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Alfred Newman

Composer / Actor | * 03/17/1901 († 68, 02/17/1970) | New Haven, Connecticut (United States of America (USA))
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 45 times, contributing to the extended Newman family being the most Academy Award-nominated family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include Wuthering Heights, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Mark of Zorro, How Green Was My Valley, The Song of Bernadette, Captain from Castile, ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Comedies

Known for these Movies & Shows

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she wo ...

The King and I

G

1956 | 3.6/5 | 2h 13min
Drama, Romance / Love, Adventure, Music
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Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved. ...

Airport

PG

1970 | 3.2/5 | 2h 17min
Action, Drama, Thriller
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In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woma ...

V for Vendetta

R

2006 | 3.9/5 | 2h 12min
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
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From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway ...

All About Eve

Certification unknown

1950 | 4.1/5 | 2h 19min
Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Alfred Newman

3x Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment 2x Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score 4x Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame 7x Academy Award for Best Original Score 8x Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment 2x Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score 15x Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score 11x Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
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Movies with Alfred Newman as Actor(2)

as Joseph Haydn1951 The CinemaScope Parade
as Musical Director1939 They Shall Have Music

Movies with Alfred Newman as Crew(246)

Sound/Original Music Composer1970 Airport
Sound/Original Music Composer1968 Firecreek
Sound/Music1967 Camelot
Sound/Original Music Composer1966 Nevada Smith
Sound/Original Music Composer1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told
Sound/Original Music Composer1962 The Counterfeit Traitor
Sound/Original Music Composer1962 How the West Was Won
Sound/Songs1962 How the West Was Won
Sound/Music1961 The Pleasure of His Company
Sound/Original Music Composer1961 Flower Drum Song
Sound/Conductor1961 Flower Drum Song
Sound/Music Supervisor1961 Flower Drum Song
Sound/Original Music Composer1959 The Diary of Anne Frank
Sound/Original Music Composer1959 The Best of Everything
Sound/Original Music Composer1958 South Pacific
Sound/Conductor1958 South Pacific
Sound/Music Supervisor1958 South Pacific
Sound/Original Music Composer1958 The Gift of Love
Sound/Music1958 A Certain Smile
Sound/Original Music Composer1956 Anastasia
Sound/Conductor1956 Carousel
Sound/Music Supervisor1956 Carousel
Sound/Conductor1956 Bus Stop
Sound/Original Music Composer1956 Bus Stop
Sound/Original Music Composer1956 The King and I
Sound/Original Music Composer1955 Daddy Long Legs
Sound/Music Supervisor1955 Daddy Long Legs
Sound/Conductor1955 Daddy Long Legs
Sound/Original Music Composer1955 A Man Called Peter
Sound/Original Music Composer1955 The Seven Year Itch
Sound/Original Music Composer1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Sound/Original Music Composer1954 The Egyptian
Sound/Original Music Composer1954 Hell and High Water
Sound/Music Supervisor1954 There's No Business Like Show Business
Sound/Original Music Composer1953 The President's Lady
Sound/Music Director1953 Call Me Madam
Sound/Original Music Composer1953 How to Marry a Millionaire
Sound/Music Director1953 How to Marry a Millionaire
Sound/Original Music Composer1953 The Robe
Sound/Original Music Composer1952 Viva Zapata!
Sound/Original Music Composer1952 The Prisoner of Zenda
Sound/Music1952 What Price Glory
Sound/Original Music Composer1952 With a Song in My Heart
Sound/Original Music Composer1952 O. Henry's Full House
Sound/Original Music Composer1952 Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Sound/Original Music Composer1951 Take Care of My Little Girl
Sound/Music Director1951 The House on Telegraph Hill
Sound/Music1951 The CinemaScope Parade
Sound/Original Music Composer1951 Fourteen Hours
Sound/Original Music Composer1951 David and Bathsheba
Sound/Original Music Composer1950 All About Eve
Sound/Original Music Composer1950 The Gunfighter
Sound/Original Music Composer1950 No Way Out
Sound/Music Director1950 Broken Arrow
Sound/Original Music Composer1950 Panic in the Streets
Sound/Original Music Composer1950 The Big Lift
Sound/Original Music Composer1950 For Heaven's Sake
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Mother Is a Freshman
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Pinky
Sound/Music1949 Down to the Sea in Ships
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Thieves' Highway
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 A Letter to Three Wives
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Prince of Foxes
Sound/Music1949 You're My Everything
Sound/Music Director1949 You're My Everything
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Twelve O'Clock High
