1978 | Somebody Killed Her Husband...Original Music Composer | |
| 1976 | The Passover Plot...Original Music Composer | |
| 1976 | Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II...Theme Song Performance | |
| 1976 | Rich Man, Poor Man...Original Music Composer | |
| 1975 | Bite the Bullet...Original Music Composer | |
| 1975 | Journey into Fear...Original Music Composer | |
| 1974 | Shanks...Original Music Composer | |
| 1974 | Shanks...Conductor | |
| 1974 | Once Upon a Scoundrel...Original Music Composer | |
| 1974 | Lost in the Stars...Music Director | |
| 1972 | Pocket Money...Original Music Composer | |
| 1971 | Willard...Original Music Composer | |
| 1971 | Willard...Conductor | |
| 1969 | A Dream of Kings...Original Music Composer | |
| 1969 | Hard Contract...Original Music Composer | |
| 1968 | The Shoes of the Fisherman...Original Music Composer | |
| 1968 | The Devil's Brigade...Original Music Composer | |
| 1967 | Africa...Music | |
| 1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...Original Music Composer | |
| 1965 | The Agony and the Ecstasy...Original Music Composer | |
| 1964 | Cheyenne Autumn...Original Music Composer | |
| 1964 | Cheyenne Autumn...Conductor | |
| 1964 | Cheyenne Autumn...Music Arranger | |
| 1964 | The Outrage...Original Music Composer | |
| 1964 | The Outrage...Conductor | |
| 1963 | Cleopatra...Original Music Composer | |
| 1962 | All Fall Down...Original Music Composer | |
| 1961 | The Children's Hour...Original Music Composer | |
| 1961 | The Children's Hour...Conductor | |
| 1961 | Sanctuary...Original Music Composer | |
| 1961 | The Misfits...Original Music Composer | |
| 1961 | The Misfits...Conductor | |
| 1960 | Spartacus...Original Music Composer | |
| 1959 | The Wonderful Country...Original Music Composer | |
| 1959 | The Sound and the Fury...Original Music Composer | |
| 1958 | South Seas Adventure...Original Music Composer | |
| 1958 | Hot Spell...Original Music Composer | |
| 1958 | The Long, Hot Summer...Original Music Composer | |
| 1958 | The Long, Hot Summer...Songs | |
| 1958 | Stage Struck...Original Music Composer | |
| 1957 | The Edge of Innocence...Music | |
| 1957 | The Bachelor Party...Original Music Composer | |
| 1957 | Four Girls in Town...Original Music Composer | |
| 1956 | The King and Four Queens...Music | |
| 1956 | The King and Four Queens...Original Music Composer | |
| 1956 | The King and Four Queens...Conductor | |
| 1956 | The Rainmaker...Original Music Composer | |
| 1956 | Heritage of Anger...Music | |
| 1956 | The Big Slide...Music | |
| 1956 | The Country Husband...Music | |
| 1956 | Rendezvous in Black...Music | |
| 1956 | Sizeman and Son...Sound | |
| 1956 | The Bad Seed...Original Music Composer | |
| 1955 | I'll Cry Tomorrow...Original Music Composer | |
| 1955 | The Rose Tattoo...Original Music Composer | |
| 1955 | The Rose Tattoo...Music Director | |
| 1955 | Man with the Gun...Original Music Composer | |
| 1955 | Unchained...Original Music Composer | |
| 1955 | Daddy Long Legs...Music | |
| 1955 | The Racers...Original Music Composer | |
| 1954 | Désirée...Original Music Composer | |
| 1954 | Decision for Chemistry...Original Music Composer | |
| 1954 | Go Man Go...Original Music Composer | |
| 1953 | The American Road...Music | |
| 1952 | The Member of the Wedding...Original Music Composer | |
| 1952 | Les Miserables...Original Music Composer | |
| 1952 | Pony Soldier...Original Music Composer | |
| 1952 | Viva Zapata!...Original Music Composer | |
| 1951 | Death of a Salesman...Original Music Composer | |
| 1951 | A Streetcar Named Desire...Original Music Composer | |
| 1951 | The 13th Letter...Original Music Composer | |
| 1950 | The Murder Club...Music | |
| 1945 | Library of Congress...Music | |
| 1937 | People of the Cumberland...Music | |
| 1937 | China Strikes Back...Music | |
| 1937 | Heart of Spain...Music |
| 2006 | North and the Music of the Southas Self (archive footage) | |
| 2002 | Making 'The Misfits'as Self (archive footage) |
