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Bernard Herrmann

Composer | * 06/29/1911 († 64, 12/24/1975) | New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
Bernard Herrmann (born Maximillian Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in composing for films. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers. Alex Ross writes that "Over four decades, he revolutionized movie scoring by abandoning the illustrative musical techniques that dominated Hollywood in the 1930s and imposing his own peculiar harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary." An Academy Award-winner for The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), Herrmann is known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, notably The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (where he makes a cameo as the conductor at Royal Albert Hall), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963) (as "sound consultant") and ()
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Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers.An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed scores for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. He worked extensively in radio drama (composing for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs, including Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Have Gun–Will Travel.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Thriller | Mystery

Known for these Movies & Shows

Awards & Nominations for Bernard Herrmann

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score Grammy Awards Arts and Letters Award in Music 2x Academy Award for Best Original Score 2x Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
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Movies with Bernard Herrmann as Actor(4)

as himself1964 A Talk with Hitchcock
as Stork Club Piano Player (uncredited)1956 The Wrong Man
as Conductor at Albert Hall1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much

TV Shows/Series with Bernard Herrmann as Actor(2)

as Self (archive footage)2004 20th Century Greats
as Conductor (archive footage) (uncredited)1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Movies with Bernard Herrmann as Crew(67)

Sound/Original Music Composer2020 Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Back to Room 666
Sound/Music2007 The Key to Reserva
Writing/Musical2000 Psycho Path
Sound/Original Music Composer1998 Psycho
Sound/Music1993 The Egg
Sound/Music1990 Psycho IV: The Beginning
Sound/Original Music Composer1983 Cada ver es...
Sound/Music1979 Psycho Shampoo
Sound/Original Music Composer1978 It Lives Again
Crew/Thanks1976 Taxi Driver
Sound/Original Music Composer1976 Taxi Driver
Sound/Music Director1976 Taxi Driver
Crew/In Memory Of1976 God Told Me To
Sound/Original Music Composer1976 Obsession
Sound/Original Music Composer1974 It's Alive
Sound/Conductor1974 It's Alive
Sound/Orchestrator1974 It's Alive
Sound/Original Music Composer1973 Sisters
Sound/Original Music Composer1972 Endless Night
Sound/Original Music Composer1971 The Road Builder
Sound/Original Music Composer1969 Obsessions
Sound/Original Music Composer1968 The Bride Wore Black
Sound/Original Music Composer1968 Twisted Nerve
Sound/Original Music Composer1968 Death in the Afternoon
Sound/Original Music Composer1968 Companions in Nightmare
Sound/Original Music Composer1966 Fahrenheit 451
Sound/Conductor1966 Fahrenheit 451
Sound/Original Music Composer1964 Marnie
Sound/Original Music Composer1963 The Birds
Sound/Original Music Composer1963 Jason and the Argonauts
Sound/Conductor1963 Jason and the Argonauts
Sound/Original Music Composer1962 Cape Fear
Sound/Original Music Composer1962 Tender Is the Night
Sound/Original Music Composer1961 Mysterious Island
Sound/Original Music Composer1960 Psycho
Sound/Original Music Composer1960 The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Sound/Original Music Composer1959 Blue Denim
Sound/Original Music Composer1959 North by Northwest
Sound/Original Music Composer1959 Journey to the Center of the Earth
Sound/Original Music Composer1958 The Naked and the Dead
Sound/Original Music Composer1958 Vertigo
Sound/Original Music Composer1958 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Sound/Original Music Composer1957 A Hatful of Rain
Sound/Original Music Composer1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Sound/Original Music Composer1956 The Wrong Man
Sound/Original Music Composer1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much
Sound/Original Music Composer1955 The Kentuckian
Sound/Original Music Composer1955 The Trouble with Harry
Sound/Original Music Composer1954 Garden of Evil
Sound/Original Music Composer1954 The Egyptian
Sound/Original Music Composer1953 King of the Khyber Rifles
Sound/Original Music Composer1953 Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Sound/Original Music Composer1952 5 Fingers
Sound/Original Music Composer1952 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Sound/Original Music Composer1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still
Sound/Original Music Composer1951 On Dangerous Ground
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Sound/Original Music Composer1946 Anna and the King of Siam
Sound/Original Music Composer1945 Hangover Square
Sound/Original Music Composer1943 Jane Eyre
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 The Magnificent Ambersons
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Citizen Kane
Sound/Conductor1941 Citizen Kane
Sound/Conductor1941 All That Money Can Buy
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 All That Money Can Buy

TV Shows/Series with Bernard Herrmann as Crew(4)

Sound/Main Title Theme Composer2008 Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Sound/Music1965 Lost in Space
Sound/Original Music Composer1959 The Twilight Zone
Sound/Original Music Composer1957 Have Gun, Will Travel

Full Name: Bernard Herrmann
Born: Thursday, 06/29 1911 (June) in New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
Died: Wednesday, 12/24 1975 (December) in Los Angeles (aged: 64)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Pig)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: New York University, DeWitt Clinton High School
Influenced by/Role models: Charles Ives, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Percy Grainger, Max Steiner
Other names for Bernard Herrmann (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Benny"
"Bernard Hermann"
Bernard Herrmann frequently works together with these people:
Alfred Hitchcock (26x, Crew)
Robert McCord (18x, Actor)
Raymond Bailey (14x, Actor)
Lyle R. Wheeler (13x, Crew)
Ben Nye (13x, Crew)
Orson Welles (11x, Actor)
Harry Tyler (11x, Actor)
Russell Collins (11x, Actor)
Larry Cohen (10x, Crew)
Patricia Hitchcock (10x, Actress)
Norman Lloyd (9x, Actor)
Ray Teal (9x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:274966, Added: 08/09/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024