Sound/Music Director1949 Dancing in the Dark
Sound/Original Music Composer1948 The Snake Pit
Sound/Original Music Composer1948 Cry of the City
Sound/Original Music Composer1948 Yellow Sky
Sound/Music1948 The Walls of Jericho
Sound/Original Music Composer1948 Call Northside 777
Sound/Music Director1948 Call Northside 777
Sound/Original Music Composer1948 Sitting Pretty
Sound/Music1948 That Lady in Ermine
Sound/Music Director1947 Mother Wore Tights
Sound/Music Director1947 Miracle on 34th Street
Sound/Music Director1947 Moss Rose
Sound/Music Director1947 The Late George Apley
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 Captain from Castile
Sound/Music Director1947 Daisy Kenyon
Sound/Music Director1947 The Brasher Doubloon
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 Gentleman's Agreement
Sound/Music Director1946 My Darling Clementine
Sound/Original Music Composer1946 Dragonwyck
Sound/Original Music Composer1946 The Razor's Edge
Sound/Original Music Composer1946 Margie
Sound/Music Director1946 Margie
Sound/Original Music Composer1945 A Royal Scandal
Sound/Original Music Composer1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Sound/Original Music Composer1945 A Bell for Adano
Sound/Original Music Composer1945 Leave Her to Heaven
Sound/Original Music Composer1944 The Keys of the Kingdom
Sound/Original Music Composer1944 The Purple Heart
Sound/Original Music Composer1944 Wilson
Sound/Original Music Composer1944 Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Sound/Music Director1944 Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Sound/Original Music Composer1943 The Moon Is Down
Sound/Original Music Composer1943 The Song of Bernadette
Sound/Original Music Composer1943 Claudia
Sound/Original Music Composer1943 Heaven Can Wait
Sound/Original Music Composer1943 December 7th
Sound/Music1943 The Gang's All Here
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 It's Everybody's War
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 The Pied Piper
Sound/Music Director1942 The Pied Piper
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 The Black Swan
Sound/Music Director1942 The Black Swan
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 To the Shores of Tripoli
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 China Girl
Sound/Music Director1942 Orchestra Wives
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 The Battle of Midway
Sound/Music1942 Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 Roxie Hart
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 This Above All
Sound/Music Director1942 This Above All
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Belle Starr
Sound/Music Director1941 A Yank in the R.A.F.
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Hudson's Bay
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Man Hunt
Crew/Additional Music1941 I Wake Up Screaming
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Ball of Fire
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 How Green Was My Valley
Sound/Music Director1941 The Little Foxes
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Blood and Sand
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Wild Geese Calling
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Charley's Aunt
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Little Old New York
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 They Knew What They Wanted
Sound/Conductor1940 They Knew What They Wanted
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Earthbound
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Vigil in the Night
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Foreign Correspondent
Sound/Music1940 The Mark of Zorro
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 The Grapes of Wrath
Sound/Music1940 The Blue Bird
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Brigham Young
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Tin Pan Alley
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Blondie on a Budget
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 Drums Along the Mohawk
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 Gunga Din
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 Young Mr. Lincoln
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 Beau Geste
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 Wuthering Heights
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 The Star Maker
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 The Real Glory
Sound/Music1939 The Gorilla
Sound/Music Director1939 They Shall Have Music
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 The Rains Came
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Sound/Music Director1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band
Sound/Music Director1938 The Adventures of Marco Polo
Sound/Original Music Composer1938 The Cowboy and the Lady
Sound/Music Director1938 The Cowboy and the Lady
Sound/Original Music Composer1938 Trade Winds
Sound/Music Director1938 Trade Winds
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 Slave Ship
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 You Only Live Once
Sound/Music Director1937 You Only Live Once
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 Woman Chases Man
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 Dead End
Sound/Music Director1937 Dead End
