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David Shire

Composer / Songwriter / Actor | * 07/03/1937 (86) | Buffalo, New York (United States of America (USA))
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. Among his best known works are the motion picture soundtracks to The Big Bus, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Conversation, All the President's Men, and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as "Manhattan Skyline". His other work includes the score of the 1985 film Return to Oz (the "sequel-in-part" of The Wizard of Oz), and the stage musical scores of Baby, Big, Closer Than Ever, and Starting Here, Starting Now. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | TV Movies | Comedies

Known for these Movies & Shows

Awards & Nominations for David Shire

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song 2x Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song
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Movies with David Shire as Actor(3)

Movies with David Shire as Crew(100)

Sound/Original Music Composer2021 Maltby and Shire's Closer Than Ever
Sound/Original Music Composer2018 Love After Love
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 The American Side
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 Quitters
Sound/Original Music Composer2014 Hacked Circuit
Sound/Original Music Composer2009 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Sound/Original Music Composer2007 Zodiac
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 Ash Wednesday
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 Two Against Time
Sound/Original Music Composer2000 Thin Air
Sound/Original Music Composer1999 Double Platinum
Sound/Original Music Composer1999 Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Sound/Original Music Composer1998 Rear Window
Sound/Original Music Composer1998 I Married a Monster
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 Last Stand at Saber River
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 Ms. Scrooge
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 Alone
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 To Dance With Olivia
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 Jake's Women
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 My Antonia
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Sound/Music1995 One Night Stand
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 The Heidi Chronicles
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 A Father for Charlie
Sound/Original Music Composer1994 Once in a Lifetime
Sound/Original Music Composer1994 The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Sound/Original Music Composer1994 Reunion
Sound/Music1994 The Companion
Sound/Original Music Composer1993 Heartbeat
Sound/Music1993 Remember
Sound/Original Music Composer1992 Four Eyes and Six-Guns
Sound/Music1992 Last Wish
Sound/Music1992 Bed of Lies
Sound/Original Music Composer1992 Broadway Bound
Sound/Original Music Composer1992 Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
Sound/Original Music Composer1991 Sarah, Plain and Tall
Sound/Original Music Composer1991 Bed & Breakfast
Sound/Original Music Composer1991 The Boys
Sound/Original Music Composer1991 Paris Trout
Sound/Original Music Composer1990 Always Remember I Love You
Sound/Original Music Composer1990 A Promise to Keep
Sound/Music1990 Common Ground
Sound/Original Music Composer1989 The Women of Brewster Place
Sound/Original Music Composer1988 Monkey Shines
Sound/Original Music Composer1988 Backfire
Sound/Music1987 Echoes in the Darkness
Sound/Original Music Composer1987 Mayflower Madam
Sound/Original Music Composer1986 Short Circuit
Sound/Original Music Composer1986 Promise
Sound/Music1986 'night, Mother
Sound/Music1985 Do You Remember Love
Sound/Original Music Composer1985 Return to Oz
Sound/Original Music Composer1985 The Blue Yonder
Sound/Original Music Composer1984 2010
Sound/Music1984 Oh, God! You Devil
Sound/Original Music Composer1983 Max Dugan Returns
Sound/Original Music Composer1981 The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Sound/Original Music Composer1981 Paternity
Sound/Original Music Composer1981 Only When I Laugh
Sound/Original Music Composer1979 Norma Rae
Sound/Original Music Composer1979 The Promise
Sound/Original Music Composer1979 Old Boyfriends
Sound/Original Music Composer1978 The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Sound/Original Music Composer1978 Straight Time
Sound/Original Music Composer1977 Something for Joey
Sound/Original Music Composer1977 Saturday Night Fever
Sound/Original Music Composer1977 The Storyteller
Sound/Original Music Composer1976 The Big Bus
Sound/Original Music Composer1976 Amelia Earhart
Sound/Original Music Composer1976 All the President's Men
Sound/Original Music Composer1976 Raid on Entebbe
Sound/Original Music Composer1975 Winner Take All
Sound/Original Music Composer1975 Farewell, My Lovely
Sound/Original Music Composer1975 The Fortune
Sound/Original Music Composer1975 The Hindenburg
Sound/Original Music Composer1974 Lucas Tanner
Sound/Original Music Composer1974 Sidekicks
Sound/Original Music Composer1974 The Conversation
Sound/Original Music Composer1974 Tell Me Where It Hurts
Sound/Original Music Composer1974 The Godchild
Sound/Original Music Composer1974 The Tribe
Sound/Original Music Composer1974 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Sound/Original Music Composer1974 Killer Bees
Sound/Original Music Composer1974 The Healers
Sound/Original Music Composer1974 A Sunday Dinner
Sound/Original Music Composer1973 Showdown
Sound/Original Music Composer1973 See the Man Run
Sound/Original Music Composer1973 Two People
Sound/Music1973 Class of '44
Sound/Original Music Composer1973 Isn't It Shocking?
Sound/Original Music Composer1972 To Find a Man
Sound/Original Music Composer1971 Summertree
Sound/Original Music Composer1971 Skin Game
Sound/Original Music Composer1971 Drive, He Said
Sound/Original Music Composer1969 CBS Playhouse: Shadow Game
Sound/Music Director1967 The Belle of 14th Street

TV Shows/Series with David Shire as Crew(3)

Sound/Original Music Composer1995 Streets of Laredo
Sound/Original Music Composer1989 I Know My First Name Is Steven
Sound/Music1985 Amazing Stories

Full Name: David Lee Shire
Born: Saturday, 07/03 1937 (July) in Buffalo, New York (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 86 years + 269 days)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Yale University
Spouses (current/former): Talia Shire, Didi Conn
Other names for David Shire (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"David Lee Shire"
David Shire frequently works together with these people:
Paul Bogart (9x, Crew)
Glenn Jordan (9x, Crew)
Neil Simon (8x, Crew)
Peter Hyams (7x, Crew)
Lori Slomka (7x, Crew)
Steven Spielberg (6x, Crew)
Louis Gossett Jr. (6x, Actor)
John Badham (6x, Crew)
Jeff Bleckner (6x, Crew)
David A. Simmons (6x, Crew)
William Link (5x, Crew)
Jane Feinberg (5x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:810180, Added: 11/08/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024