Christopher Young
Compositor, Actor
28 de abril de 1957 (68 años)
Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores.
Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil, and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Young was honoured with the prestigious Richard Kirk Award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music.
Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music and then completed his postgraduate work at the University of North Texas.
In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmann's works, he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California.
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Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil, and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Young was honoured with the prestigious Richard Kirk Award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music.
Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music and then completed his postgraduate work at the University of North Texas.
In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmann's works, he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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| 2026 | Passenger · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | |
| 2022 | The Offering · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | Echo 3 · as Composer |
| 2022 | Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities · as Original Music Composer |
| 2020 | The Empty Man · as Original Music Composer |
| 2020 | 50 States of Fright · as Composer |
| 2019 | Pet Sematary · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | The Monkey King 2 · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 2015 | Hellraiser: Evolutions · as Composer |
| 2014 | Deliver Us from Evil · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Dominion · as Composer |
| 2014 | The Single Moms Club · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven's Palace · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Killing Season · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 2013 | The Smile Man · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | The Baytown Outlaws · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 2012 | The Ghostmaker · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Sinister · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Scary or Die · as ComposerEn Plex |
| 2011 | The Rum Diary · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Priest · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | The Black Tulip · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | Gone with the Pope · as ComposerEn Plex |
| 2010 | When in Rome · as Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | Creation · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 2009 | Love Happens · as Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | Drag Me to Hell · as Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | The Uninvited · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | The Informers · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Sleepwalking · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Untraceable · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Lucky You · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider · as Original Music Composer |
| 2006 | The Grudge 2 · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | Ask the Dust · as Composer |
| 2005 | The Exorcism of Emily Rose · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | Beauty Shop · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | Hide and Seek · as Composer |
| 2004 | The Grudge · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 2004 | Something the Lord Made · as Original Music Composer |
| 2003 | Runaway Jury · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 2003 | The Core · as Original Music Composer |
| 2003 | Shortcut to Happiness · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 2002 | The Country Bears · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | The Shipping News · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Bandits · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | The Glass House · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Swordfish · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Sweet November · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | The Warden · as Composer |
| 2001 | Scenes of the Crime · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | The Gift · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | Bless the Child · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | Wonder Boys · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | The Hurricane · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | In Too Deep · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | Entrapment · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | Urban Legend · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | Judas Kiss · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | Rounders · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | Hush · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | Hard Rain · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | The Man Who Knew Too Little · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 1997 | Murder at 1600 · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Head Above Water · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Set It Off · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Norma Jean & Marilyn · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Unforgettable · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Copycat · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Virtuosity · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Species · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Murder in the First · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | Squanto: A Warrior's Tale · as Composer |
| 1994 | Judicial Consent · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | Dream Lover · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | The Dark Half · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | Jennifer 8 · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | Rapid Fire · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | Jersey Girl · as Composer |
| 1992 | The Vagrant · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Bright Angel · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Last Flight Out · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | |
| 1989 | Hider in the House · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | Vietnam War Story: The Last Days · as Composer |
| 1989 | The Fly II · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | Hellbound: Hellraiser II · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 1988 | Haunted Summer · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | Bat*21 · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | The Telephone · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 1987 | Flowers in the Attic · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 1987 | Hellraiser · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 1987 | Vietnam War Story · as Composer |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | U-Boats: The Wolfpack · as Composer |
| 1986 | Trick or Treat · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Invaders from Mars · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Torment · as Composer |
| 1986 | Getting Even · as Original Music Composer |
| 1985 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge · as Original Music Composer |
| 1985 | Wizards of the Lost Kingdom · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone (1985) · as Composer |
| 1985 | |
| 1985 | Barbarian Queen · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 1985 | Wheels of Fire · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 1985 | DEFCON-4 · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 1985 | Avenging Angel · as Original Music ComposerEn Plex |
| 1984 | The Power · as Original Music Composer |
| 1984 | The Oasis · as Composer |
| 1982 | Highpoint · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | The Dorm That Dripped Blood · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | Robby · as Composer |
| 2015 | Hellraiser: Evolutions · as Cast |
| 2009 | Drag Me to Hell · as Pedestrian With Cupcake |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 · as Theater Pianist |
| 2024 | Chasing Notes · as Self |
| 2022 | Icons Unearthed · as Self - ComposerEn Plex |
| 2018 | Eli Roth's History of Horror · as Self |
| 2016 | Score · as SelfEn Plex |
| 2015 | |
| 2011 | Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan · as Self |
| 2010 | With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story · as SelfEn Plex |
| 2010 | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy · as Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1952 | Today · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1999 | The Big Kahuna · as Orchestrator |
| 1995 | Tales from the Hood · as Orchestrator |