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 Stella Dallas
Sound/Music Director1937 Stella Dallas
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 Wee Willie Winkie
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 52nd Street
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 History Is Made at Night
Sound/Music Director1937 History Is Made at Night
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 The Hurricane
Sound/Music Director1937 The Hurricane
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 The Prisoner of Zenda
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 Strike Me Pink
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 The Gay Desperado
Sound/Music Director1936 The Gay Desperado
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 These Three
Sound/Music Director1936 These Three
Sound/Music1936 Dancing Pirate
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 Come and Get It
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 One Rainy Afternoon
Sound/Music Director1936 One Rainy Afternoon
Sound/Music Director1936 Modern Times
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 Ramona
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 Beloved Enemy
Sound/Music Director1936 Beloved Enemy
Sound/Music Director1936 Born to Dance
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 Dodsworth
Sound/Music Director1936 Dodsworth
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 Barbary Coast
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 Call of the Wild
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 Clive of India
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 Splendor
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 Cardinal Richelieu
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 Les Misérables
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 Folies Bergère
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 The Dark Angel
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 The Wedding Night
Sound/Music Director1935 Broadway Melody of 1936
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 Red Salute
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 The Mighty Barnum
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 Looking for Trouble
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Sound/Music Director1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 Our Daily Bread
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Sound/Music1934 The Count of Monte Cristo
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 Nana
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 Born to Be Bad
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 We Live Again
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 Kid Millions
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 The House of Rothschild
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 The Affairs of Cellini
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 The Last Gentleman
Sound/Original Music Composer1933 Blood Money
Sound/Original Music Composer1933 The Masquerader
Sound/Music Director1933 The Masquerader
Sound/Original Music Composer1933 I Cover the Waterfront
Sound/Original Music Composer1933 Roman Scandals
Sound/Original Music Composer1933 The Bowery
Sound/Music Director1933 Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Sound/Original Music Composer1933 Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Sound/Original Music Composer1933 Secrets
Sound/Music Director1933 Secrets
Sound/Original Music Composer1933 Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Sound/Original Music Composer1932 Rain
Sound/Original Music Composer1932 Mr. Robinson Crusoe
Sound/Original Music Composer1932 The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Sound/Original Music Composer1932 Cynara
Sound/Music Director1932 Cynara
Sound/Original Music Composer1932 Flesh
Sound/Original Music Composer1932 Night World
Sound/Original Music Composer1932 Sky Devils
Sound/Original Music Composer1932 Movie Crazy
Sound/Original Music Composer1932 The Kid from Spain
Sound/Original Music Composer1931 Corsair
Sound/Original Music Composer1931 Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks
Sound/Original Music Composer1931 Tonight or Never
Sound/Music Director1931 Tonight or Never
Sound/Music Director1931 City Lights
Sound/Original Music Composer1931 The Age for Love
Sound/Original Music Composer1931 Arrowsmith
Sound/Music Director1931 Arrowsmith
Sound/Music Director1931 The Unholy Garden
Sound/Music Director1931 Street Scene

Full Name: Alfred Newman
Born: Sunday, 03/17 1901 (March) in New Haven, Connecticut (United States of America (USA))
Died: Tuesday, 02/17 1970 (February) in Hollywood (aged: 68)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Record Label: Mercury Records
Spouses (current/former): Martha Montgomery
Related to: Randy Newman
Other names for Alfred Newman (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Pappy"
Alfred Newman frequently works together with these people:
Thomas Little (80x, Crew)
Richard Day (78x, Crew)
Darryl F. Zanuck (67x, Crew)
Roger Heman Sr. (59x, Crew)
Lyle R. Wheeler (55x, Crew)
Ben Nye (52x, Crew)
Edward B. Powell (44x, Crew)
Samuel Goldwyn (36x, Crew)
Fred Sersen (32x, Crew)
Charles LeMaire (28x, Crew)
Lamar Trotti (27x, Crew)
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