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Elmer Bernstein
Composer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born April 4, 1922Died August 18, 2004 (82 years)
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.
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.
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Elmer Bernstein Filmography
| 2023 | Anwar Speight's Serpents · as Composer |
| 2004 | Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Far from Heaven · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | |
| 2000 | Chinese Coffee · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | Keeping the Faith · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | A Storm in Summer · as Music Producer |
| 1999 | Bringing Out the Dead · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | Wild Wild West · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | The Deep End of the Ocean · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | Twilight · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | Hoodlum · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | Buddy · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Bulletproof · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Devil in a Blue Dress · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Frankie Starlight · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Canadian Bacon · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Search and Destroy · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | The Century of Cinema (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1993 | The Good Son · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | The Age of Innocence · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | Fallen Angels (TV Series) · as Main Title Theme Composer |
| 1993 | Lost in Yonkers · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | Mad Dog and Glory · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | The Cemetery Club · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | The Babe · as Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | Rambling Rose · as Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | A Rage in Harlem · as Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | Oscar · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | The Field · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | The Grifters · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | Slipstream · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | My Left Foot · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | The Good Mother · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | Funny Farm · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | |
| 1987 | Leonard Part 6 · as Original Music Composer |
| 1987 | Amazing Grace and Chuck · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Three Amigos! · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Legal Eagles · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Marilyn Monroe · as Composer |
| 1985 | Spies Like Us · as Original Music Composer |
| 1985 | The Black Cauldron · as Original Music Composer |
| 1985 | Gulag · as Composer |
| 1984 | |
| 1984 | Ghostbusters · as Original Music Composer |
| 1983 | |
| 1983 | Class · as Original Music Composer |
| 1983 | Trading Places · as Original Music Composer |
| 1983 | Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | Airplane II: The Sequel · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | Five Days One Summer · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982) (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1982 | |
| 1981 | Today's FBI (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1981 | Honky Tonk Freeway · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | An American Werewolf in London · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | The Chosen · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | Heavy Metal · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | Stripes · as Original Music Composer |
| 1981 | Going Ape! · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones · as Composer |
| 1980 | Airplane! · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | The Blues Brothers · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | This Year's Blonde · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (TV Series) |
| 1980 | |
| 1979 | The Great Santini · as Original Music Composer |
| 1979 | |
| 1979 | |
| 1979 | The Chisholms (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1979 | Delta House (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1978 | Little Women (TV Series) |
| 1978 | Bloodbrothers · as Original Music Composer |
| 1978 | National Lampoon's Animal House · as Original Music Composer |
| 1977 | The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1977 | |
| 1977 | |
| 1977 | Billy Jack Goes to Washington · as Original Music Composer |
| 1976 | |
| 1976 | Captains and the Kings (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1976 | From Noon Till Three · as Original Music Composer |
| 1976 | The Shootist · as Original Music Composer |
| 1976 | Serpico (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1975 | |
| 1975 | Report to the Commissioner · as Original Music Composer |
| 1975 | Ellery Queen (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1974 | The Trial of Billy Jack · as Original Music Composer |
| 1974 | Nightmare Honeymoon · as Original Music Composer |
| 1974 | |
| 1974 | |
| 1974 | McQ · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Cahill U.S. Marshal · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Incident on a Dark Street · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | The Magnificent Seven Ride! · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | The Last of the Wild Mustangs · as Composer |
| 1972 | The Rookies (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1971 | Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1971 | See No Evil · as Original Music Composer |
| 1971 | Big Jake · as Original Music Composer |
| 1971 | Doctors' Wives · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | Cannon for Cordoba · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | The Liberation of L.B. Jones · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | A Walk in the Spring Rain · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | |
| 1969 | The Gypsy Moths · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | True Grit · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Midas Run · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Guns of the Magnificent Seven · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | |
| 1968 | I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | Julia (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1968 | The Scalphunters · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Thoroughly Modern Millie · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Hawaii · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Return of the Seven · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Cast a Giant Shadow · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | The Silencers · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | 7 Women · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | A Patch of Blue · as Composer |
| 1965 | The Reward · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | The Big Valley (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1965 | National Geographic Specials (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1965 | The Sons of Katie Elder · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | Baby the Rain Must Fall · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Four Days in November · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | The Carpetbaggers · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | The World of Henry Orient · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Love with the Proper Stranger · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Kings of the Sun · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | |
| 1963 | Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1963 | The Caretakers · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | The Great Escape · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Hud · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Hollywood: The Great Stars · as Composer |
| 1962 | A Girl Named Tamiko · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | Hollywood: The Fabulous Era · as Composer |
| 1962 | Saints and Sinners (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1962 | Birdman of Alcatraz · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | Walk on the Wild Side · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | The Young Doctors · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | The Comancheros · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | Hollywood: The Golden Years · as Composer |
| 1961 | |
| 1961 | Summer and Smoke · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | The Dick Powell Show (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1961 | The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1961 | |
| 1960 | The Magnificent Seven · as Original Music Composer |
| 1960 | The Rat Race · as Original Music Composer |
| 1960 | From the Terrace · as Original Music Composer |
| 1960 | The Fabulous Fifties · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | The Story on Page One · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | The Miracle · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | Riverboat (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1959 | Johnny Staccato (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1959 | The Race for Space · as Composer |
| 1958 | Some Came Running · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | The Buccaneer · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | Anna Lucasta · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1958 | God's Little Acre · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | Kings Go Forth · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | Desire Under the Elms · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | Saddle the Wind · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | The Tin Star · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | Sweet Smell of Success · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | Fear Strikes Out · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | Men in War · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | Drango · as Original Music Composer |
| 1956 | The Ten Commandments · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | The Man with the Golden Arm · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | It's a Dog's Life · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | Storm Fear · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | The View from Pompey's Head · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1955 | The Eternal Sea · as Original Music Composer |
| 1954 | Studio 57 (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1954 | Silent Raiders · as Original Music Composer |
| 1954 | Make Haste to Live · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | Miss Robin Crusoe · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | Cat-Women of the Moon · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | Robot Monster · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | Never Wave at a WAC · as Original Music Composer |
| 1952 | Battles of Chief Pontiac · as Original Music Composer |
| 1952 | Sudden Fear · as Original Music Composer |
| 1952 | |
| 1951 |
| 1976 | From Noon Till Three · as Songwriter (uncredited) |
| 1960 | The Rat Race · as Member Of The Red Peppers |
| 2005 | The 77th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Memorial Tribute |
| 2004 | The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - In Memoriam |
| 2004 | Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2003 | 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self |
| 2001 | The Making of 'Cape Fear' · as Self |
| 2001 | Anatomy of a Scene (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2000 | |
| 1999 | Making 'Taxi Driver' · as Self |
| 1998 | The Yearbook: An 'Animal House' Reunion · as Self - Composer |
| 1998 | Fearful Symmetry · as Self |
| 1994 | The Bible According to Hollywood · as Self |
| 1992 | Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann · as Self |
| 1992 | |
| 1973 | AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series) · as Self - Audience Member |
| 1970 | The 42nd Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Nominee & Presenter |
| 1968 | The 40th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Conductor & Winner |
| 1964 | The 36th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Accepting Award For John Addison |
| 1955 | This is Your Life (UK) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1953 | The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Self |